28 July, 2020

[Review] House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas

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Series: Crescent City Trilogy
Release Date: 3 March, 2020
Publisher: Audible Studios/ Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre: New Adult/Science Fiction/Post-Apocalyptic/Action and Adventure
ASIN: B082YHJS14
Edition: Audiobook (also available in Kindle and Hardback)
Rating: ★★★★
Review Written: 19 June, 2020
Summary: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savouring every pleasure Lunathion—otherwise known as Crescent City— has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city—and Bryce’s world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most notorious nightclubs. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step. Hunt Athalar, personal assassin for the Archangels, wants nothing to do with Bryce Quinlan, despite being ordered to protect her. She stands for everything he once rebelled against and seems more interested in partying than solving the murder, no matter how close to home it might hit. But Hunt soon realizes there’s far more to Bryce than meets the eye—and that he’s going to have to find a way to work with her if they want to solve this case. As Bryce and Hunt race to untangle the mystery, they have no way of knowing the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the darkest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir... 


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14 July, 2020

[Review] Don't Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross

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Cover image from the goodreads website.

Series or Stand Alone: Stand Alone
Release Date: 28 April, 2020
Publisher: Harper Teen
Genre: Fantasy/Eastern European Fairy Tales/Romance/Action & Adventure/Folk Lore
ISBN: 9780062877970
Edition: Hardcover (available in eBook and audiobook)
Rating: ★★
Review Written: 22 June, 2020
Warnings: Death
Summary:  
A fierce young queen, neither human nor lynx, who fights to protect a forest humans have long abandoned.

An exhausted young soldier, last of his name, who searches for the brother who disappeared beneath those trees without a trace.

A Golden Dragon, fearsome and vengeful, whose wingbeats haunt their nightmares and their steps.

When these three paths cross at the fringes of a war between monsters and men, shapeshifter queen and reluctant hero strike a deal that may finally turn the tide against the rising hordes of darkness. Ren will help Lukasz find his brother…if Lukasz promises to slay the Dragon.

But promises are all too easily broken.


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