Book Review || Reign of Mist (The Oremere Chronicles #2) by Helen Scheuerer

Title: Reign of Mist (The Oremere Chronicles #2)

By: Helen Scheuerer

Pages: 441

Published: September 9th, 2018

By: Talem Press

Genre: YA|Fantasy|Magic

You can buy it HERE: Amazon

The realm’s darkest secret is out.

The cruelty of the capital and the power-hungry King Arden have scattered Bleak and her companions across the continents.

On the run in a foreign land, Bleak finds herself tied to some unexpected strangers. When the answers she yearns for are finally within reach, she must face the hard truths of her past, and take her fate into her own hands before it’s too late.

Meanwhile, secrets and magic unravel as a dark power corrupts the realm. Bleak’s friends are forced to decide where their loyalties lie, and who, if anyone, they can trust.

But one thing is certain: war is coming, and they must all be ready when it does.

Intriguing and action-packed, Reign of Mist is the second instalment in Helen Scheuerer’s epic YA fantasy series, The Oremere Chronicles.

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ARC Review || All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

Title: All of Us with Wings

By: Michelle Ruiz Keil

Pages: 360 

Published:  June 18th, 2019

By: Soho Press

Genre: YA|Magical-Realism|Fantasy|LGBT+

You can buy it HERE: Book Depository

Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.

Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band’s larger-than-life fame.

But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas accidentally summon a pair of ancient creatures devoted to avenging the wrongs of Xochi’s adolescence. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family she’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.

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Romance Books || Short Reviews || 🌷

 🌷 Hi, my loves! I hope you’re having a beautiful day!. Today I bring you my reviews of the books I read during the Smutathon, although having a Wrap Up for it, I wanted to make a few more detailed reviews about my thoughts and emotions on each one of them, and so you’ll have where to go in case if you want to know more. 😊
I hope you enjoy it and I hope you’re enjoying your current readings! 🌷

Book Review || A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab

Title: A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2)

By: V.E. Schwab

Pages: 512

Published: February 23rd, 2016

By: Tor Books

Genre: Adult|Magic|Fantasy

You can buy it HERE: Book Depository

It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell’s possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefarious Dane twins of White London fell, and four months since the stone was cast with Holland’s dying body through the rift–back into Black London.

Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games–an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries–a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.

And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall.

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ARC Review || The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta

Title: The Lost Coast

By: Amy Rose Capetta

Pages: 352

Published: May 14th, 2019

By: Candlewick

Genre: YA|Magic|Fantasy|LGBT+

You can buy it HERE: Book Depository

The spellbinding tale of six queer witches forging their own paths, shrouded in the mist, magic, and secrets of the ancient California redwoods.

Danny didn’t know what she was looking for when she and her mother spread out a map of the United States and Danny put her finger down on Tempest, California. What she finds are the Grays: a group of friends who throw around terms like queer and witch like they’re ordinary and everyday, though they feel like an earthquake to Danny. But Danny didn’t just find the Grays. They cast a spell that calls her halfway across the country, because she has something they need: she can bring back Imogen, the most powerful of the Grays, missing since the summer night she wandered into the woods alone. But before Danny can find Imogen, she finds a dead boy with a redwood branch through his heart. Something is very wrong amid the trees and fog of the Lost Coast, and whatever it is, it can kill. Lush, eerie, and imaginative, Amy Rose Capetta’s tale overflows with the perils and power of discovery — and what it means to find your home, yourself, and your way forward.

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Book Review || Heart of Mist (The Oremere Chronicles #1) by Helen Scheuerer

Title: Heart of Mist (The Oremere Chronicles #1)

By: Helen Scheuerer

Pages: 398

Published: August 25th, 2017

By: Talem Press

Genre: YA|Fantasy|Magic

You can buy it: Book Depository || Amazon

In a realm where toxic mist sweeps the lands and magic is forbidden, all Bleak wants is a cure for her power.

Still grieving the death of her guardian and dangerously self-medicating with alcohol, Bleak is snatched from her home by the Commander of the King’s Army, and summoned to the capital. But the king isn’t the only one interested in Bleak’s powers. 

The leader of an infamous society of warriors, the Valia Kindred, lays claim to her as well, and Bleak finds herself in the middle of a much bigger battle than she anticipated. 

Heart of Mist is the gripping first book in The Oremere Chronicles, a fantasy series of epic proportions.

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Book Review || Skyward (Skyward #1) by Brandon Sanderson

Title: Skyward (Skyward #1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

Pages: 510

Published: November 6th, 2018 

By: Delacorte Press

Genre: YA|Sci-Fi

You can buy it HERE: Book Depository

Spensa’s world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what’s left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa’s dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with that of her father’s—a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa the daughter of a coward, her chances of attending Flight School slim to none.

No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars.

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