Wednesday 1 September 2021

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.


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