Cruiser Blade

TLDR: Great Read, would recommend 4/5 A sequel to This Savage Song. Kate and August once again is pitted to their own monsters, old and new, where Verity is slowly falling down to chaos. Victoria Schwab wrote it magnificently, with three varying POVs to further clarify the motives of the main protagonists and antagonists behind every actions. The way the story progressed felt just right, slowly and surely building the momentum for the grand finale. The characters were well-defined and with more than enough backstory for them to develop, that made the audience create these certain bond and feelings of familiarity and commonness. The story stayed true to its nature, which I find great, but Schwab added what-once-a-friendship-now-turned-romance and some more surprises, which made the book quite phenomenal for me. Overall, it's a great book. It's worth reading. Make sure to read the prequel before reading this one.

TLDR: Dragonwings is worth a read. Here's why: Although, I'm not from the countries mentioned in the book, Yep's way of narrative effectively made me foreign to 20th Century Americans and hold this certain stigma the characters have with them. It slowly eases, however, as I progress. The book presents truth about working overseas. The prospect of wealth the foreign land can bring accompanied by the fear of a sudden change of hostility of the environment. Think of it like coming out of comfort zone. Dragonwings also life's principles like the possibility of the improbable, hope in times of despair, prejudging is never justified, embracing the hardships, and never giving up on dreams. Like a dragon who's free and liberated for change, so should we in conquering this life. Overall, it's a 4 for me.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is an awesome book for people with a little bit more patience and overflowing curiosity. I'll tell what I don't like with the book first: The way Fahrenheit 451 was written, it was a little too descriptive, at least for my taste. It places you into this hazy dream-like scenarios, or delirium-like state if you will, that really makes it harder for you to make sense of what the characters are doing and its purpose. The characters also feel unnatural. The protagonist, in one moment, feels the ardor of his job, but after a couple of paragraphs he is ready to rebel against the system. His wife too, felt more robotic or mentally-challenged than an average human. Although I think, all is in the author's purpose. Of course, if you can swallow the bad parts (like I did), you will enjoy the best parts of the book. Fahrenheit 451 is unique in a way the story and the characters are written. As I read through the lines, I noticed that little by little, the story's growing on me. I tend to understand and marvel with it a little bit better. The book also delves and relates in our modern world where we want everything faster than yesterday; how if we fail to think and to imagine and to stay in our comfort zone, we tend to stay emptier and less human; how the citizens of a country are the ones in control and the government only follows the wishes of its citizens. Overall, it's good and worth a read!