5⭐️1🌶 I finished my ARC of The Last Fury by Talina Arden. It was phenomenal. It's a little hard to describe as its a dark dystopian urban fantasy romance. It had traditional fantasy creature elements like Fae, Vampires, Warewolves, Witches and Demons. It was also set in a near future dystopian city with modern technology and terminology. It seems as though the magical world pushed its way into "ours" at some point and although humans are aware of the magic most of them try to avoid it. Magic weilding folk also keep to their own parts of the city as do the humans. The FMC is an EMT who works graveyard shift and has done so for the last eight years. Sera has been feeling a power growing for the last few months. When the book opens she has just utilized her power for the first time. She has no idea what it nor how she's done it. Her and her shad partner take another call. In this alleyway while attending a...
5⭐️1🌶 Ooof and wow, this ARC of An Ember in the Dawn of Night by Emery Fynn broke me. It was so good. This post is going to have some mild spoilers because there's no other way to talk about just how clever Fynn's writing is. This book tosses the reader right into the action unapologetically, there's no prologue, just bang, chapter one. And right within those first couple of chapters the FMC is following a tip to a home where a family resides. She proceeds to slaughter said family, then goes gets cleaned up, stops at her best friends house where they bone, so she can get out of her head. Then she travels back to her own place. There is very little world building or exposition, we're just along for the ride. She mentions names of towns, districts, canal ways with no explanation you just have to guess or look at the map at the beginning. I loved this. It was refreshing and its disorienting. I think its a plot d...