Ashes and Metal (Cyborg Shifters, #5) by Naomi Lucas

Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas
SUMMARY

No one messed with Gunner. No one.

He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake. When a pirate commandeers his ship, Gunner takes it upon himself to exact a revenge that will ignite a wildfire of rage, death, and torment upon those who made the mistake of taking what was rightfully his.

Elodie has spent most of her life pretending to be a boy to remain alongside her father in space. He’s the only family she has left. When the ship they worked on is attacked, she’s taken prisoner. Every day, she feared that her secret would be discovered—that she’s a woman alone amongst men. When a strange man is dragged into the cell next to hers, she realizes she was living on borrowed time.

He stared at her as if he knew her secret…

MY REVIEW

Gunner is half cyborg- half jackal shifter. He happily works for Earthian Planetary Exploration Division collecting monsters from several planets of the universe. He also has a great ship and a few great female sexbots who satisfy his needs and help him operate his ship.
When Gunner is attacked by pirates, his ship is stolen by them and he ends up as a prisoner of them; he can think only of revenge and how he can get his property back. Because nobody NOBODY is allowed to touch what belongs to Gunner.

At the next cell, a young man is also held prisoner. He is lonely and he never talks to anybody. Something is strange about him. He looks like a man, he behaves like a man, but Gunner's inner jackal insists that he is a woman. Unfortunately he is so dirty and Gunner can not have a good snif of him/her in order to decide what he/she is.

Space is not a safe place for women. Thus, Elodie has spent most of her life pretending that she is a man. Her father convinced her that this was the best thing if she wanted to stay and work with him in space.
Now her father and her are prisoners of the pirates. And there is this strange, huge man at the next cell with the gun tattoos on his face that keeps talking to her and never leaves her alone. Obviously everybody have been sure that Elodie is a guy...then why Gunner treat her like a girl sometimes?

This is my favourite book of the series so far! I think it is the longest and the most complete story. And I am sure it can be read as a standalone if you want to try the series. It has everything: space, pirates, cyborgs, shifters, sexy times, bloody times, humour, fake ids (by the way I love stories when a person pretends to be a different gender) and of course space battles!

Mutt (Cyborg Shifters #4) by Naomi Lucas

Mutt  by Naomi Lucas
SUMMARY

BEWARE OF DOG

Clara was confused when she encountered the sign outside the Cyborg breeding facility. She wanted a child and nothing would stand in her way. But she didn’t heed the sign’s warning—she had more important things on her mind—and once she understood, it was too late. Her heart was already on the line.

Reid was the ultimate protector, the perfect bodyguard, his loyalty embedded in his DNA. The animal his creators chose for him was a favorite, a downright blessing, and an ongoing nightmare. He found the perfect reprieve after the Great Galactic War: Division Head of the last Cyborg breeding facility on Earth. The empty halls offered more than silence—they offered him sanctuary.

Territory.

When a woman walked through his door, begged to join the program, and wouldn’t take no for an answer, her delicate features and desperation awakened a behavior that had long lain dormant—his need to claim.

MY REVIEW

This book is slightly different to the other books of the series so far. The action does not happen on a spaceship or on an alien planet. The story takes place on Earth which apparently is not a friendly place anymore - especially if you are a lonely woman who tries to get pregnant with any way possible and she is chased by her psycho ex. Reid is a cyborg and a shifter (maybe the last cyborg on earth as sometimes he jokes). He is also the Head of the last Cyborg breeding facility on Earth. A facility which it has only one doctor, himself. And 0% success in breeding. When Clara appears asking to be bread with Cyborg DNA, Reid realises that she mainly wants a place to hide. So he does what he knows best. He tries to throw her out and discourages her from coming back. Reid has survived alone for so many decades and although his natural instincts urge him to form a pack, he continuously denies his true nature. But apparently he will like Clara and he will want to protect her and when she finally convinces him to experiment with her, he will only wish to give her his own DNA. This is a very interesting story and moreover lots of the characters from the previous books will appear. It is time for a few cyborg mates to have babies :) I think the fourth story of the Cyborg-shifter universe has made the series stronger and I can easily predict many many books to come.

Shark Bite (Cyborg Shifters #3) by Naomi Lucas

Shark Bite by Naomi Lucas

SUMMARY

Netto was a Cyborg, a protector, and a contracted mercenary. His specialty was the water: shallows, salt water, and open oceans across the universe. He was also a freak forged from the DNA of a bull shark—blue-grey skin, a body built with power, and a double-set of razor-sharp teeth. His nomadic lifestyle came to a halt when his old employer, the Earthian Planetary Exploration Division, offered him his old job back.

