Book Review: A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch (Glimmer Falls #2) by Sarah Hawley

A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sarah Hawley, you beautiful human you.

I am loving this series, and I really don't want it to end. I want this series to keep going because of how good it is, and also how fun it was. I was scared of the amnesia trope, but when she did it for Astaroth of the Nine and how it worked perfectly with the story, I loved it to bits. I really didn't like Astaroth in the beginning of the series. Still, with the second book all on him and how he travels with Calladia Cunnington to figure out how to get his memories back, it was SUCH a fun time that I want to read some more before the series ends.

This book touches on subjects like abuse-mental abuse, thanks to Calladia's ex and her mother, telling her that she's not good enough, she needs to tone herself down, and things like that. It did urk my nerves when her mother brought up all of the things that were wrong with Calladia and not love who she is as a person, and I'm glad that in the end, Calladia got her lick back and isn't gonna be around her mother ever again.

Astaroth of the Nine changed my perception of him throughout the book.

He shocked me so many times--from learning that he was a half-demon, his mother is Lilith...who writes War of the Roses tentacle AO3 Fanfiction--something I wasn't really for or to learn about--but I found that I liked that about her--and that he needed to find a life witch to help him get his memories back. So teaming up with the witch that hated him so much, Calladia, he goes on a road trip to find the witch that can restore his memories, and also find a way to stop a demon named Moloch, who is currently hellbent on killing him.

Throughout the road trip, from fighting werewolves to falling in love and sleeping in a tent, Astaroth had slowly shocked me and Calladia to the point that they fell in love. The ending was really fun, and for secrets to come out when Astaroth got his memories back and realised that he didn't want to go back to the Demon Council, to represent the demon hybrids and be their speaker in the council. Instead, he wants to be with his warrior queen, whom he had fallen in love with.

...Though there were some things I really didn't need to know about, like him and Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia...didn't need to know that part....really didn't....

But I really do love this book series so much and I cannot wait to read the next one.

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Book Review: The Witching Moon Manor (The Spellbound Sisters #2) by Stacy Sivinski

The Witching Moon Manor by Stacy Sivinski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This month it seems like my Libby holds have gas after gas after gas-and reading The Witching Moon Manor made me really happy-just like the first book, it is a happy, warm hug while you sit and enjoy a cup of tea.

The Quigley sisters are reunited again after having their birthday visions and came home, each sister having problems-Anne is the Diviner of Chicago, but even she can't figure out why Mr. Crowley hasn't done his final Task. Violet had an accident at the circus with her husband, Emil, and decided to come home, and Beatrix...well, Beatrix can't write herself a new novel, and she's in a writer's block. So the three sisters come back together to figure things out like they always do, and just like magic, things start to unravel themselves and are put back to rights in their own ways.

Beatrix is having a problem writing her new book. She sits in front of her notebook, but no words have come to her. So she gets up and helps her sister, Anne, only to find herself in a bookstore where she becomes the sole owner thanks to Violet, and she opens a book and starts to read it, thinking that once she gets to the end, she'll see the words The End.

Instead, the words are scratched out, and new words are written...words I have forgotten, but I think they said "There are new endings' or something like that?

Once Beatrix reads those words and is also around Jennings and is slowly falling for him, it turns out that the dusty bookshelf is an enchanted bookstore, and then soon Beatrix is writing again.

Anne is trying to figure out how to keep Mr. Crowley and Philip together in the afterlife once she figures out what Final Task Mr. Crowley has been ignoring/didn't do. She meets his nephew, Vincent, and the two work together to figure out who the ring belongs to. They do butt heads during the whole thing, but then when they do come together, that's when she finds out that thanks to the ring and her new powers, she can walk through the past, and thanks to Vincent's help, she figures out who the ring belongs to, and even though it does belong to Vincent Crowley, it went from Mr. Crowley, Anne, May, Philip's sister, and then Vincent.

Violet was having problems with what had happened at the circus, and she threw herself into helping her sisters with their problems, ignoring her own. When she finally has a chance to sit down and think about what happened at the circus and to poor Emil, she talks to her sisters and drinks some tea, then goes to bed and has a dream that changes everything. Then, when they were together at the end, they all looked at the tea leaves....

