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Seasons of the Storm
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One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice—live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die.
Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter—an immortal physical embodiment of the season on Earth. Every year, he must hunt the Season who comes before him. Summer kills Spring. Autumn kills Summer. Winter kills Autumn. And Spring ki ...more
Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter—an immortal physical embodiment of the season on Earth. Every year, he must hunt the Season who comes before him. Summer kills Spring. Autumn kills Summer. Winter kills Autumn. And Spring ki ...more
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13/01: Serious question, what is it with me and getting declined for the arcs for all books I'm super excited for?
Me reading the blurb.
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Me reading the blurb.
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Oct 19, 2019
destiny ♡⚔♡ [howling libraries]
marked it as to-read
1) this sounds so cool (no pun intended)
2) I think this is literally one of the prettiest covers I have EVER seen. I can't stop staring at it. Wow.
Thank you so much to HarperTeen for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review! ...more
2) I think this is literally one of the prettiest covers I have EVER seen. I can't stop staring at it. Wow.
Thank you so much to HarperTeen for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review! ...more
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Thank you Edelweiss and HarperTeen for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are mine.
"Winter's crown may be heavy on your head.
But you hold eternal spring in your heart."
If someone of flesh and blood embodied the concept of a season, what would that life entail? I don't think that I ever got an answer to that simple question. That's my main bone to pick with this novel: things are never quite concrete.
Our world has four seasons, each waning and renewing dep ...more
Thank you Edelweiss and HarperTeen for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are mine.
"Winter's crown may be heavy on your head.
But you hold eternal spring in your heart."
If someone of flesh and blood embodied the concept of a season, what would that life entail? I don't think that I ever got an answer to that simple question. That's my main bone to pick with this novel: things are never quite concrete.
Our world has four seasons, each waning and renewing dep ...more
Character artwork by @morgana0anagrom <3
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YALL I'M GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF GETTING DISAPPOINTED OVER NEW RELEASES.
I'm really disappointed with this one. It really met none of my expectations and it's so different from what I was expecting. I feel like everything was out of place and I just didn't like the worldbuilding or the pacing. I don't connect with the characters at all and it's just feel flat. I skimmed most part of the book since i felt like I didn't care anymore.
ARC provided by Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review ...more
I'm really disappointed with this one. It really met none of my expectations and it's so different from what I was expecting. I feel like everything was out of place and I just didn't like the worldbuilding or the pacing. I don't connect with the characters at all and it's just feel flat. I skimmed most part of the book since i felt like I didn't care anymore.
ARC provided by Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review ...more
Mar 22, 2020
Candace Robinson
added it
What a unique story! When I started this, I thought the book setting was going to be set in a fantasy world. So this was actually unexpected. However, this was still really cool!! I loved the bond between Fleur and Jack!!! So swoony! The only thing I wish was different is in the beginning I would have liked for Jack and Fleur have to met for the first time or maybe seeing more back flashes of their history. Cosimano seriously knows how to write original works!
Oct 18, 2019
Ashlee » Library In The Country
marked it as to-read
JACK FROST!? This book sounds amazing.
Mar 08, 2020
Davina Herondale
marked it as to-read
8. March 2020
This is fan service for all of us who thirsted after Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians. Prove me wrong😂
This is fan service for all of us who thirsted after Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians. Prove me wrong😂
Reading the blurb like, hmmm...ok....Oh wow. Then, wait, Jack? Like Jack Frost? Like a Jack Frost retelling? No effing way man sign me the eff up!
Thank you so much HarperTeen (HarperCollins) for providing me a free copy through Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review.
Super intriguing premise, but sadly it didn’t pan out to full potential.
CHARACTERS:
I had such a hard time with these protagonists (and characters in general): they all felt shallowly built to the point where I had to check multiple times whose POV I was going through.
All the details that build a fictional characters (their fears, their dreams, their feelings) were withhold ...more
Super intriguing premise, but sadly it didn’t pan out to full potential.
CHARACTERS:
I had such a hard time with these protagonists (and characters in general): they all felt shallowly built to the point where I had to check multiple times whose POV I was going through.
All the details that build a fictional characters (their fears, their dreams, their feelings) were withhold ...more
Feb 21, 2020
Nenia ✨️ Socially Awkward Trash Panda ✨️ Campbell
marked it as to-read
I just love the idea of people becoming physical manifestations of the four seasons.
Please tell me this was inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons Suite. ...more
Please tell me this was inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons Suite. ...more
Nov 11, 2019
ʙᴇʟᴀ.: ☾**:.☆*.:｡.
marked it as to-read
Jack and Fleur, a Winter and a Spring, fall for each other against all odds.