Rylie was born and raised on the planet Kepler, on an agri-lot that farmed jewels from the sea. But something was happening to her family’s lots and people were disappearing.

When a giant Cyborg showed up at her settlement and struck a deal with her father, she was forced to follow the stranger out onto the water, into the dangers of the alien deep, and far beyond the sight of land.

She feared the Cyborg.
She feared his teeth.
But she feared the monsters in the water more.

MY REVIEW

Netto is a cyborg and half shark and he is perfect in giving solutions in aquatic environment even in strange planet in deep space. During one of his missions at planet Kepler, he will meet Rylie. Rylie was born and raised at Kepler. She comes from a family of farmers who farm jewels from the sea.

Unfortunately recently lots of farmers have gone missing, their ships are being destroyed and weird huge monsters have been roaming the seas. Netto had been there when the safe enviroment for the farmers had been created many many years ago and the boarders between the peaceful sea and the unknown sea had been set. Combined with the fact that Netto can transform into a shark and swim deeply into the sea without any problems, he is basically the most suitable candidate to discover what is the problem with the sea of this planet.

Although cyborgs are treated like heroes in the farming community and their help is welcome, Rylie is not comfortable with Netto in the beginning. Maybe because she prefers being alone and maybe because he is huge with sharp teeth and maybe because he does not talk much and he looks at her like he wants to eat her. And maybe he wants to eat for real.

I love stories with cyborgs and shifters and this series is awesome, but honestly I was not feeling comfortable when I was reading this story. I am not sure that I like shark shifters -especially when they half shift when they have sex hahaha. My god, those teeth....
Moreover I was very concerned about his size and the damage he could create to poor virgin Rylie. Not a happy thought...

Other than that, it was a very imaginative story and it is also the beginning of the story for Zeph, the half cyborg/half salt water crocodile who is also Netto’s friend and Janet, the slut/man-eater/selfish bitch who is also Rylie's sister.

Storm Surge (Cyborg Shifters #2) by Naomi Lucas

Storm Surge by Naomi Lucas

SUMMARY

Everybody feared the man with the metal band over his mouth.

Stryker was part of an elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. He was known as the Creeper, the quiet, the man with half a face. His fate was his own and his freedom hard-earned, having nothing to live for but the hunt and his perfect record. Until he received a distress call that changed his bleak existence.

“Please, oh god, please. Is anybody out there? This is Norah Lee, a scientist of Earth. I-I don’t know what to do. I think everybody...everyone is dead. Please if you hear this, please help us.

I can hear them outside. They’re coming…

I don’t want to die.”

MY REVIEW

If I could give an alternative title in this Cyborg Shifters series, it would have beeen Creepy Love.

We meet another weird half cyborg-half shifter in this second book.
Stryker is part of the elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. And he is one of the friends of Dommik (the spider cyborg) that we met in book 1.
Stryker has a mask that covers half his face and inside he hides poisonous saliva and a split tongue. He occasionally hisses and crawls. Can you guess what his animal part is?

I think this book was primarily a sci-fi thriller and secondarily a sci-fi romance.
For the most part cyborg Stryker and Norah ( the scientist who tries to rescue) run and hide in a jungle in an alien planet chased by unknown predators/monsters who love to scream and to make people disappear inside the deep muddy water, while the sky never stops raining.

It is a very stressful situation that somehow helps Norah to accept Stryker and to fall in love with him.
Stryker has all his behavioural characteristics of his animal part. He is sly, determined and he hates losing. He wants to hold Norah tight and to never let her go until he chokes her, because he has decided that she belongs to him.

Next book is about a shark shifter and I believe I am hooked to this series , so I will start it straightaway :) 

Cyborg Pool Boy (Cyborg Shifters #0.5) by Naomi Lucas

Cyborg Pool Boy by Naomi Lucas

 
SUMMARY

What could a fabulously wealthy heiress possibly do when an alien monster takes up residence in her pool? Call a Cyborg Monster Hunter, obviously.
OBVIOUSLY.
Little did she know that she just hired a monster to take out another monster.

MY REVIEW

I literally have no words...

If you are into shifters romance stories with a bit of sci-fi in the mix, then this book is for you.
No wolves, no lions, no dragons in this story.

