Happy New Year (3 Days Late!) Homo sapiens!

Hello and Happy New Year, Homo sapiens! Every year since I have created my blog, my New Years Resolution, well one of them, has always been to Blog more. Blog more. Every year. Midnight strikes and I start thinking about what I should start posting on my Blog, and I'm always at a complete loss. It's not because I don't enjoy writing; being an English major for the past half a decade has only been bearable because of all the reading and writing I'm able to do, which are the two things I enjoy doing the most. However, time management skills are sub-par, and ideas for blog posts are minimal at best. I really want to continue with this blog, even if it's pretty dead here and nobody except myself read its contents (shout out in the comments if you low-key read my stuff!).

The thing is, I just don't think I have anything you all would be interested in reading, quite frankly. I live a pretty boring and sentient life. I go to school, read the required readings, participate in required forum posts, write my essays, and the odd day I'll hop on my Xbox or Playstation and cozy down with a nice game of Call of Duty, or if I'm feeling adventurous, Skyrim. There's not much going on for me in life since I'm one hundred percent devoted to being an introvert and nerd.

I thought about reviewing books that I am required to read for my classes, but I realized pretty early on that if I'm not particularly keen on reading these books, what are the chances that all my loyal readers would enjoy reading reviews about them? The fact of the matter is, I just don't see how this blog is going to continue, if I don't feel like I have interesting enough things to say, or have anything interesting to review. Perhaps when my time is not so consumed by schoolwork - but then again, I have made this claim numerous times in the past. I say I will start Blogging consistently during the summer when I'm off from school. Except that I generally tend to take courses during the summer as well, and when I'm not, I tend to lean towards playing video games.

I was thinking about starting a Harry Potter themed Blog, where I strictly discuss things relating to the Harry Potter universe since I am obsessed with this world. But, again, I'm a little worried that I won't be consistent, or have enough ideas to blog about daily, or even weekly.

I want this blog of mine to work out so badly. I wish I had an abundance of things to discuss and review. As of this moment, I'm not sure if this blog will continue, or if it has run its course.

Way to ring in the New Year!
Hope everyone's holidays were wonderful, and I hope that you all rung in the New Year with more pizazz than I currently am.

Lux: Beginnings

Title: Lux Beginnings (Obsidian & Onyx)

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Rating: ♥︎♥︎♥︎ (For both books)

Current Mood: Feeling like you were acting weird and someone suddenly shows up and catches you, so you try to act like you weren't doing that weird thing you were doing. Perfectly illustrated by the most popular school skipper, Ferris Bueller. 

I've heard nothing but wonderful things about Jennifer L. Armentrout and literally everything she has written, so picking up the Lux series seemed like an absolute no-brainer. So I bought Beginnings, Consequences, and Opposition just so I had all five novels ready for me when I had the time to pick them up. If I had not bought Consequences and Opposition, I'm not too sure that I would have continued with the series; maybe I would have because I don't really like leaving things unfinished. But struggling to find the time to sit and actually read Opal (the third book in the series) has been difficult, which has put off my entire TBR list, which kind of irritates me. 

Brief rundown of Obsidian: The novel is about a girl named Katy, who moved with her mother to a small town, after the death of her father. So Katy moves in next door to the Black family, that consists of Dee and Daemon Black, twin brother and sister who are so ridiculously good looking they can't be from this planet. And the kicker? They aren't. Daemon, being non-human, does not want to associate with humans, and is the jerkiest jerk to Katy, but his twin sister Dee likes Katy and wants to be BFFs. Cool, so Katy and Dee become fast friends, and then weird stuff happens, and it's revealed that Katy's BFF is a Luxen, an alien race. Weird twist of events, as if it's not already practically written in the first sentence: Katy ends up having feelings for this hot alien boy, the same one who acts like he can't stand her and is really rude to her, but she can't help her feelings, and he can't help his and mush. 

Katy and Daemon's relationship. I feel like it's so generic -- I seen it coming just by reading the back of the book. And at first it didn't really bother me, but then it kind of did. At this point I'm reading the series just to find out what happens, and it has nothing to do with Katy and Daemon's relationship. It happened so quick and so spontaneously, and Katy is actively trying not to want Daemon, but golly-gee, she just honestly can't resist him because he's irresistible. Not to mention that he's a huge narcissistic egomaniac. The guy is totally obsessed with himself. And it's quite hilarious, in a very sad way. 

