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I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.
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BOOK REVIEW: Empress Unveiled by Jenna Morland
I received a e-galley of this novel from OfTomes Publishing in exchange for an honest review.
What I liked:
When I went into this book, I admittedly judged it by the cover. I thought it would be very fluffy, very cute and, while it did have moments of lightheartedness, this story was unexpectedly action packed! I was honestly surprised by the amount of bloody fight scenes and emotional moments that these characters experience.
The author, Jenna Morland has a way of stringing a sentence together makes this world and these characters both beautiful and relatable. I found myself relating to Swayzi and Penelope on multiple occasions throughout the novel, especially during the more light hearted moments when the story focused on their relationship and their relationships with others.
I always say this, but in many YA novels the friendships and parent/child relationships often take a backseat to the main character’s love interest. Yes, this novel had a heavy emphasis on Swayzi and her two love interests, but the relationship that really stole the show for me was Swayzi’s relationship with her mother. It was so genuine and heartfelt and fun it reminded me of my relationship with my mother.
What I wanted more of:
I really wanted to learn more about Empress and Medallion. I felt as though we were given all of this information about Medallion and his movement all at once and it felt as though we barely learned about him. And don’t get me wrong, I know that this is the first book and we’ll learn more about Empress in subsequent books, but the world the author described when she wrote about Empress was beautiful and magical and I felt that the story needed a bit more.
What I didn’t like:
Now, I understand that in most fae stories there is the idea of mates and therefore there is instalove. I really didn’t enjoy the insta-love in this story, especially in the beginning when Swayzi’s relationship with Daylan was more of a like…”he’s stalking you you shouldn’t like him” sort of relationship. Not only this, but there were many parts in the story where the men in this story “agreed” to give Swayzi a say, space, or not to hold her back and then in the next scene they end up fighting over her or telling her that she can’t play a bigger role. It was very annoying, but did not take away from the overall story for me.
I have no massive complaints about this book though, it really caught my attention early on and sucked me into the story pretty fast. Honestly, I didn’t even realize that I was so close to finishing the novel until I was basically on the last chapter. I cannot wait to see where Jenna takes this story and how she builds on this foundation she’s lain.
REVIEW: The Raging Ones by Krista and Becca Ritchie
I was lucky enough to receive an e-galley of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Synopsis: The Raging Ones follows three teens who should have died young: Franny Bluefort, a young orphan who lived fast and hard, only to wake up the next morning after her death day in the cold, unforgiving city streets; Mykal Kickfall, who was meant to die at 8 but instead was forced to flee his rugged home to avoid questions of his survival; and Court Icecastle, the mysterious boy who acts like an Influential, but has a terrible secret. And, for some inexplicable reason, they can feel each other’s emotions as if they were their own.
What I liked: I genuinely enjoyed this story from start to finish. The Ritchie sisters created this harsh, unique world in which only the wealthy, “influential”, and long living individuals really get to enjoy the finer things in life. The premise is something I have never read before in the YA genre. It really makes me think how people would live their lives if they knew the day that they were going to die.
Each of our main characters was unique and, despite having to feel each other’s emotions it didn’t feel as though they were bleeding together into one being, quite the contrary in fact. Franny, Court, and Mykal all fought to make sure that they were not swallowed by the emotions they felt that were not their own. While reading I found that I learned enough about each of our main characters to truly feel invested in them. I find that, in a lot of YA, especially YA novels with multiple perspective, that backstories and overall motivations for characters are often lost, but the Ritchie sisters did an exceptional job of making sure that each character was unique and that they viewed and experienced the world that they lived in differently from their two counterparts.
Another thing I enjoyed was that, while romance did play a role in the story, it was more focused on the love between these three individuals who were, for the most part friends. It’s rare that we see the love of friends play a large role in YA novels, but I felt that this was one of the major, integral parts of the story. Despite wanting to succeed, Court (cold, harsh, sort of selfish Court) wanted to do so with Franny and Mykal with him because they were connected and, even if he didn’t want to admit it he cared for both of them more than himself.
What I didn’t like: For the most part this story was really well paced and the writing was beautiful and the characters were very human, however, there was something that, I don’t want to say I didn’t like it, but it confused me at times. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the overall story, but there were a few parts throughout every characters chapters where it was unclear whether a certain scene had ended or not. For example, at one point Mykal and Franny would be sparring, and then in the next paragraph a week had gone by. In the overall story, it didn’t happen often, however, it happened enough that it sort of threw me out of my reading groove.
This is definitely not a deal breaker for me and I’m hoping it was just the e-galley and that it will be sorted in the finished copy, but I thought it should be noted.
Overall, I give this YA debut a 4.5/5 stars! Definitely check this story out if you’re a fan of the Illuminae files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, Kaz Brekker from Six of Crows, and twisty, angsty YA sci-fi.
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