A Ferry of Bones & Gold (Soulbound, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 12, 2018 Francesca the Fierce (Under the Covers Book Blog) rated it really liked it

Shelves: man-loving, witches-shaman-magic, vampires, werewolves-shifters, genre-urban-fantasy, gods-goddess-myth, books-read-2018

Sometimes you come across a book and you just know you have to read it because it sounds too interesting to pass up. That’s what happened to me with A FERRY OF BONES AND GOLD. I had never read Hailey Turner, never even heard of her actually, but once I looked up her backlist I saw a ton of books that I probably would be interested in reading. This new release sounded right up my alley as it was described as a mix of Mortal Instruments and Charlie Cochet’s THIRDs series. And I think it definitely ...more

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Mar 24, 2024 Mashara rated it liked it

Shelves: mad-max-battle-warriors-of-the-book, fantasy, urban-fantasy, paranormal, contemporary

Lately I have seen a tendency in published books that I can only described as "is the Editor of this book in the room with us?" (See also: RF Kuang)

This book has a slight case of it, it is moslty noticeable in entire paragraphs that have no reason to be there, some phrases we could all live without, and some clear author-on-soap-box moments, I could do without personally, but all in all I enjoyed this book quite a lot.

It reads like I am beign told things that happened in previous books tho. I ha ...more

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Jul 22, 2023 Kelly (Maybedog) rated it liked it

Shelves: what-mages-witches-wizards, what-lgbtqia, what-male-protagonist, what-modern-fantasy, what-suspense-thriller-action, what-vampires, what-shifters, what-mm-read, what-magic, what-gods

I liked the characters a lot. Patrick’s deep brokenness was explained well, although the hints at alcoholism made no sense. We never saw him drinking to excess even though he did drink a shot or two on a rare occasion. We got a lot less insight into Jona. There was a glimpse into the pain he felt from his past but I wanted more. His language as a Brit was well done.

The narrative was too purple in the beginning. The author was trying to explain things with showing rather than telling but it was j ...more

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