I am to lazy to make a proper review so I co-pasted my own review from Goodreads. Lol. Enjoy, peeps. Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have always liked Andrea Cremer’s style of writing. It’s deep, detailed, and effective. I can always feel Calla’s confusion, Calla’s worry and Calla’s inner and deep feelings throughout the whole story. Bloodrose talks about Calla and the Searchers’s retrieval of the parts of Elemental Cross and their struggle in facing Guardians from other places around the globe.

What I love about this book is how Shay’s character grew. I always imagined Shay as a weakling who does not deserve Calla (Calla is the alpha and Shay is just another random guy believed is the Scion who can save everyone. Blah.). But in this book, my view totally changed. Don’t get me wrong. I am still team Ren, but after reading Bloodrose, Shay kind of amazed me. He is now the guy who can protect Calla. Yes, I am liking Shay better now. And I always have the soft spot for guys who can handle swords really well like Shay.

Sabine’s character also grew. I can now look through how bad Sabine had been treated by the elder Banes and how Sabine’s character really is like. I always thought that Ren may have some affectionate feelings for Sabine for always defending her, but now I totally understand why. She’s become one of my favorite characters and I love the sweet epilogue involving Sabine. Great job, Cremer!

What I hate about this book is the ending. Not the epilogue, but the part before that. The first two books in the Nightshade series are kind of predictable. But Bloodrose is different. The ending is totally unexpected. Unexpected endings should be good. But too unexpected is bad. I’m not saying that Bloodrose is a bad book, I just didn’t like the ending. It didn’t go as I imagined it should be. And this disappointed me, big time. I waited soooo long for Bloodrose and the ending just crushed my hope of giving this book 5 stars.

So… to end my review, I think the first three quarter of the book is amazing. There are many growths in the characters and I love the loyalties of the packs. I also love the romance happening between Calla and Ren and Calla and Shay. And I kinda can relate to the love triangle that Calla is facing. Choosing a guy from two that can change your life forever is not easy at all. And you can’t do it by throwing a coin. The last quarter of the book, as I have already said, disappointed me. There are options to how to end a book and Andrea Cremer’s choice bummed me out. But hey, it’s still a happy ending and I enjoyed the epilogue a lot, so 3 stars it is.

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Finally, my HSC exam is over and high school graduation is two weeks from now! The HSC was really hard. Indonesian Background Speakers and English were fine, but the Mathematics and Sciences were shit. I’ll just hope the best for my results. Anyway, because everything is done for a while, I made some ponies. Here they are:

Special thanks to Julie Kagawa for introducing the pony generator. The first pony, Methyl, was named after Methyl Orange (pH level indicator) which I studied yesterday while making the pony. The names of the three others are generated from a fantasy name generator. So yeah, Methyl is kind of special because she’s my first pony~ You can also make your own pony here.

That’s all for today, good morning and thank you for reading!

It’s been a while since I last checked on my blog regularly, eh? Today’s the last day of my Lebaran holiday and yes, I’m enjoying the last few hours of heaven by updating my blog! Yayness!~ I’ve spent my holiday studying SAT II. I’m planning to take two SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry/Biology and Math Level IC/IIC. (By the previous statement, I assume that you already can guess what major I want to take, no?) I also wanted to take another SAT Reasoning Test this October, but have not done anything to improve my oh-so-terrible score last June. I skipped ALL the vocabulary questions because I didn’t know their meanings at all. I know right… My teacher was really angry because of it. ==" I’m sorry, teacher.

Anyway, 2011 has been a really tough year. It is still tough and is getting tougher the moment I become more awesome (which is always). I’m graduating this November and I still don’t know whether I’ll go to a junior college in the States or directly go to University. Everything’s gone so fast that I didn’t have a chance to think first before I act. Like now, I should be doing my application essays now but I can’t get my brain (and heart) into it. And yesterday when I should be doing practices for my SAT but I ended up watching Kaicho wa Maid-Sama! It was a good anime by the way. Really, really hilarious and also romantic. And Usui is so hot, and Misaki is so cute and Kanou is so cool and and and–hey back to topic already, we don’t give a damn! Uh okay so, I don’t know to what universities I will apply to. I don’t even remember where I put my goddamn Timezone card. But, I’ve done an itsy bitsy research on the admitted SAT I scores for some universities to help me choose… And here they are:

Stanford: Reading 560-680, Math 600-730, Writing 570-690. HAH GO DIE! *strucks off Stanford*

Upen: Reading 650-740, Math 680-780, Writing 670-760. *faints*

Occidental: Reading 590-690, Math 590-680, Writing 590-690. Impossible. =.=

Harvey Mudd: Reading 670-760, Math 740-800, Writing 670-760. …Next!