The one thing that bothered me even more than the Katy/Daemon relationship? The spelling errors in this book. The spelling errors, the spelling errors. I understand if there's one, a slip up in the editing process, but really? This is a book that is published, and is sold on nearly every online retailer and in-store, and there are multiple spelling errors? It was the thing that bothered me the most. The most. I can't even put into words how much those spelling errors infuriated me. Isn't there someone called an editor, who has a job at a publishing company, and their job is specifically made for someone to read a book and edit it before it's shipped off to the printing press? Come on guys. 

There were literal moments, when reading this book, that made me cringe and made me feel ridiculously embarrassed for the characters. Honestly. There were times where I had to close the book and look around to make sure that nobody was alerted to the embarrassment that was radiating from certain pages within this book. Do you know how sad it is, that I had to close the book a couple of times and collect myself because I was embarrassed for these characters? And I was alone. To be embarrassed and alone? I don't know if that's good writing, just cringe-worthy situations, or Jennifer L. Armentrout trying to channel her inner teenager. If she is trying to channel her inner teenager, that inner teenager is awkward as shit, and needs to be homeschooled and should never be allowed to leave the house.

The story and the idea is absolutely great, don't get me wrong. It's just the generic romance, the way it all played out, the having to hang out with each other, and trying not to want each other, and all that bullshit that makes it.. well.. bullshit. Once I finish with the series, they will be put nicely and neatly on my shelf, and they most likely won't be picked up again. The covers are gorgeous, though. Super shiny, and I like shiny things.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell & My Sincerest Apologies

Title: Fangirl

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Rating: ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎(♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ to infinity and beyond) 

Current Mood: A mix between happy & crying as brilliantly displayed by the lovely Kristen Bell, who I love, seriously. She's brilliant.  

What's going on homo sapiens! I've been MIA for two, almost three months, 

and I would like to formally (and in writing) apologize sincerely for my absence. Things in Jess-world have been a little crazy; things happen, school deadlines come faster than you think they are, and slowly your line of vision starts narrowing and you're only capable of focusing on one thing at a time. Hey-o University! But now that I got that garbage over with, and I am officially on summer (thank you full summer courses for thwarting my desire for knowledge) and I have nothing to do all day but take care of the furson munchkin, play some video games, and read. All favourites of mine. Seriously. 

So yesterday, I finally pummelled through finishing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which I had started during my christmas break back in December. And as soon as I finished that gorgeous and glorious masterpiece of writing, I picked up Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl. And my heart just imploded in on itself. I honestly don't know how to put into words all the feels that this book pulled out of me. I really enjoyed this book. So much. So so so much. I don't think I can even write enough so's because I don't think there are nearly enough that I can write that will express just how much I loved this. 

So Fangirl. What is it? What is this about? Is it really about some crazy obsessed Fangirl who is stuck in the past? Did she go all crazy, find the person she's Fangirl-ing over and completely infiltrate their lives? That's what I thought this book was about! And it does have that Fangirl aspect, that Fangirl lifestyle without going too overboard, like I thought. I originally didn't think I was going to like this as much as I actually did. This book is about two twin sisters: Cath and Wren (Catherine, get it? Well.. I thought it was clever). And it's their times to shine in college. Wren, unlike Cath, wants to break away from her twin sister, do her own thing. Cath is more dependent on Wren, she wants to be dorm mates with her sister, she wants to hang out with her, she's the built in best friend she got when she was a baby and she wants to keep it that way. Cath wants her best friend, the person she has been writing Simon Snow fanfiction with, to stick together.

So, the last week of summer Wren tells Cath that she doesn't want to room with her at school, which completely devastates Cath. Which is where this story really begins. Cath is stuck rooming with Reagan, who has a best friend, Levi, who hangs around her dorm more than needed. Throughout the course of the novel we really see Cath branch out. She realizes that she doesn't need her sister nearly as much as she thought she did. Cath really grows into her own person, she becomes her own person instead of just being Wren's twin sister. And that's what this book is about. The most important thing I got out of this book is to keep doing what you love, never stop doing what you love, even if that thing may seem childish or immature to others. This is a coming of age story that I really inherently related to. It's beautiful. The way Cath comes into her own just floored me, and really did choke me up: mainly because she doesn't realize it. She doesn't realize she is becoming an independent person, she doesn't realize that she is becoming her own person, a person that she always was, but needed that independence to truly become.

