feeling: tired
chatting to: Maru-chan

First thing! I went to London over the weekend, met up with loads of friends I hadn't seen in ages and also met some new ones, twas so fun! XD So yeah, and one of my friends bought me a bento box from China!!! YAY!!! It's so cute! I love it <333

And it's got a divider too! What I've always wanted <333 Yay! It is quite small, but it's so cute! ^_^ I put it to use today and made a bento =D Of course I took some photos, but we've lost the lead to connect the digital camera to our computer for the time being, so I'll put it up when we've found the lead and I've uploaded it =3

Anyways, more about the title... I just finished reading Checkmate, final book in the Noughts and Crosses Trilogy... It's so good! I really did enjoy it, although I'm slightly miffed about the rather unresolved ending =/ Well, it is resolved, but quite a lot is still left open =3

I was searching up stuff on it online, to answer some questions that I have on it, hoping to read another's view, and who's opinion should I stumble by but the author herself, Malorie Blackman! XD

I now have some things to say about Checkmate. SPOILERS AHEAD!!! If you have not read it yet, or any other book in the Noughts and Crosses trilogy and do not like spoilers, stop reading now =3

If you don't care, keep reading XD (although if you haven't read the triology I'd stop reading here too, if I were you... You'd probably get very, very confused =3)

Sephy... Who does she choose??? Malorie said "I certainly knew in my own mind who was on the beach with Callie Rose and who Sephy decides to be with. But the reason I left it the way I did was because I wanted the reader to believe the characters had lives which would continue after the book was closed."

...Which is all well and good, but honestly, us as readers... some of us aren't bright enough to delve into the mastermind that is Malorie and pull out her thoughts (although I certainly wish I could!) >_<;; I certainly know who I want to have been on the beach with Callie Rose and who I want Sephy to choose, but some nagging feeling makes me think they might choose the other person... =sigh=

I'm thinking the one on the beach was Tobey. Because Callie Rose said "You still remember the way, right?" And I think the only person she could have said a line like that to is Tobey. I don't recall her ever taking Lucas to the beach, and by 'still remember', I'm assuming it's referring to her childhood friend.

But the thing that confused me was that Tobey kissed her at the beginning... I just don't think he'd do that? =/ I mean, she was still Lucas's girlfriend, wasn't she? o_O;; And last time I checked, Callie Rose was still getting to grips with the fact that someone cares for her and not just for an ulterior motive...

I dunno, I'm confused @_@

And as for Sephy, I'm hoping she'd return to Sonny's side, because she said she loved Sonny. And Callie Rose also loved Sonny. But with the time that she spent with Nathan, maybe she got over Sonny slightly? =/

But her heart did leap when he came back. =3

But... she agreed to marry Nathan... which would put her into a bit of a tight spot, cos breaking an engagement is kinda harsh >_<;; Although I'm pretty sure Nathan would understand... After all, he walked in on them kissing on her first night at work =3

So yeah, they're just my thoughts on the issue. I can't seem to find any others online =/ Which is a shame >_<;;

Spoilers end here =]

Overall I loved the trilogy though <333 Noughts and Crosses was simply amazing. I cried for a good few hours after I finished reading it the first time (which ended up with my parents coming in and panicking, asking what the matter was), and even after I reread it I was still in tears for ages!

It was such a good book <333

Knife Edge, on the other hand... Malorie said it was the hardest to write... I'd say it was pretty much the hardest to read, for me, as well... It didn't grip me as much as Noughts and Crosses did, and I think at that time, I was still slightly young to handle the amount of hate and darkness in that book >_<;;

The only time I cried was after reading Callum's letter.

Boy did I cry =_=;; But then the rest of the book just... kinda went in through the eyes, skipped the brain and went out through... somewhere @_@;;

And Checkmate was very good too (^_^)v although I have to admit N&C was the best =3

Aside from that, The Draco Triology (by Cassadra Clare, which has now unfortunately been taken off the net cos she's become an official author!!! Congrats to her!!! Although damn it took me so long to track down the pdf's of the Draco Trilogy!!!) is complete!!! <333

It is one of the most amazing fanfiction I've ever read in my life! It pretty much got me into Draco/Ginny and Harry/Hermione, to be honest =3 It really is one of the best pieces of fanfiction I've ever read, and I recommend it to everyone!

It's also really long, though, (like, approx a million words?) but completely worth the read. You can get the pdf's at http://communities.livejournal.com/dracotrilogy/ but I don't know how much longer they'll be up for. Cassie Clare requested all copies to be taken off the net ;_;

But yes!!! It's complete!!! I finally managed to read the ending, after years of anticipation and following the fic!!! Although I expected to feel more after reading the ending... expected that hollow feeling like I always get when I read the ending to a book, because I'll never find out what happens afterwards to them, and can only speculate, but for this fic, I didnt...

I only felt... nothing... it was weird... I expected to feel more... I was a bit disapopinted at the openness of the ending, but it's good =3 I think the reason I didn't feel much was cos I'd actually pretty much forgotten everything that's happened so far since I started reading it a good few years ago, and the last time I read the latest chapter was... a year? 2 years ago?

I'm gonna find time to reread it soon =3

And with that, I leave. I'm so tired >_<;; Goodnight all!

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