...and finds out that someone is pregnant and is going to have a baby by the sign of the birds or something in the tea leaves.

This is my favorite series of all time and I need everyone reading this cozy series.

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Book Review: High Tea and Misdemeanor by Laura Childs

High Tea and Misdemeanors by Laura Childs
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

First time reading anything from Laura Childs, and I don't think it'll be my last time doing so. High Tea and Misdemeanors takes place during a wedding in Charleston, but then a murder happens, and Theo and her friend and tea sommelier (I learned that's a thing now....) Drayton Conneley tries to figure out who killed the bridesmaid and why they are trying to scare the groom.

As Theo and Drayton look into everything, from the guy Jaime worked for once, and told him that what he was doing wasn't going to work, and he lost everything, to a tech startup guy that did the website for the graveyard stroll that Theo's teashop, the Indigo Tea Shop, is hosting in a very famous graveyard. But when this one woman kept coming into the shop, saying that she wanted to open her own coffee shop with her own flavors of coffee, it never clicked until the end, when she led Theo and Drayton to an abandoned warehouse, where she explained everything and why she did what she did to the shed.

For a moment throughout the whole entire thing, I thought it was the bride's ex-fiancé that did it, but when it was revealed to be the coffee shop operator, I was both shocked...and annoyed. I really didn't want it to be her, but good lord, she made it so hard for me to see that it was her the whole time. I was hoping that it was someone else, but when Theo's boyfriend came through at the end, after telling her multiple times not to get involved, she did anyway.

Throughout the book, everyone kept asking her if she was going to get involved and solve the mystery. Even though Theo said no, she got involved anyway, and that's when she solved the case, while also going through the police via her boyfriend :) All in all, it was a really good book, and I cannot wait to read more from this author.

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Book Review: A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I saw someone on The Nest on OwlCrate read this book and decided to put this on hold...and I'm so glad that I did. This book was so good, so funny, and I wanna read the rest of the series, because how can something like this-a witch and demon-actually work? I thought it couldn't be done or that I had to do it, but when I first read this book and saw how funny it was, I loved every bit of it.

Mariel accidentally summons Ozroth the Ruthless...because she was trying to summon a bag of flour. Mariel tries so hard to get rid of Ozroth, only for him to be her fake boyfriend when her mother comes by to see how her summoning is doing. Since Ozroth is a soul bargainer demon, he tries so hard to get Mariel to sell her soul on some simple things, but she refuses at every turn.

Ozroth is having problems himself. Ozroth made a deal gone wrong, and now he has a soul inside him that is making him do human things, like sleep for eight hours, eat, and actually drink tea. But the more he's around Mariel and sees how good she is, and how her magic just shines, and how her family pretty much treats her like shit, Ozroth decides to help her with her magic and for her to understand it...only to fall in love with her...hard.

When his mentor, Astaroth, calls him, trying to get him to make Mariel take the deal, Orzoth tries...but instead, at the end, fails, and Mariel makes a deal with Astaroth instead without knowing it, losing her soul in the process....and made it go directly to Ozroth instead. As soon as Ozroth got the spell, that's when it clicked for him, and he returned her soul back, and then everything is well...

Or it?

Thanks to Mariel's bestie, she kicked Astaroth's ass back to the demon world....or did she?

Now I need to read book two to know what happened to him and how he'll survive.

This book was right up my alley, and I enjoyed every bit of it. It made me laugh, and I gasped at some parts. I now want to reread this series every single spooky season because of how good it is.

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Book Review: Murder by Chessecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage

Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Murder during a St. Olaf Wedding that Rose is hosting? Perfection.

I flew through this book the moment it arrived on my Libby. It was really funny, had that old Golden Girls charm that we all know and love, and I crackled greatly at the many St. Olaf stories that Rose has told from the show, from Mean Old Lady Hickenlooper to the Headless Boy to everything in between. I thought-no, I feared. Greatly. That I wouldn't like this book. A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery? Nah, I wouldn't like it.

But the more I read it, the more I found that I really enjoyed myself. I wanted to read more of the Girls going throughgh everything they could to figure out why poor Dorothy's date had fallen dead on one of Rose's perfect cheesecakes. I felt like I was right there with them when they discovered it, and then going through the whole mystery of who killed the guy and what led to his death. From going to Wolfie's, dealing with Rose's family from St. Olaf that came to Miami for the wedding, to the funny ending, this was a book I really fun time and I really need everyone to read it.

