Post Hiatus Introduction

Hello all, and welcome to my blog.

It's been a while, three years in fact. I'd like to start out by saying, I've missed this terribly. But as I'm sure you guys know, life sometimes gets in the way of doing things you love.

Due to the fact that I have been gone for so long, I feel the need to reintroduce myself. Also, just give a everyone a general idea of what you will find here on this blog.

My name is Kylia or as I go by on this blog Kiki. I'm twenty five years old. As my username suggests, i'm a Alaskan who loves literature. Literature has been a passion of mine, for most of my life. I absolutely love to read and share my thoughts of the things that I read! Thus this blog in part was born. I my mission here is to share my love for books. I am also a writer, with my ideas for my own future books. So look for more information on that in the future!

In recent years things have changed. I've dyed my hair pink and now green for starters. I've have been exploring the world of comic books. In the past, I've used this blog to primarily review novels or novellas( and occasionally some movies). But now you guys can look forward to seeing some comic book reviews too(a new comic book review coming very soon).

Another thing you can guys can look forward to is more constancy in postings. Because why would you read my blog if there were no postings? You wouldn't of course. Unless otherwise, stated I will be posting at least every week with a short blurb, update, or review. Some reviews may take longer, depending on the content. I also, am planning on getting weight loss surgery very soon(exciting stuff). And while the surgery will be a big part of my life, I plan on keeping this blog for the most part literature related. If any of you'd like to know more, I can of course talk about it(there is a large possibility that it will be mentioned).

Thank you all, so much for reading. As always happy reading. :)

My Contact Information:

Business Email: alaskanbookgirl55@gmail.com

Goodreads: goodreads.com/alaskanbookgirl55

Book Review: Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas

Introduction

I received this book via goodreads.com as a "first read" in order to give this book an honest review. If you would like to send me a book to review feel free to contact me through this email, linked to my blog.

I haven't read to many Historical Romances before, for no reason really it's just I never got around to "exploring" this sub-genre.

My first impression, was well I wasn't sure I was going to like it but as I began reading this book I was completely draw into the world that Sherry Thomas created as well as the character too.

Summary

This story takes between the years 1888 to 1896 (I believe those are the correct dates).

The main character's name is Millie she is the daughter of wealthy man who's family made their money in canned goods. Millie had been trained her whole life to be a "proper wife" her family hoped that she would be able to marry someone who had a "title" meaning from aristocratic blood. Millie is depicted as a very agreeable, not particularly "attractive" and a bit plain. She doesn't really have a "rebellious" bone in her body and is the type of women who has always done what she is told.

Millie marries, Fitz whom she falls for instantly when she first meets him. Fitz all though comes from an aristocratic background, his family is no longer wealthy so he must marry into "money" in order to maintain his estate which he inherited from his distant relative. Alas, Fitz is already in love with any other women named Isabelle whom he cannot marry because her family is not incredibly wealthy.

The story flashes back in between the "present" time of the story and different moments in the marriage of Millie and Fitz.

In the beginning of their marriage Millie makes a pact with Fitz that they would have a "contract" marriage and all though they would be "technically" married either one of them would sleep together.

* spoiler*

They grow close and become "friends" within their marriage and Fitz begins to grow love and respect for her throughout the years. He doesn't think of her as so "bland".

Years after they are "comfortably" married Isabelle comes back into the picture. So Fitz decides to meet up with Isabelle and have an affair with her while still married to Millie. As promised he plans to give Millie an "heir" they will try for six months for her to get pregnant and then pretty much plans to leave her.

*End Spoiler*

In the book there is also brief mention of Fitz two sisters: Helena who is unmarried and is conducting an affair with her married first cousin I believe (Fitz best friend Hastings is in love with her "secretly") and  Venetia whom is already married (I believe her story was told in the previous book which I did not read).

I won't get really into their "story lines" in this review.

Review

 I would say the overall I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I really enjoyed this book.

I have to hand it to Sherry Thomas, I actually while reading this book I found that English is in fact not her first language and I never would I have guessed that!

She created such fluent imagery with her words, I felt as though I was actually there! To be at least it takes talent to write "historical" novels because you want to be true the dialect of the time but still make in understandable to the "average reader" and I feel like she did just that.

Reading some other reviews about this book, I saw certain people "complain" that Millie was "boring and anti-feminist" that she teaches women to "do exactly what you are told and everything will work out". I can't say that I necessarily agree with that statement. I think that Sherry Thomas, made Millie historically accurate, to the time she lived in. I think it would be silly to have a women who has a "20th century attitude" in that time period. Wealthy women back then were taught to be "timid" and very rule "abiding". I don't think Millie was at all a "push over" instead she was intelligent and found different ways than simply being "forward" about everything, she worked around the fact she was a woman and still managed to do the things she wanted.

I really don't have to many complaints about this book, Fitz obviously annoyed me at times because he was stupidly obsessed with Isabelle for most of the book and didn't always treat Millie very nicely. Still, she managed to treat him kindly and even he was surprised about the fact that she always almost always "composed" and took care of him even when he didn't deserve it.