I WANT IT, I NEED IT, TAKE MY MONEY, PLEASE.
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This was my most anticipated read in June 2020, so you know what that means! Yep, I hated it. I did think this was going to be a fantasy, not an urban fantasy so that did throw me off. Having these Seasons, living embodiments of elements, live in such a stark, technology heavy environment seemed like a jarring choice, but that's not what killed the story for me.
The story throws you into the action, showing Jack's death and then skipping to when Jack has been working as a season for some years. T ...more
The story throws you into the action, showing Jack's death and then skipping to when Jack has been working as a season for some years. T ...more
Honestly, my feelings about this one are so mixed! The concept is so very interesting, and the author certainly executed aspects of the lore for the Seasons in the story in a way that I wasn’t expecting (but was good). But the first half this book felt a little slow, and I didn’t really end up feeling a connection to the main characters either. I will say that it definitely picked up in the latter half of the story, and that I thought it stuck the landing for the way it all ended, which definite
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Title: Seasons of the Storm
Series: Seasons of the Storm #1
Author: Elle Cosimano
Release date: June 23, 2020
Cliffhanger: No
Genre: YA fantasy
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. A perfect storm lies ahead. You can let it destroy you, or you can take control of it. How the story ends is up to you.”
Seasons of the Storm was a phenomenal teen fantasy loaded with originality. At this point I've read quite a lot of this genre, and yet this story still managed to feel refreshingly new and ...more
Aug 18, 2020
Alaina
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
2020-ng,
fantasy,
books-i-own,
retellings,
romance,
audiobook,
fiction,
young-adult,
mythology
Have you ever added a book to your TBR with so much excitement? That was me for this book. I mean, how could you not be intrigued by a Jack Frost Retelling? If you aren't, then.. something is obviously wrong with you. Just saying.
Seasons of the Storm was a pretty good book. I definitely enjoyed the audiobook version but I will admit that I was super bored with some chapters. I mean the whole thing with each season killing the one before sounded pretty cool. Yet, the whole cycle did get repetitiv ...more
Seasons of the Storm was a pretty good book. I definitely enjoyed the audiobook version but I will admit that I was super bored with some chapters. I mean the whole thing with each season killing the one before sounded pretty cool. Yet, the whole cycle did get repetitiv ...more
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I was so excited to read this book because the concept sounded so interesting and I’m happy to say that my excitement was well-placed! I loved that it was a loose Jack Frost retelling with such an original twist.
Seasons of the Storm is about teens who embody the magic and powers of one of the four seasons, and who must hunt and kill the season before theirs in order for their own season to take over to continue the cycle. This follows four seasons in particular, Fleur 🌷, Jack❄️, Amber🍁 and Julio ...more
Seasons of the Storm is about teens who embody the magic and powers of one of the four seasons, and who must hunt and kill the season before theirs in order for their own season to take over to continue the cycle. This follows four seasons in particular, Fleur 🌷, Jack❄️, Amber🍁 and Julio ...more
In Seasons of the Storm, you'll meet four teenagers who died and became immortal when they had the choice to die or to become a Season. In this world, Spring kills Winter, Summer kills Spring, Autumn kills Summer and Winter kills Autumn ... over and over and over... The quicker they kill the other, the better ranked they are and they can earn promotions to be somewhere better for them (Alaska for Winter for example). On the other hand, if they hesitate and take too much time to kill the other, t
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This book description makes me want to run around (somewhere not here in the land of no snow- FL) in the snow and dance & make snow angels & dance with the snow flakes like a snow sprite and (when late jan/early feb comes) congratulate them on their new love with Spring...
I feel like maybe i took that a little too far but whatevs🤷🏼♀️ i am HERE for this!
THIS SOUNDS SO MAGICAL UGH I CANT. WAIT.
WINTER FALLING IN LOVE WITH SPRING? ITS LIKE ROMEO & JULIET OF THE SEASONS!
I feel like maybe i took that a little too far but whatevs🤷🏼♀️ i am HERE for this!
THIS SOUNDS SO MAGICAL UGH I CANT. WAIT.
