Ride the Storm by Karen Chance 4 ✭

Title: Ride the Storm

Author: Karen Chance

Series: Cassie Palmer 

Genre: Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Romance

Publish Date: April 7, 2017

Pages: 606

Ages: 18 + 

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

I have been reading this series for years and what keeps me going is how Karen Chance solves the problem. It's so unique, it's things I wouldn't have dreamed of.  Maybe that's my lack of creativity, who knows, but its what keeps me coming back for more with this series.

Cassie has gone through a lot in this series and this book really shows her individual growth an individual with multiple talents. She is still getting chased all over but the Pythias that think that she is a rogue, she is still trying to save Pritkin, and she is finally learning key bits of information from Mircea.

I would have rated this book higher but it was slow in the beginning. I jumped from one thing to another and it was very chaotic. I feel like it was very important for Cassie to have all these little battles pile up on top of each other for the story to progress the way it did. But, there was a lot of pages where Cassie was drained or dead tired. So that's what the dull aspect to the book was, but again it was very important to her growth. 

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So I Married a Sorcerer by Kerrelyn Sparks 4 ✭

Title: So I Married A Sorcerer

Author: Kerrelyn Sparks

Series: The Embraced

Genre: Dark Fantasy, Romance

Publish Date: August 29, 2017

Pages: 485

Ages: 18 + 

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

Kerrelyn Sparks is one of those authors that when you pick up one of her books, you know ahead of time that you are going to enjoy your romantic journey. This is another you can add to the collection. I received a free Advanced Reader Copy from the publisher to read before hand and I squealed like a little girl because the whole idea of this book was so neat to me. This book had me sucked in and I could not stop reading. I am still packing for our family move trip to North Carolina next week, and I was up til 3:30 am reading. I was just so hooked.

The humor was fantastic and had me belting out laughs at the responses from the one nun, she is a nutter. The heroine is strong, but a little young and naïve as she should be for her age. Um,  PIRATE SORCERER, hello ... how cool does that sound? The characters are strong and it is all taking place in a world that you can feel is progressively developing throughout the book. Connections are being made in different countries that have been at war, and there is like a super villain about.

This is actually the second book in this series, The Embraced, which is all about the special individuals who are born on the twin moon eclipse and have special powers. You can read this book without reading the first in the series and be able to follow along with the main chain of events. I didn't read the first book, but I am going to once I catch up on my list of to-read books. I love the idea of the fortune telling stones, and how they can link to the rest of the series. Like the next book, you are totally sucked into wanting to read that after this one.

This fantasy world has elves, dragons, pirates and evil murdering kings. Sounds accurately like a fantasy world. I did wish that there was more world building, but again I did read an ARC version so maybe that had changed. I wanted to feel more immersed into the world, but I was fully invested into the characters so in my opinion that balances out. That's my only negative feedback, I enjoyed everything else about this book.

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Saving Grace by Aubrey Wynne 4 ✭

Title: Saving Grace

Author: Aubrey Wynne

Series: Enchanted Keepsakes

Genre: Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Romantic Suspense, Mystery

Publish Date: May 1, 2017 

Pages: 120

Ages: Mature

Rating: ✭✭✭✭

Saving Grace is a wonderful start to a new series. Aubrey Wynne has managed to write another book, or in this case a small novella, that will compel you to read the rest of the series. I am becoming a pretty decent fan of the author I would say at this point. She managed in such a short amount of pages to thrill me with some lore, romance, and suspense.

I grew up a military brat, and part of that time was spent in Virginia. Virginia is a wonderful state full of rich history. So having a story with a heroine, Chloe, being haunted by a ghost, Grace, and having legitimate history mixed in with Aubrey Wynne's own story telling is just a treat for me. Also the idea of Chloe seeking out information about what could be happening and a historian falling in love is just super cool to me. This story was written where is was flipping between past and present and is was done great. You are able to follow what is going on pretty easily.

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