Book Review: Angels of Moirai by Nicole Salmond

Title: Angels of Moirai

Author: Nicole Salmond

Series: Angels of Moirai #1

Genre: Romance, Young Adult, Fantasy

Published by: Smashwords Edition

Published Date: April 26th, 2015

Pages: 370

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Since man first walked the earth, the Angels of Moirai have watched over them. Born human, they are taught never to feel, never to become attached, and never to become emotionally compromised.

Eighteen-year-old, Lila Kingston, is haunted by dreams of a mysterious angel. Suddenly, the dramas of her broken family and the snobby, rich kids at her school, fail in comparison to the challenges she must face.

Hailing from the Angels of Moirai, James Taylor has been entrusted with the fate of lives from around the world for over a thousand years. His soul purpose is to ensure every mortal follows their designed path, but when Lila puts that very purpose at risk, he must make a choice, a choice that ultimately leads to devastating consequences of a love never meant to exist.

The choice was never easy, those kind of choices never are…

"Angels of Moirai" was about a girl named Lila Kingston. Her and her sister are from a rich family and just like the school she goes to are made up of rich kids, except for her friend Jackie. She has a ton of family drama back at home, she never really sees her parents. But, during lunch Lila accidentally fell asleep so to speak. When she looked up she was still at the school but it was like time had stopped. She was approached by an angel named James, but she didn't know that at the time. James is an Angel of Moirai, his job is to make sure people stay on their fated path. But Lila wants to be different she is swaying from her designed path. James appears at her school and starts to attend there and she is going crazy. Lila and James fall in love, which is a big no no, James is not allowed to have any feelings or be in love. Well the demons noticed just that and to get to him, they get to Lila first. Towards the end everything goes to hell, Lila almost died in the hands of a possessed Dean. James saves her but tells her something he wasn't suppose to tell her and her fate has been altered when it wasn't suppose to. 

The characters were great, I really felt bad for Lila though, I wish no kid to go threw with never seeing their parents. Their parents are suppose to play a big role in their lives and help guide them. In the end when her parents seemed to have turned around. Her mom texted her something sweet and apologized and said that they will see her soon. The only thing that I didn't like about the book was how it ended. It made me cry for both Lila and James, I hope in the next book they are able to be together again. 

Everything about the book was great. I truly enjoyed reading this book. I can say that I cannot wait until the second book comes out.

Book Review: Of Heroes and Villains by Julius St. Clair

Title: Of Heroes and Villains

Author: Julius St. Clair

Series: Sage Saga #4

Genre: Romance, Young Adult, Fantasy

Published by: L&W Books

Published Date: May 13th, 2014

Pages: 251

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The Age of Peace has arrived. For the first time in history, the Kingdoms are united, and Sages are being born.

But there is a new horror on the horizon.

An evil remnant from an ancient time threatens the stability, and those that survived the ordeal with Thorn now find themselves facing an enemy that is beyond their abilities.

Meanwhile, Bastion, a young Sage haunted by his childhood, finds a destructive power growing inside of him that desperately seeks a release. With the new problems facing Allay, he’s unsure if his teachers will be able to help him control it. And soon, he finds himself wondering if the darkness inside of him should be purged, or embraced..

"Of Heroes and Villains" is the next book in the Sage Saga series. Catherine has ruled peacefully, her kingdom started to grow. She talked to people and accepted their terms and problems. Prattlian and Langoran are now apart of Allay. This peace has lasted a long 5 years. The even have something called Orders. There are three orders, one for each kingdom, they are something like churches.

Everyone has thought that the Quietus were all wiped out, until some kids came to report that they think that find some. James, now Master Sage, took on the assignment to go look for them and bring them back to offer peace and give them a home. Catherine asked Arimus to go with him and he does. Meanwhile, a new comer Bastion is all mighty and powerful. He doesn't know how to control his powers like everyone else. He makes a couple of friends and an enemy before the day the new Sage Academy opens up. Bastion makes a great addition to what is to come about Allay, and he has the power to save the world. 