I only have one thing to say to you:

tardigrade

I had to Google it to see what kind of creature this one is. Yes it is a real living and breathing organism.

The last time I checked the story was free in Amazon as a holiday gift by the author.

Wild Blood (Cyborg Shifters #1) by Naomi Lucas

Wild Blood by Naomi Lucas

SUMMARY

Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator.

Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death. It clung to her like a shroud, It followed her like the plague, and infected her like a parasite. When she overheard that the Monster Hunter needed an assistant, she took the job. And when the Cyborg’s eyes caught hers, she knew getting closer to death might just bring her back to life.

The Cyborg didn’t scare her.
So she followed him and left fate up to chance.

MY REVIEW

If you love cyborg stories AND
If you adore shifter stories AND
If you are not disgusted by a few cockroaches AND
If you are not afraid of big spiders,

Then most probably you will love this book, too.

The world building is excellent. I am looking forward learning more about the Ghost City and its part cyborgs/part shifters inhabitants.

Dommik is the perfect tortured hero cyborg/spider-shifter, created not born, who thinks that he is too much of a monster to be loved by anyone.

Katalina is the perfect heroine who is too afraid to get attached to anybody because everyone that she had loved died and left her alone.

Overall the book was a very enjoyable experience for me!

December 2020 - Naomi Lucas and her sci-fi series Cyborg Shifters

 

Finally 2020, this terrible year, is almost over.....

These last few days of the year, I would like to show my appreciation to Naomi Lucas and her sci-fi series Cyborg Shifters. Respect.

Anyway, try to enjoy these last few days until new year. 

Stay positive.

Stay safe.

Stay healthy.

NEW BOOK!!! A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4) by Sarah J. Maas

A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4) by Sarah J. Maas

SUMMARY

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.

Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.

COMING SOON 

Expected publication: February 16th 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing

A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.1) by Sarah J. Maas

SUMMARY

Hope warms the coldest night.

Feyre, Rhys, and their close-knit circle of friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve.

Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated--scars that will have far-reaching impact on the future of their Court.

MY REVIEW

“I get this feeling,” I said, pacing a step, the ancient wood floorboards creaking beneath my boots, my power a writhing, living thing prowling through my veins, “that it’s all some sort of joke. Some sort of cosmic trick, and that no one—no one—can be this happy and not pay for it.”

This series makes me feel nice.
But at the same time, they make me feel scared for unexpected, sudden, crazy twists.

A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

SUMMARY

Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords – and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy them all. 

MY REVIEW

"I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have … The wait was worth it."
He wiped away the tears sliding down my face. “I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to … so I could find you.” He kissed another tear away.

How much I adore Rhysand and Feyre!

After the devastating events of the last book, "Wings and Ruin" start with the The High Lady of the Night Court at the Spring Court.

Feyre is back where she started and she is so good in pretending that Tamlin is completely clueless of her lies. But I could never accuse Feyre and I could not feel sorry for Tamlin. After his betrayal, he deserved it.

Of course not all people believe Feyre.

The most powerful High Lord in the world lost his mate, and has not yet come to claim her, even when she is defenseless in the woods.” Jurian chuckled. “Perhaps that’s because Rhysand has not lost you at all. But rather unleashed you upon us.”

When Feyre manages to escape, Lucien will follow. It is the only way to see again his destined mate. Feyre's sisters try to cope with the fact that they are fairies now. Elain has the most serious problems coping. Nesta and her attitude are doing just fine. I loved the development in the relationship between Nesta and Cassian. Nesta has developed in a very interesting side character.

When Rhysand and Feyre meet again, only the fireworks are missing! So much love and passion between these two!

But there is war about to happen. The Cauldron is still in the hands of Hybern and the Night Court only has a book to fight it. And the Book does not want to cooperate that much.

Amren had placed the Book of Breathings on her nightstand.
A glass of old blood atop it.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cringe. The latter won out as the Book murmured, Hello, sweet-faced liar. Hello, princess with—
“Oh, be quiet,” Amren hissed toward the Book, who—shut up.

Amren is doing her best to reveal its secrets, but maybe she also has her on agenda. Well, in the end I totally understood the girl. She had no choice.

Night Court will look for allies, but unfortunately
1. Rhysand for his personal reasons had betrayed the other Courts before.
2. Feyre had betrayed the Spring Court before for obvious reasons. Her loyalty is with her mate.
3. Rhysand and Feyre had betrayed the Summer Court and now they are the most wanted there. Maybe not even the fact that they helped Tarquin’s court against the bulk of the Hybern force, will gain them his trust again
And the most important reason:
4. Not all the Courts are convinced that Hybern is the enemy.

