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New changes in my blog! :D New background, new title, and all that crap. Took me a while. It's better than before, but far from perfection.
And I got a signature!! Awesome, right?
Will post more later! :)

Great Food to Eat During Movies

Well, hello. At the moment I am very hungry and watching a movie. So why not help everyone out and list a whole bunch of foods to eat while watching a movie?
Yep, that's me. Always thinking big.

So, here's your movie food:

Popcorn (the most popular movie food)
Twix candybars
Snickers
Any candy
Ice Cream (Yum!)
Chips (Preferably with a yummy French Onion dip or Cool Ranch dip.)
Crackers
Chex Mix (Those are the best!!)
Cheetos (so, so good)
Pizza (who doesn't love pizza?)
Chicken Wings or Buffalo Wings (I am so craving some right now.)
French Fries (One of my favorite foods)
Cookies

Okay, I think I'm done. There's probably something I'm missing, but oh well.

This wonderful post is what happens when I'm hungry. :)

Photography! By Me.

Ah. So this is just a flower from a bush that I zoomed in on. I would've gotten closer to it, but I was deathly afraid after an ant crawled up my leg.  I added in the little burning pinkish/reddish slash in the middle. Other than that, the picture is an original. I thought it wasn't too bad. I call it 'Burning Flower'.

Okay, so this one looked a bit soft in the beginning, so I made it a bit more gritty. Not bad, eh? In the distance at the bottom right, you can see how it trails off into darkness. I thought that turned out awesome. I'm a sucker for dark fairy tale type of stuff, so yeah. Then towards the top left, everything just brightens up. I totally love twisted and vine-like trees like these. This one shall be called 'Dark & Light Forest'. Kinda lame name, right? Well I don't know what else to name it, so oh well. 

OMFG. This one took me for-freaking-ever. Seriously. I know I could've just found some app or program to pop art collage it for me but I wanted to do it on my own. So did this collage one by one, adding the effect to each individual tree photo. Yeah. It was a long time till I was finished. But I feel happy now that I finished, because, honestly, it looks pretty. And I still can't believe that I just went outside, took a picture of this tree and made it into this. I call it '16 Trees'. Now that title sounds awesome.

These two aren't my favorite, but there you go. I'm not even going to bother giving these two a title. My reason? Call it laziness or my disliking of them. ;)











My failed attempt at color splash is the one on the left. Bleh.













Yeah, um, moving on...

I thought this one turned out pretty awesome. Notice how it looks realistic on the right but when you look to the left, it looks like a graphic picture. Or vice versa. It's fading into something different. That's pretty hypster to me. This one shall be called 'Fading Tree'.
Now that I think of it, this could be my new desktop wallpaper. ;)

At first, I thought I overdid this one. Now? Not so much. The bright burn effect thing on the left was like an extra dose of light. The bottom right looks interesting because it looks so different. It looks like roots in the ground. At the same time, it looks like some ancient picture on a wall in a cave. And if I really keep staring, I see a fish. Weirdly cool, I guess.  'Leaking Flower'

A Touch Trilogy by Leah Clifford!

A Touch Trilogy was seriously one of the best trilogies I've ever read.

 Leah Clifford is a fantastic author. I don't know how she managed to write a trilogy like that, but it was beautiful. Freaking beautiful. 

That's the  A Touch Trilogy described in two words: Freaking. Beautiful. 

And I totally recommend it.

A Touch Trilogy is a paranormal romance book, with angels and demons. You can also consider it fantasy, urban fantasy, and young adult. Those are just the main genres the trilogy fits into. 

I gave the whole trilogy five stars. 

SUMMARY OF THE FIRST BOOK:

Eden didn't expect Az.

Not his saunter down the beach toward her. Not his unbelievable pick up line. Not the instant, undeniable connection. And not his wings.

Yeah.

So long happily-ever-after.

Now trapped between life and death, cursed to spread chaos with her every touch, Eden could be the key in the eternal struggle between heaven and hell. All because she gave her heart to one of the Fallen, an angel cast out of heaven.

She may lose everything she ever had. She may be betrayed by those she loves most. But Eden will not be a pawn in anyone else's game. Her heart is her own.

And that's only the beginning of the end. 

This is the whole trilogy, in order from left to right. Aren't the covers just awesome? 

ANY WHO, so, yeah, there was the summary. Please do not be fazed of the author's choice to name the guy Az. Because, trust me, I know it sounds weird, but Az is so amazing, you will totally end up overlooking it. 

