Mini Review: An Ice Princess Heart by Alivia Anders

An Ice Princess Heart by Alivia Anders

Series: Shardof Ice Novellas, #1
Release Date: October 28th 2013
Publisher: Red Alice Press
Format: ebook
Pages: 44
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When a string of men vanish without a trace along the coast of France, Lilix Morgan seeks to uncover the source of the mysterious deaths. Aided by four other immortal Originals, they comb the coast, only to find out the horrible dark truth; one of them is the culprit.

This is another one of those extremely short novella’s that somehow still ends up drawing you in. It was definitely a good tease for what is coming in A Shard of Ice and I am now eagerly awaiting it and the rest of the novellas.

This novella comes from the point of view of Lilix, the ice princess. She was created by The Composer along with her four other sisters, Pris, Katie, Rea, and Arabella. All having different powers of their own. They have lived a very long time and each must fine their one true love, which they call their True. They live among mortals although they are not mortals. So they must fine the one person that suits them. As men start dying, including one of the girls Trues, Lilix must find out which one of them is doing this and she must stop them. All the while she is dealing with very dark visions of her own.

Of course with this novella being so short you do not get any back ground information so that is a big reason of why I am wanting to keep reading. I would like to know why the girls were created in the first place and why they were giving these powers. I would also really like to know more about The Composer.

My Rating:

(3.5 stars)

 

*I received this book for review in exchange for my honest opinion.

Review: Endurance by Ann Aguirre

*WARNING* This contains spoilers for the first book.

Endurance by Ann Aguirre

Series: Razorland #1.5
Release Date: July 20th 2012
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Format: ebook
Pages: 73
Source: My collection
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When rebellion destroys the underground world in which Thimble and Stone have grown up, they take Stone’s son and try to escape the chaos. Along the way, they must evade the Freaks, beings who feed on human flesh. Leaving behind the roles of Builder and Breeder which they were assigned at birth, they wander the underground tunnels, looking for safety yet afraid to go “topside” where legend has it that the light and water will burn their skin from their bones.

Their journey takes them upward to an unimagined world of tinned food, comfortable furniture, and books. Away from their regimented society for the first time, and still facing imminent danger, Thimble and Stone acknowledge the forbidden attraction which both have denied for years.

 

 

This was a great novella. This novella goes back to the enclave after Deuce and Fade are exiled. The main characters are Thimble and Stone, Deuce’s “former” best friends. I love that this novella switches points of view between the two so you can really see what they were thinking. It goes through what is happening at the enclave while they are trying to survive. It also gives closer on what happens between Twist and Silk since there was a sort of cliffhanger during a scene in the first book. It definitely added to the story even though it was a pretty sort novella.  There was some action and some romance and it outlined pretty well what was going on.

I would highly recommend reading this if you have the means too. There are some points of the story that I think would make a difference while reading the 2nd book. This also makes me really want to continue on the story because I would love to see if the friends somehow end up meeting up again.  

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