MOVING TO NEW WEBSITE

Hi guys, my time on blogger has come to an end. Floralpatternbooks will no longer be updated and will move to Wordpress a new website, with a new name called Novelers. 

The reasons I am doing this is because Blogger is not really the type of website for me. I have been going through wordpress and I kinda like it!

The link to my website is here:

You can still email me if you have any questions here: floralpatternbooks@gmail.com

ATTENTION!!! 

If you followed me through goodreads, than I will be following you in this account, AS WELL AS MY WORDPRESS ACCOUNT! This means you gotta follow your end of the bargain! FOLLOW ME ON NOVELRS!! Link up above. 

Blog will be officially closed when transfer of reviews are complete!

Thank you guys so much  for viewing this blog! 

10 gifs Every Book Nerd Can Relate Too!

So I have been using gifs a lot lately, so I decided to do a post I'm sure EVERY book nerd can relate to these GIFS.

1) Give it to Me NOWWWW!!  

When you don't have that certain book on your shelf

 

2) I Knew It 

When you know the ending of a book. 

3) #FANGURLING 

When a book comes out of your favorite series and your going crazy 

4) WHYYYY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME!!!! 

When a favorite character dies 

5) Really? 

When there is a love triangle 

6) Nothing Smells Good As That 

The smell of books. 

7) Ew! 

When that book has a really bad ending 

8) Okay... Okay 

When you are stunned by the ending 

9) Wait... What?

When the book left you confused 

10) Oh Hello Good Lookin

When you see a pretty book cover 

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Breaking The Spine that puts the spotlight on books we just can't wait for!    

         
Blurb from goodreads: "A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.

It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend."

From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.

Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.

Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for. 

Ever since I read the first book, I couldn't get my mind off of this!

Ten Bookish People You NEED To Follow on Instagram and Blogger!!

Today's Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by the super cool ladies at The Broke and Bookish) is Ten Bookish People You NEED To Follow on Social Media. I just have Instagram because I don't like Twitter, and Facebook and all those stuff, but I do like book blogs! So here are 10 people you NEED to follow!

1) Alyssa @ The Eater of Books

2) Candace @ Candace's Book Blog 

3) @Bookstorefinds

4) Lauren @ Love Is Not A Triangle

5) Katie @ Katie's Book Blog

6) Fiderly @ Readsleepfangirl 

7) Create With Joy

8) Alison @ Alisoncanread

9) Steph @ Steph Su Reads 

10) Books in The Spotlight

Welcome New Bloggers!!

Exciting news 2 of my friends have agreed to join this blog. Their names are Lilly  and Christina! Let's learn a little bit more about them! I asked them to write down a few things about themselves and put it together!

Hi I am Lilly Nyugen a nerd, FUTURE author, and a YA book reader. I'm 17. To be approached by Balie and being asked to contribute to floralpatternbooks was quite a suprise. As much as I love reading, I'm not the type of girl who can voice out her opinion. It took me weeks to say yes. I'm new to the blogging communtiy, so things seem a little scary! But Balie can help me. I'm looking foward to this blog and meeting new people.  

Hey I'm Christie a.k.a Christina. I have been reading Balie's post since the beginning. Never would I have thought that I would be part of it. When Balie offered me a chance to be her co-worker I jumped at the chance! To host giveaways, meet new people, and talk about books is like my dream! I already met Lily and she's a little shy, but she is cool. I look forward to working with her and Balie. 




Does that mean that I (Balie) will stop posting? NO! I invited these 2 awesome girls because running a blog and having school can get a little tiring. I just needed a helping hand!

Happy reading, Balie, Lilly, and Christina    

Throne of Glass Review

Title: Throne of Glass

Author: Sarah. J Mass

Blurb (Goodreads): 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 four years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. 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.

Pro's

This book is awesome. I loved it! 5 STARS BABY FIVE STARS!!! I loved the main character Celaena is awesome. I loved her character the best. She knows how to kick-butt and look pretty at the same time.I SHIP CHAOL WESTFALL AND Celaena SO MUCH! Chaol is like Jace. Chaol has mixed feelings about. But isn't it obvious THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER!! Dorian in my opinion, I don't like him.
This book is so interesting. Celaena is a criminal who is released to become The Kings Champion (assassin). But to obtain the title she must fight other assassins. Until, one by one the other competitors start dying off as well. Then she meets the first dead queen of Adarlan . Than weird stuff start happening. Okay so I'm not a good explainer but if you read the synopsis up above than you would find it interesting.

The structure flowed, and on some parts it was a little rocky, but it's really good! I have to get my hands  on the second book.


OMG I LOVE THE CHARACTERS!

Celanea's like

I'm like

Con's

What happened at the end was really weird. I just didn't get what happened when Cain and Celeana. Also, it was pretty obvious ghat Cain was killing everyone.

Gifs to describe this books:

Rating: 5 MIND-BLOWN STARS!!! 

Top 5 Books of March

   March just ended and April just started. It's time to review THE BEST BOOKS OF MARCH. Well books that I read and thought were really good.

1) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

Title: The Book Thief

Author:  Markus Zusak 

Blurb: By her brother's graveside, Leisel Memingers's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially covered in snow. It is the  Grave Digger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act as book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Leisel, with the help of her accordion- playing foster father learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book burnings, the mayor's life library, wherever there are
books to be found.

    But these are dangerous times When Leisel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Leisel's world is both opened up and closed down
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 Review here 

2) Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard 

Title: Red Queen 

Author: Victoria Aveyard 

Blurb: This is a world divided by blood – red or silver.The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.Fearful of Mare’s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance – Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart

Red Queen Review 

This book can be summed up in  gifs:

3) Clockwork Angel 

Title: Clockwork Angel

Author: Cassandra Clare 

Blurb(Goodreads): In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Timesbestselling Mortal Instruments series.

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them.
Review Here

This book can be summed up in gifs:

4) The Sky Is Everywhere

Title: The Sky Is Everywhere

Author: Jandy Nelson 

Blurb (Goodreads): Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life - and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennie's own. Joe is the new boy in town, a transplant from Paris whose nearly magical grin is matched only by his musical talent. For Lennie, they're the sun and the moon; one boy takes her out of her sorrow, the other comforts her in it. But just like their celestial counterparts, they can't collide without the whole wide world exploding.

This book can be summed in  gifs:

5) I'll Give You The Sun 

Title: I'll Give You The Sun

Author: Jandy Nelson

Blurb (Goodreads):Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author ofThe Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once

This book can be summed in  gifs

That's it guys! Comment below what your top 5 Fave books for March was!