Eliza and Her Monsters follows Eliza, a normal girl to everyone except her family and two online best friends. To everyone else, she is LadyConstellation. The creator of the best webcomic Monster Sea which is read by millions of people. The public has no idea Eliza is LadyConstellation. But when a new boy moves to Eliza's school, Eliza finds out he's one of the biggest fanfic writers for her webcomic. Should she tell him who she is?

There's so much about this book that I loved so much.

I wasn't expecting this book to hit me as hard as it did. I was really expecting this book to be a love story between a comic creator and a fanfic writer, and I was hoping it would be so cute and fluffy, but I was so wrong.

This book has so much more to that than just the generalized plot. It talks about mental illness: anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, dealing with loss, dealing with bullying, growth and so much more.

I wasn't expecting any of it. I've never found a book that hit me as hard or I related to as much as Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone, but this is definitely right beside it.

Eliza's character, I related to so much and saw myself in high school when I read through her character. I cried so hard during the events occurring her worst of the depression. How she only wanted to sleep and had no interest in dong what she loved. I understood how she felt when she was annoyed at everything and everyone.

I don't talk much about my mental health, but I surely related to every element of Eliza's depression and anxiety as I did growing up in high school that I sobbed for hours because I knew how she felt and I wanted to hug her and tell her she's going to be okay.

I also loved her friend group. Although we've only seen Eliza interact with her friends Max and Emmy online, I really did love the two of them. I had a lot of online friends through twitter (I had a One Direction fan account, among other things when I was growing up, okay) and I saw a lot of those friendships through Max and Emmy and I loved that element. Heck, I still have a lot of online friends with you guys!

I also really loved Wallace's character. Hearing his backstory with his dad's suicide and then Eliza wanting to take her life at the same place, but Wallace finds her, really broke my heart. That was the second time I ended up crying while reading this book. It was just so heartbreaking for me because of Wallace thinking it was his fault, but Eliza also thinking the same.

One of the things I absolutely love how this book executed was the description of environment. If you read my review of Supermarket by Bobby Hall, I mention how I wasn't a huge fan of how he describe the environment because I felt like it was too specific. This book, however, I think did it perfectly. It flowed nicely, the way everything was placed and we were told things that were important. I also loved how the descriptions weren't all in the same paragraph, but in several throughout the novel.

Another extra that I loved was how one of Eliza's characters in her webcomic, Kite is Filipina based. I loved that! For those who don't know, I am also a Filipina, both of my parents are from the Philippines, and I never seen Filipino characters so I was so happy to see that incorporated.

And finally, I loved how this book included "text" or forum messages, little comics from Monster Sea, and all the other mediums as if we were looking through Eliza's computer. Everything Everything also included something similar to this and I loved that element so I was excited to see Eliza and Her Monsters include that as well. I also thought it was quite fitting for the plot as well.

Overall, I loved Eliza and Her Monsters and I cannot wait to re-read this book again.

What is your favourite book you related to? Let me know on my Instagram or in the comments! 

With the Fire On High follows our main character Emoni, a teenager trying to balance school, work - and a baby. Thankfully, Emoni has a lot of help from her abuela as she's trying to finish up her senior year of high school. But Emoni has a cooking talent like no other and nothing is driving her away from that passion.

My second Acevedo book because of Johely and I loved it just as much as I loved The Poet X.

Again, like The Poet X, I wasn't really planning on writing a blog post for this book because I only had good things to say. I had no critical opinions or things that make me say "omg, wtf."

I have nothing but love for this book. But then I thought about it, and well, I decided to write a review anyways just talking about how much I loved it.

Therefore, my review will be significantly shorter than my usual ones because I'm just going to say what I love, and that's all. No spoilers or anything.

First of all, I love Elizabeth Acevedo's writing. I said it in my review of The Poet X, and I'll say it here, I love her writing so much. There's something to it that just feels so strongly to your heart. Like it hits you in all the right places and it makes you feel genuinely good.

Her writing has improved per se (as if anything needed to be improved) but I loved reading a novelization of her writing, rather than poems; although both are so good and well written.

I loved the characters so much, and how easy it was to love Emoni. Usually contemporary main characters are a hit or miss for me. But I absolutely loved Emoni and could feel her passion through the words.

