Oh my goodness Traveler was such a fun read! I’m not usually one for books about time travel or alternate realities (which is this one) but I got really excited after reading the synopsis and thoroughly enjoyed this book. So a lot of good going on in this one. First, I thought the writing was pretty solid. You’re led through the story pretty fast. I think that was […]
Imagine if Captain Jack Sparrow was a teenage girl. Just picture it. Because you will find yourself with Captain Alosa, daughter of the fearsome pirate king. Reckless, clever, and determined, she’s going to blow you out of the open water in Daughter of the Pirate King. This book was so much fun! I honestly thought that having a teenage pirate captain wasn’t going to go so well […]
Damn, Shaila Patel just jumped the list to have the #1 gut-wrenching, emotional roller coaster of a book for the month. Just… wow. Soulmated was the burning, torturous romance I hoped it would be but became so much more. Liam is an empath and a royal one at that. He’s back in the States in search of The One. His soulmate. Meanwhile, Laxshmi is just trying […]
It’s hard writing about the end of a series. There is so much that went into these books that it’s hard to talk about in a review, especially with avoiding as many spoilers as possible. I also had a lot of built-up expectations going into this final chapter in the story of Vhalla, especially after the events of Water’s Wrath. So as a conclusion to this […]
I thought Earth’s End would be the emotional max of the series. I. Was. Wrong. It’s so hard to talk about the books in this series because they keep getting better and I have nothing bad to say! Water’s Wrath completely train-wrecked my emotions into the side of a mountain of pain. The scene-that-shall-not-be named…just…WHY?! At the end of the last book, I was really concerned about Vhalla in […]
After the end of Fire Falling, I flailed a bit waiting for the next book…to load because my Kindle decided to be obnoxiously slow. So it wasn’t a dreadful long time, thank goodness; I don’t want to imagine what the wait must have been like for those who read it when the book released. Of all the Air Awakens books so far, I think Earth’s End had to be […]
This very short novella from the Air Awakens series falls after Fire Falling (book 2) and before book 3, Earth’s End. If you’ve kept up with the series so far, you’ll know that the books are told from Vhalla’s point of view but this novella looks inside the minds of some of the other characters as well as a few new ones that appear in the next […]
As the third book I’ve read by Ives (and in the same series, no less), I had a good sense of her writing style. Which I quite enjoyed. Both Wicked Little Secrets and Wicked, My Love were highly entertaining with characters that I found relatable despite the genre (often I don’t really connect with heroines in romances past the reader-book relationship). So I was a bit disappointed with How […]
Oh my goodness WOW. I always get anxious when it comes to sequels because more often than not they suffer quite severely from second book syndrome. The plot falls flat, the characters lose their personalities and shift toward cliches, and there’s a lot of fluff. Fire Falling had none of that. This book is on the move from start to finish. After the end of Air Awakens, Vhalla is off […]
Do you ever regret putting a series off for other books? You know you’ll get to it but for whatever reason you’ve mentally decided that that series isn’t worth reading as quickly as another? I did that with Air Awakens…and I’m not sure why because I loved it! Talk about reading regrets. Should’ve read these sooner. We’re introduced to Vhalla Yarl, a librarian apprentice who is more than […]
Everything about this book screamed READ ME. The cover. The synopsis. All of it. So obviously going into The Bear and the Nightingale I had a few expectations as well as an eagerness to see if it was truly as amazing as it looked/sounded. While it lived up to my hopes and dreams on some fronts, others didn’t quite make the cut. The first thing I […]
When I first heard that Amanda Hocking was writing another book and that it would be about a supernatural circus…I was beyond excited. I had loved her Trylle series and I’m in the process of reading the spin off series to that. But going into this book with such high expectations is where I went wrong. Unfortunately I was sorely disappointed with Freeks. This book […]
You tell me that a book is inspired by Phantom of the Opera and expect me to just let it stay untouched on the shelf? I don’t think so! I adore Phantom and when I heard about RoseBlood, a twisted re-telling of the story, my hands couldn’t get a hold of it soon enough. Unfortunately, my expectations were a bit too high and I didn’t […]
Much like The Alchemists of Loom throws you into the thick of things early on, I have every intention of diving right into this review. There was a LOT going on in this book and the intricate layers to dissect made it all the sweeter a read. Prior to starting this book, I binge-read Elise Kova’s Air Awakens series and fell in love. I knew TAoL was sure to […]