As James and Arimus arrive at the old kingdom of Prattle, the Quietus are quite aggressive. They said something about the Sages telling them that they need to join them for what is to come. James wants to know what their talking about so he asked a bunch of questions but still no useful information. They bring back the Quietus and they proved food and a little shelter. Until the leader of the Quietus brings about some interesting information. Knowing this information, Catherine takes it to Zain, the king of Langor and Tyuin, the king of Prattle and has James promote some of the students to Master Sages and tells him to go back to Prattle to find out who they are. When him and the seven students arrive things don't goes as they planned. Lakrymos, one of the sages of old and Orchid appear before James and his students. Kills most of his students and leaves 2 alive making him chose. It was a sick game. Lakrymos wants to take over Allay and turn them into a kingdom full of warriors so they can stopped the oncoming threat.

Towards the end Catherine gives the people a decision and they wanted Lakrymos to lead them because he was known for his valet efforts. Catherine steps down and they all plan to leave, but Lakrymos comes a little to early. He takes on their offer "if they can at least harm them then they are free to leave with whoever wants to come". They win but Bastion, who wanted to go has to stay. James does the unthinkable and goes back with Bastion's friends Kent and Daisy, to persuade him to their side and make sure he doesn't do anything he regrets.

 This book kinda made me mad. The order is made up of a bunch of greedy a-holes, who just want someone bigger and badder than Catherine for king. Especially the order master's son he was a big butt too. Like in the other books this did have a bunch or grammar errors and what not but still another book to the series.

Book Review: Hail to the Queen by Julius St. Clair

Title: Hail to the Queen

Author: Julius St. Clair

Series: Sage Saga #3

Genre: Romance, Young Adult, Fantasy

Published by: L&W Books

Published Date: November 17th, 2013

Pages: 264

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The Sages have been scattered and the mission has been thrown to the wayside. Alone in a foreign land, James and Princess Catherine must fight for their survival against hostile and terrifying forces that rival the power of gods. And it is only a matter of time before the other four Kingdoms realize that they are next for extermination.

The King of Zen-echelon has arrived, and with him is a plot to bring a dark age so unimaginable, even the Sages' enemies begin to seek their assistance. Powerful beyond belief, it appears that no one can topple the King on their own, and it soon becomes apparent that it will take nothing less than a leader and a Queen, to unite them all against their common foe...

Only so many things could go wrong in a book, this one a lot of things go wrong. "Hail to the Queen" picks up right after the ending to "The Dark Kingdom". James and Catherine are still stuck in the manifestation and James is barely holding on. But he is trying to hard for Catherine. All the other Sages are all scattered about and worried about them. Ariums sends Scarlet and Kyran to go to Zen-echelon to get the last stone. Jester appears before the Quietus and wants to meet with Catherine. James finally meets his mother but it isn't even for long because now he has to sent out to find where Jester took Catherine. 

Thorn, who is the "king" of Zen-echelon is a smart-ass and very egotistic. He doesn't think anyone can kick his butt. But Scarlet tries anyway and she loses hardcore. Apparently Thorn made the ether that is in the sky and he is capturing souls so he can go up against the Maker himself. So he wants to lay waste to all the kingdoms in order for him to get his wish. Kryan gets to see Chloe and Scarlet gets to see her brother one last time before the decided what they really want to do. Kryan decides to "side" with Thorn and Scarlet is scared crap-less of him.

In order for everyone to beat Thorn, everyone has to come together and work together. It was hard in the beginning, the Sages save Prattlian and started to head toward Langoran to get them on their side as well. It was a difficult task for the Langoran to side with them but then Thorn attacked and they changed their mind. With no home for the Langoran or the Prattlain they all head to Allay and regroup there,..

James and Arimus are out and about and find something quite interesting that might help them win against Thorn.  While in the Sage Academy looking for this sort of information they run into Alexander and Dominic. Kicking butt and taking names James and Arimus defeat them without breaking a sweat. Thorn isn't powerful he just knows how to use the stone in a different matter than anyone else. James and Arimus figure it out and learn how to do it on their own.  With this new found information James becomes super OP (over-powered). He learns new tidbits and tricks tat could help him in the long run. 

With Thorn and the ether gone, peace is once restored to the kingdoms. Allay, Prattlian, and Langoran are now at peace with each other and alleys but will it stay that way? 

Book Review: The Dark Kingdom by Julius St. Clair

Title: The Dark Kingdom

Author: Julius St. Clair

Series: Sage Saga

Genre: Romance, Young Adult, Fantasy

Published by: L&W Books

Published Date: November 21st, 2013

Pages: 234

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Their Kingdom has just been devastated.