Her abuela also made me laugh like a true Hispanic; she's a very genuine character. From the humour to the love and care she has for not only Emoni but Emma as well.

I loved the plot as well, and how, although there is a love interest, it isn't a typical romance story. It follows Emoni and her loves, yes. But her love for cooking, her family and most importantly her daughter.

It talks about the struggles of high school, academics, relationships and everything in between. And I love how accurate all the points are. I never felt like anything was over dramatic. It was purely genuine and I loved that.

The chapters are short as well which makes the read go so much faster as well and I loved that.

(There's also added recipes in the book that sounds delicious and I honestly want to try them all.)

I think the only negative thing about this book, was how much Emoni reminded me I can't cook. To sum it all up.

Overall though, I loved this book and I can't wait to re-read it soon. (Very soon, it's a nice summer read.)

Have you ever read a book you loved so much, you couldn't find any negative aspect about it? Let me know in the comments section below or on my Instagram. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Clockwork Prince is the second book in Cassandra Clare's second Shadowhunter series: The Infernal Devices. If follows the events that take place from the previous book.

I do discuss some spoilers that had occurred in this book. That's a massive warning. If you'd like to read my review on the previous book in this series, it will be linked here.

I don't even know where to start with my review.

I absolutely love this world more and more as we dive into it. I say this in every review, but I'm really happy you guys pushed me to continue this series after debating whether or not I should when I read City of Bones.

I heard emmmabooks on Youtube (she is also Shadowhunters obsessed) talk about how, with every book Cassandra Clare writes, it gets better and I definitely agree with that statement. You can tell that her writing progresses throughout each book and it really shows.

With that being said, this book was indeed enjoyable, but not in the same way as Clockwork Angel, if that makes sense.

There isn't much occurring in this book other than world building and backstory; unlike the previous book where everything was happening at once. I didn't really enjoy the lack of events that this book had, but I'll admit that the world and character building really made up for it.

I love Will as a character; he's so complex because of his backstory and I love that we really get to see that from him. We get to see him really vulnerable and leaving the institute because of a curse he thought he had for so many years but in reality, never really had. We find out about his family, and how heartbreaking it is when he finds out his best friend is engaged to the love of his life. He's a little cinnamon roll to me, he's definitely added to the book boyfriend list, I genuinely just love his character and I'm really happy we got more backstory from him.

I also really love how we got to see more of Sophie. I really like her character. I love how, even though she is a servant in the institute, she's never treated as one. It's really enjoyable seeing her being incorporated more in the plot and I'm hoping she's a prominent character in the next book, as well as the rest of the other books. (I'm also hoping something blooms between her and Gideon. We ship.)

We're still a little iffy on Tessa's back story, but I'm definitely okay with that because I know it'll all flood at once in the next book and probably slap me in the face.

The only probablem I really have with Tessa, is that she's okay about being engaged to Jem, even though she still has feelings for Will. Like I understand why she did it, but I still don't think its right. I really do love Jem and Tessa together though, but I'm not excited for the heartbreak Jem is going to have to go through when he finds out how Tessa really feels.

I also thought the whole relationship with Tessa and Jem was a little rushed. I mean, don't get me wrong, I do ship. But there wasn't really much of a flirtatious vibe, other than that one time Tessa was in Jem's room. I feel like a relationship between Will and Tessa would be more reasonable because of their connection throughout these last two books, so we'll see how this love triangle unfolds.

Something that I don't think I remember mentioning in my last review is that I love that Tessa and Will love for literature (more reason to love Will, just saying) because they constantly make classic book references. I'm currently obsessed with Classic Novels so I always get a little giddy when I see them talking about certain books.

I also thought it was so cute how Jem wanted to write a poem for Tessa because of that same topic. Like he's really trying for her.

As always, this book made me feel a lot of things. I laughed at a lot of parts which is quite usual for any book, especially the Shadowhunter books, but I feel like I felt more with this book than the last.

I was truly devastated reading the scene where Will confessed his love for Tessa to her, and she tells him that she's engaged with Jem. Heck, even though I hate Nate, I felt so sad when Tessa watched him die. I feel like, because there is a lot of character development in this book, you feel a lot more than the other ones.

I really did enjoy this book. I'm so obsessed with this world now and I can't stop reading the books.

