Of Triton (Of Poseidon #2)
by Anna Banks
Expected publication: May 28th 2013 by Feiwel & Friends
Monday 17 December 2012
Friday 14 December 2012
Blog Tour: Beguiled (Immortal Essence #2) - RaShelle Workman, Book Review (185).
Beguiled (Immortal Essence #2)
Publication: 19th October 2012
Publisher: Polished Pen Press
Pages: 204
Genre: Sci-Fi Romance
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Buy It: Amazon
Worlds divided them. Chance brought them together. Only love will save them.
In book 2 of the Immortal Essence series, Venus must enter her planet's Hell, and complete three trials in order to free her parents, and save her soulmate.
SUMMARY:
Venus has become immortal, just as she always wanted. In the process she hurt Zaren, lost Michael, and destroyed her family.
At least that's what she believed.
Turns out Ramien, the god of her planets' underworld, has her parents, and Michael.
To save them, Venus makes a deal. She must complete three trials. They seem impossible. They certainly won't be easy. Worst of all, someone she loves won't make it out alive.
In book 2 of the Immortal Essence series, Venus must enter her planet's Hell, and complete three trials in order to free her parents, and save her soulmate.
SUMMARY:
Venus has become immortal, just as she always wanted. In the process she hurt Zaren, lost Michael, and destroyed her family.
At least that's what she believed.
Turns out Ramien, the god of her planets' underworld, has her parents, and Michael.
To save them, Venus makes a deal. She must complete three trials. They seem impossible. They certainly won't be easy. Worst of all, someone she loves won't make it out alive.
My Thoughts...
I love the covers in this series, they are all absolutely gorgeous, and whomever designed them needs a huge pat on the back.
So Beguiled takes place weeks after the end of Exiled, Venus is back home, she's now Immortal, she's dating Zaren and Michael whom came back with them is still around although she hasn't seen much of him.
Acting as ruler of her Kingdom after the disappearance and presumed death's of her parents the King and Queen, she is horrified when she learns from Michael that her parents souls are being held captive by Ramien the God of the Underworld, and so she sets off straight away with Michael in tow to rescue them.
But when she agrees to do anything Ramien asks to free them, she never thinks of what the consequences to the deal will be and when she does find out what it is, she'll do whatever it takes to get out of their agreement.
Ramien also sets her three tasks that she must complete as well before her parents can be freed, so with some help from Michael, Zaren, Vinny and Cheverley they must try to defeat all the obstacles in their way.
But one of them won't make it and I have to say I ended up in tears after the death of this character, it was a definite shock.
I loved the ending to this, it definitely put a smile on my face, I just hope the next book Dovetailed isn't too far away, I'm interested to see how this series finishes up.
Highly recommended, check it out.
I give this 4/5.
Excerpt...
The
dream was venom to my sleeping soul.
It
wouldn’t stop.
Night
after night. Like the rising of Kelari’s suns, the dream was consistent.
Always
exacting.
Always
relentless.
Always
unwavering.
An
alabaster door loomed before me. I shivered involuntarily. Doors! Behind them
lay the unknown. The door shimmered open and I stepped through without holding
my breath like I normally did. There wasn’t any point. I knew I dreamed. The
outcome couldn’t be altered.
One
overwhelming emotion permeated. Terror. It saturated the air. Dense, like the
molten lava dribbling down the side of a distant volcano. The fear wasn’t mine
though. I scanned my surroundings for the offender generating the sensation,
but saw no one.
Above
was darkness. No moon. No stars. Only emptiness. Raging fires dotted the
otherwise barren landscape like potted plants. Some of the fires rose into the
sky. Others roared low, smoldering against the shadowed ground.
Directly
in front of me stretched a bridge over a vast ocean of lava. I ambled toward
the center, treading carefully. The lava roiled and hiccupped far below. Heat
rose and struck my face, but the bridges’ surface was cool against my hands.
Movement
caught my attention.
Something
swam in the lava.
It
was long. Half of its body covered with scales while the other half moved like
a billowing red curtain. The creature burst into the air. I choked on a scream,
falling back, slamming my elbows against the bridges’ floor.
The
thing, a ferrikat, ascended higher and higher, passing the bridge and
continuing upward. I noticed the “curtain” was actually fiery hair attached to
a head. It had a face, which arched toward the dark sky. One nose, one mouth,
and two eyes. The lids were shut, and long ruby lashes rested against its
porcelain cheeks. Clavicle bones protruded at the base of the neck, where
shoulders attached to arms attached to hands attached to long fingers, hung at
its sides.