Also, the summary was a bit off. Or at least that's how it seemed to me at first. I was still intrigued to read it, but when I finally read it, it was different.

The summary gives you this whole other idea of what you expect to happen and whatnot, but it's so so so different. It'll blow your mind.

The writing and everything was really awesome. Leah Clifford did awesome with the descriptions. Also, there was POV (Point of View) switches. 

The whole thing was just dark and gritty and cryptic. The romance was phenomenal, too. 

One thing you will definitely not expect is the ending. But I won't spoil it, no matter how much I yearn to. ;)

SO, I totally recommend this book. Like I said, I gave each book in the trilogy five stars. I'm sure you won't be disappointed if you give it a try. 

A Touch Mortal, the first book, received an average rating of 3.46 stars, so that's not too bad. 

IF YOU READ THIS BOOK, YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE THESE OR IF YOU READ THESE BOOKS, THEN GIVE A TOUCH TRILOGY A GO 'CAUSE THEY'RE SIMILAR:

A Need So Beautiful - Suzanne Young   http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7656231-a-need-so-beautiful     (I read this and fell in love. Seriously.)

Fallen Angel - Heather Terrell http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8487365-fallen-angel 

(In the middle of reading this. It's okay so far.)

Haven - Kristi Cook http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8527908-haven

(I so like this book. Well, I thought I did. At first. But then things started going downhill. You'll know if you read it. Unless, of course, you absolutely love it, then ignore me. (; 

Blood Magic - Tessa Gratton http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8715032-blood-magic

(Have not read this yet, but it is on my to-reads and I will be getting to it sooner rather than later)

The Witch Hunter Saga by Nicole R. Taylor

Well, HELLO! This book was just....wow. 



First off, I'd like to say that the cover totally got to me. It's gorgeous, isn't it?

Okay, moving on to the story:
Wow. Just wow.
The minute I saw this book, I just knew I had to read it. It wasn't just the cover that appealed to me; it was the summary too.
So I went a bit cuckoo for cocoa puffs on my search for this book and then gave up. Then, like maybe a few weeks later, I look back to this and I'm back to my nonstop demand for this book.
It's safe to say I literally screamed with joy when I finally got to read The Witch Hunter. 
Nicole R. Taylor knows how to write one hell of a story and this was just exotic! Every single part of the story wrapped its way around my heart and I'm captivated with it for life.

Now, do I recommend this book? To anyone and anyone at all? Hell to the yeah. 
This book should be cased in the finest glass of the finest museum in the finest world.
That kinda overdid it, huh?
Yeah, I'm kinda borderline obsessing over here.

Well, I guess it's time for me to go to sleep (I stayed up way too long to finish this mind boggling book).
Now I get to go dream about it in my sleep. ;)

The Return 

The Return is book two, and yes, it has already came out. It's been published and so on and so forth.

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten the pleasure of reading it. YET. 

BUT, my friend says it was absolutely great, and I just have this gut feeling that it totally will be. 

The Shadows Son is the third book!!

It has not came out, but it looks quite intriguing, does it not?

SO, I TOTALLY RECOMMEND THE WITH HUNTER SAGA FOR A GREAT READ. TRUST ME!!! 

THERE'S VAMPIRES, ROMANCE, AND THE MOST EXQUISITE BLOODY ACTION. 

One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths #2) by K.A. Tucker

Marvelous book, I tell you! Marvelous!!

Book Summary: 

Livie has always been the stable one of the two Cleary sisters, handling her parents' tragic death and Kacey's self-destructive phase with strength and maturity. But underneath that exterior is a little girl hanging onto the last words her father ever spoke to her. “Make me proud,” he had said. She promised she would...and she’s done her best over the past seven years with every choice, with every word, with every action.

Livie walks into Princeton with a solid plan, and she’s dead set on delivering on it: Rock her classes, set herself up for medical school, and meet a good, respectable guy that she’s going to someday marry. What isn’t part of her plan are Jell-O shots, a lovable, party animal roommate she can’t say ‘no’ to, and Ashton, the gorgeous captain of the men’s rowing team. Definitely him. He’s an arrogant ass who makes Livie’s usually non-existent temper flare and everything she doesn’t want in a guy. Worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to fits Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep thinking about Ashton?

As Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades, career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle, and feelings for Ashton that she shouldn’t have, she’s forced to let go of her last promise to her father and, with it, the only identity that she knows.