UCB: Reading 580-710, Math 620-750, Writing 590-710. The ranges are unexpectedly high… And the scores aren’t that high for a top university like this, I wonder why…

UCLA: Reading 560-680, Math 600-730, Writing 570-690. This one too.

UCSD: Reading 540-660, Math 590-700, Writing 550-670. Okay, I might get into this one. Might.

UCSB: Reading 530-640, Math 540-660, Writing 530-640. And this one.

UCI: Reading 510-610, Math 550-670, Writing 520-630. Mmm, this one too.

And finally, USC: 620-720, Math 650-750, Writing 640-730. The average student admitted SAT I scores are quite high for a non-top 10 University. Maybe there are many applicants. But I heard the science major in Universitas Indonesia (UI) is better than in USC, so I’m probably not going to apply to USC.

Correct, I’m interested in sciences, preferably health sciences. I prefer arts though, but my family don’t really agree with having an art major, so I’m going for science, my second favorite. I heard that taking arts requires you to draw nudes… So… Yeah, better not, except if it’s Taylor Lautner. However, I heard that the SAT scores don’t really matter much. They do, but as long as you have enough unique activities, then you’ll have more chances to be accepted in the university that you apply to. My friend’s friend can do batik work. She got accepted to NYU though her SAT score isn’t that good! On the other hand, her friend has a higher score than hers but wasn’t accepted. Geez, maybe I should learn how to pick my nose with my toe… But once again, it’s better to get a high SAT score, just to be safe.

And… If I go to college first, I think I’ll be going to DVC. I wasn’t considering college at first. In fact, I just half-changed my mind a few hours ago because my friend said "aim high". Aiming high on high school or on my SAT now is too late. I was super sluggish during my first two years of high school and I just started studying SAT a few weeks before my first SAT test, which is super late. But I might get a second chance on college. If I go to college first, I might be able to be accepted to the top-er universities, like… the UCLA-ish universities. So then I’ve decided this: if I can get >1900 for my SAT, I will go directly to Uni, if not, well, college it is.

If I’m going to junior college, then I’ll have another 2 years of hell. I heard 3.7 GPA is not good enough to be able to accepted into the UCLA-ish univeristies. My mom told me to get at least 3.9 GPA. Which is as impossible as inserting an Android phone into you nostrils. But I’ll hope. So.. yeah, BE HIGH, AIM HIGH, people!

Two words: GUE BOSEN. GAAAHHH! (Padahal kamis nanti gue ada assessment ESL dan gue belom siapin apa-apa). Anyway, iseng aja nih mau ngisi beginian hihi. Ini gue ambil dari salah satu post pertama gue di blog ini. Nyahahahah. Tapi orang-orangnya dari novel-novel yang gue udah baca dan masing-masing dari novel-novel yang berbeda. Iseng tudemeks ya gue.. =.= Okeh, enjoyyy~

RULES:

Tulis 10 nama orang di bawah ini, siapa aja, yang penting loe tau, bebas cewe / cowo terserah loe.

1. Ash ("The Iron King", "The Iron Daughter", "The Iron Queen", "The Iron Knight", "Summer’s Crossing", "Winter’s Passage" by Julie Kagawa)
2. Jacob ("Twilight", "New Moon", "Eclipse", "Breaking Dawn" and "Midnight Sun" by Stephenie Meyer)
3. Gale ("The Hunger Games", "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins)
4. Tanya (The 13 Treasures, The 13 Curses and The 13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison)
5. Helen ("Starcrossed" by Josephine Angelini)
6. Lucinda ("Fallen", "Torment", "Passion" and "Rapture" by Lauren Kate)
7. Guy ("Willow" by Julia Hoban)
8. Mclean ("What Happened to Goodbye" by Sarah Dessen)
9. Ren ("Nightshade", "Wolfsbane" and "Bloodrose" by Andrea Cremer)
10. Alice ("Unpolished Gem" by Alice Pung)

Sekarang jawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan dibawah ini dengan jujur!

1. Kapan pertama kali ketemua sama 5?
    Hihihi, sebulan yang lalu… :$

2. Pernah suka sama 1?
    OHMYGOD. Forever and always… <333~

3. Apa sisi positif dari 9?
    Dia amat sangat setia.

4. Senang nggak bisa kenal ama 4?
    Uh… Rada serem sih kalo bisa beneran kenal ama dia… =.=

5. Apakah 2 pernah membuat orang nangis?
    Pernah. Gue! Ngapain ama Renesmee, mending sama gue aja woyyy D’:

6. Apakah 5 orang yang asyik?
    Pasti dongs I would really want to be her friend..

7. Apakah 6 orang yang membosankan?
    Umm.. Mungkin. Soalnya orangnya kurang heboh dan nggak lebay. Bahahahaha.

8. Berapa orang yang pernah suka ama 10?
    ….Nggak ada! *plak* Yang pasti dia pernah punya satu boyfriend bule bernama Michael. That’s all I know about her love life.

