The Demon King Review

Welcome to another day on this wonderful earth of ours. This day is quite special because I finally finished Inheritance so, you won't see it in this weeks #fridayreads. What better way to celebrate finishing an epic fantasy than to post a review of another epic fantasy novel series. I personally love epic fantasy because its more easily able transport you to another realm where magic thrives or your imagination is the true weapon. I think that is why a lot of people tend to enjoy fantasy novels and series because they are and easy escape from their otherwise complicated life.

Life is hard I know and you know this and most people want to relax. They enjoy reading about someone else problems and determining what might happen to those characters later on in the story. It provides a relieve for at least a couple hours before the reader has to deal with their own problems. The authors whom writes fantasy novels provide to us that escape that we all disparate want and need if not just for a little while.

Cinda Williams Chima is a master story-teller. This novel was amazing, awesome and downright excellent. Magic and politic merges to create a wonderful story filled with a humble thief, hard-headed princess and power-hungry wizards. The Demon King has everything a fantasy lover enjoys and more. The characters in this novel both the main and minor are written surprisingly well and you will love or hate them. All in all, the Demon King is a must read. This has been your surrogate crazy signing off, live in let live.

-crazyC

Update Monday

Hello fellow crazy and book lovers alike and welcome to another glorious Update Monday. I am excited about this Monday because even though I only completed half of my weekend challenge, I reached the 650 page mark in the fourth book in the Inheritance Cycle: Inheritance which means I am roughly 200 pages from finishing the monster of a book. With that said and out there you can guess that I only read one chapter of Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion. That knowledge of not completing the challenge won't bring me down because I feel that sometime this week I will have finished Inheritance and will be able to add another review to the queue. I could also save the review for when I start to review only on Update Mondays.

I wanted to let you guys know that I have written every book that I have on my to be read pile onto scrap sheets of paper and put them into a cup. What I plan on doing is drawing at least one book from the cup when I finish a book that I am currently reading. Hopefully what I am expecting out of this experiment is that I am able to read a little faster because I took the guessing out of selecting a book to read next. Now if there is a book on the shelf that is screaming to be read first, then I plan on selecting that particular book without drawing from the cup. The only book on my shelf that I really want to read first is Inferno by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Now for this week coming up I plan on finishing Inheritance and maybe even Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion. I wish all of you luck and happy reading. This has been your surrogate crazy signing off, live in let live.

-crazyC

Knightley Academy Review

Here is another book review from the queue that is rapidly shrinking. I would go on the record when I read books I tend to know if I will enjoy reading the book from skimming the back of the book. However in some cases, but rare I will not have a strong feeling for the novel. Some example of books that I read that I didn't love would be Wicked: Witch and Curse and Tithe. This upcoming review is like the masses in which I crave to read more and finish the trilogy even though the last book isn't published let. 

When I finished this awesome read and I couldn't wait to tell the world about this amazing story. In a world where young boys are trained in the proper decorum of being a knight and the best school around is Knightley Academy. Our title character, Henry Grim, is the first boy to pass the exam at the Midsummer School for Boys in five years, however he himself is a commoner and the act of taking the exam will change the society forever. The plot, characters and setting of Knightley Academy by Violet Haberdasher is somewhat a recycled story-arc with an interesting twist. The characters that are commoners are somewhat quirky and funny. They will grow on you throughout the novel and by the last pages you will really care for them. The secondary characters tied in with the plot are very reminisce of Harry Potter. Henry Grimm is an orphan with no redeeming connection to being a knight that we are currently aware of and there is an impending doom on the horizon in the form of a war between nations and ideology. One major differences between the two novels is the main goal of Knightley Academy is the characters are striving to become knights and not wizards. All in all, Knightley Academy was a quick light hearten read that contain some nifty twist and turns along the way. Once finishing the novel you will want to pick up the next installment in this series by Violet Haberdasher called the Secret Prince. This has been your surrogate crazy signing off, live in let live.

-crazyC

The King of Attolia Review

Hey readers, I have a question to pose to you. Have you ever read a series that you thought wasn't going to be amazing, but the further you got in the series you were proved unmistakably wrong? Personally, I love when the series is going alright not being too strong or too weak because when the series reaches that incredible plateau I am wowed beyond reason. The series that I have recently been reviewing before you starting with the Thief and the Queen of Attolia is known as the Queen's Thief series by Megan Walden Turner. At first read its just a well-done and crafted middle grade novel that any student would read just to get some necessary Accelerated Reader (AR) points. In close expecting you will find a very clever novel filled with political twists left and right. The series doesn't hit that plateau of awesomeness until this novel, the King of Attolia.

This book was awesome in so many ways, there was romance, political trickery and other mischief going on. Megan Turner knows how to spin a great story of love, betrayal and political in fighting. In this novel you have the newly crown king going through what he thought was going to be an easy plan turning out to be much harder than what he thought. The character are compelling and exciting to read about, you get enough of the king, the queen and even the newest character of Coatis. If you are fan of medieval fantasy, then this is a great novel for you, I hope you have fun reading and enjoyment in some great books like this one. This has been your surrogate crazy signing off, live in let live.

-crazyC