"We are not facing an army hell-bent on destruction. They are hell-bent on what they believe is liberation. Of High Fae stifled by the wall, and what they believe still belongs to them."

The book ends with an awesome epic battle were everyone is involved:
1. The Courts
2. The humans
3. The Cauldron made sisters
4. The monsters (Bone Carver and his sister and the living nest of shadows that was Bryaxis)
5. Amren
6. The Cauldron
7. The Book

When the battle finishes, Rhysand will receive the ultimate gift by all the Courts.

I loved the book, but I feel that I need a book for Tamlin. Feyre was not the right girl for him. And he needs a girl that can tame the monster inside him. These three books are Rhysand and Feyre's love story, not Tamlin's story.

“Be happy, Feyre,” he said quietly.

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

SUMMARY

Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people.

Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two.

With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights.

MY REVIEW

After the dramatic events under the mountain, Tamlin and Feyre are back home at the Spring Court and unfortunately Feyre experiences severe symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.

Maybe I’d always been broken and dark inside.

She can't eat. She can't sleep. She does not want to meet people. She has nightmares. She withdraws from everything and everyone – unless Tamlin is around and he requires sex.

But Tamlin is hardly there.

After 50 years living under the despicable curse and the slavery, his Court needs to repair the damage, the boarders need to be secured , his people need to be certain that they will free and happy from now on. He also looks forward to his wedding with Feyre.

The only thing he does not want is Feyre
-roaming free in the forest,
-or training,
-or learning her new powers,
-or concerning about her future,
-or worrying about her safety.

He will look after everything for her. But he does not notice that she does not eat, she does not sleep, she is miserable and lonely and she keeps loosing weight.

Feyre starts having second thoughts about the wedding. And moreover Rhysand has not appeared yet asking for her side of their bargain from the previous book. Until one day he appears and he is determined to take her away for a week every month for the rest of her immortal life.

“Hello, Feyre darling,” he purred.

Feyre is confused.
Tamlin is furious.
Rhysand does not give them any alternative.

“You end her bargain right here, right now, and I’ll give you anything you want. Anything.”
My heart stopped dead. “Are you out of your mind?”
Tamlin didn’t so much as blink in my direction.
Rhysand merely raised a brow. “I already have everything I want.” He stepped around Tamlin as if he were a piece of furniture and took my hand.

Feyre will meet the Court of night for her first time. She will feel free and alive. She will start seeing things more clearly.

“I’m thinking that I was a lonely, hopeless person, and I might have fallen in love with the first thing that showed me a hint of kindness and safety. And I’m thinking maybe he knew that—maybe not actively, but maybe he wanted to be that person for someone.”

And she will start understanding Rhysand’s actions.

“I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.”

Maybe in this fairytale the princess does not want to be a princess.
Maybe she does not want to be saved.
Maybe in this fairytale the princess wants to be a warrior.
Maybe she needs to be free.

“So I’m your huntress and thief?”
His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.”

Maybe Rhysand wants to give her everything. And more than everything.

“Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?”

Until Feyre bounces back.

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again. I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

She will love the darkness in Court of the Night.

“There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.”

She will fall in love with Rhysand.

I met his stare as I clinked my glass against his, the crystal ringing clear and bright over the crashing sea far below, and said, “To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.”
He picked up his glass, his gaze so piercing that I wondered why I had bothered blushing at all for Tarquin.
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”

Because let's face it. Rhysand is larger than life.

And then Rhysand appeared.
He had released the damper on his power, on who he was. His power filled the throne room, the castle, the mountain. The world. It had no end and no beginning.

Feyre will never want to go back to where she was.

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”

But she needs to be absolutely sure that is what she wants.

“I wonder if, even in my despair and hopelessness, I was never truly alone. I wonder if I was looking for this place—looking for you all.”

The fairies and the humans will not have time to relax. A bigger threat is palpable. And a new war is about to start.

This was my home. These were my people.
If I died defending them, defending that small place in the world where art thrived …
Then so be it.
And I became darkness, and shadow, and wind.

There will be epic battles, many deaths, treason and lies, secrets, much despair and tests, so many tests. The cascading events will result to a few breath-taking twists towards the end and an earthshattering cliff-hanger.

