Book Review: Hopeless Magic by Rachel Higginson

ASIN:  B005G96H3O

Published: August 6th, 2011

Publisher: self-published

Synopsis from Goodreads:

After returning home from Romania, and successfully saving her best friend Lilly, Eden Matthews must now come to terms with her future as an Immortal. She is in love with the Crowned Prince, but he is betrothed to someone else.
Her family desperately wants her to join their rebellion, but that would mean fighting against her one, true love, Kiran Kendrick. She must fight off assassins that want her dead, an Immortal rite of passage that takes her to India and a deadly disease that no one has thus far survived. Danger seems to lurk around every corner as Eden Matthews struggles to keep her true identity a secret and protect those that she loves.
Eden must find a way to be with Kiran, or turn her back on him forever and fight to save her people. Hopeless Magic is the second installment of the Star-Crossed series.

Review:

My review of Hopeless Magic, the first book in the series, is here.  It's actually only been about four or five months since I read it.  For some reason it felt like it had been a lot longer.

Getting Ready for College

The closer it gets to the day I move in to my dorm at college, the more freaked out I get.  I start to worry that I'm going to leave something behind or screw something up.  It's terrifying.  That's all I'm saying about that though because I'd rather keep my mind off of it.

I haven't done anything the past couple of days except read (and Tumblr).  I finished an amazing book yesterday that I filmed a review for a few minutes ago and that I'll edit and upload tomorrow.  Other than that I've done almost nothing.  I've just been trying to keep my mind off of college.  Now, I'm off to read some more Harry Potter fanfiction.

Less Than Two Weeks...

Today is just another day sitting around doing almost nothing.  I feel as if I haven't spent a day on Tumblr for a really long time, so I've been on a lot today.  Other than that and reading some fanfiction I really haven't done much.  I've just been trying to distract myself from the fact that I leave for college in less than two weeks now.

Yesterday Summer had a going away party.  It was the first time I'd seen her in quite a while, and it was awesome to get to spend time with her.  I've been friends with her longer than anyone else, and she'll always be my best friend.  It's amazing how, whenever I do get to see her, it doesn't feel as if we haven't seen each other in a long time.  I'm sure we'll stay just as close during college.  The party was fun though.  I'd meant to film a video after I got home, but I decided against it once I actually got home...

I'm off to do more pointless things for the rest of the day.  I actually just reminded myself that there were things I was supposed to do today, but they involve getting ready for college, which isn't stuff I want to think about...  I guess I'll have to do it eventually though.

19th Birthday

I'm now 19!  My birthday wasn't incredibly exciting.  I spent most of my day reading.  I opened my presents from my sister and parents last night, but my mom did make some brownies today.  Also, Niall (from One Direction) did a twitcam today that I was actually able to watch!  Every time a member of One Direction does a twitcam, I'm asleep, so the fact that Niall did one that I could watch on my birthday was awesome.

I also managed to film a review of the Menma arc of Naruto and get that up today.  I filmed another video about my birthday and showed my presents and stuff, but I'm going to wait and edit it tomorrow.

That's really all I've done today other than answer happy birthday wishes from people through Facebook and Twitter.  It's so weird how people I rarely speak to wish me a happy birthday.  One girl I haven't even seen since freshmen year of high school wished me happy birthday on Facebook today.

Anyway, I'm off to read some more.  I'm in the middle of reading a play right now, and it's pretty interesting. I also got a notification from Facebook earlier that I've been putting off answering, so I should probably go do that.

Recovering From Florida and Reminiscing About the Avatar Series Finale

Today has basically felt like the first day back from Florida even though it's technically the second.  Yesterday I ended up hanging out with Haley, Autumn, and Blake for a while in the evening/night.  (Which, if you follow me on Twitter, you undoubtedly know considering we tweeted about it quite a bit.)  Since I got home late last night and then proceeded to stay up even later reading fanfiction, I've been extremely tired today.  I filmed a video earlier that basically sucked because I was unable to form complete thoughts.  I didn't even realize how tired I was until I turned on the camera and tried talking somewhat intelligently.

I've spent a lot of my day on Tumblr, since I've felt really disconnected from it the past week or so while in Florida.  I also watched Little House on the Prairie for a while, and I edited the story I'm working on for the first time since we left for Florida.  The past hour or so I've been reading stuff on an Avatar forum that were written right before and after the series finale aired four year ago.  I'll be honest:  it made me a bit emotional.  I can't believe we discovered how the series ended four years ago.  I was getting ready to start high school, and now I'm remembering all of this as I'm getting ready for college.  Plus, we've gotten the first season of Korra since then.  Back then, we didn't even know there was going to be a new series.  In fact, we had a long, long time before we learned about Korra.

I did not mean for that to turn into a sentimental rant about Avatar.  Whoops.  Anyway, I'm off to read more of that and get even more sentimental and emotional.  (Just thinking about my reaction to the final scene and the kiss makes me want to cry tears of happiness.)