With that being said, look out for all my Shadowhunter reviews in the next little while. Because I feel like that will almost be all I'm reading in the next coming weeks.

Who is your favourite Shadowhunter? Let me know in the comments section or on my Instagram!

Happy Thursday, loves!

Can you guys believe it's already May?! I thought 2018 flew by, but 2019 seems to be going by even faster!

I read a lot in the month of April; a total of 10 books and I'm holding up strong with my reading challenge which really excites me. I believe I'm currently 12 books ahead of schedule which is wow because I'm super happy with all the reading I've been doing this year!

You guys know the drill with my wrap ups, so I thought I'd stick with pretty short intros now. With that being said, let's get into the books I read in April of 2019!!

This book follows our main character Tod Hewitt who is the only boy in the town full of men. Ever since the settlers were infected by a germ, it not only killed the females in their area,  but also gives the settlers the ability to hear each other's thoughts. When a personal disaster occurs a month before Todd becomes a man, he is forced to leave his town with just his dog. That's where he finds a girl. The first female he's ever seen. But why is she there, and why hasn't she died with the germ like every other female?

I haven't had a "what the heck" feeling with a book in so long. But this book gives me exactly that.

Ending with a cliffhanger, theres so much to this book than I was expecting. And like the review on the cover says, it's so freaking hard to put down! 

I didn't intentionally want to read this, but stumbled across it while I was browsing my bookstore. I remembered that Tom Holland (whom I am very much so trash for) had just finished filming the Chaos Walking movie, which is based on this trilogy by Patrick Ness. I had no clue what it was about, but thought I'd pick it up and read it before the movie comes out anyways.

I'm so freaking happy I did.

This book is so addicting, and so well written that it's just so hard to be a responsible human being and not sit on your butt and binge read this book (which is exactly what I did lol).

I don't think I've actually read a Patrick Ness book prior to picking this up, but wow his writing is incredible. I love how it's so detailed, yet he doesn't give everything away at once. Like, you sit there questioning what this whole "Noise" situation is and slowly (but not too slow) you get little pieces of information throughout the book.

I also really liked how personal we get with the main character.

We get an inside view of Todd's thought process but also, the way it's written is very interesting. It doesn't necessarily feel like journal entries, but it feels like Todd, himself is writing the book which is really interesting. Some words aren't spelled correctly because Todd wasn't able to go to school, leaving him very minimal knowledge on how to read or write so I thought this concept was quite interesting. The only time I've ever seen this included in a novel was in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and I loved this element in that book as well.

Viola, on the other hand, reminded me a lot of Eleven from Stranger Things for some reason. She's very smart, but selective with the knowledge she decides to deliver.

I also love the relationship development between the two characters and I want to protect them like they're my children.

I'm not really sure if I had any negative problems with this book, to be quite honest. Not saying that it was absolutely perfect and you won't find any flaws while reading it. But for myself, I was quite satisfied. Most of the time, I forgot I was reading and it felt like I was watching a movie through my head. The imagery in this novel is amazing to me.

I guess the only negative thing I can point out is that, at the beginning, I had a hard time keeping track of the characters. Like I couldn't remember who Aaron was until he becomes a prominent antagonist. I also noticed that at the beginning of the novel, a ton of random characters were thrown in with very broad backstories described but then never mentioned again. I'm not sure if they'll be in the next coming books, but if not, I find mentioning those characters useless.

My all time favourite thing about this novel, was how they added a dog as a main character. And because he and all the other animals were affected by the Noise, you can hear everything they say. Manchee, Todd's dog was my absolute favourite character. He ends up being killed by Aaron near the book and that is a death I will never get over.

The ending is what solidified my love for this book. With every book, you expect the end to resolve everything and have a happily ever after element. But not this one. We're stuck with a cliffhanger where Viola ends up getting shot and we're not sure whether or not she'll live.

I mean, I feel like she will (I'm being hopeful - another "happily ever after feeling") but it gives you that feeling where, you'd definitely have to read the next book to be sure.

I absolutely loved this book. It gave me the same nostalgic element that The 5th Wave gave me when I read it, around the time when I first joined the book community. I haven't read much dystopian since then, but I love how theres a lot of similarities between the two.

What's a book that gives you nostalgia? Let me know in the comments below or on my Instagram! I'd love to hear your thoughts.