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📚 Zodiac Academy 2: Ruthless Fae
🐉This book starts right after the events of the previous one. After all that the heirs did to the twins, they decided they want to go back to the human realm because they can’t stand it anymore. They ended up almost traumatized. But someone makes them think twice and stay to fight back because they truly believe they are where they belong. Fighting back is the only way to show everyone that they deserve to be there. This is how this world works and they have to learn its ways.
🧛The evolution of the twins throughout this book is wonderful. I loved to see it. The way they put up a fight was incredibly funny. Tory is still my favorite character.
🐺There are also some relationships going on. And I don’t know what to think about it yet. I know one will last although with difficulties, but the other...I’m not so sure about it. And it’s a shame because I kind of like them together.
🧜♂️But Tory and Darcy have yet to face another issue. Someone, an ally, was murdered. This character left some clues to help the twins to find out more about their past and family.
♊At the end of this novel, something really big and awful happens that will make the boys and the girls come a little bit closer, but their rivalry will persist, although something changes.
Something that I loved about this sequel is that the authors included some POVs that belong to the boys, which allows the reader to know a little bit more about their feelings, thoughts, and secrets too.
Geraldine, a side character, and her ASS club are amazingly amusing.
I enjoyed it a lot.
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Cuando cogí esta novela, y a pesar de que la novela romántica no es el género que más consumo, pensaba que era eso exactamente con lo que me encontraría, un romance. Me esperaba una pareja de lo más melosa, una escritura cargada de florituras y metáforas extremadamente dulces, a lo Bridget Jones (aunque a mí B. J. me encanta). Sin embargo, me llevé una grata sorpresa.
Sí, sin duda es una novela romántica. Pero nunca había leído un libro perteneciente a dicho género, cuya trama principal estuviese claramente relegada a un segundo plano.
Empecemos desde el principio. El argumento consiste en que, por casualidades de la vida, Hadley, la protagonista pierde el primer vuelo que la llevaría a Londres, para asistir a la segunda boda de su padre, cosa que no le hace ni pizca de gracia. De hecho, su relación con el padre es, desde hace casi dos años, prácticamente nula. El caso es que al perder el primer vuelo, Hadley debe esperar al siguiente, que es donde viajará también nuestro protagonista masculino, Oliver, inglés de nacimiento, que debe volver momentáneamente a sus país para asistir a un evento de similar importancia. Aquí es donde tendrá lugar la mayor parte del desarrollo de su relación.
Porqué digo que el romance está relegado a un segundo plano? Básicamente porque para mi este libro muestra como la protagonista aprende a superar sus miedos (con la ayuda de Oliver), a pensar de forma más racional con respecto a su familia (es decir, madurar y aceptar las cosas como son), y lo que es más importante, aprende a perdonar y a dejar ir ese dolor o sentimiento de traición que la acompaña desde que su padre se fuera.
Y luego tenemos por supuesto, su relación con Oliver, que la lleva a cometer alguna que otra locura, lo que le otorga más carácter al personaje; además de que su relación, y a pesar de la brevedad de la novela, se desarrolla de forma lenta y pausada (quizás demasiado para mi gusto). Pero me ha gustado mucho el personaje de Oliver, bastante maduro y con un carácter risueño y un tanto pícaro.
Algo que me ha agradado mucho también son algunas metáforas muy interesantes que emplea la autora, además de sus numerosas referencias a Charles Dickens, con lo que me atrevo a decir que se trata, probablemente, de su autor favorito.
Con todo y con esto, recomendaría esta novela a todo aquel o aquella que disfrute de novelas románticas cortas, monas, con el punto justo de escenas acarameladas, y con una fuerte referencia a las relaciones familiares.
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Zodiac Academy: The awakening by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
Zodiac Academy : The awakening
Description: You have been selected to attend Zodiac Academy, where your star sign defines your destiny.
If you're one of the Fae, elemental magic is in your blood. And apparently it's in ours. As twins born in the month of Gemini, we're a rare breed even in this academy of supernatural a-holes.
Changelings were outlawed hundreds of years ago but I guess our birth parents didn't get the memo. Which means we're totally unprepared for the ruthless world of Fae.
Air. Fire. Water. Earth.
No one has ever harnessed all four of them, until we arrived. And it hasn't made us any friends so far.
As the rarest Elementals ever known, we're already a threat to the four celestial heirs; the popular, vindictive bullies who happen to be some of the hottest guys we've ever seen. It doesn't help that they're the most dangerous beasts in the Academy. And probably on earth too.
Our fates are intertwined, but they want us gone. They've only got until the lunar eclipse to force us out and they'll stop at nothing to succeed.
We never knew we had a birthright to live up to but now that we do, we intend to claim our throne.
