The Dark Calling by Kresley Cole 5 ✭

Title: The Dark Calling

Author: Kresley Cole

Series: Arcana Chronicles

Genre: Dystopian, Horror, Science Fiction, Romance

Publish Date: February 13, 2018

Pages: 350

Ages: Teen *

Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭

This is the best book yet in the series. I personally feel like this series keeps getting better. Things are coming together and coming in line with the finale to come. Which if I'm not mistaken is the next (?) book. There were some things that were left hanging before that have been answered. There were more events in this book then should have been possible in the short number of pages of the book. This book felt FULL. Full of chaos, full of conflict, and full of emotions. Real emotions that leave you feeling heartbroken for Death, Evie, and Jack. This book is more than a happily ever after reading like some of the other series by Kresley Cole. The three in this triangle are truly cursed it seems. If anything is going well it's bound to turn. That continues in this segment of the series.

There were so many unpredictable events and maybe one or two things that you come to expect. I don't want to spoil anything from this book because it is very important to the whole series. The alliances of Major Arcana are hit hard by a major TRAITOR. It was one event I did not see coming and wouldn't have imagined it. With the few who confirm that these games are going to be different. That there will be a cataclysmic ending. Most of the Major Arcana are changing, either losing control of their powers or just developing stronger. The Minor Arcana want an end to the games so they can begin the new world. They inform the others that Evie and Death have angered the gods by creating life. Evie is stuck between having no power at all and feeling helpless to stop herself from eventually becoming the red witch.

working together to end the games and protect themselves against the Emperor and Lady Luck, you forget that there are other factors out there. Like the Minor Arcana that we heard about. Evie and others finally meet some and it all but

Plus there are hints in the whole book about the next book. I can't quit this series. Evie can't remember something she thinks is important. I think whatever this part is leading to will be huge in the next book. Plus, we still don't even know if the Fool is on her side or not. Or if his card has reversed. It seems like it may have. Just like some of her allies were hiding their true strength or losing control of their massive powers, you just don't know at this point.

If I am right and the next book is the last book in the series I am going to lose it. I hope that it lives up to my personal hype.

*I feel like the content in this book would be for a mature teen who is ok with some mention of sexual content.

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Her Dark Half by Paige Tyler 4 ✭

Title: Her Dark Half

Author: Paige Tyler

Series: X-Ops

Genre: Suspense, Thriller, Supernatural Romance

Publish Date: September 5, 2017

Pages: 354

Ages: 18+

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

Her Dark Half was a little hard for me to get into at first. This is also the seventh book in this series and I have read none of the previous ones. I got this copy of the book from NetGalley for review purposes. I will say that by 28% (thank you kindle) I got HOOKED into this book. The mystery of waiting to see how they get the baddie was a lot of fun to read. The events that occur within the book flow naturally. Thanks to the author's skillful writing tying you in. So if you haven't read the previous books like me, you will be fine to pick this up. You get a feel for the world and previous events pretty early in the book.

I love shifter style books because the idea is just magical. Who wouldn't want to be an animal right? In Her Dark Half, there are some who are born as shifters. And then there are some who were kidnapped, tortured and, turned into shifters with science backed by a shady congressman. Thorne is an evil man, and it is left to the only shifter left in the DCO to ferret out the truth of all the previous events from other books. Trevor is a coyote shifter and he only has a few friends left that are helping out. Thorne thinks he is slick and hires a former CIA agent who is skilled at getting traitors to be Trevor's partner.

Alina is a bad-ass with a past. She quit working for the CIA because she been obsessed in finding a criminal. The criminal had once been her team member who betrayed her whole team killed. Alina was so obsessed with finding traitors that it became her specialty. Alina got sick of doing that job. Always looking for people in your own ranks who are traitor's has got to wreck your emotions. So Alina saw a new opportunity to work with the DCO and took it. The problem was she didn’t' realize that she would be watching her new partner Trevor to see if he is a traitor. 

To start these two do not trust each other at all. Alina is under the impression that Trevor is probably a traitor. Trevor knows that Alina is most likely a plant to keep an eye on him so he can't bust Thorne and Dick. Dick is the current head of the DCO and he is definitely shady. There are a bunch of shifters who are on the run, one is even pregnant. And they are all trying to survive and find out what Dick and Thorne are up to. There are a lot of people in this story that are from the earlier books and you get to see parts of them but not much. There are more books in the series and this series seems pretty solid from what I have read. It had solid action and solid action.

