Claire Farrell: Soul (Chaos 1)

I honestly loved reading this book. I don't know how to describe it.. At one point she accepts a drink from the Fae. Anyone who's read even a sligh bit of Fae knows you do not drink or eat anything.
Yet she does. Once she drinks and eats she's entranced.. Everything passes in a haze.

That's how I felt in this book. As I was reading I felt like I was in this haze and the pages kept passing while I couldn't put the book down untill it was finished. I got lost in the world of magic and war..

The romance in the book wasn't overwhelming and overly sexualised. There's room for the romance to built. CF allows the reader to be entranced together with Cara and build the emotions around all the characters at a steady pace.

The Lore and the fact that we're talking about the Irish just makes this all a bonus!

This book was written really well. I feel like CF did a great job in bringing over everything that was said, done or decribed in the book. But mostly (this should not have become such a big deal but sadly it has) it was Kindle and there were NO typing errors. I can't stand how so many Kindle-ised books feel like someone was just smashing the keyes to get the job done. Not caring what the end result looks like. But this time around, I think there was one punctuation error in the entire book and it was so enlighting.
I was about to give up on Kindle but this has given me so much hope. I don't mean to bash on Kindle but it's getting rediculous! I don' t pay for books to just get upset about all the erros!

This book is a very pleasant and addictive read.. I like Cara and I like her little Fae friends. I like the mysterie the book holds.. Keep in mind that no book is perfect. But this book reached my top list!
4 Stars for this book!

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D.B. Reynolds: Jabril (Vampires in America 2)

This book was so much more action packed than the first book! I feel like D.B. Reynolds is one of those Authors who become better every book you read.
I like how new characters were implimented and old ones remained and stayed strong throughout the book. It's not like they're suddenly 'oh sorry, next book is out goodbye most important person from book one...'

I still have a problem seeing the connection between Raphael and Cyn. I feel like I'm missing it because the connection they form is through her dreams. Every night. And As a reader you only experience a couple of those moments. But I mean, if he secretly visits her in her dreams because of some Vampire JuJu and they make this awesome connection I totally get it. If the love of my life would do that I'd be sold!

I feel like once again, this book leaves room for more. It proves that it works as a series and not so much as a standalone.

I don't really know what I can say about this book without giving too much away other than, its realxing, steamy and you don't have to think too much. You can just sit back in your couch and read through it after a day of stress or iritation.
There are some plot twists that just shattered my heart and all in all i just like Cyn. She's my kind of woman.
In this book she is once again the strong, independant woman but she's also allowed to freak out and be scared. I like that. The image of perfection that has surrounded Supernatural novels has grown old. I like how vampires can get hurt. How Lord Raphael has a huge security detail and people worrying about him every time he goes out. He might be strong and almighty and whatnot. But he can still get hurt.
I love it.

I'm looking forward to the next book 'Rajmund'.

Cover: 0.5/2
Price: 2/2
Characters: 1.5/2
Story 1/2
Overall: 1.5/2

The bad cover takes a lot of this book's rating... Come on, you can do so much better for book covers! it's not that hard!!! The only good thing about the covers is that they all match. It looks nice on my bookshelve.

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Chrissy Peebles: Crush (The Crush Saga 1)

I'm starting to regret ever subscribing to a mailing service that keeps me up to date with books that become free for a day on Kindle... 

Firstly, this book needs editing. Lots of it. Why? Her hair color changes between black and brown... There are words just sitting there, meaning nothing and totally out of place (I'm guessing it was edited to change certain words to reduce repetition, but they seem to have forgotten to delete the words they wanted to change), Julie seems to turn and talk to Julie, Taylor seems to be talking to Taylor.. And I swear at one point something happens (A) and then other stuff happens leaving us 2 days away from A and then when she's speaking to her friends A was suddenly yesterday. 

The story wasn't all that and this little editing gone wrong just ruined it all. I kept being thrown out of the zone.. Re-reading, going back to see if I had missed something.. This book is a hot mess. 

This story had a lot of potential. When finally I found out what the story was going to be about.. Some curse or whatnot I got so excited. But it doesn't go anywhere. Apperantly being cursed is not exciting enough to keep as the main storyline. Apperantly a supernatural communite isn't either. 

What does seem to be good enough is the mushy, way too over the place 'Jesse is so hot and so gentle and he is the best thing that could have ever happened to me but it's so dangerous but I still love him, but he can kill me and I know all this and I have to keep repeating it but I still don't care because he is my soulmate and we're going to live happily ever after even if we can't because he's dangerous, but he's so perfect and so gentle'... 

I'm kind of over the "love at first glance" thing and not really having to get into anything deeper before you know that this is the true love. 

Take for example 'Kerrelyn Sparks', in the Love at Stake series they start lusting after the first glance but it's not untill later that they actually fall in love... After they get to know the other person.

I liked the Zoo angle here and I think so much more could have been done with it... Like let us get to know Jesse a bit so we can find out what's so god damn special about him. 

There is potential in this book, like I said before.. But the first book really did not live up to it's potential. I will read the second because some exciting ideas were implied but not worked out. We'll see. I'm just not a big fan of their romance. It doesn't have depth. It's like a crazy love sick teen raging hormone kind of thing and that's sad. I'd also like to see a bit more of this supernatural world going on and WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CURSE! SERIOSULY!!!

