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Publication Date: May 13th, 2014
Format: Library book.
Augustine lives the perfect life in the Haven city of New Orleans. He rarely works a real job, spends most of his nights with a different human woman, and resides in a spectacular Garden District mansion paid for by retired movie star Olivia Goodwin, who has come to think of him as an adopted son, providing him room and board and whatever else he needs.
But when Augustine returns home to find Olivia's been attacked by vampires, he knows his idyllic life has comes to an end. It's time for revenge—and to take up the mantle of the city's Guardian.
I'm
thankful for Netgalley existing. But, then again, what book lover
wouldn't like a website where it's centered around free eARCs (advanced
reading copies) for review. I'm sure a lot of people would agree with
me. It's even better, though, when you discovered a new series that you
immensely love and suddenly you're enraptured in this new world and
you're just like 'I want to read more!' so you frantically search for
the authors' previous books and finally break down and request it as an
inter library loan and are willing to pay $2 if the book has to be sent
from another library out of state and--
Wow.
This is probably the worst run-on sentence that I've ever created.
Imagine if I actually had a paid editor to take a look at my book
reviews. Well... for one, I imagine they would be much more well versed
and they would probably have a headache. I would at least get a lot of
messages with a lot of deep sighs.
Harlow
spent her life thinking she was no where close to being a fae. In fact,
she truly only knew about her mother who was as much human as anyone
else: Olivia Goodwin. They don't talk that often and, in fact, one of
the biggest reasons why she decided to approach her mother in the first
place is because she owes money to get out of jail. She was caught
trying to hack a computer program, which happens to be her special
talent: manipulating electronics just by touching it. Without the money,
though, she's stuck in jail for a long while.
She
only managed to get in contact with her mother once before she was
killed by an unknown person. Suddenly, she finds herself owning a piece
of her mother's estate alongside a stranger that she never met. The hope
to sell it off to save herself from jail suddenly disappears in one
moment. But even this starts a series of events that forces her to face
her own heritage and her past.
Meanwhile,
Augustine spent his life relaxing and living with Olivia. He's not her
true son but he certainly thinks of her as his mother. At least she
treated him like a person more than his actual mother did. But when she
dies, he decides not to just sit aside and let the 'police' work on the
problem. He decides to take the matter in his own hands... and now a
young girl, Harlow, became part of a thorn he never expected to find.
Ahhhhh!!
I'm a huge fanatic for urban fantasy books like this. I would be lying
if I said that I didn't fall for the book cover for the third book which
also led me to do more research on the series. I'm glad that I decided
to request it in the first place because it led me to checking out the
first two books at the library and reading it just changed my outlook on
urban fantasy.
In
other words, I'm saying everyone should read more Kristen Painter books
because the writing is beautiful. I didn't even remotely care about the
multiple point of views in it because it added in that much more depth
in this story. So much love, passion, and time has been placed in this
book and you can definitely tell. In fact, I can confidently say that
Kristen Painter is on my automatic to-buy author list. I love it.
What are you doing? Buy her books. BUY THEM NOW!!!
(Originally posted on A Court of Ink and Paper, previously known as Cosying Up With Books)
(Originally posted on A Court of Ink and Paper, previously known as Cosying Up With Books)
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Publication Date: December 2nd, 2014
Format: Library book
Magic and mystery collide in this second installment of the new urban fantasy series by House of Comarre author Kristen Painter.
Still coming to terms with their unexpected partnership, Augustine and Harlow have a tentative truce. With Harlow slowly working to accept being fae, Augustine still learning how to be Guardian, and feelings growing on both sides though, they do not have an easy road ahead.
But when a young girl is stolen from the Mardi Gras Exemplar Ball -- the biggest far event of the year -- Harlow and Augustine must put all their issues aside to bring her home alive. Harlow's father, Braziano, is of course their number one suspect, but evil lurks in every corner of the city and time is running out. Their only choices: Either find a way to rescue the girl, or Augustine must die.
Fae
magic is a wonderful thing. It can be dangerous as well but, hey, if it
can create an outfit that looks just as lovely as the one Harlow wears,
it can't be all that bad... right? Riiiiiight??
Harlow
recently learned that she is of fae heritage and that her father is an
asshole. Man, you can tell just how awesome family's in this series...
(note the sarcasm if it doesn't translate properly through this text).
She's spending her time learning how to control her powers as well as
learning how her powers can be used. Other than Harlow's and Augustine's
slow descent with falling in love with each other, things are... sort
of coming together in the end...
That
is until after the Mardi Gras Exemplar Ball. There's always a sort of
play where the daughter of an important figure gets kidnapped but
nothing truly happens to her. It's all part of the entertainment. But
when the kidnapping suddenly becomes all too real, Augustine finds
himself deep in spending all of his time as a Guardian trying to find
her and take her home safely. But it's a difficult task... and the
girl's father is becoming incredibly impatient and with the kidnapper
randomly sending parts of this young girl... the deadline is tight.
There are only two answers: find the girl or kill Augustine for her freedom.
Another
wonderful adventure written by a wonderful author. I'm so enamored with
this world that I'm not even sure how to accurately portray how I feel
about this book. Wonderful world building. I mean, it connected with the
former series, House of Commare, especially since it brought back older
characters. I didn't know that til after I finished reading the second
book. (Speaking of, look forward to the future review of Blood Rights and Flesh and Blood,
hint hint...) In my opinion, if I ever managed to publish a series of
book that I'm passionate about, I want it to be just like this. Clearly
not exactly like this but I want it to show that there was a lot
of passion put into my work. I want to be able to make it clear that I
spent lots of time developing this world and my characters. That's one
of my dreams.
I
hope this, at least, gives even a tiny bit of an idea on how much I
love this series. It gives a fresh breath of air in the urban fantasy
genre and I love it. Give me more. Give meeeeeeee!!! Asdfghjkl--
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(Originally posted on A Court of Ink and Paper, previously known as Cosying Up With Books)
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