Buddy Read: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas 
Series: Throne of Glass, #1
Genre: Romance | Fantasy 
Age Range: New Adult
Format: Hardcover, 406 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on August 7, 2012
Sarah J. Maas: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
Meet Celaena Sardothien.
Beautiful. Deadly.
Destined for greatness.

In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught.

Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament—fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin’s heart be melted?

Audio Book Review: A Soul to Heal by Opal Reyne

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A Soul to Heal by Opal Reyne 
Series: Duskwalker Brides, #2
Genre: Fantasy | Romance
Age Range: Adult
Format: Audiobook
Source: Everand
Published on October 11, 2022
Opal Reyne: Website | Twitter | Goodread

Synopsis:
All Delora ever wanted was to disappear.

Thrown into the Veil for a crime she committed, Delora was discarded by the world. Although afraid of her oncoming demise, she accepts it as it would be a worldly escape from her problems. She didn’t expect that she would wake up from her deadly fall, nor that the person who saved her would be a Duskwalker.

She’s wary about him at first, but Delora begins to realise there’s more to him than just a faceless monster.

All he ever wanted was a name.

After discovering that humans can be kept as companions, he begins planning for the day he finds his own bride. He still lacks humanity and there is much to learn first. One morning when leaving his cave, a human suddenly crashes into him from the sky. Broken and sleeping, he gets to work on healing the woman.

It doesn’t take him long to understand she’s wounded in a way his magic can’t heal.

But will he be able to gain her affections, or will she come to hate him as he stumbles his way through learning about her – and more importantly, himself?

Buddy Read: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

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The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas 
Series: Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5
Genre: Romance | Fantasy 
Age Range: New Adult
Format: Hardcover, 437 pages.
Source: My Copy
Published on March 4, 2014
Sarah J. Maas: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.

Step into the world of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas with this collection of prequel novellas.

Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom’s most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin’s Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. But when Arobynn dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, Celaena finds herself acting independently of his wishes and questioning her own allegiance.

If she hopes to escape Arobynn’s clutches, Celaena will have to put her faith in her wits and her blade . . . knowing that if she fails, she’ll lose not just a chance at freedom but her life.

A prequel to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass, this collection of five novellas explores the history of this cunning assassin and her enthralling-and deadly-world.

Included in this volume:
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
The Assassin and the Healer
The Assassin and the Desert
The Assassin and the Underworld
The Assassin and the Empire

ARC Review: Ice by Fiona Davenport

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Ice by Fiona Davenport 
Series: Iron Rogues MC, #6
Genre: Contemporary | Romance | Novella
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: eBook, 100 pages
Source: Author
Expected publication June 10, 2024
Fiona Davenport: Website | Facebook | Goodreads

Synopsis:

Hayes “Ice” Gallagher found his place with the Iron Rogues after his professional hockey career ended. Just as he was getting ready to settle into his new home, his life got upended again when someone tampered with his motorcycle. But something good came out of the wreck—Ice met Marnie Miller.

The club enforcer wasn’t going to let the younger beauty out of his sight until he knew she was safe. And he claimed her as his own.

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Book Review: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas 
Series: Crescent City, #1
Genre: Fantasy | Romance
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: Hardcover, 803 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on March 3, 2020
Sarah J. Maas: Website | Twitter | Goodread
Might contain spoilers

Synopsis:
BOUND BY BLOOD.
TEMPTED BY DESIRE.
UNLEASHED BY DESTINY.

Bryce Quinlan used to light up Crescent City, partying all night in the clubs where the strict classes of angel, shifter, human and Fae merge intona sea of beautiful bodies.

And the a demon murdered her closest friends.

Two years later, when the supposed killer is behind bars but the ceimes start up again, the city’s leaders command Bryce to help investigate. They assign an enslaved fallen angel, Hunt Athalar, to make sure she does. But as Bryce fights to uncover the truth – and resist her attraction to the brooding angel who shadows her every step – she finds herself following a trail that leads deep into her own dark past.

Audio Book Review: A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne

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A Soul to Keep by Opal Reyne 
Series: Duskwalker Brides, #1
Genre: Fantasy | Romance
Age Range: Adult
Format: Audiobook
Source: My Copy
Published on June 16, 2022
Opal Reyne: Website | Twitter | Goodread

Synopsis:
All Reia ever wanted was freedom.

Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice—be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.

However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.

All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.

Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorize the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil—the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.

He’d thought it was a hopeless endeavor, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.

But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?

Book Review: Serpents of Sky and Flame By Rebecca F. Kenney

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Serpents of Sky and Flame by Rebecca F. Kenney 
Series: Merciless Dragons, #1
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | 
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: Hardcover, 265 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on April 13, 2024
Rebecca F. Kenney: Website | Twitter | Goodread

Synopsis:
Dragon captures maiden. Maiden makes dragon’s life absolute hell…

At the end of a terrible war, a sorcerer casts a curse that destroys every female in the entire race of dragons. In retaliation, Kyreagan, the dragon prince, leads a raid on the sorcerer’s kingdom, during which the male dragons snatch human women and carry them off to the dragons’ domain. When Princess Serylla is captured by the Prince of Dragons and taken to his cave, she is furious, terrified, and determined to make his existence so miserable he’ll either have to kill her or let her go.

Kyreagan’s frustration with his pretty captive is compounded by the fact that his plan–to turn all the human women into female dragons–isn’t working. The enchantress he kidnapped isn’t powerful enough to work that spell; the most she can do is give the male dragons the ability to shift into human form for a number of hours each day.

As Serylla and the other captured women scheme for their freedom, the dragons struggle to cope with the strangeness of having human bodies for the first time. Neither side realizes that a much greater enemy is watching, waiting to destroy them all.

This spicy, adult fantasy romance is perfect for fans of Rebecca Yarros, Carissa Broadbent, LJ Andrews, and Katee Robert. Contains intense themes. Reading guidance can be found at the beginning of the book or on the author’s website.

Book Review: Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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Bride by Ali Hazelwood 
Series: Standalone
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages.
Source: My Copy
Published on February 6, 2024
Ali Hazelwood: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance.

Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast—again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange—again…

Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no exception. He rules his pack with absolute authority, but not without justice. And, unlike the Vampyre Council, not without feeling. It’s clear from the way he tracks Misery’s every movement that he doesn’t trust her. If only he knew how right he was….

Because Misery has her own reasons to agree to this marriage of convenience, reasons that have nothing to do with politics or alliances, and everything to do with the only thing she’s ever cared about. And she is willing to do whatever it takes to get back what’s hers, even if it means a life alone in Were territory…alone with the wolf.

Book Review: A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

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A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas 
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4
Genre: Romance | Fantasy 
Age Range: New Adult
Format: Hardcover, 757 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on February 16, 2021
Sarah J. Maas: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre’s Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta’s orbit. But her temper isn’t the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.

Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other’s arms.

ARC Review: Storm by Fiona Davenport

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Storm by Fiona Davenport 
Series: Iron Rogues MC, #4
Genre: Contemporary | Romance | Novella
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: eBook, 96 pages
Source: Author
Expected publication May 13, 2024
Fiona Davenport: Website | Facebook | Goodreads

Synopsis:

When Blakely Evans’ father was sent to prison for killing her kidnappers, he asked Gideon “Storm” Ayers to watch over her. Two years ago, the Iron Rogues’ Road Captain realized Blakely was the woman who was meant to be his. But she was too young for Storm, so he protected her from afar, waiting for the day when he could finally claim her.

Only before he could come for Blakely, she was kicked out by the foster parents who’d promised him they would take care of her. Believing that Storm had deserted her, she was forced to run to her father’s MC for help.

Now Storm is determined to deliver payback to the people who betrayed her. But his biggest obstacle will be earning back Blakely’s trust.

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ARC provided by the author in exchange for my honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Blakely was kidnapped when she was twelve years old and her single dad went to jail. She didn’t have any other family but she Gideon aka Storm. That changed few years ago when he had gotten out of military. She couldn’t understand why he broke his promise.

Gideon planned to go back to her when she turned eighteen but that didn’t happen. He dropped everything the minute he found out what happened with her. I liked how Blakely wasn’t just love struck teenager who forgave him the minute he showed up but made it clear that he wouldn’t be Gideon to her again until she could trust him.

All in all it was nice to get back to this world. I just wish they had dealed more with her trust issues. It’s like they all disappeared when Gideon was back in her life and he didn’t even need grovel much. But thankfully he showed with his actions how much he cared about her and how he wouldn’t let anything between them. This book also made me really exited for Whiskey’s book!

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