In fact, I think it was this book that made me do my 30th rewatch of the Golden Girls because it was that funny, made me worry about the girls as they figure out who killed Dorothy's date, and also who put him in the freezer, face down onto Rose's cheesecakes.

I wanted to eat a cheesecake after reading this book. Alas...I didn't get a chance to. But one day I will.

Loved, loved, loved this book so much.

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Book Review: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have never read Carmilla, but while I was reading this book, I now have an itch it read it. You don't need to read Carmilla to read this book, but oh boy, this book was sooo good and had me cheering for the end...and also something really bad to happen to Henry because I really hated him so, so much.

Throughout the novel, you are in Lenore's head and see what she goes through with her husband, Henry, and her so-called best friend Cora as she tries to get the Nethershaw Manor fixed up for a hunt that was going to happen in a couple of months. While going to Nethershaw Manor, they run into a broken carriage that belongs to a woman named Carmilla, and that's when things start to become as strange as they can be.

Men are dying, and women are starting to feel hunger for something. One day in the woods, they came across a girl who ate a whole-ass chicken and said that she was "just so hungry". Another time Lenore was out, they came across a woman in a shop, where the man was leaning over the table and moaning, his arm bleeding as the woman was cooking some pork, and said the same thing the girl said-she was "just so hungry".

But the worst thing that happened was the death of one of Henry's workers at Ajax Works--she, along with other Iron Magistrates, witnessed it, and when she thought Henry would do the right thing and give the family some compensation...it didn't happen. Instead, he didn't do it, telling Lenore to post it in the mail. But Lenore wanted to deliver it herself, and it ended up pretty bad.

My favorite parts throughout the book were the relationship Lenore had with Carmilla. It was the most beautiful, sapphic love, because Carmilla saw how Henry was treating her, and she wanted Lenore to stand up for herself, and to also fight and know what was really going on in her house. She even asked the question over breakfast or dinner, Do you think those two are fucking? When it came to Henry and Cora.

At first, Lenore didn't believe her one bit. Her Henry, cheating on her with her friend? Nonsense. She didn't believe it until she and Cora were out on a picnic and she saw the diamond necklace she thought Henry was going to give to her. Fuelled by anger, Lenore yelled and screamed at Cora before Cora tipped over and fell to her death. All of a sudden, she started to come up with a really good excuse as to what happened to Cora--after all, her dear husband wanted to throw her into an asylum for no good reason, even when she started nearly eating everything in the room.

But when she found out that she was slowly being poisoned by arsenic from these pasilies pills, oohhh boy, that also tipped Lenore off--to the point that she tore her husband's neck out with her teeth like a vampire. She even sent off evidence to the police, so if something happens to her or if she dies, the police can have the evidence.

The whole hunting secret was so bad--made me think of another hunting event that went wrong--and even though I really hated Henry SO MUCH because of this secret and all of his manipulations and things like that that when he got what he deserved, I was so happy. Because the ending went so well, Lenore and Carmilla left, even the question at the end was so good--

"You must be so terribly hungry, Lenore." (I'm paraphrasing it)

But that was such a really good ending to a really good book, and now I need to read more from Kat Dunn.

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Book Review: An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My second Margaret Rogerson book that I've read, and it was soo good.

Isobel is a painter, and most of her patrons are Fae, and they come to get their paintings done. One day, the Autumn Prince Rook comes and asks for a painting, and she accidentally paints him to have human sorrow in his eyes, the deadliest thing she could've done. Then Rook comes back to spirit her away to the Autumn Court, to stand on trial for what she did. But once she was spirited back to the Fae realm, that's when she went on an adventure.

From the Wild Hunt to the Spring Court, and even attempting to fight the Alder King, Isobel and Rook find adventure, games, and romance. Isobel tries very hard to keep her human self intact, even keeping an iron ring in her pocket in case of emergencies. But the more she is around the fae and sees how they live in the respective courts, and also encounters the Wild Hunt and helps Rook defeat the Alder King, and also becomes royalty at the end.

