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5 ⭐️ If Throne of Glass, Divergent, Eragon, and Zodiac Academy had a baby. . . but this is better!!!
*PS: I don't really even like ZA, but it's similar because of the academic setting, the heroine's journey to understanding her strength, and the enemies-to-lovers aspect (it's not quite a bully romance though).
You know when you finish a book, and it leaves an ache in your chest because it was so good, and now it’s over? Yeah, that’s exactly how I feel after finishing Fourth Wing.
Summary:
There are only two ways to leave Basgiath War College: graduate or die.
Violet was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant and live a quiet life among books. However, when her mother, the commanding general, forces her to join the Riders Quadrants to become a dragon rider, she must push herself past all limitations in order to survive.
Staying alive would be a lot easier if Violet didn't have a target on her back for not only being 'small and frail' but the daughter of the woman responsible for the deaths of many cadet's traitorous parents, including Xaden Riorson's - the most powerful and ruthless wingleader. She should stay away from him, but a fire burns between these two that is bound to consume them both.
With stakes this high, every day could be her last. So Violet must learn to do the one thing she was never trained to do: fight.
"I will not die today." -Violet Sorrengail
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ adult romantasy
✨ true enemies to lovers
✨ war college setting
✨ dragon riders
✨ magic
✨ underdog fmc / chronic illness rep
✨ scarred anti-hero mmc
✨ unique world building
✨ complex politics
✨ found family
✨ high stakes
✨ insta-lust with slow burn
✨ 2/5
*PS: I don't really even like ZA, but it's similar because of the academic setting, the heroine's journey to understanding her strength, and the enemies-to-lovers aspect (it's not quite a bully romance though).
You know when you finish a book, and it leaves an ache in your chest because it was so good, and now it’s over? Yeah, that’s exactly how I feel after finishing Fourth Wing.
Summary:
There are only two ways to leave Basgiath War College: graduate or die.
Violet was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant and live a quiet life among books. However, when her mother, the commanding general, forces her to join the Riders Quadrants to become a dragon rider, she must push herself past all limitations in order to survive.
Staying alive would be a lot easier if Violet didn't have a target on her back for not only being 'small and frail' but the daughter of the woman responsible for the deaths of many cadet's traitorous parents, including Xaden Riorson's - the most powerful and ruthless wingleader. She should stay away from him, but a fire burns between these two that is bound to consume them both.
With stakes this high, every day could be her last. So Violet must learn to do the one thing she was never trained to do: fight.
"I will not die today." -Violet Sorrengail
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ adult romantasy
✨ true enemies to lovers
✨ war college setting
✨ dragon riders
✨ magic
✨ underdog fmc / chronic illness rep
✨ scarred anti-hero mmc
✨ unique world building
✨ complex politics
✨ found family
✨ high stakes
✨ insta-lust with slow burn
✨ 2/5
3 ⭐️ This is basically Iron Flame 2.0. The definition of a filler book.
"That's why we'll fail. Because you will choose everyone over yourself, and he will choose you over everyone."
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ adult romantasy
✨ book 3 of the Empyrean Series
✨ established romance but becomes forbidden (student x teacher)
✨ "if I touch you I might hurt you"
✨ lots of sexual tension
✨ 3/5
"That's why we'll fail. Because you will choose everyone over yourself, and he will choose you over everyone."
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ adult romantasy
✨ book 3 of the Empyrean Series
✨ established romance but becomes forbidden (student x teacher)
✨ "if I touch you I might hurt you"
✨ lots of sexual tension
✨ 3/5
5 ⭐️ The best book I’ve read this year! Y’all are sleeping on this series!!!!!!
It was inconvenient, I decided, to be attracted to my husband. Unfortunately, I was. Terribly.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ sci-fi / fantasy romance
✨ he’s a dominating vampire-like alien lord
✨ she’s the eldest human daughter of his enemy
✨ arranged marriage
✨ enemies to lovers
✨ hate to love
✨ slow burn
✨ insane sexual tension
✨ 4/5
It was inconvenient, I decided, to be attracted to my husband. Unfortunately, I was. Terribly.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ sci-fi / fantasy romance
✨ he’s a dominating vampire-like alien lord
✨ she’s the eldest human daughter of his enemy
✨ arranged marriage
✨ enemies to lovers
✨ hate to love
✨ slow burn
✨ insane sexual tension
✨ 4/5
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3.5 ⭐️ Not as good as the first one but I still enjoyed it!!!!
