The Light by Lauren Bird Horowitz
I read book one; Shattered Blue quite a while ago and I genuinely couldn’t tell you a single thing that happened in it. Part of me really wishes I reviewed books back then so I could at least remember how I felt about it but this blog didn’t even exist then.
Even reading the synopsis again isn’t jogging my memory. I do remember sitting down to read this book but I wouldn’t have told you it was about the fae. I thought I remembered it being a contemporary romance but I’m clearly very wrong.
I think that is making it pretty obvious why I have no desire to continue this series. Trying to remember what happened in a book I read over seven years ago when I’ve read probably almost a thousand books since then, feels like an impossible task.
Synopsis: For Noa and Callum, being together is dangerous, even deadly. From the start, sixteen-year-old Noa senses that the mysterious transfer student to her Monterey boarding school is different. Callum unnerves and intrigues her, and even as she struggles through family tragedy, she’s irresistibly drawn to him. Soon they are bound by his deepest secret: Callum is Fae, banished from another world after a loss hauntingly similar to her own.
But in Noa’s world, Callum needs a special human energy, Light, to survive; his body steals it through touch—or a kiss. And Callum’s not the only Fae on the hunt. When Callum is taken, Noa must decide: Will she sacrifice everything to save him? Even if it means learning their love may not be what she thought?
Dragon Seed by Resa Nelson
I sort of half remember book one (Berserk) in this series. It was during a holiday period while I was at university and I think it was during my first year. I was back in Birmingham, my home town, and I remember the opening quite well, but that’s about it. I spent a lot of time reading not very great books back then but I was so stubborn that I’d read them all to completion. I have a feeling if I were to pick up this book today, it would have been a DNF. I don’t remember liking it very much but it was a free book and I didn’t have money to buy anything at the time.
I wish I did DNF books back then, I wouldn’t have such an extensive to be read right now if I did. I hate how stubborn I used to be.
Synopsis: When you lose everything, can you trust a monster to help?
When Benzel is a boy, his family is murdered and his village is destroyed by berserkers. Now grown, he dedicates his life to finding the berserkers responsible but is stymied at every turn by magic, dragons, and dragonslayers. Benzel meets a monster that can help him, but at what cost?
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