REVIEW - Stealing the Dragon's Heart (Dragon Lords #3) by Kiersten Fay

 The Book

Release Date: 25 August 2021

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A tormented dragon shifter encounters his greatest temptation in this sizzling new Dragon Lords novel from USA Today bestselling author Kiersten Fay.

Aidan never intended to enter Phase Nine, a deadly race through the universe that had once cost him everything, but he’d made an impossible bargain. While gearing up for the challenge, he is surprised to find two extra crew members aboard his ship, one of them a mysterious female named Onnika who tempts him beyond reason.

Onnika’s special brand of magic has always been the key to her survival…and the reason she and her sister Caryn are constantly on the run. While escaping a ruthless band of outlaws bent on exploiting her powers, she entangles herself with a dangerously handsome dragon shifter named Aidan and an infamous race that could ultimately lead her home. With everything on the line, she must use every devious trick in her book to gain Aidan’s trust while concealing her true identity.

My Review   5 STARS

**Copy Provided by Netgalley and Victory Editing Netgalley Co-op for an honest review**

This is the third book in the series, but can certainly be read as a stand alone story.

Onnika and her sister Caryn have stuck together ever since their uncle Ethanule managed to get them off their home planet when it was invaded many years ago.  Onnika has always been the one to be in charge and trusts her sisters powers more than Caryn does.  It doesn't mean however that their past has been easy and it always seems to have been more trouble that they get into.

Aiden was in the other books as the Navigator and he flies the ships he has been on, but now we get to see him as he goes on the Phase Nine flight for the second time as part of an agreement for help for his friends.

When Onnika first meets Aiden he is captivated until he realises that she has stolen his wallet, when she ends up on his ship he is angry, but as Prince Lear has added them to the crew manifest, their is nothing he can do with them.

Lots happens on the phase Nine trip, luck, attraction, battles, a baby who is after Onnika and her sister, poison, and of course a growing attraction that leads to more for Aiden and Onnika along with then going back to her homeward where she finally gets to meet up with her uncle.

I am really enjoying this series and I am looking forward to reading Prince Lear and Caryn's story next.

REVIEW - Finding Time (Chronicles of Madness #4) by Crea Reitan

 

The Book

Release Date: 3 July 2021

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Mal is no longer a Fixer but the Queen of two of Laddenworn’s kingdoms: Redd and Hart. Although the Bloody Reign has ended, Wonderland has not been set free.
Because Wonderland does not exist right now. Mal and her men are trapped inside a toxic fairy tale, made dark and bloody by the infection of another. Their biggest problem now is figuring out what triggered Wonderland’s break and how to right it.
However, there are questions left unanswered and mysteries left to solve. What happened to the original Queens of Wonderland? Where is Wyat’s kindle? Where is the looking glass? How can Madness be cured? And although Redd and Hart are in fact dead – Mal beheaded them herself – where is the new threat coming from?
For there is a new threat. The Dark Ones are turning Silence into a horror show. Every victim, animal, person, or unnamed, are left a rotted shell, covered in the black clutches of a painful death. But who holds the reins of the Dark Ones?

**This is a new four book series following the Chronicles of Blood. A new adult, reverse harem, dark romance novel with a ‘why choose’ ending, meaning the main character gets a happily ever after with more than one man. It contains magic, demons, shifters, nonsense, explicit sex scenes, blood, murder. There are references to past emotional abuse. This is a MMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although there is some MM and MMF in here, too).

My Review  5 STARS

Ah.  The last book in the series and the majority of the book now is to restore Wonderland to its former glory, but better, but also to restore time.  Then we get many epilogues from 1, 5, 10, 20 and 35 years after everything has happened and what has happened to the family dynamics within that time and the children that Mal has had with her husbands.

Snow White's defeat is a rather quick and without much fanfare, but there is a mother fight scene and emotional struggle, with new husbands, children and gripping story tales along with the brilliant songs/poetry.

The epilogues are from all other points of view, Rehm, Lanes children, Mal and others, we get memorials, the All Dead Band has been rebuilt and so has Schoolroom and Lessons and a cure from Madness.

Finding time and freezing him was also a little anticlimactic and the relationships between the husbands seemed to take more of the book than Mal's relationships with them even as they continued to travel as a group.

The last epilogue with Lane and his children going to the Fae cave does leave an open story line, so I am hoping that something happens in the future within Wonderland as they continue the task Lane has given them.

I have really enjoyed the whole Wonderland story through the two series and am really quite upset that they have had to finish, I would have loved for the series to continue.