I had a great deal of fun reading this book. It had twists and turns, and I wasn't expecting the adventure that I was going to go on with Rook and Isobel. I wish this were a series, because it was so, so good. I really enjoyed myself reading her stories, and I need to read more of Margaret Rogerson so, so much.

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Book Review: Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic #1)

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I feel like everyone and their mama has read this book or any book by Alice Hoffman, but as soon as I picked this book up-randomly after I got done with another book-I cracked it open and I fell into this dark world filled with magic, secrets, history, and family. Alice Hoffman has just become one of my new favorite authors that I'm sleeping on, and reading this book in the fall seems perfect. It makes me want to actually make my own tea and make black soap and just have a cozy, magical life and not have any worries. That's how this book makes me feel.

My favorite character from this book has to be Maria. When Hannah raised her and taught her the Nameless Arts, she was a headstrong young lady and also very sweet and very kind. She knew how to do many things, and when Hannah was killed, she ran off so she wouldn't be found. She went to work on a Dutch farm, where she met the man who would make her do the family curse. She fell in love hard with John Hawthrone, and when she woke up one day and he was gone, she followed him, pregnant and only had her art, to Massachusetts, where she first had the baby before she left and then met a man named Samuel Dias, who had the breakback fever.

I don't think that at the time Maria was running away after Hannah's death, she'd come across her own mother, Rebecca, who was a witch as well, but she practices the Arts, but I think a bit darker. Maria did live with her mother for a bit and even learned of a potion called the Tenth Potion, which Maria wrote down, but she never used it. I would like to think that she kept that potion handy for an emergency, but she didn't use it because it reminded her too much of her mother and how her mother used it to get a man she loved, and that she had bespelled him to love her.

Back on the boat, Maria helped Samuel break his fever, but he still had aches and pains sometimes when it came back. Maria's daughter, Faith (we'll get back to her,) calls him either Gogo or Goat, and Samuel just kept telling both of them tales. He even warns Maria against going to Massachusetts to find the man she's in love with, John Hawthorne, because it is very dangerous.

And he was absolutely right.

This was Salem during the Witch Trials, and Maria and Faith, thanks to John, were hidden. But that didn't stop John from coming to see Maria at night and smashing her before going back to his wife, and Maria had to hide herself, but only wearing red boots. Faith kinda did the same, but she had a huge wolf she named Keeper after one night coming across him when she saw some hunters hurt his mother and brother, and forgot about him. Things were going well--women coming to see Maria for the usual remedies that the local apothecary doesn't have --until someone named Martha Chase lied on Maria, just so she could have her daughter Faith.

In fact, Martha did all of that scheming to take Faith away from Maria so she could have a daughter, telling her lies about her mother and making sure that she doesn't practice the art-to the point that she put iron bracelets on poor Faith's wrists, while Maria survives her ordeal, and during her trial and thanks to Samuel coming back from the sea, Maria put a curse on her family so she won't be hurt. When she didn't die and the rope snapped, Maria ran off to try and find her daughter, only to find her gone.

But Faith, being Faith, the smartest girl in the world, was coming up with a plan to escape Martha so she could finally live her life and get her revenge.

Faith has been playing the good daughter for Martha, but has been secretly buying books to read and even finding a dark magic spellbook from a book stall one day, even after she was warned about it. When she did escape from Martha, she did had help from the peddler named Finny, who was the hero of the escape, which was a really good thing. I was worried that Faith wasn't going to escape, and when she did after Martha fell hard on a bridge, that's when she felt truly free. She even asked Finny to take the bracelets off, and she felt more like herself again--to the point that when she got to Manhattan of NYC, she went straight to her mother and also started to get her revenge on her own father.

How?

She pretended to be a new maid in his home, and waited till the right time to do it. When she served him Tell the Truth Tea and some pie with a dead dove in it, she did feel like she got her revenge on her father after what he did to her and Maria, but once she came to her senses, that's when she (or I think Maria did) put the book in the Owens library so no one can find it and use its dark magic.

I really enjoyed this book so much, it has to be one of my favorite books. Now on to the next book!

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Book Review: Brewed with Love by Shelly Page

Brewed with Love by Shelly Page
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

How can I describe this book....

If you take the cozy mystery elements of a cozy mystery...

Throw in witches and werewolves...

A sapphic romance between said witch and werewolf...

