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5⭐️2🌶 I finished reading the ARC of this one last evening.  I stayed up too late to finish it, but it was so worth it.  This one blew me away.  I was hooked by this story from the beginning.  Elorie is a human living on a freezing cold island devoid of magic.  She tends to the dead Fae prisoners and human dead from her village.  One day during a rebel attack in the village she flees and runs into the Fae prison thinking that the Fae rebels won't chase her there, but they follow anyway.  She stumbles her way through the dark corridors of the prison and comes upon a mysterious Fae who then saves her from the rebel attack suffering a fatal wound himself.  Elorie can't just let him die.  She somehow resurrects him with powerful magic.  Magic that not only she shouldn't possess but magic that should not work where she is.  News of her impossible feat gets back to the king and she is summoned to him.  She enters into a b...

3⭐️3🌶 I finished the ARC of Hunted by a Demon's Vow by AN Caudle.  I did not enjoy this one.  I didn't hate it either but I certainly didn't love it.  I found it too gruesome and violent for my taste.  I suppose I should have picked up on how violent it would be from the book blurb but I wasn't expecting the imagery and the depictions of the sounds to be that detailed.  The plot was fairly predictable but the pacing was good.  Everything moved along nicely.  I liked the book enough to keep reading and see how the story progressed.  The spice was quite good.  The FMC Vaenah gets voted for by her town to be a sacrifice for the hunt.  The MMC is her twin brother's best friend who is a demon.  Demon's look like human men but must blend in.  There is a society that rules over the demons.  They can't reveal they are demons to human or else both the human and demon are put to death.  Daemon the MMC doesn't care ...

5⭐️2🌶 I finished Winds of Ruin by Mariet Kay a few days ago and it was so good.  I was a sobbing mess at the end but it was happy tears.  The two main characters go through so much to finally finally reach a happy ending.  This was a phenomenal conclusion to the trilogy and honestly, I'm a little sad its over.  Spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't read the first two books: At the end of City of Snakes Emmerick has been put into a sleep curse trapping Caym with him.  This will buy more time for the others to find the relics and fulfill the Isolde prophesy.  Krait and Sybillia have had their daughter Lark and they're training her to defeat Caym.  Emmerick is fighting Caym in this mental prison.  He's subjecting Em to the memories of what he himself did while possessed and also the memories of all his other victims.  Em is starting to lose himself in this battle.  Elsedora finds the mirror on one of her early relic hunts and le...

5⭐️ 2🌶 In preparation for the third book in the trilogy, Winds of Ruin, to come out; I decided to re-read the first two books in the series.  I finished Born of Starlight a couple days ago and immediately began City of Snakes.  I finished City of Snakes last night. 5⭐️ 2🌶  Both these books are amazing.  Born of Starlight is a loose Rapunzel retelling and City of Snakes is Beauty and the Beast with sort of an Aladdin setting.  They are deep, emotional and tense.  I was on the edge of my seat reading them the first time.  The lives of pretty much all the characters hang in the balance and it's not certain everyone will survive.  This time through I knew who lived and died so it was slightly less tense, but they both are so well written I still was drawn into the story.  I was chosen for an ARC of the third book Winds of Ruin and I got an email notification yesterday that the release date had been moved up from the 22nd...

5⭐️ .5-1🌶 The Last Guardian by Laura Collin.  This ARC was truly amazing.  This had so much yearning and tension.  Alyana the FMC is a princess.  Her mother died 5 years ago and the night before her mother's remembrance celebration a mark appears on Alyana's wrist.  Alyana has questions about the mark, she knows or feels like its some sort of bad omen and she needs to be careful about who she shows it to.  Alyana is still grieving her mother.  She was the one with her when she died and it was under suspicion circumstances.  Alyana has no memory of what actually happened.  She woke up in a pool of blood with her mother dead in her arms.  Her father is a spiteful abusive piece of crap.  She has 4 other siblings and the first portion of the book sets up the relationship she has with the rest of her family.  I actually found this very interesting.  Her older sister is betrothed and about to be married off to anoth...

March was an excellent month for me.  All six of my completed reads were 5 stars.  A Flickering Remnant is such a beautiful story.  It's a fantasy romance that has a Gothic feeling to it.  It's got maternal mental health representation, a curse, an elemental magic system, witches, some amazing found family, a ton of mystery and it's absolutely beautifully written as well.  I loved it so much I bought myself a signed copy.  Sheltered Fate was just plain fun.  It was book three in a series of interconnected stand alones.  It's what all monster romance should be, in my opinion.  The Troll MMC was a kind and gentle cinnamon roll.  I enjoyed this one so much I abandoned all other responsibility and read the first book in the series too.  Fresh-Brewed Fate was also just plain fun.  It was more adventurous and the world was a little bigger but again the Orc MMC was another cinnamon roll.  I rounded out my month by sta...