Two comments that I would like to add:
1. I did not particularly like the term “mate”. This is a term that it is almost exclusively used in shifters books and not in books with fairies. I wish a different term was used.
2. The dynamics in the relationship between Rhysand and Feyre reminded me the dynamics in the relationship between one of my favourite couples in PNR: Dragos and Pia from Elder Races by Thea Harrison. Rhysand could easily be a dragon like Dragos. He is also very possessive of his mate, but he also has so many adventures with her and they keep saving each other. Feyre on the other hand eventually can sparkle and her blood has healing power like Pia's. 

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas

 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

SUMMARY

Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...

Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever. 

MY REVIEW

“I love you,” I said, and stabbed him.

...and I hardly slept last night

Well, if you love fairytales and/or Fae stories which include lots of
-Sacrifices
-Despair
-Magic
-Internal love and passion
-Tests of true love

Then, this book is for you.

There is
-a monster in this book hidden behind an unmovable mask and
-a poor maiden (kind of) with a worthless father and
-a library and
-a rose garden and
-a curse

So naturally this story will remind you of “The Beauty And The Beast”.

The monster needs to be saved from a horrible curse and of course only true love can save him.
But what if Tamlin, this monster, represents everything that Feyre, the maiden, hates.

It does not matter. Love will find a way because Feyre has a pure soul and an innocent, caring heart.

“Dance, Feyre,” he whispered.
So I did.

There will be no thorns between them. Only love and commitment.
-even if there will be a few moments with doubts and regrets.

“I suppose it’ll be easier if I’m gone,” I said, looking away from him. “Who wants someone around who’s so covered in thorns?”
“Thorns?”
“Thorny. Prickly. Sour. Contrary.”
He leaned forward and kissed me lightly. “Not forever,” he said onto my mouth.
And though I knew it was a lie, I put my arms around his neck and kissed him.

I suppose it was fate, karma, destiny for Tamlin and Fayre to meet and fall in love.

“I love you,” he whispered, and kissed my brow. “Thorns and all.”

And it was fate, karma, destiny for Tamlin and Fayre to say goodbye.

He leaned through the open window to caress my cheek—and I could have sworn that I felt my heart crack.

Fayre only found out after she fall in love that fairies can lie.

“Of course we can lie. We find lying to be an art. And we lied when we told those ancient mortals that we couldn’t speak an untruth. How else would we get them to trust us and do our bidding?”

Don't worry Tamlin tryly has loved Feyre. That's the reason he will send her away. To protect her.
And Feyre has loved Tamlin. That's the reason she will fight with giant worms, dance for one of their worst enemies, beg and crawl, be broken and in prison, give away her life, give away her innocence and save the lands behind The Wall.

“So,” he said wearily, “here we are, with the fate of our immortal world in the hands of an illiterate human.” His laugh was unpleasant as he hung his head, cupping his forehead in a hand, and closed his eyes. “What a mess.”

Not a mess at all! the ending will be glorious as all the endings of fairytales should be.
So, if you want to read a pleasant lovestory/fairytale with a bit of adventure and a bit of heartbreaking and with lots of sugary love, better stop at the book “A Court of Thorns and Roses” and don't continue with this series.


... because There you are. I’ve been looking for you.

... because Feyre has met Rhysand who
-treated her like trash “I never thought you’d actually dabble with mortal trash.”
-bound her life to his life “I’ll heal your arm in exchange for you.”
-changed her forever “What have you done to me?”
Plus
-He has wings
-He is the ultimate tattooed bad boy.

And maybe Feyre will prefer the night and the stars to the roses and the sunlight.

November 2020 - Sarah J. Maas and her ACOTAR series

November has always been the right month to feel thankful.... 

for the love 

for the health 

for the wealth

for the happiness in your life.

2020 has been a terrible year so far. 

So many deaths, so much pain, so much isolation from the people we love.

Let's find things that makes us grateful to life and to God. 

Let's wish that things will only get better from now on.

This month I would like to present to you the most amazing series by Sara J. Maas!!!!

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series also known as 

* Una corte de rosas y espinas [Spanish]
* Corte de Espinhos e Rosas [Brazilian Portuguese]
* Regatul spinilor si al trandafirilor [Romanian]
* Dikenler ve Güller Sarayı [Turkish]
* Dvůr trnů a růží [Czech]
* Das Reich der sieben Höfe [German]
* Tüskék és rózsák udvara [Hungarian]
* Dwór Cierni i Róż [Polish]
* Užkerėtas dvaras [Lithuanian]
* Hof van Doorns en Rozen [Dutch]
* Ett hov av taggar och rosor [Swedish]
* Valtakunta [Finnish]
* La corte di rose e spine [Italian]
* Двор от рози и бодли [Bulgarian]

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

SUMMARY

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze.

