Huntress

Book: Huntress

Author : L.J. Smith

Review: Jez is a vampire hunter who is half-vampire and half-human. Jez and her vampire partner Morgead are helping a young human child with supernatural powers escape from the human world into the NightWorld where she will be safe from harm. The book actually reminds me of the time when Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer found another vampire hunter and was actually from friends enemies with her played by Eliza Dukshu. I liked the book but it was action packed just like The Chosen from within the NightWorld series.

Star Rating : 4 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who are into action and romance within the supernatural..

Thoughts:

• Very compelling
• Another Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference for now.
• Smith takes vampires to another level
• Action-packed

Soulmate

Book: Soulmate

Author : L.J. Smith

Review: Hannah writes notes to herself in her sleep. Paul who is a psychologist is trying to help her find out why until a very rich vampire who had been searching for her comes into the town she is in. Hannah soon finds out that she had been killed by a shapeshifter in many of her different lives despite the fact that this noble vampire had been trying to protect her since forever. As she uses her intuiton to keep her alive with memories of the past, Thierry will stop at nothing to protect her, even if it means protecting her from herself. This is my favorite novel within the series. I highly recommend it to people who love psychological thrillers that deal with the supernatural.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who are into reincarnation and romance

Thoughts:

• A very interesting beginning.
• A happy ending.
• A romantic psychological thriller commingled with the supernatural.
• A light and very romantic ending..

Spellbinder

Book: Spellbinder

Author : L.J. Smith

Review: In the third book of the NightWorld series, Blaise and Thea Harmon are two cousins who are witches who are very close. Blaise likes to toy with males and human emotions meanwhile Thea falls in love with Eric in which they fall in love. Blaise unfortunately ends up trying to bewitch Eric. Meanwhile, a mysterious wraith ends up killing a mortal who is madly in love with Blaise and tries to kill Kevin as Thea soon finds out that it is not her cousin’s fault for the mortal’s death.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who like ghost stories and witches..

Thoughts:

• Chillingly dangerous.
• Another twist withi the novel.
• One heck of a restless spirit.
• An ascent into the NightWorld.

Dark Angel

Book: Dark Angel

Author : L.J. Smith

Review: Within the fourth book of the NightWorld series, Gillian almost dies in a forest only to find out that she brings some spirit back with her who tells her things almost like a guardian angel. She finds out that he is soon a restless spirit who is guiding her because of Gillian’s fated connection to the NightWorld. The trope of ghosts is purely psychological but when reading this book it takes us into the supernatural where occurences of ghosts in and of the unexplained just occur.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who like ghost stories..

Thoughts:

• One heck of a ghost story.
• Bewitching
• A book for restless spirits.
• A dive as we go deeper and deeper into the NightWorld.

Daughters of Darkness

Book: Daughters of Darkness

Author : L.J. Smith

Review: The second book of the series includes three sisters belong to NightWorld who are Kestrel, Jade and Rowan with their brother, Ash who is trying to get them back into the society of their realm but instead falls in love with their friend, Mary-Lynnette. The secret is that the three of them including Ash are vampires. Jade, Kestrel, and Rowan are the type of vampire girls who like to play with boys and eventually drive them crazy. A werewolf decides to attack Mary-Lynnette who is soon saved by Ash because they soon find out about the murders going around which started with Mary-Lynnette and her brother Mark when they happen to notice that their neighbor had gone missing including her husband and as the trope goes, it takes a monster to kill another monster.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who like supernatural mysteries and twists with a hint of romance..

Thoughts:

• Ingneius.
• A wild twist.
• Psychotic werewolves and vampires; Oh my!
• Makes the reader think twice..

Secret Vampire

Book: Secret Vampire

Author : L.J. Smith

Review: In the first book of the NightWorld Series, Poppy is about to die from cancer and we soon learn that her best friend James who shares music with her and grew up with her as a young child is a vampire. Interested in her disease, James finds out about it and decides that he will make her a vampire but as soon as he tells Poppy she begins to think that he is insane. In a flurry of an almost-disaster, Poppy strays away from him by distancing herself from him as she is about to die. James comes into her room in the middle of the night and eventually bites her knowing that their bond is rare and that she could possibly die in the process in which her younger brother Phil helps James in order to keep her corpse safe. The Gothic novel is composed of monstrosities in which such things as darkness, vampires, phantoms and unexplained instances happen to the protagnist whether he is attacked by madness or insanity or the fear of the unknown. I’d call this specifically an American gothic novel because we are romanticizing monstrosity instead of condemning it like the ordinary gothic novella.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who like the vampire trope..

Thoughts:

• Smith makes a spectacular move in the horror/romance genre.
• A depiction of an American vampire novella for teens.
• Makes the reader imagine the impossible for an American Gothic novel to include romance for teens.
• A sweet escape from the throes of death.

Heart of the Sun Warrior

Book : Heart of the Sun Warrior

Author : Sue Lynn Tan

Review: Tan leads us through yet another exciting adventure throughout Heart of the Sun Warrior. General Wugang steals osmanthus seeds to regenerate an army of the dead after Xingyin finds the truth about her father’s death, and finds out that he is still alive. She steals an elixir to make him immortal as they go after Wugang for disrupting the Celestial Kingdom. Xingyin faces enemies, death and loss as Wenzhi who was Xingyin’s former enemy who played the role of the villain is not so much of a villain after all. A surprising twist and turn of a story, Tan mixes love and myth including adventure within the seven realms of the Celestial kingdom.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 0 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who like enemies to lovers and a happy ending..

Thoughts:

• A twist and a turn of a book.
• Highly enjoyable.
• The final conclusion to the Moon Goddess series is fantastic.
• A beautifully written story..