Showing posts with label enemies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enemies. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Moon-kissed : Within the Darkness by Amelia Hutchins


 Synopsis

Alexandria Helios is on a mission to find her brother. Landon disappeared on his quest to find the Sacred Library that holds the cure to the moon sickness affecting their people. There is one problem. Her journey will take her through the Kingdom of Night and directly into Torrin’s path as the head of the Night King’s army. He’s egotistical, sexy, sin incarnate, and everything she knows she shouldn’t want, but his whispered promise of dark desires awakens something deep within her that makes him hard to resist.
Torrin didn’t expect the lead assassin of the Moon Clan to walk into his trap. Alexandria has ignited something within him he thought was gone, and he knows he shouldn’t crave her, but he does. She’s a fire in a world of ice, bathed in blood and moonlight that calls to the darkness within him.
Secrets are unraveling as both are tossed into a ploy that neither is destined to survive. Can they find common ground and work together to defeat the darkness? Or will the world come crashing down around them as they tear each other apart?

 

 Review

 If you want tension, anger, sex, death, murder, sorrow, angst, hopelessness....it is all there in this book.

Alexandria and Torrin burnt up my pages. This is not your cookie cutter romance where the hero and heroine fight for their love - this is enemy vs enemy with sexual tension riddled all through it. Did I mention there's magic and a prophecy as well? 

If you've read this author's previous works then you know that there is a slow, taxing, painful burn between the main characters. At times they hate each other as much as they care for each other. At their core they are enemies and are constantly trying to outthink the other.

Just a warning - there isn't a HEA this is where you see Alexandria slowly morph into the bad ass that she is meant to be.

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Playing with Monsters (Playing with Monsters, #1) by Amelia Hutchins

Playing with Monsters (Playing with Monsters, #1)Playing with Monsters by Amelia Hutchins
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was very different than what I expected. I can honestly say when I first started the book I was not feeling Lucian and Lena. I remember Lucian from A.Hutchins' other books, but I didn't have an opinion on him. With this book I sure did. He is an a-hole and a supreme douche. A menthol eucalyptus douche - if you can imagine something so painful.
I felt as if Lena's will and purpose wasn't strong enough. She struck as being pretty self-assured and strong in character, but as soon as she meets Lucian its like her mind and her panties go up in the air.



My only way around characterizing Lena as weak-willed and run by her coochie was to tell myself Lucian is a powerful ________. I leave it blank because I really don't know what creature he is. He isn't a fairy, he's not the Devil's right hand man, and he damned sure isn't a witch (like Lena). So many secrets and no idea who knows the truth. What the reader does know is that a past witch cursed Lucian's people [Lucian himself?] and there's some kind of power that will be released into the world if Lucian doesn't kill the resurrected witch. There's more to it than that, but thems the basics.

Also, Lena herself is going through major sh*t and its called life. Her life is soooo messy. Her coven. Her family. Her relationships. Her yet to be released powers. Its all messed up. Throw in this sexually charged fog that grabs her whenever she's around Lucian and we have a huge recipe for disaster.



Honestly, I didn't get seriously invested until the middle of the book. Lucian is still not my fav character.



I will continue to read the series because I think both characters can redeem themselves. haha
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