I feel like I share a lot in common with Cath -- and maybe that's the reason why I'm so obsessed with this book. I read it a couple of weeks ago, and I'm already itching for a re-read (Not to mention that I just purchased the limited edition Pink cover copy from my local Chapters). I just enjoyed this book so much. I read it in one sitting, and that says a lot about a book with over four hundred pages -- in one sitting. I was literally up until 4am finishing that bad boy, and I have:

NO RAGRETS.

Rainbow Rowell might just be my new favourite author. I've read Attachments, and now Fangirl. I own Eleanor & Park, and will most likely pick that up after I finish the Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout (which is what I'm currently reading). I will absolutely be picking up Landline, and Carry On soon... because I just don't think I can live my life without Rainbow Rowell's amazing stories in my life.

Rainbow Rowell, if, by some streak of miracle goodness you happened upon this blog. Please. Please, please, please keep writing the feel good, happy, amazing things you write. I'm pretty convinced, even after just two of your books that I'm quite possibly in love with you and your writing. 

Guys, if you still have a big question mark floating above your heads, debating whether or not to pick this book up. Please do. You absolutely need to pick this book up. It's just... perfection in binding. You won't regret this read. I guarantee it.

So, this is my review after my long, terrible, inexplainable, and irritating hiatus from books and reviews. I hope I still got it. Writing reviews, that is. I think. Hope you guys are as satisfied with my review as I was of Rowell's Fangirl. 

Don't never stop being awesome, 'cause you're pretty rad. And you should stay rad by being you. xoj

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

What's going on homo sapiens! I hate to do this to you guys again, but yes, it's another book review, so lets talk about this shit!

Title: Attachments
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Rating: ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎ 1/2
Current Mood: Feeling like Gob throwing pennies on a table for a bunch of money hungry people, which makes them so happy, and lights their face up with pure joy. (specifically the third guy on the right -- he nailed that surprise face!)

Why I feel like Gob, I have no idea. Maybe because this book is a feel good book, and it made me feel really good for some reason. So I guess I should explain why: Get ready for the squeals

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, a contemporary (millennial; if this makes sense) love story. It takes place from 1999 - 2000/1 (maybe?), and dude, it's pretty rad. This book is about a guy named Lincoln O'Neill, who takes a IT/Internet Security job at a newspaper, The Courier. It's basically his job to sift through flagged emails, and send out warnings to people who break the rules. That is, until he starts reading Beth and Jennifer's emails to each other. Beth and Jennifer's emails to one another almost always come up flagged, and if it isn't already as blatantly obvious, Lincoln ends up falling in love with Beth through reading her email conversations with Jennifer.

When I picked up this book in one of my large hauls, the main reason was the premise. I said to myself, "You know what, Jessica, when are you ever going to read a book like this ever again? Don't you want to know how things end up working out? How exactly is this woman going to play this out?" So I clicked that magical 'Add to Cart' button so I can find out the answers to all those questions myself. And now that I've read the book in t-minus like, two days, I have all the answers to those questions myself and need not stress about it any longer.

Once again, my intention during my reading week wasn't to read two books (that have absolutely nothing to do with my education) in less than a week, it was to actually get school readings and essays done. But Emerald Green had to be read because I needed to finish the trilogy, and I made the crucial mistake of reading the first chapter of Attachments right after it as I was putting EG back on my bookshelf, and I was hooked.

What can I say about this book? It's hilarious. It's so funny, and so witty, and the situations that play out aren't over the top and the reactions from characters are on point and realistic! This book made me laugh (out loud!) and I liked everyone (Except for Stef, because she's a raging bleep). All of the characters, not one character annoyed the shit out of me or made me want to douse them in gasoline and "accidentally" flick a match their way (Except for Stef, because she's a raging bleep). I loved everyone in this book (Except for Stef, because she's a raging bleep), and I rooted for Lincoln so hard. I've never wanted the guy to get the girl as much as I wanted Lincoln to get Beth. (Except for Disney movies, but that's irrelevant in this case).

This book. Shit, Rainbow Rowell, you got me hooked on your writing style. It was smooth, it was easy, it was effortless! Reading Lincoln read through Beth and Jennifer's emails -- shit, I felt like I was working in IT reading their emails myself. I really did find myself getting invested with the characters. I got invested, really invested. I care about Lincoln, and Beth, and Jennifer, and even Doris. I didn't want it to end. I wanted this book to go on forever.

