The Battle Sylph (Sylph, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Dec 24, 2010 AH rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, arc-netgalley, alpha-males, paranormal, zzread-august-2011, first-in-series, sylphs

3.5 stars.
What an interesting and unique world!

Sylphs are beings that are based on the earthly elements: air, wind, fire, and earth. These beings are bound to humans and serve them in various capacities. Most of the sylphs are female, but the rarest ones, the Battle Sylphs are male.

In this world, only males are deemed strong enough to control a Battle Sylph. Battle Sylphs are evil, ferocious creatures that emit hate. In order to summon a Battle Sylph, a ceremony was held and a virgin woman (why ...more

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May 22, 2011 Valerie ~ Val Hall ~ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, high-friend-reviews, started-series

This story is set in a medieval world where people acquire energy-beings called sylphs to serve them. The sylphs help the everyday lives of the people. They are mostly elemental as fire, air, water and earth but a few sylphs are battle sylphs and even rarer healer sylphs. The battle sylphs are lured from a separate dimension by female human sacrifice and subsequently enslaved by men.

The main characters in this story are Solie and her battle sylph Heyyou. The sylph function as a hive mentality: ...more

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Nov 10, 2020 ~♥*Marianna*♥~ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: lost-interest, kindle-unlimited

So she cries like a thousand tears for him but she doesn’t think to go back and look for him? Ugh. I know it’s dangerous but you don’t KNOW that he’s dead. So... was this setup just to ennoy us?

Also, there’s constantly new characters and I just don’t care about them. This book is not keeping my attention. Between the dumb behavior and the nonstop characters I’m just done. Don’t even get me started on the dumb Community plot that came out of nowhere.

DNF 39%

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