Book Review: Wild Roses by Miriam Minger

Wild Roses by Miriam Minger
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was okay. it would've been more if it wasn't for Adele being a bitch about Maire and everything. I liked how Maire protected herself from revealing who she was in the end, though it was messed up how the truth came out. The ending ticked me off because her brother didn't forgive her. After all, she fell in love with a Norman named Duncan, and I felt like he didn't want her happy at all, which is a shame because I felt sorry for Maire and what she went through.

I didn't read the first book of this series, but this was just an okay book. I just wish it was more without the whole cursing "Mary, Joseph, and Jesus" and wishing she was like her sister-in-law and friend Triona because it didn't help her character grow at all. It just left me sad and wishing for more. But I did like how Triona stood up to her husband when it came to Maire.

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Book Review: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Dream Thieves might have to be my favorite one in this series. This book focuses on Ronan and how he is known as the greywaren, someone that can take from dreams and make them real. Everyone was in the book as well, but some new characters surprised me. The one that surprised me most in this book was The Gray Man, who was looking for Ronan, but instead met Blue’s mother, Maura, and fell in love with her, even to the point that he survived his brother.

Reading about Ronan and his family’s past made me want to both hug him and to also shake Declan at the same time. I liked how Ronan was trying to find ways to control his power, even though he hung out with Kravinsky, who was stealing every single chance he could in the dream world. The fight between them was quite explosive, and Ronan summoning that big old monster from the dream was pretty scary, but it was also fun because he stopped Kravinsky and also saved his brother Matthew from the car he was in as well.

Adam did have a little part in the story, when he and Gansey went to a party held for his mother, and he experienced something that left him wandering around, not remembering anything of how it happened or when it happened. Gansey was worried and was chasing after him, only for someone to find him on the side of the road, confused and having no idea how he got there.

Noah blinked in and out of the story because Cabeswater and the ley line were gone, and it felt like half the characters weren’t even there, but I really liked it because of Ronan and how he learned his powers, and also stopped Kravinsky.

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Book Review: A King So Cold by Ella Fields

A King So Cold by Ella Fields
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ella Fields, you might be one of my new favorite authors right now, because I went into this book with very low expectations, and I loved every bit of it. I thought I was reading of those villainess manwhas, but it blew me away. I love the arc Audra went through, and how at the end, she tries to fix what her father did to her whole country at the end. I also like that she’s working with her husband, who lives in the Sun Kingdom, to fix it.

But it didn’t end up like this…

Because at the beginning of the book, Audra finds out her husband, who had lost his memory thanks to a spell her sorceress cast, was about to get married. Not wanting that to happen, she crashed the wedding and imprisoned her husband and his supposed-to-be-wife in prison away from each other, so she can see him and try to get his memories back. At the same time, she also has a side piece on the side by the name of Zadicus Allblood, a local lord that she both loathe and hate with a passion, but she’s banging him while trying to get her husband to remember. While all of this is going on, Audra finds out that her best guard hasn’t reported to her about the Sun Kingdom in a while, so she goes to find him.

Zadicus, going along with her, gets caught (well Audra did) and they retreat, but because she was worried about her guard/ex-side piece, she goes after him, only to get caught and tortured to the point that she has scars around her mouth. She is rescued by Zadicus, but then Raiden, her husband, appears and shocks her, and everyone-he had his memories back along, and the woman he was about to marry was Zadicus’s wife Nova. Buuut…it was all planned out-Raiden wanted to go back to Audra and Nova just wanted her old life back.

But during this whole thing, the shocking news and all, is that Audra and Zadicus are linked, thanks to him being blood-deprived and needing blood like he’s a bloody vampire. Raiden and Audra do try the marriage thing, but then when he finds out that Zadicus and Audra are linked, he goes back home. But he does do something to get her attention…

He kidnaps Truin to get her attention, to make her go back to the Sun Kingdom, and she does. Audra stays there for a couple of days, trying to get Raiden to let go of Truin, only to get invited to an orgy, where she finds out that Turin got hurt badly. So she demands for the ninth billionth time to let Turin go, and he does, shocked that ever happened to her, even though she was in his dungeons. They leave, and Audra was so pissed off that she didn’t even want to see him again…until he came to him and they lived together and all that, even had a ball.

While at the Sun Kingdom, she does meet Eline, whom Raiden calls “Little Lion” (no, not like Sylvanas calls Anduin) and Eline and Raiden do fuck (like bruh why), and during the party, Audra left because everything was falling apart around her, and she was trying to be nice the whole entire time, so she and Turin left, only to get kidnapped by her cousin’s somewhat fiancee. The fiancee tried to force Turin to kill Audra, only for her to survive, and now Audra and Raiden are civil and are trying to undo what her father did to the land, the both of them are at their respective kingdoms, and Audra is happy with Zadicus, her side piece…

Or is it??

Loved this book, was very dark and gruesome at times, but at the same time, I enjoyed the action, the banter, and the drama. Some things shocked me (like what Audra did to “Casilla”) and some moments were proud moment hours and needed to get done (but not to that extreme). All in all, it was a really good book, really enjoyed it.

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