If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place.

The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease.

Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain? 

MY REVIEW

Not bad....Not bad at all...

A moth flutters from the branch of the old oak tree and settles on her hand

It's been a while since I read a book by Stephen King. Until a few years ago (okay I think it was possibly 20 years ago when I was a teenager hahaha), he was by far my favourite author. My second favourite author was Clive Barker. I used to read so many horror books and I did not mind at all the fact that King was considered an entertainer, not really a quality author. If you wanted to read quality horror, you had to read some Richard Matheson or some Ray Bradbury or even a classic Mary Shelley. Anyway, thank God, a few Oscars for films based on Stephen King's books have certainly helped to upgrade the author.

The truth is that I have never really considered him a true horror author. I have never been scared when I was reading his books. I just adore the way he writes.
I love the way he describes details, the way that every detail finds its place in the end of the book, the way each detail has a meaning and a purpose.

Details! We gotta figure out the details, Jeanette."

Taking account all these, I have to say that this book has many many details and many many characters. Most people may find it boring and rambling. Nothing weird there. It is common in all King's books. This book is just so typical of him. If somebody told me that Stephen King wrote the whole book and his son just put his name on the book cover; I would have believed it.

Another thing I love in King's books is that all of them are not what they look like. They have a reason that they exist, they have a meaning, they have an identity, they speak differently to everyone.
Take for example this book:
■ You can consider it just a horror book with some fantasy elements; and be happy,
■ You can consider it a manifestation about human violence; and feel okay with yourself,
■ You can consider it as a way to show the importance of women in the world and as a way to show their value and even as a tool to make them look like the cornerstone of the existence of humanity; and still get the meaning of the book.
■ You can consider it a metaphor ( Eve doesn't trust the snake, obviously. She had trouble with him before. ); and still understand the book and embrace it.

Yes, this book talks differently to eveyone. I am just happy that after all these years that I was going through a period of drought away from my King's books; I trusted him again.

...hope you enjoyed yourself.

Thank you Stephen! I did!

Elevation by Stephen King

 Elevation by Stephen King

SUMMARY

Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.

In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face–including his own—he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.

MY REVIEW

I thought that this would be a nice scary Halloween story. I was wrong. Instead of feeling scared, I cried my eyes out. It was not what I expected, but it was so much much better. P.S. Any resemblance to the book Thinner by Richard Backman is purely coincidental.

Laurie by Stephen King

Laurie by Stephen King

SUMMARY

Short story about a widower and an unwanted dog, foisted on him by his sister.

MY REVIEW

It was life, you were stuck with it, and all you could do was live it.

I could read anything by Stephen King. ANYTHING!
The story has a bitter-sweet start and then there is a twist towards the end.
Well, apparently no matter how much you miss your other half, you always want to stay alive for as long as possible.
The protagonist is the loveliest, most innocent dog, Laurie.
Highly recommended and completely free new short story.

The Institute by Stephen King

The Institute by Stephen King

SUMMARY

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

MY  REVIEW

Best horror book for 2019.

Not your usual thriller/ horror type of books by Stephen King. This book is a paranormal/sciencefiction book.

It may remind you the series Stranger Things with the gifted children.
Children who face evil...fight evil...win against evil.

what you did for yourself was what gave you the power.

Children with supernatural powers endure horrible tests and bizarre experiments by ruthless adults at the Institute.
Many people for you to hate there....

working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass

On the other hand the kids. Luke Ellis is one of them. Abducted and imprisoned by a group of adults who think that if they use these children, they will save the world. Luke is determined to understand what they do there and stop them.

you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.

Stephen King has written some awesome books with kids as protagonists (shine, stand by me, even carrie etc). And this book is not an exception. Obviously this is a writer that understands children and their deepest fears. He knows how to play with his words and analyse their emotions. And you actually believe him. You feel what these children feel.

It is a fast-paced book.
Engaging.
Page-turning.
Smart-written .
Dark.
Twisty.
Disturbing.

It may make you sad and angry.

Don’t say things that invite sorrow

I loved the ending and the way it was delivered. Nothing was rushed and unexplained.

OveraIl a very satisfying experience.

this life we think we’re living isn’t real. It’s just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.