I had a problem with the pacing of this book. Actually the next book (I began reading it already), also had pacing issue. I'm not quite sure if I like it or not. I'm undecided at the moment but leaning on probably stopping soon. I also found the whole mystery at every corner really annoying. Ever...
I loved the first book in this series, and couldn't wait for the second one to come out, but was also a little apprehensive. What if the second book didn't live up to the first? I shouldn't have worried, because it is every bit as wonderful and even manages to pull you deeper into Allie's world. ...
Book 3 in the Allie Beckstrom series. So I'm finally near the end of my TBR pile and living there are 4 complete series that I just recently got all the pieces of: Night Huntress Complete World (Cat & Bones), Weather Warden, The Hollows, and Allie Beckstrom. The thing that these series all hav...
4.5 stars.Book 4 in the Allie Beckstrom series. After this book I'm still totally enamored with this series. I didn't even yell out-loud at Allie this time! I'm very happy that Allie and Zay are still a steady couple - no stupid love triangles going on here! Still a solid story with pretty we...
Enjoyed this one a bit more, as it seems like Allie is finally starting to gain some maturity. She's understanding of what Zay's going thru - Even the parts she doesn't agree with. She's learning to work a bit better with her father.. and while she doesn't trust him (and shouldn't) she's at lea...
"In case of emergency, break into chant." I started laughing when I read this. There are a LOT of emergencies in this book, so much so that you would think the Authority would produce a CD.Zayvion wakes up from his coma, Allie teams with Terric and Shame (want to know more about them) and they tr...
Clearly a keeper! :-)I was so excited to pick up this, the 7th book in the Allie Beckstrom series! As usual it didn't disappoint!Filled with the hiney kicking, witty commenting, magic slinging, cozy kissing and relationship challenged friends I've come to love hanging out with! Again Ms. Monk ...
Okay, this is my third book in a row that I've read in this series. I normally have to have a break from one series/book to the next. But with this world, I want to dive in and be with them. Maybe it's the fact that I have this crush on Zayvion- he's freaking hot. (Although he's far from p...
I enjoyed the series overall. Was nice to have a main character that wasn't over powered so to speak, and was a bit clueless at times. I did find the "my dad is a big meanie and evil" whinge kind of annoying after awhile though.I liked the ending but I feel there's much that could be done with "S...
Great ending to a wonderful series. I will miss this world very much! I never wanted these to end. Fantastic finish to one of my new very favorite series.
In steam age America, men, monsters, machines and magic battle to claim the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, one man fights to hold on to his humanity--and his honor. . . Life on the frontier is full of deceit and danger, but bounty hunter Cedar Hunt is a man whose word is his bond. Cu...
Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears... In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he...
They remember you with sorrow. I will always remember you with joy. —from the diary of E. N. D. “I just thought I’d warn you,” I told Quinten. “About Abraham. He knows you’re the one who sewed him up again, and I think he’s grateful for that. Truly....
Some say it was the cost of human lives they could no longer bear. Some say the Houses had threatened global annihilation.—2160 —from the journals of L.U.C. I had to stand on the arm of the couch in the little side room and press the old walkie-talkie against the wall to c...
LAST TOUR OF DUTYHere’s another Lucky!” the private yelled as he pushed the stretcher out of the medical transport truck.Corey knew the Lucky could wait, but he gave the boy a quick glance anyway. The soldier had an abdomen full of shrapnel, yet he was calm, like all Luckys were. After a year of ...
What you need to kill him. I must reach you before he does. —W.Y. “You’ll have to name another price,” I said. “I can’t give you the cure.” “But that is all I want.” He spread his hands, as if helpless to change his actions. ...
The last thing Shame said—my name. I spun as an explosion of pain tore through me. Bullet. I staggered, but it wasn’t a hand that caught me. It was a knife. I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t swallow around the pain. Blood pumped f...
It was quickly apparent that Father Kyne had spent some time learning about the herbs and spells witches used. He had told Mae that his father’s stories about the mysterious Madder brothers had fueled his curiosity as a child. A curiosity that had led him to study the ways of witches, Strange, an...
Stone seemed to think we’d come out to play some kind of running game and was zipping around all of us like a race car doing laps. Each time he passed by me he made a little happy croon, which just made him sound like a tiny train zooming by with its whistle stuck. I didn’...
Trees. Underbrush rustling with animals that fell deathly still as I passed.Flashes of sensation: gravel cutting my feet, wind on my bare chest and back, blood on my fingers, my lips.Flashes of sounds: forest, the river, cars. Eventually, my own breathing. Too loud. And then: voices.First too man...
Someone was in the room with me. I thought it might be the night nurse, and tried to scrub an itch by my eye, but was too drowsy to lift my hand. They must have upped the dose on my medicines because even my tongue felt numb. I finally opened my eyes, rolled my head to one side. ...