WINTER FALLING IN LOVE WITH SPRING? ITS LIKE ROMEO & JULIET OF THE SEASONS!
honestly if this hadn't been a book my friends were also reading I would have definitely dnf'd 30 pages in. I knew right away this probably wouldn't be my favorite or even that enjoyable but I pushed on because maybe I could've been wrong, but I wasn't. this story was very flat, same with the characters that had absolutely no personality and all felt bland. and the romance, which is mostly why I had wanted to read this, had no chemistry. so I was just bored reading this book and wish it had a st
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2.5 Stars
I was really excited for this book, because I love nature personified stories and forbidden love seasons against all odds sounded amazing to me. But I just gradually started loosing interest while reading and would go out of my way to pick out another book. I was hoping/expecting a lush fantasy world with a well established environment as the setting, but the story felt much more sci-fi and definitely was a urban fantasy. Which I typically love, it just wasn't what I was expecting going ...more
I was really excited for this book, because I love nature personified stories and forbidden love seasons against all odds sounded amazing to me. But I just gradually started loosing interest while reading and would go out of my way to pick out another book. I was hoping/expecting a lush fantasy world with a well established environment as the setting, but the story felt much more sci-fi and definitely was a urban fantasy. Which I typically love, it just wasn't what I was expecting going ...more
Oct 14, 2019
Kilikina
marked it as to-read
Ok but this sounds fucking AMAZING. June 2020 can’t come fast enough!!!
*cries* update to come
I received an ARC through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review!
DNF at 19%
I just wasn't into it. I know it'll be for some people, but it wasn't for me. The world didn't make a lot of sense and I kept being like "what's going on and who's that" because there were so many things just thrown at me, including sci-fi-y stuff. I'm usually good at keeping up, but this one didn't work for me. It's unique, but, ultimately, not my thing. ...more
DNF at 19%
I just wasn't into it. I know it'll be for some people, but it wasn't for me. The world didn't make a lot of sense and I kept being like "what's going on and who's that" because there were so many things just thrown at me, including sci-fi-y stuff. I'm usually good at keeping up, but this one didn't work for me. It's unique, but, ultimately, not my thing. ...more
Mar 08, 2020
Gaia
marked it as to-read
i read my name in the summary, i add it to my tbr.
**Thank you to HarperCollins Canada for providing me with a free digital advanced copy (through Edelweiss) in return for an honest review**
Wow! I am actually so blown away with how much I loved this book!
I went in so excited about the premise and it didn't disappoint me. It had all the drama I was hoping for and the elemental magic that is the best!! Plus enemies to lovers, and enemies to friends!? Enemies who have to become friends or work together against a common enemy!? My favourite tropes! ...more
Wow! I am actually so blown away with how much I loved this book!
I went in so excited about the premise and it didn't disappoint me. It had all the drama I was hoping for and the elemental magic that is the best!! Plus enemies to lovers, and enemies to friends!? Enemies who have to become friends or work together against a common enemy!? My favourite tropes! ...more
You can find this review on my blog Shades of Paper.
I was so excited to read this novel because it had such a unique and interesting synopsis, and I thought it was something right up my alley, so I couldn’t wait to read it, and I went into it with pretty high expectations, but unfortunately I think this is one of those cases where the concept sounded supe ...more
“This is the one night you’re not leashed to that place. The one night you don’t have to answer to anyone. Don’t lose that nerve.”
I was so excited to read this novel because it had such a unique and interesting synopsis, and I thought it was something right up my alley, so I couldn’t wait to read it, and I went into it with pretty high expectations, but unfortunately I think this is one of those cases where the concept sounded supe ...more
If you are looking for an example of great premises but poor execution, Seasons of the Storm is the perfect example.
In the beginning, I was very captivated by Jack’s story. Abandoned by his family, he has no one and lives in a juvenile boarding school. While trying to have a normal night out with his friends, Jack had a terrible accident and he finds himself on the brink of death. He sees a woman, Gaia, coming towards him. She gives him a choice, either she can bring him back to life and give hi ...more
In the beginning, I was very captivated by Jack’s story. Abandoned by his family, he has no one and lives in a juvenile boarding school. While trying to have a normal night out with his friends, Jack had a terrible accident and he finds himself on the brink of death. He sees a woman, Gaia, coming towards him. She gives him a choice, either she can bring him back to life and give hi ...more
✯ [2/5] ✯
You guys, I am so sad I didn't love this one! Ok, firstly the world and the way seasons work in this book caught me by surprise and I actually liked a lot this system, BUT, that is basically what I liked and I fell really sad to say this. And I think some people will love this, but It wasn't for me
My problems with it:
- I couldn't connect with any of the characters, and I am a really character driven person, so this was a disappointment
- So I also didn't care for the romance in this book ...more
You guys, I am so sad I didn't love this one! Ok, firstly the world and the way seasons work in this book caught me by surprise and I actually liked a lot this system, BUT, that is basically what I liked and I fell really sad to say this. And I think some people will love this, but It wasn't for me
My problems with it:
- I couldn't connect with any of the characters, and I am a really character driven person, so this was a disappointment
- So I also didn't care for the romance in this book ...more
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