We can't expect any help from the faculty when it comes to defending ourselves. So if the dragon shifters want some target practice, the werewolves want someone to hunt or the vampires fancy a snack then we have to be ready. But we've been looking after each other for a long time and fighting back is in our blood.
Today's horoscope: totally screwed.
This is a full-length medium burn novel that is the first in a university-age academy series. Expect forbidden love and bully romance with mature content suitable for upper YA readers and onwards.
My review:
The twins, Darcy and Tory, have been living their whole life as normal humans but the reality is that they don't belong to the human realm. They‘re Fae, and not normal ones, they’re Twins born under the Gemini horoscope, so even in the Fae Realm, that’s rare and powerful. They were exchanged for human twins at their birth, but their parents did that when it was supposed to be forbidden and it's not clear why.
The thing is that they didn’t have anything in the human world, they could barely pay the rent, so when someone breaks into their apartment (*cough* Orion, a questionable teacher) and tells them that they have somewhere else to go where they would be fed and have their own bedroom and heating plus money in exchange of learning and developing their powers, they accept without questioning (more and less). But nothing in this life comes without a price. And soon they’ll realize it’s a huge price to be paid.
In this academy (in which there are several orders: dragons, sirens, vampires, werewolves, pegasus, etc), it’s clear who are the rulers, four boys of the twins‘ age who see the girls as a threat to their power and position. They’ll make sure of turning Tory and Darcy’s life into hell because they want them out of the academy as soon as possible. And things go a little bit too far, as the boys do some questionable things including physical and verbal violence. But this is the Fae world and as the characters mention repeatedly, the girls will have to fight for their position if they want to survive this wild world called Solaria. To make things clear I am NOT justifying their behavior.
My favorite character is Tory. She’s a badass b*tch but a lovable one, at least for now. Darcy is cute and more sensible than her sister. The boys are ok, I don’t like any of them because they’re truly a*holes, but I dislike Seth the most, he’s weird and does some awkward things and I get it, some of his actions are due to his order, but I just don’t like him and that’s ok. I wish there was more interaction with Max’s character, I was interested in his background, not because I like him but because I think he could have given us more interesting scenes.
Everything in this world is under the influence of the horoscopes and stars, and how they also influence the relationships between the characters is stunning, I liked it a lot.
And yes, this is kind of a mix of „Harry Potter“, „Winx Club“, and even a little bit of „the Hunger games“ in their adulthood. And questionable things happen all the time but the most wonderful thing is to see how the twins become stronger and fight back as well as get over some big challenges.
Age of Vampires: Eternal Reign
In the year 2133, vampires rule America. Within the Realms, human life is defined by blood. But there is a way out: The Testing.
No one knows what happens to those who pass. But rumours of the powerful vampire family who want them spark fear in the chosen few.
When sisters Callie and Montana pass the test, they rebel against their fate and plan to do what no human has ever done.
Escape their Realm.
But the vampires have eyes everywhere and the girls are soon torn apart, sending them spiralling down two dangerous paths.
One to the vampires.
The other to the slayers.
With Callie in the hands of a fierce warrior and Montana trapped in a terrifying ritual run by the royal vampires, can they find their way back to each other before it's too late?
Or will their fates be decided by the deadly men who shadow them..?
Eternal Reign is an upper YA dystopian paranormal romance with strong female leads and alpha males. If you loved The Selection Series, the Twilight Saga and A Shade of Vampire, you'll fall for this brand new series!
My review:
And then we have Callie and Montana, two normal human sisters who live in the Realm G (this reminded me of The hunger games, and I'm not saying that as a bad thing) with their Dad in absolutely miserable conditions.
Humans are only allowed to provide their blood to the vampires, but not in the traditional way. There are blood banks and testing, where the immortal creatures test humans' blood as if it was wine. If human blood is of high quality this person or people are sent to an uncertain destiny.
Callie and Montana had to do these Tests and they knew they had a high chance of passing them. So they decided to run away before the vampires came for them. But that didn't work and the sisters were torn apart. Callie stayed with Magnar a slayer, and Montana ended up with the royal family.
And from here on is when the plot starts to get fascinating. As the authors decided to intersperse the sister's points of view, it was interesting to see the differences between the inside of the vampires' empire and the outside, as well as the development of Callie and Montana. There is some action too, which made the story more dynamic, and the secrets between the royal family are also intriguing.
And why did I give it only 3,5 stars? The main reason is that I think it was a little bit slow at the beginning, which doesn't make this book a bad book, that's not the case, and the proof is that I'm already halfway through the sequel, but I prefer more dynamic beginnings, it's only a matter of taste. And the second reason is that I was expecting more of the ending.
In general, it is a great book for the vampire lovers community, with a little bit of action and some mysterious characters.
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