Lets hope that while we next get Ira's story, a friend that Mal had in dead end, that we will also get stories for her brother and the other friend eventually.

REVIEW - Veins of Shade (Chronicles of Madness #3) by Crea Reitan

 The Book

Release Date: 4 June 2021

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Mal is no longer a Fixer but the Queen of two of Laddenworn’s kingdoms Redd and Hart. Although the Bloody Reign has ended, Wonderland has not been set free.
Because, Wonderland does not exist right now. Mal and her men are trapped inside a toxic fairy tale, made dark and bloody by the infection of another. Their biggest problem now is figuring out what triggered Wonderland’s break and right it.
However, there are questions left unanswered and mysteries left to solve. What happened to the original Queens of Wonderland? Where is Wyat’s kindle? Where is the looking-glass? How to cure Madness? And although Redd and Hart are in fact dead - Mal beheaded them herself - where is the new threat coming from?
For there is a new threat. The Dark Ones are turning Silence into a horror show. Every victim, animal, person, or unnamed, are left a rotted shell covered in the black clutches of a painful death. But who holds the reins of the Dark Ones?

**This is a new four book series following the Chronicles of Blood. A new adult, reverse harem, dark romance novel with a ‘why choose’ ending, meaning the main character gets a happily ever after with more than one man. It contains magic, demons, shifters, nonsense, explicit sex scenes, blood, murder. There are references to past emotional abuse. This is a MMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although there is some MM and MMF in here, too).

My REVIEW  5 STARS

Goodness, this one certainly packs a punch and gives you all the feels.  At one point I was actually sobbing.

The journey for Mal and her husbands to fix the story continues as she tries to fix the story while helping her husbands get better at being happy too.

All the characters go through a lot, their is more kidnappings, LOTS of sex, action, fighting, areas where the group struggle with their feelings for other members of their remcule, but you just get so swept up in the story that it seems a struggle to put the book down for anything.

Lane takes a major focus on this book and we learn a lot more about the Faerie, Lane's talents and the attachment he has with his lovers and more recently Mal.

More things are being ticked off Mal list and things are pulling more together toward an ending and we really find out what the problem is with this fairy tale.

I am so invested in this series and I cannot believe that I only have one more book for Mal's story left to read.

REVIEW - The Queen Trials (Chronicles of Madness #2) by Crea Reitan

 The Book

Release Date: 3 April 2021

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Mal is no longer a Fixer but the Queen of two of Laddenworn’s kingdoms Redd and Hart. Although the Bloody Reign has ended, Wonderland has not been set free.
Because, Wonderland does not exist right now. Mal and her men are trapped inside a toxic fairy tale, made dark and bloody by the infection of another. Their biggest problem now is figuring out what triggered Wonderland’s break and right it.
However, there are questions left unanswered and mysteries left to solve. What happened to the original Queens of Wonderland? Where is Wyat’s kindle? Where is the looking-glass? How to cure Madness? And although Redd and Hart are in fact dead - Mal beheaded them herself - where is the new threat coming from?
For there is a new threat. The Dark Ones are turning Silence into a horror show. Every victim, animal, person, or unnamed, are left a rotted shell covered in the black clutches of a painful death. But who holds the reins of the Dark Ones?

**This is a new four book series following the Chronicles of Blood. A new adult, reverse harem, dark romance novel with a ‘why choose’ ending, meaning the main character gets a happily ever after with more than one man. It contains magic, demons, shifters, nonsense, explicit sex scenes, blood, murder. There are references to past emotional abuse. This is a MMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although there is some MM and MMF in here, too). 

My Review   5 STARS

Oh. My. TEA!!  Lots more action, more items ticked off Mal list of things to do and more tears as the book grips you wraps you up, consumes you and spits you out, your head reading from the story and leaving just wanting MORE.

To be honest they all do.

Finally we get the trials for the six new queens.  Trials to put the wanna-be's up to many tests to see if they are the kind of person that the nation needs for a queen.  

As with all previous books the story is told from multiple points of view, each part adds to the tale and the emotions of the group, solidifying their emotions and the love and pain their feel at times.  

I cannot wait to read book three to see how the story will progress, but I'm also getting sad knowing that I will be near the end of this series all too soon.

REVIEW - The Search for Nonsense (Chronicles of Madness #1) by Crea Reitan

 

The Book

Release Date: 12 March 2021

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Mal is no longer a Fixer but the Queen of two of Laddenworn’s kingdoms Redd and Hart. Although the Bloody Reign has ended, Wonderland has not been set free.