The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.
*SPOILERS AHEAD if you have not finished The Serpent and the Wings of Night*
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ dark fantasy romance
✨ humans x vampires x gods
✨ enemies to lovers
✨ marriage of convenience
✨ reverse grumpy x sunshine
✨ "she's mine"
✨ 2/5 spice (three-ish open door sex scene)
✨ action-packed
✨ high stakes
✨ continued world building
✨ dual POV
✨ HEA
✨ TW: violence, discussion of sexual assault and rape, and slavery
My Thoughts:
I'm going to wait to write a full review once this book is re-released by Tor (06/04/24), but in the meantime, I'll leave a few quick thoughts.
I did enjoy this story! Where the first book is a nice combination of romance and plot, this definitely was a lot more plot heavy. I don't usually mind this, however, sooooo much happens and sometimes it was a bit slow, so the story started to blend together and got a bit tedious for me towards the end. BUT I will say, it was entertaining, the world-building was well done, Oraya and Raihn are everything, and it was a good story overall. I definitely recommend reading!
Full review to come 06/04/24.
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Crowns of Nyaxia Series:
1. The Serpent and The Wings of Night: 4.75 ⭐️
1.5 Six Scorched Roses: 4.5 ⭐️
2. The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King: 3.5 ⭐️
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Favorite Quotes:
I would always regret this. Breaking Oraya. that was a sin that I'd never be able to atone for.
_______
Vincent had ruined me. He had saved me. He had loved me.He had stifled me. He had manipulated me. He had made me everything that I was. Everything that I could be. Even the greatest parts of my power, the parts he never wanted me to find, were his. . . And I missed him too much to hate him the way I wanted to. And I hated him most of all for that.
_______
"To die, rather than killing you? Yes. That would have been worth it. Even I had to draw the line somewhere. And you are the line, Oraya."
_______
"Your sarcasm is so subtle, princess. Elegant and refined. Like fine wine. Or this beer."
_______
"There's no one to kill."
"You sound so disappointed, my murderous queen."
_______
"It's stupid of you to let me go."
"Some people have been saying it was stupid of me to keep you alive at all. I guess I'm a stupid man."
_______
"I've got to believe in love, Raihn. The world is sad enough."
_______
They looked at me like I was an actual threat, and I liked that.
_______
"The dress is an act of war. But you've always looked fucking fantastic in blood."
_______
"I'd spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it."
_______
I was everything I was meant to be. My father's daughter. Victim and protégée. Greatest love and ruination.
_______
Power hurts. It requires sacrifice. Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Climb the bars until you're so high no one can catch you.
_______
"I'd tell you to go become something fucking incredible, Oraya, but you already are, and this place doesn't deserve you. It never has. And I sure as fuck don't.
_______
"You have nothing but me. And yet, you'd let me go."
"I have nothing but you. So I am letting you go."
_______
"Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please."
_______
"Let met worship you, Oraya. . . And let me taste you when you come. Please."
_______
I hate you because I let you hurt me.
I hate you because I grieved you.
I hate you because I don't.
_______
"You have destroyed me. And I have hated every moment of it, too."
_______
My blood. My body. My soul. I had given her all of that a long time ago. I even had given her my life. And I'd do it all again.
_______
"Loving someone else is a dangerous thing . . . even for vampires. More dangerous still for a king."
_______
"Men and their secrets. We spend a lifetime trying to unravel them, and once they're gone, we're still at their mercy."
_______
"I am not going to fuck you over."
"Again, you mean. Fuck me over again."
"Never, Oraya. Never again. And not just because I don't have a chance in hell of taking Sivrinaj back without you. But because I wouldn't want to, anyways."
_______
"Just want you to know, Oraya, that you were the best part of it. The best part of all of it."
_______
Raihn. My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known. All of that in one name. One person. One soul I knew as well as my own, just as confusing, just as flawed.
_______
Loving Oraya was terrifying. It required me to see things I didn't want to see. Face things I didn't want to face. Allow another soul to witness parts of myself I didn't even want to acknowledge.
_______
Bloodshed and ballgowns. They really went together.
_______
The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.
*SPOILERS AHEAD if you have not finished The Serpent and the Wings of Night*
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ dark fantasy romance
✨ humans x vampires x gods
✨ enemies to lovers
✨ marriage of convenience
✨ reverse grumpy x sunshine
✨ "she's mine"
✨ 2/5 spice (three-ish open door sex scene)
✨ action-packed
✨ high stakes
✨ continued world building
✨ dual POV
✨ HEA
✨ TW: violence, discussion of sexual assault and rape, and slavery
My Thoughts:
I'm going to wait to write a full review once this book is re-released by Tor (06/04/24), but in the meantime, I'll leave a few quick thoughts.