A potion goes wrong, and small town vibes...

And you got this book.

Honestly, this book was really cute. It was cozy, had a mystery in it, and I enjoyed reading this book. It had a young witch who was trying to come up with a heartbreak potion to get rid of the heartbreak she felt for her friend Ximena. One day, Sage (the witch) ran out of the store, and there was a break-in at the store, thanks to Ximena calling her and telling her about it. Running back to the store, she found that her heartbreak potion was gone, and now she needs to know who broke into the store and why.

Throughout the book, we see Sage and Ximena try to solve the case in a couple of days, along with them trying to talk about why Ximena left and also their feelings for each other. When Sage finds out that Ximena is a werewolf and cannot control it because of the magic that has been leeched because of Bottled Wonders, a huge superstore like Walmart, but they sell a whole bunch of generic potions, and the owner, John Winters, is trying to run out every single small business in town.

Not if Sage has anything to deal with it.

Along with a human whose memory is lost, Sage and Ximena race to find out who stole the horrible potion and why. When they find out it was an athlete from school who was giving the potions to John Winters, Sage comes up with an idea to stop him, and it works. John is arrested, Sage came up with a new potion that helped revive the memories of the girl, and Ximena asks her to be her girlfriend. Everything is going well, and the shop is saved.

Even though all of this happened in the springtime, I feel like you can read this in the falltime and it can still be cozy and adorable at the same time. I enjoyed myself and I hope she comes out with more books or make this into a series, because I would read that.

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Book Review: Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig (The Shepard King's Duology #2)

Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Two Twisted Crowns...just like One Dark Window, Two Twisted Crowns had brought me to my knees. The Nightmare now inhabiting Elspeth's body, Elm, and Ione are looking for Ione's Maiden card, and both The Nightmare/Elspeth and Ravyn are looking for the last card in the Provience deck, the Twin Alders card. Once again, Rachel Gillig knocked this book out of the park for me, because we go back to a time when The Nightmare, or the Shepherd King, or Taxus, as he was called in the past, created the cards and how one person took it all away-a Rowan named Brutus, I believe-and then everything went to hell, and now The Nightmare and Ravyn are trying to find the Twin Alders to reunite the deck and then destroy it.

That arc hurt my soul in ways I never thought it could hurt me, but the more I read it, the more I was really getting into the story and how that arc was going to end-will Elspeth get back to her own body? Will The Nightmare forever stay in Elspeth's body, and will Elspeth be lost to Ravyn and everyone and never return? Those were the questions in my mind as I kept reading, and when they finally got the card, I felt like everything was going to be alright.

The second arc was the Elm and Ione story. All Elm wants to do is help Ione find the Maiden card that Hauth, when he controlled her with the Scythe card, told her to hide it. Elm tried everything he could to find the card, along with being the King's Heir, while the King was totally doing the Robert Baratheon and drinking all the time, and not making any sense when he was drunk. When Hauth came back to life thanks to the Maiden card, it was almost like a fight to the death when Elm and Ione tried to fight Hauth, and even Ione showed Elm the cruelty she dealt with her when she was with Hauth.

When the Nightmare and Ravyn came back from getting the Twin Alders, a fight ensued, and all hope was lost when Hauth had all the cards. But Elm pulled an uno-reverse card and spilled Hauth's blood all over the cards, and everything was clearer than ever-The Nightmare and Elspeth had one final moment before he disappeared, Ravyn knew his real name (Taxus, named after The Shepherd King and also his father was Bennett), and Elm and Ione got married. Some new cards were created, and the wedding between Elm and Ione was very beautiful. I really enjoyed this duology, and I'm so glad that I read it, and I now need to read the new things Rachel Gillig is writing, because she's my new favorite author of all time.

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Book Review: One Dark Window (The Shepard King Duology #1) by Rachel Gillig

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So....apparently I've been missing out on Rachel Gillig, because OH MY GOOD LORD this book??? This book right here?? PERFECTION. I wasn't expecting me to love this book, to be fair. Every time I'd see this book online, I would legit ask, 'Does the monster in this girl's head like Sukuna in Itadori's head?' and I was so curious that I'd hold on to this series until the fall, where I picked it up and read it myself.

And I am so glad that I did.

