Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Book 45: Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated

There comes a time in every students life where they have to read an enormous amount of books for university and my time is now. I am doing Foundation Year at the University of King's College next year and I have 43 books to read before I get there. Meditations on First Philosophy was the one (out of the four I currently own) that I decided to read first for no apparent reason.

As many other books of it class it made me sleepy, though this is due to the fact that it causes me to think and when I do any amount of that sleep is soon to follow because my brain needs a rest from me. That being said, I enjoyed the book immensely. Descartes is good at writing in a way that is easy to understand and get the bigger picture from. I really enjoyed how he proved that he was real.

I would say that this book is a 6 out of 10. If I was reading it on my own time it may be more and it may be less. It's hard to say.



Book 44: City of Fallen Angels

This series I've found very hard to review on a book to book bases because they never really end. City of Fallen Angels, like the rest of the books in the series, left so many unanswered questions that I can't even begin to imagine where I would begin for a review.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was fairly fast pace and transferred between POV's swiftly and with much ease. I would give this book seven rings out of ten. It's definitely not the best book in the series but one can never stop halfway through a series.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Book 43: City of Glass

This book has left me speechless. Absolutely speechless.

Ms. Clare went above and beyond in this book with plot twists that will send your stomach flying. There have been few time when I really don't know what to say about a book and this is one of them.

I have discovered which of the characters is my favourite too, Alec. For a long time I thought it was Jace for the obvious reasons but Alec has so much more character and he's adorable around Magnus.

I give this book seven rings out of ten.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Book 42: City of Ashes

City of Ashes was an excellent book. Seeing that it's a middle book I don't have a lot to say about it without giving away the plot so sorry that this is short.

In general I liked the story in City of Bones better but this book was next to impossible to set to. It was so hard in fact that last night when I went to chapters I was unable to buy a new book because I was so flustered. Ask Amanda. It was terrible.

I give this book 7 runes out of 10. I really hope that wasn't the same as the last one. It would be a real shame that I was repeating myself. As I said, it was a really good book and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who read City of Bones. But then again, I rarely don't recommend the rest of the books in a series. Why start if you aren't going to finish?