But the mission must go on.

A Princess and her seven Sages, haunted by the past, set out to stop a mysterious and sinister enemy. And to succeed, they need the five stones of legend. But none of the Kingdoms are willing to give up their only source of power without a fight...

I read this book a while ago and didn't get to writing a review about it so now that I have time here is the review. 

"The Dark Kingdom", is the second book to the Sage Saga series. In "The Last of the Sages" you see James becoming a Sage and he is the happiest person on the planet. In this book it tells you about all the training him and Achan go through after becoming sages. 

James decides to take Catherine out into the village because she has never really been there before. So he wanted to give her a three day vacation into the village. Well they get all settled in and she falls asleep and everything goes down to hell. Alexander, the Prattlian, and Keel, the Langoran decide to attack the village. James, Catherine and the other sagas know that the Kingdom of Allay can not withstand other attack. The sagas go on the defense and save the village, while Catherine and Dominic head to the academy because Alexander and Keel were heading that way. They save the village and Catherine kicks ass and saves the academy but that only leads to them having to move there mission time up to the next day. So instead of waiting two more weeks to set out for their mission to retrieve the other stones they now have to leave the following day. 

They decided to go to Langoran first because it was closer. Everything is all hunky dory until the king decides that he wants to marry Catherine and then they could get the stone. Well Arimus wasn't going to have any of that so he sends Kryan on a dirty mission. Mean while James and Dominic are both trying to kill each other in the arena. Then everything goes to hell again, the enforcer comes on and the town riots because their king is dead...Run little piggy run. Anyway...then they head to Prattlian, and learn about Jester. But the king isn't going to let his stone go easily, he wants them to get the stone of Quietus first. They knew eventually they would have to head there but not so soon...People go hurt bad in Quietus and I cried because three out of the seven died....While James and Catherine are stuck in Quietus arena in a manifestation, Kryan is headed back to Prattlian to meet up with Scarlet and Arimus. 

In this book everything just goes to hell and I didn't like it one bit. Out of all the people to die there was one person I didn't want to die because he just got to telling Catherine everything about his past. I feel bad for James too because he was James's only best friend, everyone else in the group wants him dead. Other then everything going to hell and me crying I found tis book just like the first one a great read.  

Book Review: Witches (Runes Book #4) by Ednah Walters

Title: Witches

Author: Ednah Walters

Series: Runes Book #4

Genre: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult, Fantasy

Published by: Firetrail Publishing

Published Date: March 17th, 2015

Pages: 362
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The Norns think they’ve won,
but it’s hard to control a teenager,
let alone a powerful one…

Raine Cooper’s life should be perfect. She’s an Immortal Seeress, most likely to be elected Prom Queen, and envied by the girls at Kayville High for dating the dreamy quarterback, Torin St. James. Instead, she’s haunted by the smug facial expressions the Norns’ wore during their last meeting.

As a Norn-In-Training, Raine crossed the line long ago when she sided with the Valkyries and Mortal Witches. When the Norns return with demands of their own, Raine feels trapped. Torin tries to convince her that the Norns are manipulating her, but she refuses to listen. At least until the Norns’ demands focus on someone she loves. When Raine refuses to cooperate with them, their punishment is swift and gut-wrenching, turning her pain into fury.

Raine plots revenge on a massive scale and makes deals with unsavory allies. Her goal? Total destruction of the entire Norn race. Raine’s only hope of salvation is Torin, but how much will he sacrifice to save her?

I have to admit Ednah Walters is probably one of my favorite YA fantasy book authors. The whole Rune series was amazing and I am really glad I found it. I, myself love anything that has to deal with mythology and the way Ednah wrote the Runes series really blew my mind. She did a great job with giving us a clear view or Norse mythology and everything about Valkyries and Grimnirs. It kind of reminds me a Twilight, which side are you on #TorinSirRoyalHighness or #EchosDrunkenLove hehe <3.

