Rated 3 books

Review: Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard

May 5, 2013 Guta Reviews 4 Comments Post em Português

Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption.

When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide. An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, “Gabriel’s Inferno” is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man’s escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible…forgiveness and love.

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Adult Fiction, Erotica, Gabriel's Inferno Trilogy, Omnific Publishing, Rated 3 books, Sylvain Reynard 4 Comments

Review: The Throne of Fire, Rick Riordan

April 5, 2013 Maeva Reviews 5 Comments Post em Português

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

Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven’t given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians.

And now their most threatening enemy yet—the chaos snake Apophis—is rising. If they don’t prevent him from breaking free in a few days’ time, the world will come to an end. In other words, it’s a typical week for the Kane family.

To have any chance of battling the Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. But that would be a feat more powerful than any magician has ever accomplished.

First they have to search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is exactly?

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Adventure, Fiction, Hyperion Books, Kane Chronicles Series, Rated 3 books, Rick Riordan 5 Comments

Review: Tiger’s Curse, Colleen Houck

March 25, 2013 Guta and Maeva Reviews 4 Comments Post em Português

Passion. Fate. Loyalty.

Would you risk it all to change your destiny?

The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.

Tiger’s Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.

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Colleen Houck, Fantasy, Mythology, Rated 3 books, Rated 4 books, Sterling, The Tiger Saga, Young Adult 4 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: Beautiful Darkness, Kami Garcia and Margareth Stohl

March 6, 2013 Guta and Maeva Reviews 4 Comments Post em Português

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

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

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Fantasy, Kami Garcia, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Margareth Stohl, Rated 3 books, Young Adult 4 Comments

Review: Until I Die, Amy Plum

March 2, 2013 Maeva Reviews 3 Comments Post em Português

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

I wish there was only today, just right now, and no forever. It seems fitting that I fell in love in Paris, the most beautiful city in the world. And if I pretend, I can almost believe that my life is normal and everyone I care about is safe. But as long as I’m with Vincent, ‘normal’ doesn’t exist.

Gorgeous, charming, and witty, he’s everything you could ask for in a boyfriend – but his destiny is so much more. Even more terrifying than his destiny are his dangerous enemies, enemies who will kill for immortality.

How are Vincent and I supposed to be together forever if we’re always in danger?

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Amy Plum, Fantasy, HarperCollins, Rated 3 books, Revenants Series, Young Adult 3 Comments

Review: Finale, Becca Fitzpatrick

February 8, 2013 Guta Reviews 4 Comments Post em Português

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

Nora is more certain than ever that she is in love with Patch.

Fallen angel or no, he is the one for her. Her heritage and destiny may mean they are fated to be enemies, but there is no turning her back on him.

Now Nora and Patch must gather their strength to face one last, perilous trial.

Old enemies return, new enemies are made, and a friend’s ultimate betrayal threatens the peace Patch and Nora so desperately want.

The battle lines are drawn—but which sides are they on? And in the end, are there some obstacles even love can’t conquer?

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Becca Fitzpatrick, Fantasy, Hush Hush Series, Rated 3 books, Romance, Simon & Schuster, Young Adult 4 Comments

Review: Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick

January 30, 2013 Guta Reviews 3 Comments Post em Português

Meet Pat Peoples.

Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure him a happy ending—the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. (It might not come as a surprise to learn that Pat has spent several years in a mental health facility.) The problem is, Pat’s now home, and everything feels off.

No one will talk to him about Nikki; his beloved Philadelphia Eagles keep losing; he’s being pursued by the deeply odd Tiffany; his new therapist seems to recommend adultery as a form of therapy. Plus, he’s being haunted by Kenny G!