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May 13, 2017 Colleen Scidmore rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-romance, young-adult, paranormal, books-read-in-2017, romance, part-of-a-series, drama, fantasy, audio-books, not-a-happy-ending-kind-of-book

I have had this book in my TBR pile for forever, well if you've seen my TBR shelf you know I have a ton of books in that pile! So I really wasn't quite sure when I was going to be able to read this, but fate would have it this book fit in perfectly within a challenge for one of my books groups. And I am so glad I finally got to read this!
It is an amazing story of a teenage girl, Karou, who has been raised by "monsters" since she was an infant as far as she knows. She does not know who she truly I have had this book in my TBR pile for forever, well if you've seen my TBR shelf you know I have a ton of books in that pile! So I really wasn't quite sure when I was going to be able to read this, but fate would have it this book fit in perfectly within a challenge for one of my books groups. And I am so glad I finally got to read this!
It is an amazing story of a teenage girl, Karou, who has been raised by "monsters" since she was an infant as far as she knows. She does not know who she truly is or where she comes from. She only knows these creatures are her family. She lives two lives, one in the human world where she lives a normal life going to school and has a talent and passion for art. She spends most of her "human" time with her one true friend Zuzana, who is described as a tiny rabid fairy.
She spends the other half of her life running errands and collecting teeth for her father figure Brimstone.
One day after one of Karou's errands her two lives collide after she follows Brimstone down a portal she is not allowed to enter and into a world where there are more creatures than just the four who raise her. She is discovered and thrown out on her ear by Brimstone and forced to live in the human world. But an Angel, Akiva can't get Karou out of his mind after she had fought him on her last mission for Brimstone. There is something that is drawing them both together and Karou into an age old battle between the Sereph (the Angels) and the Kymera (the Monsters). And questions of who she really is come to light.

This was an amazing book, so imaginative and heartfelt. The "monsters" came to life and a brilliant story was told about why the Sereph and Kymera were such vast enemies. And why Karou and Akiva were so drawn together, that was such an emotional part of the story. There were good guys and bad guys on both sides of the war which made it that much more life like and interesting. All of the characters had such a strong voice and each one had a intricate part to play in the story of the war between Angels & Monsters. Even Zuzana was such a strong character, although Karou's human world took second place, and one of my favorites. I loved her biting, sarcastic nature and her total loyalty to a kind of whack friend.
The ending was so powerful that I could not wait to start the second book Days of Blood & Starlight. There is a bit of a cliffhanger and still lots of unanswered questions that I'm dying to find out about.
The only complaint I have is that I'm listening to this series on Audio. I love Audio when I work around the house but to really enjoy certain books I just have to read them instead of listen to them. But that's OK, this just gives me an excuse to go back and re read the series at a later date! ...more

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Dec 01, 2019 Keri rated it really liked it

Shelves: new-series, owned, fantasy, series-in-progress, 2019-12-from-my-shelves, tower-teams-vii-2019, trilogies

The writing sucked me into this book pretty quickly and I loved the storyline of Karou and her family with Brimstone. The whole world of chimaera and angel history and how each side sees it was so interesting and I loved learning all of that. I loved Karou’s fierce devotion to her family. Zuzana was a really fun character for some comic relief and also loyalty to Karou.

At first I didn’t love Akiva as he comes out of nowhere and I felt the initial interest from both was extremely insta-loveike a The writing sucked me into this book pretty quickly and I loved the storyline of Karou and her family with Brimstone. The whole world of chimaera and angel history and how each side sees it was so interesting and I loved learning all of that. I loved Karou’s fierce devotion to her family. Zuzana was a really fun character for some comic relief and also loyalty to Karou.

At first I didn’t love Akiva as he comes out of nowhere and I felt the initial interest from both was extremely insta-loveike a page after being to the death enemies...which turned me completely off to it. So there were about 5-7 chapters in there where I got bored and did lots of eye rolling about how this was unnecessary and irritating. Then we finally got back to more action and storyline, and also learned more of why this connection was there at all. Once I learned all of that it made sense and made it a little less cringe worthy. It really just seems Akiva is prone to instalove. That said I was 100% there for the Madrigal backstory and could not get enough of that. I was less invested in Akiva with Karou for sure but I’m hoping maybe the twists and connections we learned help me in the next book? We’ll see. (view spoiler)
But. More importantly. I’M DESTROYED. Heartbroken with that ending. I don’t know how anything can go forward with that level of betrayal and now with the truth fully known by all, such devastation and heartbreak for everyone involved :/. (view spoiler). ...more

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Sep 25, 2015 Monica rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, own, e-book, fantasy, ebook, audio, demons, freebie, 2015-yearly-challenge, overdrive

I just chose to listen to this book last night for a BINGO challenge. I only stopped to listen to go to bed and when I had to drive. At first I was a little lost on the story line.

There is a world with magic and the human world. The doors between the worlds start having black hand marks on them. This is so that they can close the opening between the two worlds.

You have Karou who is an artist and sketches. She is in art school and does errands for Brimstone. Then she meets Akiva. This is when thi ...more

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Apr 07, 2018 Tetty Marlinda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-book, english-books, 2018, 2015-tbr, fantasy-is-a-magic, floppy

#39 for 2018
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Mar 24, 2015 Kara Thomas rated it liked it · review of another edition

I don't know what it was, maybe the fact that I really don't carefor books with seraphim in them, but about half way through this book got boring to me. It did pick up for at the end when some secrets were revealed,but I might not read the rest of the series. ...more

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