In this book Witches it picks up right after the Seeress and overlaps with Souls. In Souls we see everything is Cora's point up view which lead up all the way to the prom. Witches, we see Raine's point of view also all the way up to the prom. Raine is still learning how to become a powerful witch but the Norns both the good and bad just don't know how to leave her alone. But that doesn't stop her, she knows how to put the Norns in their place where they belong. But she has worries just like any other person who is in love. She is scared if she doesn't do what the Norns want she will lose Torin. Love conquers all right? She is slowly growing in power, learning how to control her visions and even use illusions so people she her as a different person. She isn't alone in her adventure, she has family and friends that will back her up all the way.

She doesn't want to turn out like the Norns, she wants to be her own person helping both Mortals and Immortals. Her first "case" as she calls it is Beau Hardshaw, the captain of the baseball team. He is, as you would call it a player. He changes girls like people change clothes. But he is smart, outgoing, cocky, and determined. She wants him to be able to get a scholarship for baseball, so she decides to take him under her care and help him gets to where he needs to be. Nothing is going to stop Raine from helping him not even Torin's sexy jealousy.

Raine is determine to do what she needs to do so she can help the people she loves and cares about. She plans on staying where she is at and she doesn't care who gets in her way, she will crush them all the same. The relationship between her and Torin grow and I find that cute and something that makes me cry. Their love for each other is infinite and it makes me happy to see a relationship like this grow in a book.

Spotlight & Book Review: Awaiting Fate by J.L. Sheppard

Title: Awaiting Fate

Author: J.L. Sheppard

Series: Fated Immortals Book One

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Published by: The Wild Rose Press

Published Date: March 27th, 2015

Pages: 306
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Cain Thaler’s lived more than four hundred years fighting rogue immortals, avenging the family he’d lost. It’s all he’s needed, all he’s wanted. That changes the fateful day he lays eyes on his fated mate.

Olivia Waden, a werewolf princess, is nothing like him. Unwilling to give her up, he sets a plan into motion: ignoring his need to claim her, he befriends her. Despite Cain's best efforts at friendship, Olivia has fallen hard for him. It is him she dreams of, him she wants as her fated mate. But she is sure he doesn't feel the same way. In way over her head, she has no option but to run away from the only man she's ever loved.

Will Cain find Olivia before it's too late or will their differences tear them apart?

After waiting centuries for his mate he finally finds her while watching over the King's wife's sister Jocelyn. Cain, at that moment had the distant instinct to take her and make her his own. He followed her for a little while and found out she was also an immortal but a werewolf. Her brother is also the alpha of the pack. 

Olivia doesn't know much about the immortal world because her brother is a little bit overprotective of her. She is also kept on watch and is always left in her home away from everyone. But one day her brother decides to take her to the immortal council and she meets Cain. After a little while Cain befriends Olivia and decides to give her time to adjust some more to the Immortal life and learn more about everything before he decides to tell her that she is his. But is it too late to do so on Cain's part? This is a beautiful love story and I really like the way Cain fought his urges to take her then and there. He wanted to make sure Olivia was ready for everything and I find that sweet. Olivia knows that she can't tell if she is his mate but she really wants to be. She gets away from him because she loves him. She doesn't believe she is is mate and he doesn't show her that she is, he treats her more as a friend. When he finds out she left, he thinks it was because she knew she was his mate or because she was just running away. But he feels like crap afterwards. 

But as for everything that is going on Olivia's brother Landon has other ideas for her. So could this mean a huge fight between Cain and Landon? Will Olivia have to chose between her brother who has loved her and tried to protect her all her life or the man she loves who suddenly pops up in her life?  

I really feel in love with the characters, Cain is a bundle of hotness and Olivia is outgoing and beautiful. I really enjoyed ever part of this book and can't wait for the second one. Everything about this book blew me away from the characters to the story line. J.L Sheppard did a wonderful job writing this story.

About the Author:

J.L. Sheppard was born and raised in Miami, Florida where she still lives with her husband and son.

As a child, her greatest aspiration was to become a writer. She read often, kept a journal and wrote countless poems. She attended Florida International University and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelors in Communications. During her senior year, she interned at NBC Miami, WTVJ. Following the internship, she was hired and worked in the News Department for three years.

It wasn’t until 2011 that she set her heart and mind into writing her first completed novel, Demon King’s Desire, which was published in January of 2013.

Besides reading and writing, she enjoys traveling and spending quality time with family and friends.

