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sjb86's review
5.0
Book 4 of Crystal Kingdom by Milly Taiden
I will admit I wasn’t expecting more in this series and I wasn’t sure how MT was going to keep me interested but I should have trust one of my favourite authors to always satisfied me.
This book is about Avery half sister and her cousins visiting and getting into trouble basically.
Chelsea is Avery half sister (even though I don’t like that description) and she visits her but while on a run she travels further than planned and ends up in dark elf part which is slowly dying and collapsing. While there she finds a child and while trying to figure out what to do with him dark elf’s find her and think she’s kidnapping him so they kidnap her. That when Zaos find out she’s his mate and everything gets massively complicated between them. I love that Zaos doesn’t just mate her straight away he courts her and tries to get to know her before officially mate but he does mess up along way.
Absolutely loved this little gem which I wasn’t expecting and now so looking forward to finding out what happens to cousins.
MT is always a winner for me. If you love YA MT has started writing the Crystal Kingdom as a YA Fae Queen is first book definitely check it out.
I will admit I wasn’t expecting more in this series and I wasn’t sure how MT was going to keep me interested but I should have trust one of my favourite authors to always satisfied me.
This book is about Avery half sister and her cousins visiting and getting into trouble basically.
Chelsea is Avery half sister (even though I don’t like that description) and she visits her but while on a run she travels further than planned and ends up in dark elf part which is slowly dying and collapsing. While there she finds a child and while trying to figure out what to do with him dark elf’s find her and think she’s kidnapping him so they kidnap her. That when Zaos find out she’s his mate and everything gets massively complicated between them. I love that Zaos doesn’t just mate her straight away he courts her and tries to get to know her before officially mate but he does mess up along way.
Absolutely loved this little gem which I wasn’t expecting and now so looking forward to finding out what happens to cousins.
MT is always a winner for me. If you love YA MT has started writing the Crystal Kingdom as a YA Fae Queen is first book definitely check it out.
inmyhumbleopinion's review
5.0
Enter a world on a different plane where elves, dragons and magic are real. Though Chelsea was raised on the Earth realm she has elven blood and magic in her veins. When she visits the magical plane she finds distrust, unrest and love. This is a sweet tale of love in troubled times. I really love this authors heroines. They are stronger than they know and smarter than they think. I really loved Chelsea and Zaos’ tale and look forward to new adventures
kays_pallet's review
2.0
Yet another unbelievable romance where they fall in love after knowing each other for less than a day.
Have you ever seen a typo that takes you so completely out of the story that you have to reassess if you even like what you read up to this point? That happens here. A few times. I mean, the book is littered with small typos that I can get over, then we get to page 50:
"“There are no parents,” he said as if that was a normal thing.
Wait. She didn’t understand the plural “we.”"
I know that this is taken out of context, but trust me, more context won't help. Was this book even proof read?
Carrying on, we get to the monstrosity on pgs. 53-54. There is 5 whole paragraphs repeated, with a slight difference as if it was meant to be a second draft. Five whole paragraphs. How do you miss that?
Aside from the awful typos, I really didn't like Chelsea. Her and her cousins have no respect for this new place and laugh it off as "lol we can't take them anywhere." Love that. Also Chelsea has so much attitude, mostly unprovoked:
"His lips twisted. “Yes, but they don’t live in a demon’s hellhole with nothing but dirt around them. They’re not worried about their children dying from rocks smashing them in their beds at night. They are not concerned about their magic vanishing.”
Chelsea stepped back, searching for something to say. “Sounds like you have some issues to work on.”"
So disrespectful. Some might find that funny or endearing, not my cup of tea. The other characters are just unrealistic and child like.
There so many inconsistencies. Like Chelsea willingly stays with the dark elves while her cousins are...what? Trapped and the light elf village because Chelsea has the stones? Or did someone else send them back? Why are they not mentioned when Chelsea first makes contact with Avery? Another one that really distracts me is the grandmom was like "Don't tell ppl that your a human," then Chelsea makes it very clear that she's not from around here every chance she gets.
Have you ever seen a typo that takes you so completely out of the story that you have to reassess if you even like what you read up to this point? That happens here. A few times. I mean, the book is littered with small typos that I can get over, then we get to page 50:
"“There are no parents,” he said as if that was a normal thing.
Wait. She didn’t understand the plural “we.”"
I know that this is taken out of context, but trust me, more context won't help. Was this book even proof read?
Carrying on, we get to the monstrosity on pgs. 53-54. There is 5 whole paragraphs repeated, with a slight difference as if it was meant to be a second draft. Five whole paragraphs. How do you miss that?
Aside from the awful typos, I really didn't like Chelsea. Her and her cousins have no respect for this new place and laugh it off as "lol we can't take them anywhere." Love that. Also Chelsea has so much attitude, mostly unprovoked:
"His lips twisted. “Yes, but they don’t live in a demon’s hellhole with nothing but dirt around them. They’re not worried about their children dying from rocks smashing them in their beds at night. They are not concerned about their magic vanishing.”
Chelsea stepped back, searching for something to say. “Sounds like you have some issues to work on.”"
So disrespectful. Some might find that funny or endearing, not my cup of tea. The other characters are just unrealistic and child like.
There so many inconsistencies. Like Chelsea willingly stays with the dark elves while her cousins are...what? Trapped and the light elf village because Chelsea has the stones? Or did someone else send them back? Why are they not mentioned when Chelsea first makes contact with Avery? Another one that really distracts me is the grandmom was like "Don't tell ppl that your a human," then Chelsea makes it very clear that she's not from around here every chance she gets.
nikkisbooknook's review
4.0
Chelsea was happy for her half-sister. Really she was. She was now a Queen for fracks sake! In another Realm! That's what she was getting used to! But on a visit to Avery and Tylen, Chelsea manages to get caught up in a turf war between Dragons and Dark Elves! She never thought her work as a Divorce Mediator would be used this way!
Zaos has all sorts of delicious secrets. He comes from an actual love union and...well he has more than a few talents. And just why does he sound more "Earthling" than the rest of his kind???
I loved Zaos and Chelsea together. Chelsea is the calm centre to the whirlwind that is Zaos. But he too is a calm voice among his kind. But it just goes to show that racism and bigotry isn't just Earthbound sadly. Great little read!
Zaos has all sorts of delicious secrets. He comes from an actual love union and...well he has more than a few talents. And just why does he sound more "Earthling" than the rest of his kind???
I loved Zaos and Chelsea together. Chelsea is the calm centre to the whirlwind that is Zaos. But he too is a calm voice among his kind. But it just goes to show that racism and bigotry isn't just Earthbound sadly. Great little read!
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