Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mythology. Show all posts

Sep 8, 2015

REVIEW: Archangel's Enigma (Guild Hunter, #8) By Nalini Singh

Genre: Urban Fantasy/ PNR Romance
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Synopsis On Goodreads:
Naasir is the most feral of the powerful group of vampires and angels known as the Seven, his loyalty pledged to the Archangel Raphael. When rumors surface of a plot to murder the former Archangel of Persia, now lost in the Sleep of the Ancients, Naasir is dispatched to find him. For only he possesses the tracking skills required—those more common to predatory animals than to man.

Enlisted to accompany Naasir, Andromeda, a young angelic scholar with dangerous secrets, is fascinated by his nature—at once playful and brilliant, sensual and brutal. As they race to find the Sleeping archangel before it’s too late, Naasir will force her to question all she knows...and tempt her to walk into the magnificent, feral darkness of his world. But first they must survive an enemy vicious enough to shatter the greatest taboo of the angelic race and plunge the world into a screaming nightmare…


RATING: 4.5/ 5 stars


*** REVIEW ***

The newest installment in the Guild Hunter series by N. Singh only confirms my thoughts that it will be pretty hard to find urban fantasy/pnr romance series as awesome as this one. We are on the 8th book and I'm still in love with the story as I was the first time I gave it a shot a couple of years ago. Nassir's book pretty much fulfilled all my expectations and it was definitely worth of the long waiting. Once again it had everything I prefer when it comes to this genre- dark, gripping, action-packed,  emotional, suspenseful and entertaining plot with amazing characters and epic, passionate romance

Secret rules between mates. Like the secrets he'd have with his own mate once he haunted her down and growled at her for hiding from him. Or maybe he wouldn't growl. He might just bite her instead.

The mischivious, witty, playful, but uber-dangerous member of the Seven- Nassir was always a unique, intriguing, one of my favorites and most entertaining side characters and now we finally get into his head and what's most important - find out about his origin. Yes, you heard me right people, we are one step ahead of Elena and other's who are dying to know what kind of a creature is Nassir and I must admit that I was surprised by the revelation and that all my "theories" about him were wrong. In this installment he decides that the time has come to find his mate and settle down which will prove itself as one of the hardest and most dangerous tasks he took upon himself. Here comes Andromeda - the mysterious schoolar working together with Jessamy on the history of ancient archangels and the granddaughter of the infamous archangel Charisemnon.

"You have secrets," he said slowly. "You wear another skin, too."
  
I know that you must be thinking what I thought at first about Andromeda - how can a plain schoolar girl be a worthy match for a feral predator like Nassir? Without spoiling anything all I'm going to say is that she proved herself more than worthy with every next page. The romance was slow-building, emotional and full of sexy banter. One Seven member mated, who's next?

"No one could predict how much of the world would be left standing when the Cascade ended."

The infamous Cascade is once again threthening the lives and sanity of our favorite Guild Hunter characters along with our most hated villian Lijuan. I'm not that into action-packed stories, but N. Singh is an expert at writing epic battles and once again she delivered an interesting, thrilling and mythical story. The one battle towards the end of the book is one of my favorites moments.

~ AND NOW TO MY FAVORITE MOMENT OF THEM ALL: (Possible SPOILER so read at your own risk!!!)

ILLIUM: "He'd survived losing her.
He didn't know if he could survive losing Aodhan.
 Never before had he seen that truth so clearly and it shook him."

IT'S OFFICIAL: After all this "special, emotional moments" and teasing, one thing is sure- my heart will be crushed if this mm book doesn't happen! *fingers crossed* More and more people are sharing my opinion and I hope most of the Guild Hunters fans will be accepting of this idea. I know the author said no at first when the speculations started, but it seems that didn't prevent her to tease us with every next installment and after this quote the mm fangirl in me refuses to accept otherwise. Do you hear me Ms. Singh? Do not crush my poor mm fangirl's heart, please!

