Reanna's Book Realm

Clary’s life is ordinary in every sense. She’s shares her life with three people: her mom, her mom’s best friend, Luke, and her best friend Simon. The summer days consist of debating names for Simon’s band, drawing, and going to parties. Except, at the end of the summer, things become out of the ordinary. At a night at the Pandemonium Club, she starts seeing things. Things like three teenagers murdering a fourth in the back of the club. It’s no mistake that she can see them, but a mistake that she hasn’t been able to see them her whole life. These teenagers, Jace, Alec, and Isabelle, are Shadowhunters, sworn to protect humanity from the evils of the world. In the course of a night, it’s discovered that Clary’s mom is a Shadowhunter as well and that she’s wrapped her and Clary up in a deadly problem. It’s all new to her, but Clary must trust Jace, Alec, and Isabelle if she wants to survive in this new world. I originally read City of Bones over five years ago and have read it three...

It’s been five years since the end of the Dark War the took place in Cassandra Clare’s previous series, The Mortal Instruments. Since then, Julian and Emma, who were last seen at age twelve are now both seventeen and Julian basically runs the Los Angeles Institute. Now, the two of them are parabatai, sworn to serve and protect each other. Even though it’s been awhile since the Dark War, Emma and Julian are still reaping the consequences of it. Julian now is the head of his family and Emma is on a mission to figure out who killed her parents. When bodies start showing up in a similar fashion to Emma’s parents, Emma is given another strand of hope. Julian wants to be supportive but he has his own battle: he’s in love with Emma, something forbidden under parabatai codes. Regardless of his feelings, he has to help Emma because it seems that his family are involved in the murders, which is a puzzle to all. A round of applause to me, who got through this massive, 700 page book in a reaso...

August Flynn is a monster. Not the kind of monster that lives under your bed, but the kind of monster the looks human and breathes like a human. August is the result of a mass murder, just like all the other monsters are a result of some kind of terrible action done by a human. When he was created, he was adopted by the Flynns, rulers of the South City. Kate Harker, the daughter of the ruler of the North City, views monsters as something to control, especially since there has been a wave of uncooperativeness from the monsters in the past few weeks. It seems that August and Kate are on opposite sides of a city that’s about to break into madness and to survive they must go against all their instincts and trust each other. Ever since This Savage Song came out in July of last year everybody I follow has been raving about it. Telling me it’s one of the best releases of the year, that it’s amazing. The same goes for all of Victoria Schwab’s books. However, when I read her book The Arch...

All Bridey wants is to leave the tiny island she grew up on, even if that means leaving behind her family. Almost nothing in her community ever happens, that is, until a body shows up on the beach, mangled with no information about the cause of death. For Bridey, all this does is give her more certainty that she needs to leave and go to America, which is not the easiest in the early 1900s. Not wanting to be stuck for any longer, Bridey takes a job for the rumored town “witch”, which then creates a whole new set of rumors that follow her. Then, on a trip to the beach to gather an ingredient, Bridey finds a boy barely clinging on to life with gashes across his body. In an unintentional heroic act, Bridey saves him, and when his memory fails, gives him the name Fynn. Slowly, she and Fynn build a bond, one that doesn’t seem to be breaking anytime soon. But, while Fynn and Bridey are getting closer and closer, citizens of the town are going missing, and everyone is placing the blame on Fyn...

Lissa and Rose have been on the run for two years. As a dhampir, Rose’s only job in life is to make sure Lissa is safe, who happens to be a Moroi princess. And she was doing a good job of it, until the both got caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir’s Academy, the very place they were running from. Resuming their senior year of high school, not much seems to have changed- until someone starts leaving dead animals in Lissa’s dormroom. At the same time, Rose learns she’s not as equipped to protect Lissa as she thought, and signs on to grueling training from Dimitri, an upper dhampir who’s experience has turned him into an emotionless building. As more problems rise is Rose and Lissa’s life, discovers that to be a dhampir, she must not only protect Rose, but protect herself before everything falls apart. For a long time, I have been putting off reading Vampire Academy , simply because it sounded so cheesy. Infact, I think I tried reading it a few years ago, but I quit. However, I’v...

Tessa believe she’s human, and she has every reason too. Born in late 1800s England, she moved to America, where she grew with her aunt and older brother Nate, after her parents passed away. However, once they grow up, Nate moves back to England, and after six weeks of no contact, sends Tessa a single ship ticket to London. After arriving there, instead of meeting Nate, she is captured by the Dark Sisters, who reveal her true power: she can shapeshift, which is just to the advantage to the Dark Sisters. They plan to give her to the Magister, who plans to marry her, even though no one actually knows who the Magister is. Lucky for her, Tessa is rescued right before she is handed into the Magister by the Shadowhunters Will and Jem. Quickly, the throw her into the protection of the London Institute, where the livelihood of Tessa is questioned. They know she isn’t human, but they don’t know what she is, either. But all this is put to the side as the Magister’s plan is revealed: a clockw...