2.5 stars for this book, the editing wasn't worth mentioning and the story was mostly empty filled with inconsistencies, over half the book was about nothing but there were some good ideas and I'd like to follow them up.

P.S. The cover says nothing about the book at all... This is YA, not an adult novel but it has the cover of one. 

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Lynsay Sands: A Quick Bite (Argeneau 1)

I really enjoyed this book. There's this whole let's make a vamp novel.. But let's not take it too serious.. Just because we can!
No but for real, it was funny.. I like how vampire have been "created" in her universe. Way too many books don't explain how vampires came to be. If they do it's often the result of magic. I love how here, for once, it's the result of science.
I think it gives a really fresh view to how vampires could actually be. She talks about Atlantis.. Really LS couldn't do anything wrong for me at that point!

I like the big family constantly butting into Lissiana's business and never giving her and Greg a break. Making life very, very awkward. It makes me feel right at home!
I read some bad reviews for this book.. As always there are good and bad. This time I feel like so many people take it too serious! It's a book, enjoy it!
True some of the writting style needs a bit work here and there and there were some parts where I thought 'oh, why not this' or 'Why here'..
But in the end it was a good book and a great start for a series that I will certainly be reading more of.

No book is perfect, and just as sure this book has it's flaws. But mostly I just found it a nice, relaxing, funny and really fresh book.
4 stars for me!

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Stacy Claflin: Deception (The Transformed #1)

Sometimes I like to start reading a book without even reading the back.. It can be so confusing and frustrating having no clue what's going on for about half the story but it's refreshing to know as much or even less than the main character. For me, it makes the book feel like much more of a surprise.

This book started out really well. This could be partially because I felt as confused as Alexis because I really didnt have a clue what the book was about. The idea behind the book is great. There are some minor annoyances I have here and there by the way things were implied into the book, but I feel like this is partially because it's the first book in the series.
I don't know how many books the SC has written but everytime I start a serie I feel like the writting isn't fully there yet. For me, this resolves throughout the series and I hope that it was the same case here. I remember reading Harry Potter when I was young and thinking the books got better and better every time around.

I would have like there to be a bit more depth to some of the characters. Emma, Amanda, Brooke, Cleff,... They are there but we don't really get to know them as much as I would like.

All in all I found this a good book. I didn't manage to put it down until I had finished it and I'm glad I managed to at a decent time, not having to pull an allnighter again because my imagination was running wild.
Besides the little 'faults' I found with the book I thought it was a lovely book and I would recomend it to more people. Mostly the younger crowd (16-21ish).. I think the love triangle is something more for that age as to where 'older' people might expect it to be more of a mature relationship.

I'm going to raid this book 4 stars. It's a good read and I think you'll enjoy it.

P.S. I can't decide who to ship! I feel like T. was there for here when she truly needed someone and C. can't just expect A. to be totally into him after not KNOWING him... And he missed out on some serious brownie points for not being there when she needed him.

P.P.S. I think this cover is awesome but I can't seem to find the link to the story..

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Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 1)

I found this book through Kerrelyn Sparks' Facebook page. There was an article about the "10 must read Romance Series"...

This list looked pretty solid. Kerrelyn Sparks, Charlaine Harris, Richelle Mead, Lara Adrian, Jeaniene Frost and J.R. Ward. All of my favourite authors. What could go wrong? I decided to buy the first book of each series I didn't know yet.
Lynsay Sands (Argenau Vampire), Victoria Knight (veiled), Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake), Bella Forrest (a Shade of Vampire)...

Having read through all these series I know in this list and having loved all of them to the last page, I was anxious to start the others.
So here goes Anita Blake. As a person I don't like her.. She seems like the kind of person I would meet and be nice to because that's just the polite thing to do. The kind of person I wouldn't talk to anymore after the first meeting because the person worked my last nerve.

Other than that, I think the author ruined the book for me. LKH's writing style is not for me. WHAT THE HELL DOES "NAW" EVEN MEAN? If I read that damned word one more time I'm going to burn the book. Okay, maybe not... It's on my Kindle. You get what I mean!
I dont want to flame the book too much (haha word jokes). It's just that certain words LKH uses and her way of saying things isn't something I would say or do. I would make different choices there and I think my annoyance of her writting style made me hate the story.

Other than that I have to say, it's an easy and quick read. It's not the kind of book you would sit still for on the edge of your seat until it's finished. You can put it down, do something else and pick it up the following evening. That's nice and relaxing.

But seriously what does NAW even mean?!? I feel like every time she gets dressed or gets an outfit ready or is about to go somewhere dangerous there is waaaay to much 'I was wearing this with that there and this gone hidden in my this because of this reason and I'm gong to that place because of this reason (which i have mentioned about 3 times before)'. Like I said, I just don't appreciate her style.

I love how there is such a thing as an Animator, Zombies, Ghouls, Vampires, Shifters (SERIOUSLY ALL KINDS). She created a very lovely world that goes very deep and has a lot of thought put into it.
This book might not make my list of the top 10 Vampire Romance Novels... But it's a nice book and I'd like to read more of Anita Blake, get to know her a bit more. Who knows, maybe i'll even end up liking her.

I think i'd give this book about 3 stars.

P.S. I have no clue what guns she keeps talking about..

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