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Blood Oath: A Gabby Girls Adventure Novel, Book Two

(Gabby Girls Adventures #2)

T.L. Clarke (Goodreads Author)

4.03 · Rating details · 39 ratings · 15 reviews

Welcome to the dark and powerful world of the Eternals. Gabrielle Martin discovers that she was born into a secret society called the Eternals-Warriors sworn through blood to annihilate dark and evil creatures that walk the shadows of the earth. Everything she has known to be true is a lie...just smoke and mirrors to disguise a deadly world filled with half-human, half-vam ...more

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Published April 1st 2012 by One Wish Publishing (first published March 2nd 2012)

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Mar 01, 2012 Angela rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This book picks up where the first Gabby Girls Adventure ends…the four friends (Gabrielle, Jessica, Zora, and Rosalinda) have found out that they are part of a magical group. They now are to move to a different “school” and learn how to use their gifts and powers as Circles (magical/powerful women). Before they can make the trip to their new school the school they are at now is attacked and nearly everyone there is killed. The four girls are take PDF version free from the author for honest review

This book picks up where the first Gabby Girls Adventure ends…the four friends (Gabrielle, Jessica, Zora, and Rosalinda) have found out that they are part of a magical group. They now are to move to a different “school” and learn how to use their gifts and powers as Circles (magical/powerful women). Before they can make the trip to their new school the school they are at now is attacked and nearly everyone there is killed. The four girls are taken to safety and do get to their new school for training, but now their training must happen much faster to prepare them to fight in the war that is coming. Gabrielle is found to be the Akasha reincarnate and is seen to be the answer to the war problem, but how can a sixteen year old girl solve a problem like that? When the girls get to the new school Rosalinda seems to be distancing herself from the other three girls. She is acting weird and seems distracted a lot. She says it’s her Dad’s latest conversation, but is it really that? As training gets underway the girls form new friendships and gain new enemies too. It’s not easy trying to focus on studies with a whole mess of major hot male classmates running around. Gabrielle soon discovers that not is all how it seems. Her Grandmother is on the Counsel at the school and is suddenly ill, but not because she is naturally sick…someone has put a black spell on her and she will be lost forever if Gabrielle can’t find and “borrow” the special book of spells that is hidden and well guarded at the school. She enlists the help of her Gabby Girls again along with a new Gabby Girl, Brooklyn and a major cutie warrior, Justice (because he knows how to get to it). The plan starts to fall apart when Gabi and Zora finally find the book, but set off an alarm when they take it off the pedestal it was sitting on. Gabi and Justice stay behind to go up against the warriors coming, while the rest of the Gabby Girls are to take the book and run out and hide the book until Gabi gets back. Sounded like a good enough plan. So where’s the catch? Not all the Gabby Girls should be trusted and Gabi makes a huge mistake handing the book off to the one Gabby Girl traitor of the bunch. She later finds (while she is in the dungeon for stealing the book along with Justice) that the book has been stolen by none other than a trusted Gabby Girl and she or the book are nowhere to be found. How can Gabi even try to fix things when she is locked away as punishment? Can she trust Justice to help her escape somehow? Can she find the Gabby Girl and the book in time to save her Grandmother’s life…and prevent a war?

All-in-all I would say this was a good young adult read. It had action, adventure, humor, teen problems, friendships, and magic. It kept a good pace of what was going on, but I didn’t find myself as sucked into this book as I did the first one. The action wasn’t as Gabby Girl centered or quite as intense as in the first book. There was more center on who Gabrielle really is and on relationships she tries to form. I came to like the characters more in this book though because they became more in depth. I saw more of who they were as people and what they were as Circles and what they could do. It was interesting to see how they all stepped outside their comfort zones in the new school and with how they began to take an interest in the new boys that are at the new school too. I was a bit blown away by the twists in this book. Some of them flowed very well and I found myself thinking, oh man should have seen that coming. Others left me thinking, what that heck is with this. My favorite character is by far Gabrielle aka Gabi. She is strong willed, not afraid to do what she has to, and is at the same time delicate and fragile. I very much enjoyed this book and would recommend it. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first book, but I will also say that I am looking forward to the third book very much.

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May 03, 2012 Gina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

This book in the second in a Young Adult series.
I haven't read the first but decided to jump in anyway. This book summarizes the important parts that you need to know about the first book in order to understand the world the second book is in. But you still don't know what exactly happened in the first book so there wasn't a whole lot of spoilers.

I like to read young adult fiction, especially in this genre. There was some things I enjoyed about this series and some things I didn't. I didn't enj This book in the second in a Young Adult series.
I haven't read the first but decided to jump in anyway. This book summarizes the important parts that you need to know about the first book in order to understand the world the second book is in. But you still don't know what exactly happened in the first book so there wasn't a whole lot of spoilers.

I like to read young adult fiction, especially in this genre. There was some things I enjoyed about this series and some things I didn't. I didn't enjoy all the jumping around from character to character to try and tell the story. I usually like these books because of their first person reading and how interesting it is to be inside a characters head. I understand that the author does this to tell parts of the story that our main character isn't privy to. I just didn't like it.

I did like how strong the main character was. She was strong willed and strong with power and had been set up in this series as the prophesied saviour of her people so she is special. What I didn't like was her struggle with her destiny. I think she should wrestle with it and be harrowed by it at every turn and that's what the author tried to create. I just didn't really feel it myself. When she first finds out she is something special she doesn't immediately demand answers or find answers like what would be true to her character. She instead goes to school and does a full day of school. This is a character who has complete disregard for the rules at the drop of a hat. She is a rebel and doesn't back down. Why then would she go to school like it's a normal day when the day before some goddess told her she was special? Wouldn't she want to find out answers as soon as she can? This is just one instance where the character I was reading felt a little flat. The main characters friends felt a little stereotypical and flat as well with the bookish one only interested in studying, the one with body issues, and the shallow princess one.