Elspeth Spindle is a girl who has a being called the Nightmare in her head (that sadly isn't like Sukuna, but then the more I read it, his voice turned out to be like Naraku, but his actions are like Sukuna's), and one night while walking, she almost gets attacked by highwaymen. It turns out that the highwaymen are from the Rowan royal family, who are seeking the cards to rid themselves of the mist that has shrouded the Kingdom of Bluster. Elspeth agrees when her cousin Ione is announced to the Crown Prince Hauth (whom I hate, but let's move on before I snap and dump a BUNCH of hate on this man) and has received The Maiden card.

Elspeth, Ravyn, Elm, and Jespyr go out one night and attempt to rob someone of their card, unaware that Hauth or Elspeth's father is also present, and things don't go as planned. Back at the castle, the sickly brother, Emory, touches Elspeth, and I feel like he kinda saw The Nightmare in Elspeth, and started talking about The Book of the Oak, I believe, and then things started...going dark quite fast.

There was a Chalice card that tries to get people to tell the truth, and Prince Hauth tries to use it on Elspeth, but since she can see it and can't use it (along with Ravyn) that's when Ravyn starts to lie about certain events, and then after that, Ravyn and Elspeth told each other their feelings, and then they hunched. But one day, when Ravyn was gone from the castle, Hauth showed up and put his hands on Elspeth, and then The Nightmare took over and broke Hauth like a twig, and that's where the story ends-with The Nightmare/Elspeth in the dungeons, Ione very beautiful, and Hauth darn near on his deathbed.

I really enjoyed this book, like I said, and Rachel Gillig became one of my new auto-buy authors. I loved her writing, I loved how she brought the magic in the cards to life, and I also really like how she built the relationship between the characters to bring them to life. I feel like I was at home in the Kingdom of Blunder, and I am very excited to read the second book in the series.

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Book Review: Queen of Deception (Empire of Shattered Crowns #1) by May Freighter

Queen of Deception by May Freighter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book reminded me of the many Korean reincarnation manhwas I've read, about a girl who's reincarnated into a princess and starts to change everything, and I loved every single bit of it.

Emilia was dead, and then one day she woke up in a fantasy novel like the one in her favorite fantasy novel, The Cruel Empire, and the person she inhabits is the princess who is fated to die. But Emilia changes all of that when she survives the coup and becomes regent of Dante. She then starts to go to work on fixing so many things that needed to be fixed in the country, and also works with the prince, Prince Thessian, and to one day give him the Throne of Dante, and she can live on her own in the countryside with her faithful maid and lady in waiting, Ambrose.

But things don't go her way the moment she learns that things aren't going the way they should in Dante.

One, there were political enemies she wanted to eliminate, one by one. The way she did this was so well done and very cunningly, I must say. Two, she tried very hard not to fall in love with Prince Thessian, and she succeeded, even though she couldn't help but look at him from time to time, which is not that much. Thirdly, she saves a group of children from people who don't want her to take the throne, and she willingly walks towards them before they are killed.

Emilia became one of my favorite characters of all time now, and I want to read more of this series. Even though Prince Thessian wasn't my favorite, the ending concerned me a bit, and I wanted to know if he was going to survive or not. The way he ran after the Grey Wolf with one of the lord's children, and I got very concerned about him. All in all, I really liked this book and I will definitely read more in this series, to see how it continues.

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Book Review: A Kingdom of Stars and Shadows by Holly Renee (Stars & Shadows #1)

A Kingdom of Stars and Shadows by Holly Renee
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I legit read this book out of spite, and even though it was fine, for me it fell...flat. As hell.

Adara was just...annoying and always was the strong girl who wanted to be free of being Starblessed like she had cooties and wanted to live a normal life. Adara was betrothed to the crown prince, Garvil, but then she meets Evran one night...and she's lusting after him, not giving Garvil the time of day. At all. Which, okay, cool, its forbidden and all, but to sneak around and smash the brother while trying to find a way out ofthe castle.

The spicy scenes were eh okay, the way she left the castle when the vampyres attacked were meh, and then that ending...didn't surprise me one bit. I was waiting on something else to come along and shock me, but it didn't. This book just fell so flat for me that I wished for it to be over. When it was, it was. It was an okay book but sadly just not for me at all.

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