The Bibliophile

So I recently discovered this author when reading Descendant of Blood. I ended up accidently skipping the first book in that series and didn't realize until after I finished that I had messed up. I actually started reading another series by the same author yesterday which is another spin off of the Descendants series. The Vengeance series is what led me to this book. I guess what I'm saying is that M. Sinclair is a great author and has a talent for writing reverse harem's and you should definitely check her books out. Tears of the Cosmos is a story about Lorcan and her twin brother Cormac, elves who at the young age of fifteen find out that they have the inability to be loved. This book has some seriously depressing and dark undertones so readers beware. There's a lot of substance abuse and twisted things going on in this book so if you're uncomfortable with that I suggest not reading this series. Fair warning. Lorcan and her brother come into their powers at fif...

Wow. Violet often compares her life to a snowball rolling down hill, picking up speed as it goes. I have to say that's a great analogy for this series. Most of the time I was reading this book I had no idea what was going on. The second read was a little better but still, it's a lot of information and running around in circles most of the time but I just couldn't stop reading. Hence the reason this is my first post in like.. four days. "My snowball has finally reached the bottom of the hill," I tell him sounding halfway hysterical, as I angrily bat away the tears. "I thought I'd boulder through or just simply splat . Turns out there's a third option." "... I'm forced to continue rolling again in a different direction. It's starting at a crawl, building up those layers much too slowly to help me out at the moment," Seriously the snowball analogies are on point to describing the complexity of this book. Violet comes off as na...

I started this blog two weeks ago because I like to read and I read fast. I've never really been good at writing so this has been a bit of a struggle for me, though I still honestly like sharing my experience with others. I told myself I could do a book review a day because I usually can read a book a day, what I didn't account for were series and how difficult it is to write a review a day when reading through a six book series. I mean they all kinda blur together so I can never remember when one book ends and the other begins. This week I've been obsessed with the All the Pretty Monsters series by Kristy Cunning. I recently wrote a review for book one and I should have a review up for book six to wrap it up soon. I'm also writing up a review for her The Dark Side series as well as a post about all my favorite time travel romance novels but I'll have those up at a later date. This is all a work in progress so please be patient with me. Show some support by follow...

Kristy Cunning's All the Pretty Monsters series is great, I'm currently re-reading it so I'll start off with book one. I think she did a fantastic job with this series. It's well thought out, unique and entertaining. This story revolves around Violet, or January Violet Carmine. Violet is a twenty-five year old gypsy woman who after finding out her mother just died and left her everything in a small town called Shadow Hills moves to take over her mothers Gypsy Magic business, making healing potions as well as recreational "gypsy spice", and a bunch of other things. Violet is many things, a Portacle Gypsy being only one of those things, she has many secrets and layers to her that we very slowly begin to learn in book one, Gypsy Blood. At her mother's wake, where she's the only one in attendance Violet meets her ghost best friend Anna who literally enters riding her mothers casket wearing nothing but some lacy red underwear and becomes my favorite charac...

You know that kids show Monster High? Well imagine that but the adult version where they go to college and there's a lot more sexual innuendos and other adult themes. Monsters by Katie May is hilarious. Seriously had me snickering out loud all night long. I haven't read any other books by Katie May but I probably will try some out because I really liked this one. Monsters centers around the protagonist Violet the daughter of Dracula, and although she's a vampire and has been a monster her whole life she's not a very good one. She's soft and clumsy, and cares about kindness to others. Dracula, her father decides it's time to send his daughter to Prodigium an academy for monsters where they teach you how to hide a body, the history of other monsters and other various classes. At the academy she meets of plethora of different monsters who Katie May gives her own unique take to. There's Vin Van Helsing, Frankenstein's son Frankie. Jack and his other half H...

Did you ever watch that 90's tv show Gargoyles when you were younger? Well this series is the urban fantasy, reverse harem 90's Gargoyle story that I never knew I needed till now. There are four books in this series featuring the protagonist Ace Bisset a homicide detective and her four gargoyle guardians Jacques, Hassan, Gilbert and Thomas. Ace releases the gargoyles from a thousand year imprisonment in stone unknowingly after she inherits her great aunt's house. She's been working on a case that involves multiple dead bodies that have been bled to death and their bones in their arms ripped out and eaten. Ace is the detective they call when the case doesn't make any sense and has strong paranormal themes like exsanguination or puncture wounds on necks. This case however leaves her baffled until she goes to check out her new home and awakens four stone guardians in the process. Of course like anyone who has never believed in the supernatural and is thrust head first...

A Lost Paige is book two in the Hidden Kingdom Trilogy, the first being A Torn Paige by L. Rose. I read the first book accouple weeks ago and debated writing a review about it in my Favorites of November post but decided against it. I wanted to love this book, and in some aspects I liked it but I found it severely lacking. This series centers around our heroine Paige Alice who in the first book we discover that she is the Ghoul Queen chosen to rule by the former queen shortly before she died. Paige meets Asher, the vampire, Nate, the wolf shifter, and Alex, the mage when she goes to meet her family at a restaurant being held captive by a demon. Paige kills the demon and comes into her power, enter man number four Thorne, the ghoul. I liked the beginning of the first book, I think it started really well but as I got deeper into it I got a little bored. Paige and her four new boys along with her hellhound Ezra end up going to the Ghoul Queens castle where Paige takes over as queen and f...

This book is amazing and far exceeds my expectations of what it was going to be like. Descendant of Blood is book 2 in M. Sinclair's Descendants series which I just now realized I skipped book 1 Descendant of Chaos. I'll have to read and review book 1 at some point soon. M. Sinclair is also the author of Reborn in Flames which I reviewed accouple days ago and is also a very good read. I loved this story, its dark and twisted yet beautifully written and I simultaneously didn't want to put it down yet didn't want it to end. Descendant of Blood centers around Nova, a witch/demi-god badass who has the power of storms and is the daughter of Set the Egyptian god of chaos. I loved her character so much for her confidence, strength and most of all her humor. Nova and her six boyfriends, yes six plus two demi-god soon-to-be boyfriends are a sexy bunch of power and seduction. I loved all of their different personalities but I think Nova and Ever's relationship is my favorit...

Sigh.. This book went way too fast. It has some seriously good storyline, what with the authors own take on Hell and the Devil and demons and all that but lacked severely in the details. The little things, small details like movements in a room or a definite sense of time passing. The whole book is dialogue, and not even very good dialogue. Seriously some of it made me cringe. It felt like this story was burning a hole in the authors pocket and they couldn't get it out fast enough. I will say though I loved the overall idea of this story, the underlying themes that make you question your own beliefs. The protagonist is refreshingly confident and sure of herself. The steamy sex scenes are definitely hot but again lacked any real build up. All together, this book is a great read if you're just passing time or don't have anything better to do but not if you're looking for a book that consumes you. I don't know, in some aspects I really liked this book and others it ...

Reborn in Flames is honestly pretty good. Maya is a seventeen almost eighteen year old girl who has suffered emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her own parents since she can remember because of the so called "Devil" in her. When her god fearing, abusive father dies, her mother moves them both into a trailer park with her sleazy boyfriend. Maya meets tall dark and handsome by running into him at a gas station. Marco immediately realizes she is his and his flights fated mate. Maya is strong and confident yet extremely naïve and curious because of her upbringing. Her "fated mates" are all well written characters that I adore. Sometimes I don't necessarily like reading multiple point of views especially in reverse harems because they can be difficult and not really well written but this one was good. Despite being abused and tortured her entire life Maya has a refreshingly optimistic point of view which I find comforting in some ways. So many books depict...