Other than that the story was interesting. The author has created an interesting world with disgusting bad guys who tear people to shreds and the world in the balance if they fail. The main bad guy is a deranged female who craves power and has a grudge against the main characters. The world is about to implode with war and only our main character can stop it.

I really enjoyed what the author did with her romantic interests. She introduced three possible guys that the main character could be interested in and kept the audience guessing about which one she might go after. One is the typical bad boy rebel. One is her possible soul mate but also tried to kill her in her other life. One is her mentor who has a thing with someone else but appears to become jealous when bad boy rebel comes into the picture. I enjoyed not knowing exactly who the author was leaning toward which was nice for a change where in these books the male lead shows up and then their attraction for each other is set in stone. Even when the author gave us a kiss between the main character and one of the guys it didn't really tell me anything. It could still go either way.

Interesting world. Great dynamics between the love interests. The characters felt flat at times. I’ll leave the decision up to you if you want to read it.

I would like to also thank the author for this book as a give away. ...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Chrissy (The Every Free Chance Reader) rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I have mixed feelings about this book. It was not a book that I had to read every free chance I had.

The story was interesting and has a lot of potential. I found the book refreshing in that it was a "clean" book. There was no swearing, or sex, or anything that would be considered inappropriate for younger readers. That was nice. With that being said however, some of the author's attempts at making it "clean" fell kind of on the corny side for me (an adult reader). Why say "back the heck off," wh ...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Mlpmom (Book Reviewer) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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3.5 Stars

When I first started this book I was actually pretty excited about it. I knew it was going to be something that I could really get into. I think the first few chapters made me have high hopes for it, the characters seemed like they would be a lot of fun to get to know and for whatever reason, I love books set in schools, you know, the whole Harry Potter feel?

In fact as I got past the first few chapters I noticed that it almost had the same feel to it as the Vampire Academy series by Rac ...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Krista (CubicleBlindness Reviews) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Four friends Gabrielle, Jessica, Zora, and Rosalind found out that they are part of a magical group. They now have move and learn how to use their powers.
Before they make the trip to their new school their current school is attacked and almost everyone is killed.
The girls are swept off to their new school for training and safe keeping, and they are thrown head first into training because of the events that happened.
Gabrielle find out that she is Akasha reincarnate, and possibly the key to solvin ...more

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Mar 13, 2012 Michelle Pickett rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Tweens

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RATING: 4 1/2 Stars

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Second book in the Gabby Girls Adventure Series by T.L. Clarke.

Welcome to the dark and powerful world of the Eternals.

Gabrielle Martin discovers that she was born into a secret society called the Eternals—Warriors sworn through blood to annihilate dark and evil creatures that walk the shadows of the earth. Everything she has known to be true is a lie…just smoke and mirrors to disguise a deadly world filled with half-human, half-vampire Underworld Warriors with o ...more

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May 30, 2012 Delia rated it liked it · review of another edition

I have to say I had mixed feelings about this book. I usually enjoy YA novels. I don't mind the whiny teenage girls running into trouble, mostly. Now this wasn't your usual teen drama. The main character is a pretty strong, and is trying to come to grips with her new life as a warrior in trusted with keeping the world safe. A lot of pressure for a teenage girl.
Overall I thin this book is geared better towards younger readers. It is done with no swears or sex making it a good possibility for the ...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Valentina rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was a fun teen book that will catch most young adult’s attention.
There is a nice sense of pacing throughout the book. I’ve found that an issue with many YA books, the feeling that the author doesn’t know how much detail, how much atmosphere to build, but this one was handled nicely. There is a slight issue with some of the word choices. I know that for many adults, cursing and bad language in general bother them, but in this case I think it was the lack of the usual curse words that made th ...more

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Aug 19, 2012 Carrie Rundhaug rated it really liked it

When Ms. Clark contacted me to read and review Blood Oath. I jumped on the chance. The blurb on this book captured my attention right away and I can gladly say I wasn't disappointed. While this is the second in the series it can definitely stand alone.

The characters were very likable. They instantly drew me into the plot. While I did like each and everyone of the main characters as well as some secondary characters I found it sometimes very hard to keep up with them all. Some of the characters j ...more

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Oct 10, 2013 Ashli Meynert added it · review of another edition

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I got this book as a First Reads gift. I hadn't read the first book in the series (and still haven't) but I thought that this was a fairly good book even though I didn't have the first one for informational background. It's not my usual cup of tea... I've been leaning towards historical bios or dystopia novels lately, so I found it a little hard to get into. It was especially hard to get into since I was reading the Divergent series at the same time. I am excited to read more by the author as we ...more

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Nov 02, 2013 Debra Neiman rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I won a copy of this book for honest review.
As I am a grandmother, you might be surprised to know I am also a YA reader. I started this book several times and finally finished it. I liked the strong lead character and the fact they left the three love rivals kept in suspense for so long. There was no sexual or swears and only mild violence.
Four friends Gabrielle, Jessica, Zora, and Rosalind learn they have magical powers. Before they can make it to their school to train their powers, they find t ...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Emily (Heinlen) Davis rated it it was amazing

I loved the background info provided at the beginning of the book. It read like a journal entry and allowed me to dive right into the book. That being said, I loved the book! It was an interesting story that grabbed you right from the beginning. This book should do great with young adults.

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Apr 27, 2012 Black Queen marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Thanks for this wonderful giveway!!:)

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