I think any reader ( myself included) probably felt awful for Millie. I mean come on, she just wanted him to notice her the entire time!

I didn't always "enjoy" the flashbacks in the story sometimes I just felt to me that they were "stalling" the story and not getting to the good part!

There was no sex until page 226! I guess they just wanted to build up the story line more? I don't know it was a bit frustrating at times.

Over all, I thought this book was an excellent read and I enjoyed it very much. If you are into historical romance, I would recommend that you check out Sherry Thomas's books, she is a very good writer.

Thanks for guys for checking out my blog,

Kylia aka Alaska Book Girl!

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3451295-kylia

Mini Review: Hide and Seek (The Lying Game #4)

First as always let me state that I do not own the right to any of the image/s used in my blog. They were provided by Google search.



Introduction/Summary
Hello, everyone! I know it has been a while. I just finished reading, the fourth book in The Lying Games series and I thought I would do a quick/mini review.

I have reviewed briefly the other three books in the series, and maybe at some point i'll edit them a bit and post them on here! For now, they are just on my goodreads account.

If you want see these and other reviews, which aren't on my blog i'll post a link at the end of this post.

I'm sure many of you have heard of "Pretty Little Liars" both the television show and the book series. Well, "The Lying Games" is also, a television show and a book series as well. Both, are book series written by Sara Shepard; they both revolve around "teenage girls" with "secrets" and other things revolving around "lies" and such.

For those who you who have never watched, "The Lying Games" or read the book series I'll give you a little bit of a background to the series. (Note: I have never read the "Pretty Little Liars" books or really ever watched the show. Though, I am a fan of "The Lying Game" Show. I'm not going to explain the differences between the books and the series in this book maybe at some point I will.)

The book series, revolves around two twin sisters: one named Emma Becker and the other named Sutton Mercer. Sutton Mercer: grew up wealthy, with a loving family, close knit group of friends, being popular and noticed in school. Pretty much Sutton Mercer was living every teenage girl's fantasy life or the "teenage dream". Emma Becker, on the other hand has a bit of a tougher up bringing: She never really had a home, She was never popular, only had one best friend, and grew up living from foster home to foster home.

Now, this where things get a little more complicated. (The story line, is different in the tv show!) In the book series, Sutton is dead. Yes, you read it right dead. So Emma travels from her home in Las Vegas to Arizona where Sutton "lives" because she receive a message on facebook from "Sutton" telling her she wants to meet her. When, she get to Arizona she discovers that Sutton is dead and is threatened, that if she doesn't "Play along" that she will be killed. So, she pretends to be Sutton all the while trying to figure out who Sutton's killer is. (Also, Sutton is a ghost who pretty much floats around and follows Emma without her knowing and kind of narratives the story)


So, this is my "quickie" summary of the series now on to the review.

Review
It took me a while to actually finish this book, book number three on the other hand I finished rather quickly. Granted, I am one of those people who reads more than one book at a time and I do have other things going on in my life but I admit I got distracted away from this book and over all I wasn't as into the book as I was at first like I was in the previous books.

This book was a bit repetitive at first, typical Emma trying to figure out who the killer is and making unnecessary assumptions who the killer actually is. So far, in the series every book there is a person in which Emma thinks is the "killer" and so far none of her "assumptions" have turned out to be true. I am excited that there are only two more books in the series (not counting the two novellas) so I can freaking find out who the killer is!!!!!!

This book, to me at least didn't really start "getting good" until about half way towards the end. When, the repetitiveness got "shaken up" a bit. There defiantly were some surprises in this book towards the end (so different from the tv show, which I must add I watched before reading the books)

I won't spoil to much about what happened but I am defiantly excited to read book number six and like I said find out who the killer is!

Over all, I rate this book three and half stars out of four.

Thanks for checking out my blog and happy reading guys,

Kylia aka Alaska Book Girl!

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3451295-kylia

Introduction!

Hello, all Bloggers out there and fellow book "nerds" or "dweebs". I'd just thought I would give a short introduction; some what about myself.

My name is Kylia. I am twenty two years old. I'm a college student, part time writer, life long Alaskan, very big "dog lady" and very huge book nerd.

I started out doing reviews on https://www.goodreads.com and I have now been active on the website for a few years.  For those of you who don't know what goodreads is well; feel free to click the link above and check it out for yourself!

Any way, I like to write reviews so much so that I started receiving "first reads" meaning I started to receive free books; in order to review them.

So I thought, I would expand on the reviews that I am already doing and talk about what I love books!

I will review books that I just buy e-books, paper back, hard copies and whatever else. If I do review a book that is sent to me via goodreads or any other method; I will provide links and credit where such is needed. I plan on still being active on goodreads and posting reviews there but maybe just expanding on reviews, posting "up dates" on book i'm reading or receive in the mail. Maybe I'll post other stuff on here, who knows?!

Well, I'll be updating this blog and making it more appealing visually and adding more stuff as I go!

Also, before I "go" here is my goodreads page if you all would like to check it out. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3451295-kylia

Thanks Everyone,

Kylia aka Alaskan Book Girl!!!