Before the book came out:

April 14th 

Holy freaking hell! There's a cover!! I've waited SO long for this cover! Every single day I checked for a cover and I am finally, happily not fully disappointed!! (Although the cover for Ten Tiny Breaths looked absolutely gorgeous and somewhat better than this, I still approve of this cover. Somewhat.)

And the sypnosis? KILL ME NOW. I NEED this book unlike any other right now. I mean, god, it just sounds SO good. And Ashton? I don't know him yet but I KNOW I'm gonna like this arrogant eye candy as soon as I get my hands on this book!

I feel like I'm about to explode! UGH, I need One Tiny Lie!!

The book came out June 11th, 2013.

June 26th, 2013 OFFICIAL REVIEW:

One Tiny Lie realy stole my breath. And my heart. K.A. Tucker did amazingly well with writing the Ten Tiny Breaths series. They're so realistic, refreshing, and meaningful. I feel like I'm learning something in life when I read these books and I happen to like that feeling. A lot. 

One Tiny Lie was very funny and I swear I looked crazy every time I laughed out loud while reading. And I laughed out loud a lot. 

Livie was just so perfect, it astounded me. Every little thing she did got a reaction from me. (In a good way, of course) Livie is, like, your ideal person. She was just so sweet and nice. 

Then comes in Ashton. Bad boy perfection. He was so fucking sexy. Except, everyone has their secrets and Ashton's honestly surprised me. 

I liked a lot of things about this book and I'm glad I found this series to read and that K.A. Tucker wrote it. Ten Tiny Breaths will always be my favorite, though. 

I'm curious as to what the next book will even be about. But I know I'm excited to read it!

This is Ten Tiny Breaths! The first book in the series:

Book Summary:

Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

But when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She can handle all of them. What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D.

Kacey doesn’t want to feel. She doesn’t. It’s safer that way. For everyone. But sexy Trent finds a way into her numb heart, reigniting her ability to love again. She starts to believe that maybe she can leave the past where it belongs and start over. Maybe she’s not beyond repair.

But Kacey isn’t the only one who’s broken. Seemingly perfect Trent has an unforgiveable past of his own; one that, when discovered, will shatter Kacey’s newly constructed life and send her back into suffocating darkness.

MY REVIEW:

I am 100 percent completely speechless.

Ten Tiny Breaths was a beautiful story in its own twisted way.

Kacey was a very interesting girl, who suffered a lot through out her life because of a horrific tragedy. She was a 'fucked up red head' as they say in the book. 

But her whole world seems to spark to life when Trent comes along. You'd think that this would be her happily ever after. Her sanction. 

Truthfully, your in for a hell of a surprise in Ten Tiny Breaths. 

Cryptically beautiful and inspiring in so many ways, Ten Tiny Breaths actually showed you that everyone gets their happy ever after in their own twisted way. 

I loved every second of this magnificent story, it was truthfully captivating and Trent was beyond sexy! 

At first, I was all like, "Yep, you just watch. She's going to fall in love with the person who killed her parents."

*then she meets Trent*

"OMG, FORGET THE KILLER! SHE HAS THIS HOTTIE!"

Then the whole plot twist comes and you're all like, "Oh no she didn't."

Point is, I loved it. I thought I knew what was going to happen, when really I didn't. Ten Tiny Breaths leaves you guessing the whole way, only to see that your wrong.

The whole meaning of Ten Tiny Breaths was just magnificent.

When you find out the truth, you may either feel unhappy or digusted with how she fell in love with the 'killer'. But when she goes to that medical place for help and therapy and whatnot, it gives you an insight into Trent. The Dr. really helped to show that by explaining that it was all an accident. And at the end, I found myself totally unerstanding all of this. 

I can't wait for One Tiny Lie. Livie is one interesting child  and I want to read her story, as well. 

I'd recommend Ten Tiny Breaths to anyone who is basically looking for a deeply mesmerizing story that will capture your heart. Not to mention that the cover is just downright gorgeous! ;)

So, there's my thoughts.  :)

Shadows by Paula Weston!

Book Summary:

It’s been almost a year since Gaby Winters was in the car crash that killed her twin brother, Jude. Her body has healed in the sunshine of Pandanus Beach, but her grief is raw and constant.

It doesn’t help that every night in her dreams she kills demons and other hell-spawn. And then Rafa comes to town. Not only does he look exactly like the guy who’s been appearing in Gaby’s dreams, he claims a history with her brother that makes no sense.