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Book Review: Into a Million Pieces by Angela V. Cook

Title: Into a Million Pieces 
Author: Angela V. Cook 

Published by: Red Adept Publishing 
Released date: January 2015

Genre: Fantasy

Page: 300

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Allison McKready is a succubus. So is her twin sister. But while Allison spends her summer break hiding in the library behind her Goth makeup, Jade fools around as often as she can. Allison can’t believe Jade would ignore their mother’s fatal example so recklessly, but concealing a cursed bloodline and its dangerous effects is far from Allison’s only problem. Mean girl Julie’s snob mob is determined to ruin her summer, and Aunt Sarah’s Bible thumping is getting louder. Only her new friend, Ren Fisher, offers safe haven from the chaos of her life.
When one of Jade’s risky dates leads to humiliation and sudden tragedy, Allison reels, and Ren catches her. But as her feelings for him grow, so does her fear that she’ll hurt him—or worse—in an unguarded moment. The choice is coming—love him or save him—but Allison might not live to make it. One way or another, the curse will have its due.

I wanted to read this book because the synopsis caught my attention. Two sisters who happen to be twins who also happens to be succubus's now that is something that will surely catch my attention. In this book from the beginning I felt bad for Allison, she was an outcast and everyone treated her badly. But in a way she sorta did it for her sister, they were twins and people probably wouldn't be able to tell them apart if Allison didn't dress all goth like and avoided people. 

Allison's mother committed suicide when she was young so she didn't get to know much about the curse let alone her family history. But her sister Jade wanted to explore even though the curse was serious, she would flirt and kiss with guys even though she knew she shouldn't. But Allison she tried to avoid people as much as possible, she didn't want to fall in love or be with guys because she new the curses limits. 

Then all of a sudden some guy named Ren appeared in the picture to catch Allison when she falls and boy does she fall hard for him anyway. Ren was there for everything when it came to Allison, he was attracted to her before they even began to speak to each other. She told him everything about her family but that didn't stop him from loving her. Then crap hit the fan, but he was still there.

Allison is a beautiful, careful, misunderstood young girl. She had a great personality, but you could tell she didn't like hiding behind those rumors or having people talk really bad crap about her. Her sister Jade on the other hand was more or less someone who couldn't take the fact she wasn't popular. Se had to made herself known to everyone, she wanted to look good to tease people. Ren is a gentleman, and a great guy. I am really glad he came into Allison's life when she needed him the most. 

This book was a great read, it had me crying on some parts and laughing my ass on other parts. I wonder if there will be a part 2, with Allison finding out more about the curse and maybe finding someone else with the curse.

About The Author:

Angela V. Cook lives a very unexciting, but never boring, life with her husband and two children just outside of Detroit. Like most writers, she’s been making up stories for as long as she can remember and can’t imagine a life that doesn’t involve creating worlds. Angela loves to write novels for teens because it’s the best outlet for her sarcastic personality, immature sense of humor, and love of romantic firsts. Her idea of the perfect day involves a quiet house, a good book, and a piece of cheesecake. Or two.

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Book Review: Velicious By Shelique Lize

Title: Velicious

Author: Shelique Lize

Series: Book One

Genre: Fantasy
Published by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

Published Date: November 22nd, 2014

Pages: 253
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Justice Morel always had her life perfectly planned. Her goals were to graduate from the University with exceptional grades and get into the best law school Canada has to offer.

Then one day, Justice tried to kill herself. Well, not her technically. It may have been Justice Morel's body, but those actions weren't intentional and the suicidal thoughts were not hers. Or, so she keeps telling her therapist and family.

Justice is afraid she’s losing her mind and just wants to forget everything. But when her best friend is murdered, another one is being mind-screwed by a Vampyre, and her ex is back in town, looking as scrumptious as ever and very suspicious, maybe she isn't all that crazy!

Just when she thinks that life couldn't throw her anymore curve balls, Justice figures out that she is Vampyre Doll and there's a vampyre who seems very familiar to her, but she can't figure out from where.

Justice is suffocating and drowning in a dark world she's been tossed into, forced to survive. It’s a world she never wanted to know about and would love to ignore, like it doesn't exist. But, with every passing day, she's pulled deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole, wishing for everything to go back to the way it was.