A
female, I realized, trying to chew away my shock. I knew ferrikat’s existed,
but they were rarely ever seen.
From
the waist down the body was that of a fish. Scarlet, magenta, orange, and
fuchsia scales sparkled or burned. Her tail splayed wide, and was shaped like a
dolphin. Abruptly the she-fish stopped, and hung in the air, like a perfectly
placed painting. Her face tilted downward, slowly. Familiarity blew through me
like a warm wind. The ferrikat opened her eyes.
I knew those eyes.
RaShelle Workman
Bestselling author of Sleeping Roses, Exiled, Aligned: An Immortal Essence Short Story, and the Blood and Snow series. Renowned goofball with attitude.
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Book Review (184): Exiled (Immortal Essence #1) - RaShelle Workman
Exiled (Immortal Essence #1)
Publication: 2nd November 2012
Publisher: Polished Pen Press
Pages: 340
Genre: Sci-Fi Romance
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
EXILED is a young adult sci-fi/romance. Worlds divided them. Chance brought them together. Only love will save them. An alien princess exiled to Earth. An arrogant boy. One week to get back to her planet or she'll die. And, her only chance for survival? She must help the boy find his soul mate. Piece of cake
My Thoughts...
What first drew me to this book was the cover, I'm not going to lie if the cover isn't that great no matter how good the synopsis is I won't read it, shallow I know but visualization is a key when I'm deciding what to read, and I've loved this cover since I first set eyes on it, it is absolutely gorgeous, and even though they've changed the cover since I brought this one I still like the new one too.
But anyway I'll stop my rambling and get on with the review since that is probably why anyone will be reading this, Princess Venus is an alien from the planet Kelari and she awakens to find herself on planet Earth discovering she is there with her Formytian (bodyguard) Zaren who followed her, after she was accused of murder, the only way she is allowed back home is if she can find a human boy Michael's soul mate.
She has one week, because she never finished her transformation into an Immortal on Kelari if she doesn't leave before then the Earth's atmosphere will kill her.
The problem is Michael, growing up in a cold, loveless home he has never really known love, so getting him to not only fall in love but to actually find his soul mate is not going to be an easy task at all.
There is also a murderous alien on Earth who is killing off family members of an organization tasked with obtaining and experimenting on any aliens that they can get their hands on, but when a murder hits extremely close to home, can the murderer be found before it's too late? And will Venus have helped Michael find his soul mate, and be back home before her time is up?
I'm really loving this series and I can't wait to see what happens in the second book.
I give this 4/5.
Book Review (183): Aligned (Immortal Essence #0.5) - RaShelle Workman
ALIGNED: An Immortal Essence Short Story (Immortal Essence 0.5)
Publication: 2nd May 2012
Publisher: Polished Pen Press
Pages: 30
Genre: Science Fiction/Romance
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
ALIGNED takes place several hundred years before EXILED, book 1 in the Immortal Essence series.
It's the story of Ith and Aetha. Two Eternals who will become the gods of Kelari.
Summary:
A half-Eternal boy and an Eternal girl must free millions of tortured souls from a creature whose been feasting on their pain and suffering.
It's the story of Ith and Aetha. Two Eternals who will become the gods of Kelari.
Summary:
A half-Eternal boy and an Eternal girl must free millions of tortured souls from a creature whose been feasting on their pain and suffering.
My Thoughts...
This was a short but very interesting start to the Immortal Essence series.
This is a prequel to the series, of the origins of the Gods Ith and Aetha, told from Ith's perspective, it sets up the world from which our female protagonist is from in the first book of the series.
A young boy Ith awakens on a strange, new planet named Kelari, all alone he is befriended by a creature who's name is Mithrith, she takes care of him over the years until her eventual death, alone Ith starts to hear a female's voice in his head, and then one day the girl in question shows up on Kelari , she tells him that they are Eternals and that she was made just for him, and that they are meant to be together.
There is also a fight to defeat an evil God Ramien, to release the captive souls that he has collected.
All in all this was an entertaining and fast read, you don't really need to read it before starting the first book but if you're interested in knowing the history of the God's then definitely give it a go. Or just read it because it is a good story.
I give this 3.75/5.