The chapters! The chapters are short! Which kept me hooked. Because you can't not read another three page chapter. You can't decide to go to bed, or eat food, or take a shower, when you have just three more measly pages until the next chapter! Which I think is why I read the majority of this book in one day. The chapters teeter-totter (if this is spelt right at all). One chapter is the email back and forth between Jennifer and Beth, and the next chapter is Lincoln going over what they said, or dealing with his own things. Which is nice. It's a nice refreshing difference. It's not stuck in the same boring perspective; it changes up almost every chapter, which is nice.

This book really, just --- really made me happy, and bubbly, and excited, and I'm really super happy that I decided to pick this up, because I will most definitely read it again in the future. Like the title of this book, I am Attached to it. I love it so much! I have another book by Rainbow Rowell - Eleanor & Park, and that is already on my T(o) B(e) R(ead) list, but there's a shit ton of books on there, so I might bump it up above a few others just so I can read another Rainbow Rowell book. And I am looking into buying Fangirl, because it seems like it's my thing. I just need to make sure I want the green cover, cause there's a pink one floating around out there, and I'm not sure which one will make my bookshelf look snazzy-er.

Have you read Attachments? What did you think of it!? Have you read any other Rainbow Rowell books? Or books similar to Attachments? Hit me up and let me know the low down! And if you wanna subscribe to my blog to be updated whenever I post some new shit, there's a box somewhere near the top right area of my blog that will do that for you!

Oh by the way, you light up my life like Gob throwing pennies on a desk in front of me. I'm that third guy on the right. You're snazzy, and awesome, and don't not read Attachments. So keep being rad as shit. xoj

Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier

What's going on homo sapiens! It's me again coming at you with yet another book review, so lets talk about some more book shit!

Title: Emerald Green (Third and final book in the Ruby Red trilogy)
Author: Kerstin Gier
Rating: ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎
Spoilers: Yes. Tons. If you have no interest in reading spoilers about the entire series, turn back now. Just X out of here, seriously. I'm going to spoil the shit out of this for you if you have an interest in reading it, because I am going to unload.


Spoiler Alert: Seriously, dude, turn back now if you do not want this series ruined for you.


My reading week is finally here and instead of using my reading week to do essays that are due really soon, and catching up on critically important course readings, I decided to read the final book in the Ruby Red series. Lets jump right into this.

Emerald Green, the third and final book in the Ruby Red trilogy. Can I first start out by saying how utterly insane as shit it is that these three books take place within, what? two to three weeks at the latest?! I feel like nothing happens, yet so much happens. This book really did pick up the slack left by Sapphire Blue, but the best thing about it? All answers are revealed, and now I can finally sleep in peace without waking up in a cold sweat wondering about what's going to happen.

Turns out that I was right about Lucy and Paul being Gwen's biological parents, but I think that was kind of revealed in Sapphire Blue, but it was outright finally said out loud in Emerald Green. And unfortunately, I think I was wrong about the gift of the Raven, at least in part -- I was under the assumption that the gift of the raven was Gwen's ability to see ghosts, but it turns out that she's f^@$!&# immortal. So yeah, the chick can't die, which is pretty rad and I didn't expect that shit at all. But it does kind of make sense -- if she's immortal and can't die (because of the two time travelling blood lines; which are her mother and father: Montrose and de Villiers) then the 'veil' to the other side would be extremely thin and allow for her to see ghosts. So, that was a really great twist.

Another huge f^@$!&# twist? Turns out the Count was immortal -- well, he was immortal until Gwen was born, and from there he ages. Which blows my mind completely. I wasn't expecting that at all. With all this shit about closing the circle of twelve and the talk about the philosophers stone, I was sure that the Count wanted the philosophers stone to become immortal. I never really thought the philosophers stone would be in the chronograph, but when you think about it, it's pretty obvious. (Also Philosopher's stone, Harry Potter -- I knew exactly what that guy wanted. Too bad there wasn't any mention of Nicholas Flamel!) And the count ends up being Mr. Whitman? Are you kidding me? I wasn't expecting that at all! AT ALL! I- damn. I just- don't even know where to begin thinking about everything I missed whenever he interacted with Gwen and Lesley. Wasn't expecting that at all.

I did like how the book played everything out. I love how Gwen ended up with the second chronograph and is able to elapse on her own and get shit done, and I like how Gideon came around and stopped flip flopping all over the place acting like a world class ass. I like how I got all my answers. And I really liked the way things tied themselves up, in a sense. I'm super happy that James (the ghost) ended up having a nice long life because of the smallpox cure.