I am really glad I got to read this book. I know I am late on the review because I was moving and I finally got internet today. So now I can do this review and many many more. So bear with me while I tell you all about this book muhaha.

Justice (which is a great choice of a name btw) is turning 21 and her sister Mya wants to take her out to have fun and party. But before they go anywhere she takes her to a psychic and she tells her this crazy stuff about meeting a man and it is her destiny and she can't fight it. Well she is like whatever, I don't believe this crap I am turning 21 lets go party. She runs into an asshole who changes her life forever, it isn't the first time they run into each other. Unfortunately, her sister decided it was ok to invite her ex boyfriend who she has missed dearly and is extremely pissed at him to the party, so she leaves and sees Erin being dragged away by some homeless guy. Erin becomes a big weirdo in Justice's eyes once she is back in school and everything. Her ex shows up multiply times trying to make everything better, he apologizes and she takes it. But for some reason she is having this weird connection to Dante, everytime they touch it is electrifying and hot.

Justice, she is a fighter and a lover. She was hurt for what her ex did to her but she still missed him. She took the fact that vampires were real, really well, she didn't have a panic attack. Dante, is a cocky vampire who thinks he is the bomb. His brother is a little less over dramatic then he is and a big gentleman.

The book and the storyline itself was great. I like the fact that Justice and Dante didn't get together right away, but they are slowly coming together. I am use to the connect being there quickly an them together somewhere halfway in the book. But this one was different, they ran into each other, felt the connection, getting somewhat close to each other, but they want to know why the connection is there before making the big move. I can't wait for the 2nd one, the ending to this one is driving me nuts XD.

Book Tour & Review: The Thorn and the Sinking Stone by C.J. Dushinski

Title: The Thorn and the Sinking Stone
Author: C.J. Dushinski 
Series: The Darkness Series
Published by: Entangled Teen
Published Date: March 10th, 2015
Genre: Paranormal Thriller 
Pages: 313 pages
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Warring families. Forbidden love. And danger they can’t escape…

Daggers. Roses. Cowboys. Boat Men. Survivors of Earth's Last War, four “families” vie to rule the dreary streets of Rain City through violence and blood. Valencia Hara, Princess of the wealthy Black Roses, is raised in warrior ways with sharpened steel. But she is no ordinary Rose. She is Cursed—tainted with the ability to see seconds into the future…

To avenge his father's death, Sebastian Leold, of the rival gang Two Daggers, must face off against the Black Princess, he with his dagger, she with her katana sword. Yet a secret from a shared past leaves him unable to kill beautiful Valencia; nor can she kill him. For they once knew each other beyond their blood feud…and they have more secrets in common than they know.

But in a world filled with vengeance and violence, there can be no room for love…

 

In Rain City after the Last War, four powerful families rose up and took over different parts of the cities. The main two are the Daggers and the Black Roses, they have been at each others throat for years. Valencia, has been trained all her life to this very day to take revenge on the poor bastard who killed her dad. She has a "Curse" that can see slightly in the future to predict movements which is a handy skill when fighting. Sebastian, is apart of the Daggers, he is sweet and innocent and only kills if he has too. He doesn't like having blood on his hands. He has has a the "Curse" he can throw things and move things with his mind. 

When Sebastian had his dad taken away from him, the Daggers and Black Roses met up and decided to battle it out blood for blood. They killed one of the Black Roses and Garret decided it wasn't fair, he wanted more blood. So he sent his sister Valencia to duel Sebastian. They didn't want to kill each other and they really didn't have a chance too.After all this has happen Sebastian can't seem to get Valencia out of his mind or vice versa. Valencia got capture by the Watchman and taken to the Curse jail and Sebastian blames himself for it because he wanted to met up with her to come up with a plan to not turn each other in for being cursed. But that doesn't stop Sebastian he goes and finds a way to save her. 

I was pulled into this book this book when I started to read it, I couldn't put it down. I thought it would be more like knights and stuff like that but I was wrong. Valencia, is strong and beautiful, and wields a katana like a bad mamajama. Sebastian is the complete opposite of her, he is quite, and very contempt.

This book reminded me of the gangster version of Romeo and Juliet expect without them both dying. I thought it was a amazing story and had a great story-line. I really love this story and this is another book I can't wait for book two!!! 


