January Wrap-Up

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The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

The Syren’s Mutiny by Jessica Taylor The Syren’s Mutiny Book One

Sundial by Catriona Ward

The Bone Witch Osseous Chronicles Book One by Ivy Asher

The Blood Witch Osseous Chronicles Book Two by Ivy Asher

The Bound Witch Osseous Chronicles Book Three by Ivy Asher

Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath

Glow by Raven Kennedy The Plated Prisoner Four

Queen of Myth and Monsters Adrian X Isolde Book Two by Scarlett St. Clair

Saint by Adrienne Young Fable 0.5

The Cult by Penelope Sky

Queen of Myth & Monsters by Scarlett St. Clair

★★

Book two in the Adrian X Isolde series by Scarlett St. Clair didn’t do it for me. I wanted to like it. I liked the first book, King of Battle and Blood, but this one left a lot to be desired. From start to finish, it was just Adrian & Isolde bickering and fucking. Maybe I expect too much from St. Clair. I never went back to reading the Persephone & Hades series but Adrian X Isolde appealed to me because it was new and originalish.

I’m starting to get the impression that St. Clair’s books are just not my cup of tea. If Adrian X Isolde remains a trilogy, I’ll probably finish off the series. But if this is going to start to drag out like The Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy, I think I’m done.

❥ Previous Review : king of battle and blood

Glow by Raven Kennedy

★★★

I feel like I lost the plot on this one. Seriously, where was the plot? Gleam ended with Auren killing Midas. I get it, the girl has got some serious trauma but did I need five hundred pages of character development? No, I personally did not. I understand that it is important for some people, a lot of people even. I rather my character development go hand in hand with the plot. Not pause one in sacrifice with the other.

❥ Previous Reviews : gild & glint ♥ gleam

❥ My thoughts on Glow can be found here.

The Osseous Chronicles by Ivy Asher

★★★★

This series was a quick paced fun read. I was instantly swept up in the story and couldn’t click the page-turn button fast enough. It’s not deep, and it’s not complicated. Every once in a while I find you need that kind of book. The ones where you don’t need to think about things too much, you get to just sit back and enjoy the story.

I devoured this series one book after the other. Would I have read them all if I had to wait between releases? Perhaps. I really enjoyed the personality of the main character. We had similarities. Would I read a fourth book if Asher suddenly released one? eh, probably not. The story is over for me. I’m done with the characters, even if I liked them.

The House Across the Lake vs. Sundial

Sundial. I don’t even have a reason other than if I was to recommend a Riley Sager novel, it would not be The House Across the Lake. Oddly enough, Sundial wasn’t the only ‘disturbed child with the warrior gene’ as a stage left character that I read in January. Give Me the Child had a similar concept, albeit very different. 

❥ My thoughts on Sundial by Catriona Ward can be found here.

❥ My thoughts on The House Across the Lake can be found here.

Saint by Adrienne Young

★★★★

I absolutely adored Fable and Namesake. Getting Fable’s parents’ origin story? Glorious. If Fable was a delicious chocolate cupcake, Namesake was the icing. & Saint is the sprinkles on top. 

My review for Fable & Namesake can be found here. I read Saint before I made the decision to start reviewing again. So consider this, a mini-review. Ultimately Saint added to the original story in my opinion, but the story is also done as far as I am concerned. Could Young write another 23423473298 books about these characters? I mean, sure but I don’t know how into them I will be personally.

Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath

★

Under different life circumstances, I may have liked this book. The twists and turns and big reveal just didn’t do it for me. But I get how they could do it for someone else.

The Syren’s Mutiny by Jessica Taylor

★★

This was another one that just wasn’t for me. Now if I had a Time Machine and could go back to when I was a preteen? Well, I probably would have loved it. As far as I am aware, The Syren’s Mutiny was Taylor’s debut release as an indie author. For that, she deserves all the praise.

❥ Check out my thoughts on The Syren’s Mutiny here.

The Cult by Penelope Sky

★★★

I’m honestly still not sure if The Cult was supposed to be as funny as I found it. I haven’t decided if I want to read book two in the series, The Catacombs. I enjoyed reading The Cult, but the ending had been a bit lackluster and I dont feel compelled to continue reading the series .

❥ My thoughts on The Cult can be found here.

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