Jerry W Stewart

Ok, so I’ve been waiting on payday to get the new iPhone 3gs. Payday is finally here, well actually tomorrow, but a lot of good it will do me. My friend that works for AT&T here in Conway, AR sent me a text message a little bit ago to tell me they were out of iPhone 3gs’s. This is the worst news I’ve gotten in a while. I’ve been waiting to get an iPhone knowing that the new one was coming out in the summer. Then I had to wait until payday to be able to afford one, and now there aren’t any iPhones anywhere in Arkansas.

I know there may be some places online where I could order an iPhone and get it shipped to me, and I may look into that option tomorrow. But I was going to pick one up first thing in the morning, and now I can’t. Yes, I know I’m whining, but I really want one. :p Oh well, I guess I can wait a little bit longer (only because I don’t have a choice).

Rachel Caine is an amazing author. I’ve read 3 of the books in this series so far and I’m absolutely amazed by how alive her characters are. She adds so much dimension to their personalities through true to life interactions with each other and incredibly accurate dialogue. All of the books in the series that I have read so far have cliff-hanger-endings, but I love that in a series. It keeps me reading the series as if it were one long story rather than a collection of loosely related stories.

Amazon Excerpt:

From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don’t stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school’s social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don’t show many signs of life. But they’ll have Claire’s back when the town’s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.

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In search of a potion for her dying mother, Clary sneaks into the City of Glass and is immediately caught up in a life-and-death battle. As the children of the Moon (werewolves), Night (vampires), and Faerie gather for a war that will rend the heavens, Clary calls upon her untrained powers to control an angel who will save or destroy them all. Readers should be familiar with the first two installments in the Mortal Instruments series, but there is nevertheless plenty of romance, loss, honor, and betrayal to make the journey worthwhile. An experienced storyteller, Clare moves the plot quickly to a satisfying end.

To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunter (more…)

City of Ashes is a great sequel to City of Bones. The story picks up almost exactly where the first book leaves you. For me, this book felt like it was a little more forced than the first book. There was more explanation of the supernatural world and its rules, as though Cassandra felt as though the world needed more structure and clarification. The extra explanation doesn’t make this a bad read; it just slows the pace of the story some. It is still a must read, though, if you want to read the last book in the trilogy for the action-packed final conclusion.
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City of Bones is an amazing first novel from Cassandra Clare. This book is her first published novel and it has it all—action, romance, vamps, wolves, angels, demons, and nephilim (humans with angel blood mixed into their DNA).

Clary Fray is the only one in a club of teenagers who can see three tattooed teenagers kill another teenager in cold blood. As she watches the corpse of the murdered teen disappears before her eyes along with any evidence that a crime had even taken place. She later discovers that the three teens in the club are Shadowhunters, a race of humans descended from the angels who hunt down and destroy the demons that are ever seeking the destruction of our world. When Clary’s Mom gets kidnapped by something not quite human she is finds herself in a world full of supernatural things, lies, and secrets. (read more at amazon…)