About the Author 

While attempting to navigate life as a responsible human being, CJ graduated from university with a B.Comm and worked her way along as marketer, copywriter, and graphic designer to earn a paycheck while pursing her passion for creating fantastical stories set in dark and wondrous corners of the world. Born amongst the wheat fields and open skies of the Canadian prairies, CJ’s imagination has always run wild, taking her on adventures across the world from modeling in Seoul, South Korea to backpacking through Europe and surfing (poorly) in Hawaii. 

After wandering through ancient cities and civilizations, learning from diverse cultures, and surrounding herself in new experiences, CJ was inspired and began work on her debut Young Adult novel THE THORN AND THE SINKING STONE, to be published by Entangled Publishing 2014/15. CJ currently resides in Calgary, Alberta Canada – home of the Canadian Rockies – and keeps one hand on her passport and pen at all times, ready to pick up, see the world, and weave her experiences into stories. CJ is represented by Marlene Stringer of the Stringer Literary Agency LLC. 

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Book Review: The Witches’ Covenant (Twin Magic #2) by Michael Dalton

Title: The Witches' Covenant

Author: Michael Dalton

Series: Twin Magic Book 2

Genre: Alternative History, Fantasy, Romance

Published Date: March 20th, 2015

Pages: 222
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Erich, Ariel and Astrid have begun their life together, but all is not well.

Ariel and Astrid have discovered that sharing a husband is a greater challenge than they anticipated, a challenge that is exacerbated by a difficult winter trip to Wittenberg, where Erich hopes to enter the service of Frederick III, Elector of Sachsen. But their trip is soon interrupted by unexpected complications.

In the town of Marburg, a century-old agreement that has kept the peace between the Landgraviate of Hessen and a band of witches in the forest is beginning to unravel. The young Landgrave, Philip, needs to consolidate his authority, and the witches want something from him that he does not dare surrender.

Erich and his wives are drawn into this conflict, and in the process discover a mystery that seems tied to their unique magical bond—a mystery that may threaten its very existence if they cannot resolve it.

In this second installment in the bestselling Twin Magic series, Michael Dalton spins together magic, steampunk, and traditional German fairy tales into another entertaining alternate history adventure

Erich, Ariel, and Astrid has begun their life together as husband and wives. Erich is one lucky man to have such beautiful women and skilled mages as his wives. A few problems came up between Ariel and Astrid, Astrid not wanting to always make love to her husband sometimes she just wants to cuddle and be happy. But Ariel loves making love to her husband and tries to do it as often as she can. They all decided to go on a trip and seek employment in a village far away from their own and they want to make it there before winter and snow comes. Welp, they got held up in the town of Marburg, because Ariel kinda went haywire. They passed through a forest with a place full of the flow and Ariel decided to touch the spring that was there. Everything changed about her, and Erich and Astrid didn't know what was up with her.

In Marburg there is a tale of a Witches Covenant taking children from their homes and replacing them with changelings. But Louis decided to strike a deal with these witches and keep the town from having all their babies taken. The witches are allowed to pick out one baby every 10 years, and this deal has been passed down for generations. But now Phillip thinks he can outsmart the witches and give them the wrong baby and all hell breaks loose. 

The main characters are still Erich, Ariel, and Astrid, but a few more are in the picture to move the story along. Sabine, Hans, Giancarlo, Julia, and Phillip. Sabine is the so called witch taking babies because of what she done years ago. She loved Louis and wanted to marry him but he was to busy and cared more for his land then her, so she decided to take matters in her own hands and that is how the Witches Covenant came to be. Sabine isn't bad, she isn't mean either, she just wants to be free. Hans decided to go on a adventure with Giancarlo, he is sweet and caring. Giancarlo wanted to apologize to Erich, Ariel, and Astrid for turning them in to Erich's brother. Then you have sweet Julia, she didn't mean for what happen to her, but Phillip is her lord and she just wanted to make him happy. Phillip is selfish and doesn't care for anyone but himself really.  

I enjoyed this book as much as I did the first book. The only thing that caught me off guard was the ending. The ending was so short and simple, I wanted to know if their father and his friend would find them and tell them the news. But I will have to wait for the third book I guess!

Author Bio

Michael Dalton is a professional journalist and editor. He lives with his family and multiple pets in Southern California. Website