Paranormal

Murphy’s favorite books #19: Sirensong, Jenna Black

April 12, 2013 Guta Murphy's favorite books 3 Comments Post em Português

Murphy’s favorite books is a post to talk about a book or series
that we gave up on reading. If you like the idea, please, feel free to share your
Murphy’s favorite books too.

Important: This post shows our opinion, and our opinion only. We would like to note that people can (and probably will) like these books for the same reasons we didn’t like it. It’s not a flame, we don’t have the intention of bad-mouth the author or their books. It’s a review, but it is not under the Reviews category because we couldn’t finish reading or took a long time to do it. Sometimes a book that one of us liked can be featured here because the other didn’t like it. Again: it is just our opinion.

Attention! If you haven’t read Glimmerglass and Shadowspell
yet and don’t want to know spoilers of the series, don’t read this post!

When Dana is invited to Faerie to be officially presented at the Seelie Court, it’s no easy decision. After all, everyone knows Titania, the Seelie Queen, wants her dead.

The journey through Faerie is long—and treacherous. Dana thought it would be a good idea to have friends along, but her sort-of-boyfriend, Ethan, and her bodyguard’s son, Keane, just can’t seem to get along, and Kimber’s crush on Keane isn’t making things any easier.

When a violent attack separates Dana from their caravan, the sexy Erlking saves her just in the nick of time… and makes it clear that he hasn’t given up on making her his own.

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Faeriewalker series, Jenna Black, Paranormal, St. Martin's Griffin, Young Adult 3 Comments

Review: Shadowspell, Jenna Black

April 7, 2013 Maeva Reviews 2 Comments Post em Português

Attention! If you haven’t read Glimmerglass yet and don’t want to know spoilers of the series, don’t read this post!

On top of spending most of her time in a bunkerlike safe house and having her dates hijacked by a formidable Fae bodyguard, Faeriewalker Dana Hathaway is in for some more bad news: the Erlking and his pack of murderous minions known as the Wild Hunt have descended upon Avalon. With his homicidal appetite and immortal powers, the Erlking has long been the nightmare of the Fae realm.

A fragile treaty with the Faerie Queen, sealed with a mysterious spell, is the one thing that keeps him from hunting unchecked in Avalon, the only place on Earth where humans and Fae live together. Which means Dana’s in trouble, since it’s common knowledge that the Faerie Queen wants her – and her rare Faeriewalker powers – dead. The smoldering, sexy Erlking’s got his sights set on Dana, but does he only seek to kill her, or does he have something much darker in mind?

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Faeriewalker series, Jenna Black, Paranormal, Rated 2 books, St. Martin's Press, Young Adult 2 Comments

Review: The Eternity Cure, Julie Kagawa

April 3, 2013 Guta and Maeva Reviews 10 Comments Post em Português

Attention! If you haven’t read The Immortal Rules yet and
don’t want to know spoilers of the series, don’t read this post!

In Allison Sekemoto’s world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood.

Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren.

The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.

Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.

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Blood of Eden Series, Dystopian, Harlequin Teen, Julie Kagawa, Paranormal, Rated 5 books 10 Comments

Review: The Unquiet, Jeannine Garsee

March 12, 2013 Maeva Reviews 7 Comments Post em Português

When Rinn Jacobs moves to a new town she hopes it will be a fresh start—a place where nobody knows about her past. At first, everything goes according to plan. She falls in with the popular girls at her new school and falls for the very cute boy-next-door Nate.

But River Hills High School has a secret. The ghost of a girl who died back when Rinn’s mom was a student supposedly haunts a hallway. Rinn’s not sure she believes it, but when strange things start happening to her friends, Rinn decides there’s only one way to know for sure. She needs to ditch her bipolar meds and see what the voices are really trying to say…

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Bloomsbury USA Children's Books, Fiction, Jeannine Garsee, Paranormal, Rated 3 books, Young Adult 7 Comments

Review: Days of Blood & Starlight, Laini Taylor

March 4, 2013 Maeva Reviews 4 Comments Post em Português

Attention! If you haven’t read Daughter of Smoke & Bone yet and don’t
want to know spoilers of the series, don’t read this post!

“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.”

“This is not that world.”

Art student and monster’s apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and “what” she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.

Karou must decide how far she’ll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life. While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For “hope.”

But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?

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Laini Taylor, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Paranormal, Rated 2 books, Smoke & Bone trilogy, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult 4 Comments

Review: Stolen Nights, Rebecca Maizel

February 15, 2013 Maeva Reviews 7 Comments Post em Português

Attention! If you haven’t read Infinite Days yet and don’t
want to know spoilers of the series, don’t read this post!

A new year is beginning at Wickham Boarding School. A new chance at life, at reversing the evil in my past. But nothing is ever as simple it seems…

Last year, the love of my life died performing a ritual to fulfill my one wish and make me human. And now I’ve performed the same ritual for my friend Vicken – and survived. Why am I here, back safe on Wickham campus?

The strong magic I used in the ritual did more than just make Vicken human. It drew someone to Lover’s Bay who does not belong here. She wants the ritual. Then she wants me dead. And she will take down any and everyone in my life to get what she wants.

As if that weren’t enough, the ritual has also summoned the anger of the Aeris, the four elements and most fundamental powers on earth. They have a surprise and an unbearable punishment for me – like stepping into the sun for the first time, only to be put into a cage. And now I have to make an impossible choice – between love or life, yearning or having, present or past…

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Paranormal, Rated 4 books, Rebecca Maizel, St. Martin's Press, Vampire Queen Series, Young Adult 7 Comments

Review: Halo, Alexandra Adornetto

January 16, 2013 Guta Reviews 3 Comments Post em Português

An angel is sent to Earth on a mission.

But falling in love is not part of the plan.

Three angels – Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, the youngest and most human – are sent by Heaven to bring good to a world falling under the influence of darkness. They work hard to conceal their luminous glow, superhuman powers, and, most dangerous of all, their wings, all the while avoiding all human attachments.

Then Bethany meets Xavier Woods, and neither of them is able to resist the attraction between them. Gabriel and Ivy do everything in their power to intervene, but the bond between Xavier and Bethany seems too strong.

The angel’s mission is urgent, and dark forces are threatening. Will love ruin Bethany or save her?

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Alexandra Adornetto, Feiwel & Friends, Halo Series, Paranormal, Rated 3 books 3 Comments

Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor

October 24, 2012 Guta Reviews 7 Comments Post em Português

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?