Highly recommended to every urban fantasy/ pnr fan!


xoxo,

Purple, Bluebell + Sparkle N0 1. Fangirl




P.S. Dear friends & fellow bloggers, it's September- meaning the school is back on and I'm back working, so I probably won't have much time blogging or visiting your blogs as often as I did before, but I'll give my best to catch up on weekends.



Love,

Purple

Feb 22, 2015

REVIEW: Marked (Servants of Fate, #1) by Sarah Fine

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Genre:
Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal Romance (Adult)

Synopsis On Goodreads:

In a broken landscape carved by environmental collapse, Boston paramedic Cacia Ferry risks life and limb on the front lines of a fragile and dangerous city. What most don’t know—including her sexy new partner, Eli Margolis—is that while Cacy works to save lives, she has another job ferrying the dead to the Afterlife. Once humans are “Marked” by Fate, the powerful Ferrys are called to escort the vulnerable souls to either eternal bliss or unending fire and pain.

Unaware of Cacy’s other life, Eli finds himself as mesmerized by his fierce and beautiful partner as he is mistrustful of the influential Ferry clan led by the Charon—who happens to be Cacy’s father. Cacy, in turn, can no longer deny her intense attraction to the mysterious ex-Ranger with a haunted past. But just as their relationship heats up, an apparent hit takes the Charon before his time. Shaken to the core, Cacy pursues the rogue element who has seized the reins of Fate, only to discover that Eli has a devastating secret of his own. Not knowing whom to trust, what will Cacy have to sacrifice to protect Eli—and to make sure humanity’s future is secure?

RATING:

Purple's Rating: 3 stars
Glass' Rating: 4 stars

*** REVIEW ***

After finishing Burned (Fever, #7) by K. M. Moning I've realized how much I missed and kind of neglected one of my favorites, if not No. 1 favorite genre- urban fantasy/pnr romance. Since I've been seeing praising reviews of this new series a lot lately on both GR and Twitter, I decided to give it a shot.

It turned out that the story is not only a mix of urban fantasy and pnr romance, but also of mythology and dystopia with the setting in a post-apocalyptic world with polluted land and waters, increasing illegal human organs trafficking and therefore decreasing number of people. Add to that mythological creatures like Ferries and Kers or so called "servants of fate." Basically, Kers are the ones who mark people when their time has come and then Ferries help them cross over, either to heaven or hell. There are even more powerful players who are in charge of both Ferries and Kers, but you'll find out more about them if you decide to read this book.

Sounds interesting, right? Well, to be honest, it took me awhile to get into this story. I saw the potential in the idea of the plot right away, but I wasn't exactly impressed with the way the story was introduced. Why is that? Well, it's mainly because the story was more character- and romance-driven in the beginning with some info about the post-apocalyptic setting, but not enough to satisfy my curiosity. Even now, after finishing it, I have many questions about the world-building which I hope will be answered in the next installment. 

The MCs, the paramedics Cacy and Eli were likable, but not enough to not be overshadowed by some of the secondary characters, at least for me. One of the things which could also have been better in my opinion is the romance. K. M. Moning, Ilona Andrews and Nalini Singh got me hooked on romances full of witty banter, tension and passion and I couldn't not notice how the romance here wasn't on the same level. While it was slow-building with some push and pull drama, it was also insta-tish and I'm not exactly a fan of that type of romance.

The most intriguing secondary character was definitely the mysterious and edgy Lord of the Kere and keeper of souls- Moros and later on his creepy sisters of Fate, but we meet them at the very end, in the epilogue. The story was dark, action-packed, suspenseful and steamy and the writing was goodThe best parts for me were the last 30 % of the book where the most action and twists happened and where the biggest secrets came to light and where everything I found lacking in the beginning improved drastically. 

All in all- for me, this was a 3 I-like-you-but-I-expect-more-from-you-in-the-future stars read. I think that the story has potential and hope that that potential will be fully achieved in the next installment.

xoxo,

Purple
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