But that ending though. So Mr. Bernard is Paul? That must have been really hard for him, growing old and seeing Gwen pay no attention to him even though he's her biological father. I know that obviously Paul and Lucy have a life together and end up having more children, but I would have liked to know what happens with their story line. Where's Lucy in Gwen's present? (Maybe Mrs. Bernard was mentioned but I just don't remember)

And damn, so Gideon ended up taking the philosopher stone/immortality powder or whatever, so that's cool because Gwen is immortal, but am I just supposed to assume that they stay together for the rest of eternity? How does that work out for them? Could this reveal have been any more anti-climactic? It's revealed that Gideon is immortal after Mr.Whitman/Count put an entire gun clip into him. Which I guess was a bit of a shock, but it's just brushed over once he wakes up.
Gwen:"Oh thank goodness Gideon that the philosophers stone potion thing worked,"
Gideon: "yeah, me too, we just mixed it with some water lol, yay immortality"
Really?! (This is not how the scene actually unfolds, but to me, it felt like it -- so not an actual representation but pretty damn close)
Also, are there two philosopher stone/immortality potion things in each of the chronographs? Because I'm really interested in knowing. So two people can become immortal? WHO ELSE?!
And about this chronograph business. The guardians were complete idiots. If this thing was super important enough to create an entire damn secret society over, wouldn't it have made sense to get the time travellers to use both chronographs? At least use the backup once so that way they have the blood already stored (and then put away and kept safe until the next two time travellers pop up)? Or at least have a little drop of blood or something preserved and safely stored away somewhere, just in case? But I guess if it was that easy, there wouldn't have been a trilogy about it!

OH! And what about the Count/Mr.Whitman? I know that he dies in the end because Mr. White hit him over the head (at least, I hope he died), but what about all those essays that Giordano translated and Lucas put into the copy of Anna Karenina? What's the count's story?! I was hoping that part of his defeat would be because Gwen and Gideon went back in time to talk to Elisabetta, but clearly that didn't happen, even though it should have. I would have loved to know what the count's real name is, where he came from, a little backstory on why he became the massive immortality seeking asshole he turns into.

This book was pretty great, I'm not going to lie, it really was. I finally got all of the answers I wanted, well, needed. But it was so anti-climactic. Once you find out Gwen is immortal and that the item inside the chronograph is a philosophers stone, you know that Gideon is going to take it and be immortal with her. But I just want to know more. What about Gwen's and Gideon's family? They're going to outlive them, obviously, but what happens to them? Is there a way to split the philosopher's stone since it's just like crystals in a little tube? Do they age? What?! What are Gwen and Gideon going to do for the rest of their immortal lives? If they have children, will they be immortal, too? So many more unanswered questions.

But overall, this book gave me what I needed, and left me with more questions I'll hopefully get over, or make up silly answers for. It was a great ending to the trilogy, and it was action packed and exciting at times. I would definitely recommend this entire trilogy to people! I can't recommend it to you guys reading this, since you've hopefully read the trilogy if you're reading this spoiler post!
I'm definitely glad that this trilogy is apart of my collection, and I definitely see myself picking it up again in the future -- now knowing how the ending unfolds, there's most likely little bits and pieces of things characters did, or said, that hold some type of significance that I didn't catch before.

Guys if this spoiler has only encouraged you to pick these books up for yourself, or if you haven't read my spoiler entwined posts about this trilogy and happen to be skimming and see this part: Do pick it up! Really! It's a really amazing read, especially if you just want something light to read that will make you laugh (and frustrated because lack of answers). And the hardcover covers are just stunningly gorgeous, aren't they?! Aren't they?! The paperback covers are pretty too, just... not as pretty as the hardcovers.

Overall I rate this series: ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎
Because I enjoyed the frustration, and everything it had to offer utterly and entirely.

So that's my wrap up of my first trilogy review! Stoked!

If you guys have any suggestions on what books I should read next? or what I should do next in terms of posts? Please comment/email and let me know! Have you read the Ruby Red series? How did you like it?! I might hold back on the book reviews for a while due to school commitments, but I'm thinking of doing a bookshelf tour-ish thing? Showing you guys my bookshelf and going through it posting what books I have, which I've read, which I haven't, stuff like that! If you're interested in that, let me know below!


Dude, you're so awesome it's depressing for all those who aren't as awesome as you! Keep doing that thing you're doing cause it's clearly working! Blam! xoj

Annabelle (Valentines/Single's Awareness Day Edition)

What's going on homo sapiens! Today I will be talking about and reviewing some Annabelle movie shit.

