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You know when you're like buying a book, when you got hundreds of other books to read in your shelf, and you're like "I'll read this book now because I bought this book 2 years ago." This was me with The Blade Itself...

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By the magic that lies within books~ Today I have been enjoying sitting outside and done some reading in the sun! I am currently reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, and I have also ordered the first edition of The Hobbit: I am so excited to get it!!

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I have started a bookblog were I'll write about my life as a writer/student and I'll write about books and my writings! Hope you'll check it out ^^

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“The world was hers for the reading.”

-Betty Smith

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By all that magic that lies in my bookshelf~

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@nikkiinwanderland

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My Local Library~~ Great collection of classic fantasy, however it lack a little bit of an update… I still love looking at the shelves and the good book smell!

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The Emerald Atlas ~ review

Good evening all my little bookdragons! I read The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens through February (from the 7th to the 24th) and here’s my review of it. Hope you enjoy!!

So first I want to write about the book itself.

Title: The Emerald Atkas (The Books of Beginning #1)

Author: John Stephens

Genre: Humor/adventure/action/fantasy

Average rating at Goodreads: 3.92

About the book, characters and plot

The plot: The plot begins when the oldest sibling, Katherine (Kate) gets a mission from her mom before they get departed, she needs to take care of her younger siblings: Michael and Emma.

They get taken away from their parents, and try to settle down at different orphanage, still thinking that their parents one day will return to them. Suddenly one day, they get transferred to Cambridge Falls, that’s like in the middle of nowhere. The people there are silent and strange, and the orphanage they soon again will settle down to, have no other children than just the three of them. Their new home will soon begin to be a magical place with a lot of rooms before they one day stumble upon a mystical book. Then the fate will lay in the hands of these three children …

The book is well-written and funny. It’s real in the people expressions and the author takes care of not only the scenes with action in it, but also the scenes of silence. Where everything can be calm for a moment. He describes the surroundings good and Narnia-like.

Over to the characters:

The characters have their own personalities. They’re colorful and with a lot of expressions. The author really knows how to set in a mind of young children, how they react to things and how they behave in a way that I never could (and I am 19).

Kate (Katherine) is the oldest sibling in an age of 14. She is nerveous and stressful and always overthinking things. She is the modest one of the siblings and always try to come with sensibility in the world they were sent to.

Michael is the middlekid … however I can’t remember how old he is, maybe 13 … He is the smart-guy in the book. He always comes up with facts and are obsessed by the dwarves and their culture. His long life dream is to see live-dwarves!

Emma is the youngest on 11. She is a tough little kid, but soft on the inside. She always like to pick up fights and gets easily irritated or jeaoulus. However when it comes to family, that is a soft spot and she always try to stay as one of the rebel-ones.

Later in the book (but I won’t spoil anything) we get to meet a lot of different characters that you both would love and hate. There’s strong female characters, strong male characters, goodness and evilness intertwined with each other and the author really knows how to play around with his charater and give one of them their own lives, story and personalities.

My opinion

I really loved this book, I really did! I felt like it was as magical and creative as Narnia, set in probably a more modern timeline? We really don’t get to know which year is it, but they use so much of a polaroid-camera, that you can’t possibly think it’s one of the most modern days. I also loved that he put a lot of humor in it, and usually I don’t like a lot of books with humour (probably because I think the author tries to hard), but I really felt that everything in this book came natural forth.

I liked reading about the storie, the characters and their adventure through time. I think that my favourite characters has to be Emma and Gabriel, Robbie and Dr. Pym …

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!! ~See you in the world of stories~

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Wow, is it #worldbookday and I am reading Percy Jackson?? I didn't like the book at the beginning, and I only use it as a contemporary reads while I am waiting for my books to come in the mail... but to my suprisement, this book is actually good~ Yay, camp Half-blood^^

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It's reading time~~

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I am such a nerd when it comes to Sherlock~

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Totally me, totally relatable ^^; 

A vicious cycle.

My book, Quiet Girl in a Noisy World, is out now: http://debbietung.com/books

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A home in the elven Citadel

Here’s a little something from my book where Elyssa gets to eat delicious food at the elves’ home, she really loves it! 

Tasting the cooked meat and roasted bread with lingonberry-juice was actually amazing. My senses danced. My tounge wiggled and my brain and stomach wanted more of this satisfaction. You wouldn’t believe it, if you haven’t tasted it. But if I were going to try to describe it more detailed, it would be: the taste of a wild, late summer or autumn, while the sunlight of the sunset would kiss the berries and bless the elk. It tasted like gold on a plate and in crystal. I had never eaten such thing even though Ada and Ern were quite fancy … no, elves had all the richness in the world, not only in materials, but also inside and the way they lived.

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Now, they were in the fields … and their bloody battle were soon to be told of.

My writings: Elyssa Fairhold p. 154

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I fell in love with the way of reading ~ escaping into another reality different - or not so different - from ours...