Thursday 13 December 2012
Book Review (182): Toxic (Denazen #2) - Jus Accardo
Toxic (Denazen #2)
by Jus Accardo
Publication: 16th October 2012Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pages: 400
Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
Buy It: Amazon Barnes And Noble
When a Six saved Kale's life the night of Sumrun, she warned there would be consequences. A trade-off. Something taken for the life they gained. But Dez never imagined she'd lose the one thing she'd give anything to keep... And as if it's not enough Dez finds her immunity to Kale fading, the Six brought in to help Kale learn to control his killer touch starts drooling on him the moment they meet. Worse than that? Jade can touch Kale. But bimbo Barbie is the least of Dez's problems.
After Dez and Kale got away at Sumrun, her father lost not only his most powerful weapon but an important piece of the Supremacy project. Forced by Denazen to remedy the situation, he poisons Dez and offers her a choice--surrender to Denazen for the cure...or die. Determined to find a solution that doesn't involve being bagged and tagged--or losing someone she loves--Dez keeps the poison a secret. But when a rash of Denazen attacks hit a little too close to home, Dez is convinced there's a traitor among them. Jade.
Sacrifices, broken promises, and secrets. Dez will have to lay it all on the line if there's any hope of proving Jade's guilt before they all end up Residents of Denazen. Or worse, dead...
After Dez and Kale got away at Sumrun, her father lost not only his most powerful weapon but an important piece of the Supremacy project. Forced by Denazen to remedy the situation, he poisons Dez and offers her a choice--surrender to Denazen for the cure...or die. Determined to find a solution that doesn't involve being bagged and tagged--or losing someone she loves--Dez keeps the poison a secret. But when a rash of Denazen attacks hit a little too close to home, Dez is convinced there's a traitor among them. Jade.
Sacrifices, broken promises, and secrets. Dez will have to lay it all on the line if there's any hope of proving Jade's guilt before they all end up Residents of Denazen. Or worse, dead...
My Thoughts...
This series just seems to get better and better with each book, and in saying that the endings are becoming more nail-biting and the suspense is going to kill me by having to wait for the next book.
Now I don't want to give away too much of what happened in this book because I want people to read it themselves and experience the twists and turns as they go along, so I'll give a brief summary.
After the ending in Touch where Kale's life was saved, Dez knew that there would be a consequence, and she finds that out towards the very start of the book and it's something that she would give anything to change, although she realises it could be worse and Kale could have died.
Denazen is still after Kale and her, and after an incident where Dez is lethally poisoned she decides to keep it to herself, Jade another Six is found to help Kale with his ability but when Jade tries to put the moves on Kale, Dez's jealous streak hit's an all time high, but then they discover that there is a traitor amongst them, but will Dez figure out who it is before it's too late?
I really do love this series, and I'll be counting the days to the next book, highly recommended, check it out.
I give this 5/5.
I really do love this series, and I'll be counting the days to the next book, highly recommended, check it out.
I give this 5/5.
Feature And Follow Friday.
Q: WHAT IS THE LAST BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY? TELL US ABOUT THE SCENE…
The book would have to be Beautiful Disaster - Jamie McGuire.
The scenes after Travis and Abby broke up definitely had me in tears, including this line:
"And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
Everybody needs to read this book, it's fantastic!
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Cover Reveal: iFeel - Marissa Carmel
We are honoured to join Marissa today as she reveals her brand new cover for iFeel.
iFeel has been regenred as New Adult and we think this is the PERFECT cover!! We hope you agree too!!
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Lust. Anger. Hate. Desire. Love. Happiness. Joy. iFeel. Liv Christianni is isolated, alone, tortured and withdrawn, saddled with the torrential downpour of the world’s emotions.
Accepting of her providence Liv has lost all hope, until one day fate steps in and spins the course of her life like a spiraling top. Hunted by a Spirit Stalker, Liv is forced to gain control of herself and her surroundings, threatened by the touch of her immortal love; she must find a way to survive both physically and emotionally as her reality is shaken up like dice on a Craps table.
Can she find the courage to accept her true self? Can she love unconditionally cognizant of the condemning consequences? Can she rise from the ashes to become the person she was always meant to be?
Funny, witty, real, and poignant, iFeel rips into your soul, and sets your emotions on fire. If you are a fan of Charmed or Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries or The Secret Circle this series is for you!
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Marissa Carmel has been writing since a young age and although it has always been for personal enjoyment, she finally decided to break out and share her imagination with the world. She hopes that her universe is as fun and intriguing to her readers as it is to her.
Marissa Carmel is originally from NJ but moved to Maryland several years ago, she enjoys reading, writing, and catching up on her DVR library. She is currently working on the sequel to iFeel, Gravitational Pull, which she hopes to release sometime in 2012.
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