Movie Title: Annabelle
Rating: ☹☹☹ (Three frowny faces -- this will be explained in my review/talk/rant.
Will I watch this again: Never. Ever.


So guys, I have this thing. You know, it's not a... shit how do I explain this? I have an irrational fear of porcelain dolls. I'm f$^*#&g terrified of porcelain dolls. I don't like them. I don't like anything about them: they're creepy as shit, they're really really creepy. And I don't know how people think that buying porcelain dolls for their kids is a good parenting decision?! How do you animals live with yourselves?!

Porcelain dolls just really rub me the wrong way, and I think it goes all the way back to my childhood; specifically around the time I watched Chucky for the first time. Just the thought of an inanimate doll coming to life and killing everybody is a terrifying thought, and, I don't know, it really freaked me out. So I've always been a little, you know, wary when it comes to dolls, especially porcelain dolls. They have these fake looking, porcelain faces, and they either have these beady black little eyes or the eyes that look like they were just harvested from an organ donor and transplanted into a doll. And that's creepy as shit, I don't care who you are or what you say, it's creepy. And growing up, I always got these creepy porcelain dolls as gifts -- they weren't nearly as large as Annabelle, but no matter their size, it was enough to make me stare at them until I finally passed out. I would closely monitor them. Make sure that they're in the exact same position they were in the night before, you know, safety measures. But then you start to think that they know that you know, and nothing good can come from you knowing what they don't want you to know, right?!

Finally, I packed up those porcelain dolls and got them as far away from my room as possible -- I'm not too sure if my parents still have them in the basement, but that's not something I particularly want to find out, or go looking for. And for the most part, I'm able to watch Chucky every halloween without completely losing my $#!t, so I have made progress, but dolls will always freak me out. Which leads me to this movie review. Annabelle. It came out on October 3rd, 2014. And I had absolutely no intention on watching it, possessed porcelain doll + probably terrible plot/ending just wasn't something I wanted to waste my time on... until tonight.

My mom and I have been joking back and forth about how we should rent Annabelle just for the heck of it. And finally tonight, we rented it. So a little explanation on the background of the story, which includes spoilers. So (may include some spoilers)

The movie centres around a family; a man, and his pregnant wife. The movie opens up with the happily married couple in church having a thumb war with each other. Church is over, they get a ride home from their neighbours. A little conversation on the sidewalk in front of their houses reveals some information: The neighbours have a daughter that ran away from home to join a cult two years ago. So the happily married couple go to bed, and the wife, Mia, wakes up after hearing screaming coming from next door. Husband John goes to check, comes out covered in blood, tells Mia to call the police. Turns out the runaway cult joining daughter came back and murdered her parents with her boyfriend because they're part of this cult (something about a ram), and they were trying to 'summon something'. Well, after crazy cult lady's boyfriend gets shot by the police after stabbing Mia in the stomach, she ends up slitting her own throat in the nursery -- she drew some weird satanic cult symbol on the wall in blood, and when a drop of blood fell from the crazy cult lady and landed on the doll's eye, the eye absorbed the blood. Boom possessed doll alert!

Essentially, the entire movie is about Mia trying to deal with this summoned demon and possessed doll, and in order to do that, a soul must be given. The demon wants the baby's soul, but it'll take anything it can get.

Now, I gave this movie three frowny faces, and now I will explain why. The frowny faces do not mean that it's a -3 rating. It's your general 3/5, I just used frowny faces because it's supposed to be a horror movie, and horror movies make you scared and frowny. The ending of the movie was totally predictable (to me, anyways). I knew it was coming, I saw it coming, I wasn't surprised in the least, which kind of killed it for me. And other than a few parts that made me want to crawl under my blanket and say a couple of Hail Mary's and Our Father's, the movie was just... average. Like I said, some parts really made me jumpy, and the long pauses on that creepy doll just made me feel really creeped out and uncomfortable. So just for those parts, this gets three frowny faces. It wasn't a terrible movie, it just wasn't as good as some I've seen, and I would never put it in a category with those other movies. Would I watch this again? Never. Never ever ever again. Not because it was the scariest thing I've ever watched in my life (it's not), but the doll really freaks me out, and I wouldn't really want to watch it again because that doll is creepy and should be burned in a fire.

So, guys, my first movie review! My opinions are completely my own, and I obviously didn't like this movie because of my personal reasons, but to you this movie could be the bee's knees! It could be in your top ten horror movie list. I do think it's worth the watch, in a way, especially if you dislike porcelain dolls like I do, the creepy factor is off the charts.

