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Review: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
Title: Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe)
Author: Rosamund Hodge
Release Date/Publisher: Published January 28th 2014 by Balzer + Bray
Borrowed: Trade Paperback (342 pages)
Finished: July 12th 2014
Series: Cruel Beauty Universe
- Cruel Beauty
- Gilded Ashes
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.
Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.
With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.
But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.
As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.
A Little Something About Me and My Thoughts…
Review: A Dark Faerie Tale Series Omnibus by Alexia Purdy
This Omnibus was given to me by the author in exchange for an honest review. I decided to write a review for each book individually.
Title: A Dark Faerie Tale Series Omnibus Edition
Author: Alexia Purdy
Published: July 7th 2013 by Lyrical Lit. Publishing
Own (Review Copy): Kindle (588 pages)
Started: July 29, 2014
Finished: September 16, 2014
Series:
- Evangeline
- Ever Shade
- Ever Fire
- Ever Winter
- The Cursed
- Ever Wrath (not included in Omnibus)
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Shade is thrown into the Land of Faerie when she meets a mysterious Teleen warrior, made of fire and electricity. Sent on a journey to obtain a rare magic only she can wield to save the Seelie forces against the Unseelie armies, she discovers her unique inner magic and possibly a difficult choice in love.
The Unseelie Queen Aveta is not one to trifle with. She hunts Shade down for her own devices and will destroy everything Shade loves to get what she wants.
After barely escaping the clutches of the Unseelie and stripped of her newfound magic, Shade journeys to the Ice Kingdom, The Great Divide, to hopefully retrieve her bound up powers from an Ancient Faerie King named Corb− but loses her memories instead. Alongside her body-guard Dylan, a former Captain of the Teleen Guard, she lays havoc to the Ice King’s fortress and forces their return to the Teleen kingdom. Hurrying to reach the Southern Realm, Shade claims her rightful throne and prepares for the upcoming battle with the Unseelie army.
A Little Something About Me and My Thoughts…
Review: Gateway to Faerie by M.D. Bowden
Title: Gateway to Faerie (Gateway to Faerie #1)
Author: M.D. Bowden
Release Date/Publisher: Published July 15th 2013
Own: Kindle (269 pages)
Started: June 21st 2014
Finished: June 29th 2014
Series: Gateway to Faerie
- Gateway to Faerie
- Bell Stone
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Set two hundred years after the world has been destroyed by a terrifying faerie invasion, Fayth Blackman is busy studying for her final exams. She has no idea that a gateway has opened to the land of Faerie and that dark haunting creatures are filtering through into her own world. But then tragedy strikes and her life turns upside down. She finds out that she is the descendent of a powerful faerie, and that the key to closing the gateway is in her blood. She must embark on a dangerous quest to find the Bell Stone, and with it stop the world from being destroyed once more. But can she make it in time?
Follow Fayth on her quest for the Bell Stone in ‘Gateway to Faerie.
A Little Something About Me and My Thoughts…
Review: Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
Title: Haunted (Women of the Otherworld #5)
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Release Date/Publisher: Published January 26th 2010 by Vintage Canada (first published January 1st 2005)
Own: Trade Paperback (464 pages)
Finished: June 21st 2014
Series: Women of the Otherworld
- Bitten
- Stolen
- Dime Store Magic
- Industrial Magic
- Haunted
- Broken
- No Humans Involved
- Personal Demon
- Living with the Dead
- Frostbitten
- Waking the Witch
- Spellbound
- Thirteen
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Eve Levine — half-demon, black witch and devoted mother — has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can’t be killed again — which comes in handy when you’ve made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn’t too bad — all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, and she’ll be happy.
But fate — or more exactly, the Fates — have other plans. Eve owes them a favor, and they’ve just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy — previous hunters have been driven insane in the process. As if that’s not problem enough, the only way to stop her is with an angel’s sword. And Eve is no angel….
A Little Something About Me and My Thoughts…
Review: First Visions by Heather Topham Wood
Title: First Visions (Second Sight #1)
Author: Heather Topham Wood
Release Date/Publisher: Published May 1st 2012 by Wood (first published April 27th 2012)
Own: Kindle (230 pages)
Finished: June 10th 2014
Series: Second Sight
- First Vision
- New Revelations
- Dark Premonitions
- The Final Omen
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Two years ago, 21-year-old Kate Edwards became deathly ill and slipped into a coma. While unconscious, she crept into the mind of a missing boy and awoke with the knowledge of his location. Friends and family were skeptical and wary of her new ability to see into the minds of others. Their fears prompted Kate to keep her psychic powers a secret. Feeling alienated, she dropped out of college and spent most of her days holed up at her mother’s home.
Now another child has been abducted. Police detective Jared Corbett seeks out Kate for her help in solving the case. Reluctantly, Kate agrees and they must work together to bring 8-year-old Cori Preston home to her family. Although attracted to one another, Jared has a girlfriend with ties to the abduction case and Kate is sarcastic and guarded since her coma. With visions she can’t control and an uncontrollable attraction to the detective, she wonders if she can leave the past behind and finally stop hiding from the world. Otherwise, Cori may be lost forever.
A Little Something About Me and My Thoughts…
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