I did enjoy this story! Where the first book is a nice combination of romance and plot, this definitely was a lot more plot heavy. I don't usually mind this, however, sooooo much happens and sometimes it was a bit slow, so the story started to blend together and got a bit tedious for me towards the end. BUT I will say, it was entertaining, the world-building was well done, Oraya and Raihn are everything, and it was a good story overall. I definitely recommend reading!
Full review to come 06/04/24.
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Crowns of Nyaxia Series:
1. The Serpent and The Wings of Night: 4.75 ⭐️
1.5 Six Scorched Roses: 4.5 ⭐️
2. The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King: 3.5 ⭐️
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Favorite Quotes:
I would always regret this. Breaking Oraya. that was a sin that I'd never be able to atone for.
_______
Vincent had ruined me. He had saved me. He had loved me.He had stifled me. He had manipulated me. He had made me everything that I was. Everything that I could be. Even the greatest parts of my power, the parts he never wanted me to find, were his. . . And I missed him too much to hate him the way I wanted to. And I hated him most of all for that.
_______
"To die, rather than killing you? Yes. That would have been worth it. Even I had to draw the line somewhere. And you are the line, Oraya."
_______
"Your sarcasm is so subtle, princess. Elegant and refined. Like fine wine. Or this beer."
_______
"There's no one to kill."
"You sound so disappointed, my murderous queen."
_______
"It's stupid of you to let me go."
"Some people have been saying it was stupid of me to keep you alive at all. I guess I'm a stupid man."
_______
"I've got to believe in love, Raihn. The world is sad enough."
_______
They looked at me like I was an actual threat, and I liked that.
_______
"The dress is an act of war. But you've always looked fucking fantastic in blood."
_______
"I'd spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it."
_______
I was everything I was meant to be. My father's daughter. Victim and protégée. Greatest love and ruination.
_______
Power hurts. It requires sacrifice. Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Climb the bars until you're so high no one can catch you.
_______
"I'd tell you to go become something fucking incredible, Oraya, but you already are, and this place doesn't deserve you. It never has. And I sure as fuck don't.
_______
"You have nothing but me. And yet, you'd let me go."
"I have nothing but you. So I am letting you go."
_______
"Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please."
_______
"Let met worship you, Oraya. . . And let me taste you when you come. Please."
_______
I hate you because I let you hurt me.
I hate you because I grieved you.
I hate you because I don't.
_______
"You have destroyed me. And I have hated every moment of it, too."
_______
My blood. My body. My soul. I had given her all of that a long time ago. I even had given her my life. And I'd do it all again.
_______
"Loving someone else is a dangerous thing . . . even for vampires. More dangerous still for a king."
_______
"Men and their secrets. We spend a lifetime trying to unravel them, and once they're gone, we're still at their mercy."
_______
"I am not going to fuck you over."
"Again, you mean. Fuck me over again."
"Never, Oraya. Never again. And not just because I don't have a chance in hell of taking Sivrinaj back without you. But because I wouldn't want to, anyways."
_______
"Just want you to know, Oraya, that you were the best part of it. The best part of all of it."
_______
Raihn. My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known. All of that in one name. One person. One soul I knew as well as my own, just as confusing, just as flawed.
_______
Loving Oraya was terrifying. It required me to see things I didn't want to see. Face things I didn't want to face. Allow another soul to witness parts of myself I didn't even want to acknowledge.
_______
Bloodshed and ballgowns. They really went together.
_______
4 ⭐ I enjoyed this book so much and hope we get more stories set in this planet/realm!
"My beautiful little witch in the woods. You need to be appreciated. You need to be touched. I think you need to be loved."
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ cozy romantasy set in a haunted forest
✨ human healer FMC
✨ half Kylorr, half something else hero
✨ strangers to lovers
✨ she nurses him back to health
✨ he calls her “little witch”
"My beautiful little witch in the woods. You need to be appreciated. You need to be touched. I think you need to be loved."
WHAT TO EXPECT:
✨ cozy romantasy set in a haunted forest
✨ human healer FMC
✨ half Kylorr, half something else hero
✨ strangers to lovers
✨ she nurses him back to health
✨ he calls her “little witch”