Because, Wonderland does not exist right now. Mal and her men are trapped inside a toxic fairy tale, made dark and bloody by the infection of another. Their biggest problem now is figuring out what triggered Wonderland’s break and right it.

However, there are questions left unanswered and mysteries left to solve. What happened to the original Queens of Wonderland? Where is Wyat’s kindle? Where is the looking-glass? How to cure Madness? And although Redd and Hart are in fact dead - Mal beheaded them herself - where is the new threat coming from?

For there is a new threat. The Dark Ones are turning Silence into a horror show. Every victim, animal, person, or unnamed, are left a rotted shell covered in the black clutches of a painful death. But who holds the reins of the Dark Ones?

**This is a new four book series following the Chronicles of Blood. A new adult, reverse harem, dark romance novel with a ‘why choose’ ending, meaning the main character gets a happily ever after with more than one man. It contains magic, demons, shifters, nonsense, explicit sex scenes, blood, murder. There are references to past emotional abuse. This is a MMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although there is some MM and MMF in here, too). 

My Review  5 STARS

This book starts where the Chronicles of Blood left off and had to be read after the first books or you will not understand what has been happening and will be quite lost.  Never fear, they are so good you won't be upset.

Again we get lots of description and world building and awesome characters that are growing and evolving.  Mal also adds another person to her harem which is not initially something the others are happy about. 

Mal is still the most important thing to her men and she is just as focused on making sure that they are happy while trying to fix the kingdom and leaving her crown behind.

I so love this series and cannot wait to read more, each book bring new secrets and such emotions. 

REVIEW - Chronicles of Blood Series Box Set (Chronicles of Blood #1-4) by Crea Reitan

 The Book

Release Date: 12 February 2021

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Mal is a Fixer, a child raised and trained to “fix” broken fairy tales by an organization the Fixers refer to as DeadEnd. Because, once you enter a fairy tale, there’s no getting out.
Mal has been assigned Wonderland. You know Wonderland, the place Alice visited as a child. Wonderland, with a Mad Hatter and a Cheshire Cat. Wonderland, who has consumed twenty-seven Fixers before Mal and has been dubbed “toxic” by the Operators of DeadEnd. But Wonderland needs to be fixed. It’s been toxic so long that every Wonderland story in the real world is being transformed into something entirely not child friendly.
After training for eleven years and studying every re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Mal leaves the world behind and enters her very own dead-end fairy tale. Well… everything is certainly twisted. The people are broken; the Bloody Queens’ reign has thrown the world into turmoil and upset the balance; and the places are, quite frankly, mad.
At least she found a few mostly-sane, entirely gorgeous men to help her along the way. Help her re-write this fairy tale back to its original wonder. And perhaps help her build a life in Wonderland for when she succeeds - because she is determined to do what the other twenty-seven have not been able to.
Everything seemed pretty straight forward, and going pretty smoothly, until she realized the fairy tale she’d been sent in to fix is actually infected by another…
**This is a series of full-length, new adult, reverse harem, dark romance novels with a ‘why choose’ ending, meaning the main character gets a happily ever after with more than one man. It contains magic, demons, shifters, nonsense, explicit sex scenes, blood, murder. There are references to past emotional abuse. This is a MMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although there is some MM and MMF in here, too).

My Review 5 STARS

**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Oh Holy Crow!! how on earth have I not read anything from this author before?  I have completely devoured the four books in this box set in the last few days, even ending with a kind of insomnia not being able to sleep because I just HAD to know what was going to happen next. 

This tale is based in wonderland, but not the wonderland that we have read in books.  This tale is wrong, twisted and malformed so that a fixer needs to come in and sort it out.  So far twenty seven have failed, now its Mals turn, knowing that their is no way out of the story once she enters the door.

The world building is captivating, the characters delight, make you cry and make you angry at them.  You just cannot be helped but be swept up into the story as I leaps off the pages and and pulls you under.

Each book ends on a cliff hangar, so I immediately went straight for the next book.

We get some answers to the questions that have been posed, we get lots of action, brilliant writing, and characters that you just want to hug.  The four books leave a lot of questions open, however they open straight into the next series, The Chronicles of Madness. (Yes I have immediately downloaded all the books as I cannot wait for the boxset for the new series to be out in less than a month lol.

I will certainly be keeping an eye out for other works by this author as I get the feeling she is going to become one of my new favourites.