Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Princess is the conclusion to the Infernal Devices series of Cassie Clare.  I just want to reiterate that I like this better than the Mortal Instruments (sorry Jace and Clary fans).  It picks up where Clockwork Prince left off, Tessa is preparing for her marriage to Jem; Will's sister, Cecily, is living in the London Institute; and the Shadowhunters are still nowhere near finding Mortmain.

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Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

First thing I noticed with this book is that it seemed a bit long so I had my reservations already before I started reading it.

The novel is set in the small town of Gatlin.  It's the type of town wherein families have stayed there for generations.  Where people are in each other's business.  Where everyone knows you're secret.

I guess when you have lived all your life in a small town such as Gatlin, you would want to travel and explore the world outside of your little town and Ethan did that with the books that he reads.   He put up a map on his wall and whenever, during his readings, he would encounter a place that he would want to travel to he would mark it on the map.  Every so often, he would link the marks kinda like mapping out his road trip supposing that he leaves Gatlin.

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The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan

This is the third and may be the final installment of the Kane Chronicles as Sadie puts it towards the end of the book.  She said that they are "going to be so busy training and attending school and living [their] lives."

The story takes off around six months after Apophis broke away from his prison.  However, the Chaos snake has yet to discharge an all-out assault on the mortal world as everyone expects.

The siblings and their initiates at the Brooklyn House are of the belief that Apophis is destryong all the copies of a specific version of The Book of Overcoming Apophis, the ones written by a certain Prince Khaemwaset, more popularly known as Setne.  However, the Kanes or anyone for that matter still has no clue on how to defeat Apophis.

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