Book Review: Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco (Prince of Sin #1)

Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

SIX. BLOODY. STARS.

Six stars. I LOVED this book so much that I'm glad that someone recommended this book to me. Originally, I didn't like Envy in KOTW, but in this book? Oh, I fell in love with him. Mans had be BARKING for all the right reasons. I love villains, I have no idea why, but Envy in my opinion was the best villain in the way he did things and tried to keep his eyes on the prize, and he did...but he also didn't expect to fall in love, which is a good thing.

Miss Camilla Antonius was the best partner for Envy. She kept him on his toes and kept him with the clues, not even knowing that those clues were tying to her and the Wild Court, a court she came from, but she left after her mother kidnapped her and put her in the world of Waverly Green. She grew up trying to get away from a man named Lord Vexley, who got her to make a forgery of a painting and also try to get her to be his, only she kept rejecting him. Well Lord Vexley is a vampire now, so it's gonna be fun to see him slake his thirst while screwing his way through his afterlife. And Camilla's real daddy....I didn't like him one bit. I really didn't. I wished he was dead the moment he appeared on the page.

The romance was top-tier, the action was really good, and the spice was spicin'. I loved every single minute of it and I now want more of this world.

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Fireborne by Rosaria Munda (The Aurelian Cycle #1)

Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book almost put me in a reading slump many times (and I don't like starting book reviews off like this) but I feel like it needs to be said. And then on top of that, I loved it so much that I want to finish reading the series because I fell in love with the world and how it has the political intrigue I wanted, the dragons were there, and also I wanted to know what happened next when it comes to this book series.

Lee and Annie have to be my favorite characters while I was reading this book. Yes, they're friends who are training together and finding their place in the world so they can be firstrider, and they are also kind of apart when it comes to their own personal demons. But at the same time, you see them grow into the young people that they are today. Lee was fighting who he was when he kept getting messages from his long lost cousin, Julia Stormscourge, who ran to another island to get strong and become the first firstrider of her dragon squad, and she and Lee saw each other one more time so they can talk about it, but when they did meet, Julia did tell him that her dragon can spark dragonfire, which shocked Lee, and that's when he went down some weird depression somewhat (this was when I felt like I was going through a slump) but the more I see Lee snap out of it when he became commander of the fleet and them facing Julia one more time for Arelius...it was actually a really good character arc, I really enjoyed it.

Annie...Annie was fighting for her place as Firstrider. She trains for her matches with a kid named Power, they go to the villages where she got triggered when she remembered what happened to her when it came to what happened to her village and what happened at her home that terrible day she was forced to watch her family die by dragonsfire. But then she got stronger and in her match with Lee, she actually beat him after Aela, her dragon, finally sparked dragonfire, along with Lee's dragon.

All in all this was a really good book, even though it did put me into a tiny slump and I really don't like opening book reviews like that, but it was the truth.

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Book Review: White Horse Black Nights by Evie Marceau (The Godkissed Bride #1)

White Horse Black Nights by Evie Marceau
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A Godiva x Snow White romantasy with the bodyguard trope done right? I shockingly loved this one. Originally, I wasn't supposed to read this book till I was ready for it, but I clicked on it, downloaded it, and I read it and OMG I loved it. I wasn't ready for it, I just jumped on it and let it take me to where it was gonna take me, and I loved every bit of it.

Sabine Darrow has been locked up in A convent for about twelve years, and she can talk to animals, but at the convent, she was abused there, until one day, she was released from the convent...to get married to someone she doesn't even know. She is told that she is to recreate a very famous horseback riding scene, naked, and she complies, even though she doesn't want to. Sabine has plans to run away and never marry this dude that she doesn't know, but when her bodyguard is Wolf, a friend and hunter of her husband, that's when things get complicated.

For one, Wolf is just there to protect her and to take her through the cities so everyone can see who the lord has taken to wife, but Sabine sees it as torture and embarrassment. All she needs is one chance for her to run away from Wolf and leave with Aiden to go someplace else so she can be free...but when she does get that chance, that's when things...don't....end up...right.

When Wolf finds out what happens, that's when he, along with her horse Myst, goes to find her, and it turns out that Aiden and his friends are from another kingdom that has been quiet for a long time and is found to be alive and kidnapping girls to take them back to their king--what they don't know is that there's a reason that the king is kidnapping these girls and bringing them to their kingdom.

Maybe it's to awaken the old fae gods....maybe it's to finally have the godkissed powers they truly coveted after all these years....

Whatever it is that the kingdom wants, that's what Wolf wants to know, even if he is falling love with Sabine and wants her for himself. Even puts her as his bodyguard throughout the castle to protect her from his friend even though he's going to marry her soon and will be sharing a bed with him as well.

I enjoyed this book, I am going to continue with this series because it's now got me curious about things now and how things are gonna be in the next book.

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Book Review: A Whole New World by Liz Braswell (Twisted Tale #1)

A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

An Aladdin retelling but in a Twisted Tale form?

Perfection.

But...sadly it let me down. Mostly because of the way Aladdin went when he went to the Tiger Cave, I think it's called, and he did get the genie's lamp, but he gave it to Jafar... who turned around and abused the Genie. Also in my head, I heard Robin Williams, so that's probably why I didn't like it as much as I thought. Then the way the sultan was killed and Princess Jasmine ran away so she can fight with the Street Rats was cool, and also how both Aladdin and Jasmine feel in love during this really stupid war between them and Jafar was alright in my opinion.

But the one thing that made me mad throughout the book was Jafar and all of his rules and dealings and what he did to the magic carpet. Like I knew Jafar was evil AF, but my god that's straight-up evil. When he was defeated, he told the Genie his final wish--that all magic dies with him--was pretty messed up, but either way I still enjoyed it, even though the problems that bugged me to the point that I gave it three stars.

I am gonna continue reading the Twisted Tales series, but this one just wasn't my favorite one.

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