I still have this movie rented and ready for me for the next 48 hours. And I can't wait until that expires, because I can't look at this doll anymore. If I never see this porcelain doll for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon. Plus that blush on that doll, and the fact that it starts off as a pure porcelain white doll and turns to this grey, ashy colour... goodness, it's creepy.

Have you guys watched Annabelle? Do you share the same opinions about it as I do? OR do you disagree with me completely and you absolutely loved the movie?! Do you have an irrational fear of porcelain dolls?
Comment, email, subscribe to my blog, and let me know your thoughts and opinions!

Never buy your children porcelain dolls, because they are creepily scary, and will probably try to kill you and your whole family while you sleep. xoj

P.S. Happy Valentines Day, or Happy Singles Awareness day -- enjoy your day no matter where you land on the spectrum. Chocolate as a gift is awesome, and for all us single people -- chocolate will be on sale tomorrow. Win win for everyone!

Book Haul Part 2!

What's going on homo sapiens! Today I'm going to be talking about and sharing my book haul shit with you! This is technically part dos of this haul, since I got the first shipment before I decided to start consistently blogging. However, even though I don't have any pictures of the box containing those precious books themselves, you can just pretend that you seen it, and it's the most amazing picture of books in a box you've ever laid your gorgeous eyes on!

So without further ado, I'm going to share my shit with you! Also, I am not very skilled in picture-collage creating, so please ignore the terrible collages of books that will follow in this blog. I apologize in advance for the 'potato' quality. The only camera I own is attached to my phone, so please bare with me!

So for this collage duo, I've decided to include a tower of books I have received from this shipment, along with the tower of books I've received from the previous shipment. The books on the left are from my previous haul, and the books on the right are from my most recent haul. The lighting in both pictures are crap, but I will list titles, authors, etc!




The first book that I picked up, and I absolutely fell in love with the cover was Gris Grimly's Frankenstein. I was a little worried when I picked this book up, since I ordered it online. I was very fearful that I wouldn't get the dust jacket, and I'm super glad I did! The illustrations are absolutely gorgeous. As soon as I seen the cover I fell in love with it but as I opened this book, to a completely random page, I fell even more in love with it. I gave you guys a little snippet of what the illustrations look like (the book is divided into three volumes). The second picture, containing the skull with the F along with cogs and wheels, that's the cover of the book behind the dust jacket. Although I stupidly forgot to take a picture of the spine of the book, I'll describe it (and you can be rest assured it holds up to the no-dust jacket cover, and the gorgeousness that it contains in between those covers. It has gold lettering, contains more cogs and wheels, and makes my jaw drop every time I look at it. This is not the first graphic novel I have picked up in my time, but it's most definitely the first graphic novel that I have purchased and now own. And I'm so glad that it's mine, so so glad. Look at it! I can't stop looking at it! And it's inspired by Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley! Super duper bonus! Cha-Ching!

Next in the lineup is *drumroll* the first three novels in The Luxe series! And yes, I did accidentally add the photos in the wrong order. The Luxe is the first novel, Rumors is the second, and Envy is the third. Splendor, which I do not own is the fourth novel in the series. I kept hearing BookTubers talk about this series. I heard wonderful things about it, and I heard some people even talk about how it's their "guilty pleasure read." I'm not one who believes in the whole 'guilty pleasure' thing. Nothing that gives you pleasure deserves to make you feel guilty about it, even if the covers all contain girls in really frilly dresses, and probably contain nothing but romance. If you like it, good on you, dude! Don't let the fear of people possibly giving you the stink eye about something you enjoy get you down from enjoying what you enjoy. Forget 'em. Moving along, this series, as I understand it is about two high status girls in Manhattan in the year 1899, but they end up finding out that their status in society isn't as 'secure' as it once was, and their way of living is now threatened. It does sound absolutely interesting. I can just imagine how much drama is going to unfold within this series. Catfights, oh the catfights that are probably within these books. The thing that really made me want to pick this series up, despite all the catfights I'm looking forward to reading, is that this series is supposed to be historically accurate. Hook, line, and sinker! The catfights had my curiosity, but now you, the historical accuracy bit, have my attention. I'm excited to read this series. The books I got are all paperback, and the thickness of the book just, ugh, it feels so good when I hold it. That sounds absolutely weird, but along with my obsession with covers, I am also really particular about the way a book feels when I hold it. It's no secret that I obviously prefer physical books in comparison to eBooks and reading online, and there's something about the way a book sits comfortably in your hand that makes that experience so much more enjoyable.