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Too Beautiful to Break by Tessa Bailey 5✭

Title: Too Beautiful to Break by Tessa Bailey

Author: Tessa Bailey

Series: Romancing the Clarksons

Genre: Romance, Women's Fiction

Publish Date: September 26, 2017

Pages: 320

Ages: 18 + 

Rating: ✭✭✭✭✭

If you are dying to read a book that has very well written characters that develop through the story this is one you should grab. I have read a few of Tessa Bailey's book now and they are top notch at character development. Seriously, I have found to love the journey of each character in each book. In each of the books that I have read, her characters connections feel real and alive. The characters all feel different in each series. They change and grow within their one book. She is definitely an author writes fantastic characters that deserve attention from everyone.

Tessa talks about where her inspiration for this story came from in the acknowledgments of the book. You absolutely need to read this. The whole time I read this all I could think about was the care and attention to detail that was put into bringing these characters story to paper.  I personally have to mention this because at the beginning of my review. I felt like the characters might not have been my style of a read. But after I read that, I had to continue. Once at the end I decided that this book was another top notch amazing read.

Belmont is a determined man who when he says he's going to do something he 100% does it to the fullest extent that it could possibly be done. Belmont would say he wants to fish in the ocean. Then he would end up getting a boat and running a successful group. That's the kind of man he is. If his family gets hurt it would be the exact same thing. He would go out of his way and do anything and everything to make it better. The only thing is he has his own flaws from a traumatic childhood incident. His character was fascinating to read while he was damaged and disturb that he wouldn't be a healthy person to be around. However, the change at the end, Tessa wrote about his smile and it wasn't like reading it. You could feel how his world had been fixed. You could feel the clouds part and you would smile with him knowing that someone so broken had managed to come up clean and refreshed out of the dirt. 

Belmont is not the only character in this story though. Sage is a lot like Belmont. She isn't broken I would say. She is a woman who grew up in the mud and fighting the shadows of the judgemental town that she felt was always following her. She was the poor girl that everyone took pity on but at the same time looked down on because of who her family was. What makes Sage an interesting character is the start of the book. Chapter one and she is leaving the man that she loves. He's the man she feels like she actually can not survive without. That is like the opposite of most happily ever after books. They do appear in other characters books in the series and have a connection before the start of this book. So you should read the first four books to understand their relationship. Which I did NOT do since I got this copy from Netgalley. So I would start from the beginning since this is the fourth book in the series. Back to Sage. She is striving for her independence from him. She wants to learn to be strong enough to be here without him. She knows she can not rely on him as her crutch anymore.

I can not say it enough. Tessa writes amazing books that are not only cut and dry happily ever after books. These are people on paper. People who have seen some things, they have experienced things. You as the reader get to watch them. You get to love them. 

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The Girl Who Saved Ghosts by K.C. Tansley 4 ✭

Title: The Girl Who Saved Ghosts

Author: KC Tansley

Series: The Unbelieveables

Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Supernatural, Time Travel

Publish Date: August 1, 2015

Pages: 280

Ages: Teen

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

Kat has been in a struggle since they came home from Castle Creighton. She's been constantly hounded by ghosts who are lining up for the chance to get their "reckoning", or their final piece before they can move on. They're lining up waiting to talk to her which is sapping her of all her strength. It leaves her helpless and weakened which is not good because of what fate has in store for them.

There is a great evil in the game now that you could even call the ultimate evil. It's an ancient evil that has been around for centuries. This evil is now after Kat. She gets to adventure to the Langley home and learns more about her family lineage and the lore behind all the families. Which is tough for her since she grew up without knowing anything or anyone from this side of her family, including her father. Going to her families ancestral land is really important because it starts Kat and Evan on a clear path for their futures as the current heirs to two of the four families. I loved the family history part of this. Just the idea of it is fantastic and I can't wait to see how the future books in the series continue.

Of course, since Kat's powers deal with the past, they go into the past again. Just Kat and Evan again, and this time its to get his families relic. A dagger of badassery... I don't want to spoil too much, but I feel like each family has some amazing mystical properties to them. You start to really touch into that in this book when the two begin their training.

I'm dying to know how many books are going to be in the series. The book is written with a good clear path for character development and I am looking forward to seeing them grow. I can say I'm attached to these characters for sure. Not to mention the budding romances and where they are going to go. I was totally like a teenager girl in those two moments that I will not spoil. You'll have to read the book so you can grin like little girl like me. 

I am very thankful for my copy from NetGalley for me to review.

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