September 2015 Wrap Up

Posted by AB Elizabeth October 04, 2015

September 2015 Wrap Up

I just realized that I never did a wrap up. At all.
This month has been crazy with school and everything so I was only able to read about six books. I can only really talk about a few because I read a few Pretty Little Liars books.

1. Heir of Fire, Sarah J. Maas 5/5

(Throne Of Glass Summary)

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her, her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

I’m going to try to make sense while writing this post. This is the third book in a high fantasy series and it’s not going to be easy. This book was definitely slower than the other two which is kind of strange but at the same time I really enjoyed the book. For the first two books you think that there is more to Celeana and it was nice to see her develop more and become better. In the beginning she was kind of annoying to me but I’ve loved her in this book. Dorian is the one that surprised me the most. I absolutely hated him in the beginning. I just thought that he was going to somehow die in the saddest way possible and everyone would tell him that they loved him and he was such a good friend blah blah. This book I fell in love with him as well. There is so much more to his character and his bravery and courage came out. He’s definitely going to be a more important character to the story. Chaol kind of annoyed me throughout this story. I felt like he didn’t even really know what he was doing and he was kind of being blindsided by what he wanted and what was right. Ronan who was introduced in this story. I loved him and you kind of expect for him to become another love interest and I heard that it’s revealed who she ends up with in book five but I don’t know. I really can’t wait to see where this story goes.

2. For The Love, Jen Hatmaker 5/5

The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus' extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people.

The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don't like, don't understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about the human life.

Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision, and love to ourselves and those around us. By doing this, For the Love leads our generation to reimagine Jesus' grace as a way of life, and it does it in a funny yet profound manner that Christian readers will love. Along the way, Hatmaker shows readers how to reclaim their prophetic voices and become Good News again to a hurting, polarized world.

I love Jen Hatmaker, seriously. She really hits the nail on the head with all of her books. For the love is for any woman who feels like she doesn’t make the cut or can’t do anything right. It’s the book that just makes you think about the standards that we have set for women of all ages and how unfair it is.