Update/personal blog post :)

   Sorry for not posting for a while now,  my laptop got splashed with some water recently and has spent the last week or so drying out in a sack of rice, it has escaped unscathed thankfully and is in full working order and is what I am currently typing on. I also had some issues with my internet connection, so yeah, back on track now, I've read Hex Hall and re-read Meg Cabot's Missing You as well as a new book I read called One night for Love by Mary Balogh which was recommended to me by a friend and I'll be posting reviews for both Hex Hall and One night for Love soon. I've been delaying reading Graceling for a while now, so that'll probably be the next book I read.

  On another note, today was my first day at university! I've been itching to start for a while now and I can barely believe I've finally started! I'm starting the "Pre-Professional Program" for med students at my uni, its designed to sort us out into medicine, dentistry and pharmacy students. I'm aiming for med, hope I can make it!

I won't be too busy for the first couple of weeks so I plan on reviewing these books and testing the waters at school. To see if I'll have enough time to keep reading and reviewing or if I should take a break when it gets more challenging. Nothing for sure yet, hopefully it won't be too bad and I'll be able to post occasionally.

Well, that all for now :)

Ever Yours~

The Know-it-all

Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn

I've been reading this series for, I think three years now, on and off, not in order, with many books in between. Yeah, I know its a long time to read a seven book series (they're pretty short too) but since I only have these in e-book format I kept losing track of them. First, our computer got a nasty virus, so we had to format it..it took me ages to find it again in my inbox, then my dad updated our system from windows xp to vista..so yeah..lost 'em again..and now, I've got my macbook pro, so I gathered all the one's I hadn't finished yet in one place and decided to get through them.

Now this series is purely Historical Romance..It isn't a YA book, but I love it anyways. I've read most of Julia Quinn's books during this three year period and I've loved them all. I like the rules of society in 19th century england, it reminds me of a lot of things that have been lost over the years that were just so cute :')

Julia Quinn's historical romances are better than most because she researches them better I think. I've read quite a few supposedly "historical" novels that have the characters speech so obviously modern. I don't mean that they aren't using doth and quoth and words like that (because really who would take the time to decipher that when reading a novel for pleasure?) but the lead male character swears with fuck..I'm pretty sure the profanity used back then was more along the lines of bloody hell..also the girls kept using "like" between every few words..very annoying and obviously non-historical :( In Julia's books on the other hand, every article of clothing has its own (accurate) name, she's up to date on the politics of the time period of the novel, she knows what the government was like and what was expected of both the men and the women.

I've decided to review them as a full series and not as separate books, since they're all pretty similar and I have pretty much the same thing to say about them all.

So here they are, in chronological order:

The books are about a family of eight. Named in alphabetical order, which I thought was cute. The Bridgertons are a very close knit family and all of the books mention their other siblings so its like their stories are all continuing until you finish the last book. There weren't any noticeable anachronisms, which are usually very annoying and obvious to me. Julia Quinn is usually very accurate when writing her historical novels and these are no exception. I'd suggest ANY of her books to a historical romance novel fan, but I think the Bridgerton series was the most interesting and well written of all her books.

All their stories were unique and equally gripping, although I must say that when it comes to combining other themes with the romance, Judith McNaught is the better choice. I like her action filled historical romances, but she tends to have anachronisms and unrealistic scenes.

Thats all I've got to say really, happy reading :)

Ever Yours~

The Know-it-all