9. Apa tanggapan lu tentang 3?
    Aduh, dia pasti bakal menjadi teman yang baik yang bisa ngajarin gue cara nge-hunt for food (y)

10. Apakah 8 pernah ke mall bareng lu?
      Nggak. Dan nggak akan mau sih gue.

11. Di mana 7 tinggal?
      Di hati gue *loh*

12. Hal tergila apa yang pernah lu lakuin dengan 6?
      …6 nggak bisa diajak menggila :’(

13. Hubungan lu dengan 9?
      Muahahahahahahha. Kalo Calla jadinya ama Shay, 9 jadi future boyfriend gue!

14. Siapa yang 1 suka?
      Meghan Chase… :’) dan gue!

15. Playboy / playgirlkah 3?
      NGGAK!

16. Pernahkah 4 dimusuhin?
      Almost all of the time.

17. Hal buruk apa yang 7 pernah lakuin?
      *evil grin* Not telling.

18. Hal apa yang membuatmu kagum pada 7?
      Kesabarannya dan pengertiannya terhadap Willow. Dan dia so sweet bangetttttt <3333~

Wauw. Gue bener-bener kurang kerjaan yah. Okeh, sekiannn~

Mungkin banyak dari kalian yang bingung sama judul post gue hari ini. "Santa? Wadefak? Santa Claus?". Bukan kok, itu santan *plak*. Yah sejujurnya, gue sendiri nggak tau kenapa dia milih dipanggil Santa. Katanya sih gara-gara Santa suka "memberi kebahagiaan ke semua orang". *bernostalgia mode:on*. Anyway, post ini isinya pesan gue untuk dia. Mungkin bakal sedikit suram dan membosankan… Bagi yang ngga suka ama yang post nggak penting, maaf. Dan jangan tanya kenapa gue baru post ini sekarang, karena gue bener-bener nggak tau kenapa.

Here goes… *tarik napas, hembuskan, tarik napas, hembuskan, tarik napas, tarik tarikan (loh)*

Hey, cuman mau minta maaf buat segalanya. Bukan berarti I regret everything, but I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what I’ve done, for what I’ve been and for how it ends. Dan makasih banget…

Makasih buat "lagi apa?"nya setiap pagi.

Makasih buat "good night"nya setiap malem.

Makasih udah nemenin gue tiap hari sepanjang sekolah. (Sir, Miss, don’t confiscate my phoneee! D:)

Makasih udah ngehibur gue pas lagi galau.

Makasih udah dengerin semua curhatan shit gue.

Makasih udah jadi penyemangat gue terutama pas gue suka Ijo.

Makasih udah bantuin ngerjain PR, project dan tugas-tugas gue, terutama tugas periskop gue.

Makasih udah inget ulang tahun gue dan nyelematin yang pertama kali, sampe harus MAKSA gue melek sampe jam 00.00.

Makasih untuk selalu nanyain kabar gue, walau jawabannya hampir selalu sama.

Makasih udah percaya sama gue.

Makasih udah ngabisin pulsa demi gue.

Makasih udah bikin gue ketawa, meskipun joke lu kadang jayus ttm.

Makasih buat kedewasaannya, meskipun lebih banyak enggaknya JK.

Makasih udah kerja sama ama gue pas main kartu biar gue menang LOL.

Makasih untuk kegejehannya.

Makasih udah ngasi nama hape nokia gue, masih gue pake sampe sekarang, namanya juga BAHAHAH.

Makasih udah selalu ngalah. (Always "yang waras ngalah, Gab". Thanks =.=. #sarcasmtothemax)

Makasih udah muji suara gue bagus "sampe kaca semua pecah karena merasa nggak layak ngedengerin" suara gue.

Makasih buat beruang dalam kotak sepatunya.

Makasih buat kesabarannya.

Makasih udah muji nilai sejarah gue bagus meskipun sebenernya itu nilai cuman rata-rata.

Makasih udah ngertiin gue saat gue sendiri nggak tau arah.

Makasih untuk semua pengalaman dan pelajarannya.

Dan makasih untuk semua kenangannya.

I’m saying all these just in case you didn’t know. No hard feelings ya. Umm.. Tapi kalo dipikir-pikir… Ngga ada jaminan bakal dibaca juga ya… ==" Pokoknya, kalo kita tar ketemu lagi, mulai dari 0 yah. Today, I, Gaby pecinta hijau, declare that from this day on, I am free from the bitterness and regrets of past memories of you and anything related to you. And I hope you are too…