Next, we got some random Stephen King books! We have: The Dark Tower (part of the dark tower series), Danse Macabre, and Storm of the Century (which is a screenplay). These, well all Stephen King books I own are shared with my mom -- to be fair they should be more her books than they are mine since she had an entire collection of King books before I was even conceived, and most definitely before I could even read. But as time went on, I picked up Pet Sematary, Carrie, Christine, Skeleton Crew, and have since tried to make my way through her entire collection, because this guy is quite possibly one of my favourite writers of all time. He's all dark and twisty, and psychotic, and gets you paranoid, and he scares the absolute shit out of you and I love it. So I picked these up, more for her, to add to her ever expanding collection. And when I'm done with my enormously large non-King T(o)B(e)R(ead) list, these will most definitely be working their way into my busy
reading schedule and giving me the utmost pleasure of going to bed, terrified as shit, and enjoying the thrill of the paranoia.


Moving along, we've got a collage here of four different books, by four different authors. Aside from The Treatment by Suzanne Young and The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar, the rest of the books aren't part of a series, that I'm aware of. The Treatment is the second book in The Program series, The Program being the first book. However, I have yet to read it, and own it, so I won't be able to read The Treatment anytime soon. But my impression of what the series is about is: Teen suicide has become an epidemic, and in order to prevent teens from taking their own lives, at any sign or display of emotion or distress, these kids are taken and brought into the 'program' and when they come back they're blank slates, with no memories, etc. So they try to hide their feelings as best as they could, but these two teenagers suffer from depression and the 'program' is going after them. And the second book is The Treatment, and since I have no idea how the first book ends, I'm not going to look up any synopses about it because I'll end up ruining it for myself, then hating myself, and then I'll just be really sad.

Next up, Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (I picked up All These Things I've Done by her in my last book haul, and when adding books upon books to this order, I read the synopses and watched a book haul video on YouTube and found someone mention this book and a quick little blurb about it, and it intrested the shit out of me) -- So to sort of paraphrase what I've heard about it: It's about a fifteen year old girl who has gotten into an accident, and dies. From there she is brought to this place called 'Elsewhere' and in this place you age backwards until you are reborn. Which is interesting as shit, right? Like, damn. Reincarnation never sounded so cool, well it did, but this makes it a whole different kind of cool.

The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar. I'm not going to sugar coat how little I know about this book. The only thing I know is that it's about genies. And since I have very little experience reading paranormal or supernatural type books, I thought I would pick this up at at least give it a try. But with a genie in it, I can only imagine how many amazing wishes are going to happen! I'm Stoked!

And the last book in this picture collage, Parallel by Lauren Miller. I was browsing the site and since there's a discount on science fiction books, this book was dirt cheap and it sounded interesting as shit. Apparently it's about this girl who is about to graduate from high school. She takes a drama course, but then something happens (the collision of parallel universes) and instead of being on a set, she's in a dorm room at Yale. So this girl now has to navigate through everything that's happening to her, and learn how to cope. It sounds really interesting. Imagine just waking up one morning and your life is completely different based on choices the parallel you made that you didn't. I'm so down to read this. I'm so excited to read this.

Last but definitely not least is Jennifer L. Armentrout's Consequences (Part of the Lux series, and part of the Special Collector's edition). This sparkly edition contains two books in one: Opal and Origin. I haven't read the first two book in the series yet either (Obsidian and Onyx; eek) but once again, I've heard nothing but wonderful things about this series from BookTubers and other bloggers, etc. So after reading the synopses of Obsidian, I thought I would give it a go. Aliens are cool. So I'm stoked to read this. Part of this picture has the famous tower of books I received in part two of my book haul! I'm super excited and I absolutely can't wait to finish my TBR pile and start reading these beauties.

A special thank you to bookoutlet, for making all my book buying dreams come true. You guys really do offer read-iculously low prices, and I'm completely and utterly addicted to your site. If I could marry it, I would. You guys have overflowed my bookshelf and overflowed my heart with love, and you guys have made it possible for me to buy books upon books for really affordable prices. I just want to say, bookoutlet, that you tha real MVP! You make a struggling student indulge in books like this, and it makes me so happy. You guys are super rad.

Enjoy book hauling, and don't never stop being you cause you're awesome as shit
xoj