Craving Beauty by Jennifer Silverwood Review + #Giveaway

Craving Beauty

A Wylder Tale

Volume 1

Jennifer Silverwood

Genre: YA Dark Fantasy

Release Date: October 31, 2015

Publisher: SilverwoodSketches

ISBN: 978-1517701963

ASIN: B00GXV971I

Pages: 239

Goodreads Rating: 3.67

My Rating: 5.0

Book Description:

Vynasha has spent the last four years tending her mother's roses and looking after her nephew. The fire that killed their family has left her scarred and put Wyll on the brink of death. Soon the first frost will come down from the mountains and she knows this winter will be his last.

Until a strange beggar appears on the road, telling her of the majikal Source that can heal her Wyll. With nothing left to lose, Vynasha braves the forbidden Wylder Mountains to seek out a cure and her fate.

A lost kingdom is uncovered by an equally lost girl, but the castle is not abandoned as she believes. Shadows cloaking unseen eyes watch. Tapestries whisper from the hidden corners, wondering if the one to break their curse has come. And a hungry beast waits, ready to devour her soul.

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My Take:

Growing up Beauty and the Beast was always one of my favorite fairy tales. It didn't matter which way the story when or how I got my fix, all that mattered was that I could be a story about a love that transcends the physical. I always found it so mystifying and unreal that there was a love so true that someone could fall in love with a beast. With that said, it's no wonder I was so excited to get the opportunity to read this story which is a sort of retelling of that classic.

This isn't your typical Beauty and the Beast, there is definitely a lot more going on and so much that you can't even fathom. I found myself needing to turn the page, meeting to discover the mysteries hidden within the words. Unfortunately, what never occurred to me was that this might possibly end on a cliffhanger. Lucky for me it was not the kind of person that makes you want to rip out your hair, but I am really impatient and I do need to get my hands on volume 2 of The Wylder Tales.

While reading this book I did have plenty of speculations and well some of them hands out the lot of them didn't this book will literally keep you on your toes. 

5 Quills

Whatever you think you know, forget it, you are probably wrong. As I said earlier, there is so much going on within the pages of this book you won't know what to expect but that is what makes this book so utterly amazing. It was so different. It took a classic fairy tale one that I absolutely adore and made it something more. It made it something new.

About The Author

Jennifer Silverwood was raised deep in the heart of Texas and has been spinning yarns a mile high since childhood. In her spare time she reads and writes and tries to sustain her wanderlust, whether it’s the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, the highlands of Ecuador or a road trip to the next town. Always on the lookout for her next adventure, in print or reality, she dreams of one day proving to the masses that everything really is better in Texas. She is the author of the Heaven’s Edge series, Stay and Silver Hollow.

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Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru by Tera Lynn Childs Book Review

Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru
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Book #1
Tera Lynn Childs

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance (Clean)

Release Date: September 14, 2015

Publisher: Entangled Crush

ISBN: 978-1633754256

ASIN: B014CS5MNU

Paperback Pages: 235

E-Book Pages: 199

Goodreads Rating:  3.67

My Rating: 4.0

Book Description:

When life gives you a blank canvas, make art.

Sloane Whitaker hates everything about moving to Texas. She hates leaving behind her friends and half her family in New York, starting over senior year at Austin’s NextGen Academy, and having to say she lives in Texas. Most of all, she hates that it’s all her fault. If she wants to earn her way back to the Big Apple, she has to prove she can still be the perfect daughter. 

Which means no vandalism art, no trouble at school, and absolutely no Tru Dorsey, her serial screw-up neighbor, who loves nothing more than pushing her buttons.

But from the moment he vaults onto the roof outside her bedroom, there is something about him that makes her want to break every rule. Suddenly it’ s not the ten things she hates about Tru that are at the top of her list. It’s the ten reasons she doesn’t want to be without him.

 My Take:

Awww. This was a super cute story with a feisty heroine and a swoon worthy love interest. It’s a cute artsy coming of age love story and the laughs are abundant.

I loved - and hated - that it had a series issue. I loved it, because it made the story that more realistic but I hated it because there wasn’t really a resolution for this problem. It sort of became a backseat problem and our heroine was NOT very heroic, choosing instead to do nothing except make a silent vow that she would do something in the future should the situation get worse.

Honey, the situation is already a massive shit stain.

I don’t like that something so serious was introduced and just left in the air and took away from an otherwise great book that I didn’t want to put down.

It’s my understanding that this is part of a series, so I can only hope that the subject in question will get a resolution.

It’s worth mentioning that this is not a very long read and I finished it in about 3ish hours but it is pack full of info and not in that shove it down the reader’s throats way. It’s kinda subtle, leaving you to feel as if you actually know these characters and what make them tick. You are absolutely rooting for them and are happy when good things come their way.

Another thing I should mention…. I was feeling nostalgic and that is initially why I picked this book for a review. I admit, I thought this was going to be some 10 things I hate about you knock off. Please note, it most definitely is not. It’s a catchy name but I kinda feel like this book is strong enough to stand on its own and does not need the catchy name that makes one think of the charming Julia Stiles/ Heath Ledger movie.

Also, I am pretty sure there is more going on in her ‘home’ life that Sloane is unaware of and I feel like that is another mystery left unsolved. Something that left me wanting as a reader.

It’s a really good book, if a little clichéd and predictable but I guess in this case, the predictability made it more believable.

4 Quills

I sincerely hope that I get a chance to read more about Tru and Sloane since there wasn’t much of a resolution with them and an open-ended… well ending for lack of a better word. This book had a lot of potential and even with my dislikes I feel pretty sure that the next, if less ‘holes’ are presented will make this series an unforgettable one.

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About The Author

Tera Lynn Childs is the RITA-award-winning author of the mythology-based Oh.My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp, the mermaid tales Forgive My Fins, Fins Are Forever and Just For Fins, and a kick-butt trilogy about monster-hunting descendants of Medusa that includes Sweet Venom, Sweet Shadows, and Sweet Legacy. She has published two e-novellas, Goddess In Time and Pretty In Pearls, and self-published her City Chicks sweet chick lit series. Tera lives nowhere in particular and spends her time writing wherever she can find a comfy chair and a steady stream of caffeinated beverages.

 

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