Gaby is forced to accept that what she thought she knew about herself and her life is only a shadow of the truth – and that the truth is more likely to be found in the shadows of her nightmares.

Who is Rafa? Who are the Rephaim? And most importantly – who can she trust?

SHORT REVIEW:

That was fucking awesome! And just a bit overwhelming. But I loved it! I'm really curious and anxious and excited to go on in this series. Not only that, but I'm going hysterical with all the things that could, would, and should happen. But I know Paula Weston will surprise us.
Gaby was a great main character. And I'm not just saying that. She was tough, fierce, and snarky. I liked her a lot. But I liked Rafa SO MUCH MORE. He was such a jerk, it was beautiful! Hopefully, more romance will come in the next book and more info on Jude.
I seriously fell in love with Shadows!

LONG REVIEW:

(may have a bit of spoilers; not really though)

The way this book was written kept me captivated the whole way through. Gaby was a great main character and I'm not just saying that. It totally sucks that she had to lose her memory, though. Gaby and Gabe were so different yet so alike. I liked Gabe, but all those decisions she made? It was almost as if she was being controlled. I also liked Gaby but everyone said she was 'softer'. I like a strong and independent main character that usually intimidates others. To me, being weak or softer isn't very ideal.
Gaby only really bothered me when it came to her fighting. She was supposedly this kickass fighter that was amazing. And now? Not so much. I hated that. But it got a little better when instinct kicked in and she actually could fight. But that rush of adrenaline didn't last long.
Rafael and Gabe were supposedly the best fighters there were. I liked that a lot because it was almost as if they had this connection or competition. But now? Gaby can barely fight unless she doesn't think. And until she can get all that shit under control again, I bet Rafa is going to be playing hero a lot.

I really want to know what happened between Gaby and Jude. What even happened to them? And if the memory loss thing happened to both of them? So many questions, but not that many answers. In the end of Shadows, we only got a bit of answers at the end. But that's the point of making this book a series. You can't just spill everything at once.

Rafa was totally hot. Sexy. Smoldering. Dashing. Whichever you prefer. The point is: he is just amazing.
The romance between Rafa and Gaby wasn't enough for me, though. It almost felt like Rafa wasn't really into it and was just getting a kick out of it with lust. You could tell Gaby truly had feelings for him, though. I thought it was really stupid that she asked Rafa to have sex with her towards the end. Not only is that practically rushed, but it's wrong timing. You don't have the two main characters almost naked in bed in only the first book! You've gotta take it slow. But not too slow. I like a little steamy romance here and there. Even a hot makeout session sounds nice.
So basically, when it came to the romance, there wasn't enough feeling for me. I still liked it, though. I'm hoping/expecting more from the next book, though.

Let's see, what now? Ah, yes. The plot. Why did I feel like it mainly just had to do with saving Maggie? I know it did have to do with saving her, but everything else? Jeez, why don't we just make Maggie the freaking main character?
You know what's funny? I'm saying all this stuff yet I give the book five stars. Eh, whatever. Not every book is perfect. But this one was still really good.

The action didn't have enough Gaby in it. And whenever Gaby was in the action, she barely did anything. I hated how Taya, Malachi and pretty much everyone else wasn't intimidated by her. They treated her like she was some fragile human! It made me angry.
I really really want Gaby to get her memory back. It'll explain so much! And I want to see a change in her. Not only that, but what did Rafa do that should make Gaby hate him? The questions are literally killing me. Paula Weston did really well writing Shadows and it felt good to actually read something that kept my attention from the very start.

Daniel, A.K.A. Pretty Boy, had some major issues going on. Honestly? How could someone like Gabe or Gaby ever fall for him? He seemed like a control freak. I didn't really like him.
Jason was a total perk. He was total hotness wrapped in a coat of sweetness. Maggie's definitely got a keeper when it comes to him.
What can I say about Simon other than the fact that he needs to fuck off and mind his own business, no matter how attractive he is.

I can't say much about Jude because I haven't even met him yet, but I have this undying urge to finally meet him. I like his character a lot, from what I've been told. So, high hopes for how he turns out!

I feel like I could go on and on about each and every single character, but it just feels wrong to do that for a review. So, I'll try to stay focused on the book: Spectacular, amazing, fantastic, freaking awesome, magnificent, electrifying, refreshing, magnetic, ultimately wonderful.

Basically, it was just really good and I recommend it to any paranormal romance reader or anyone who read Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick or Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.