Monday, November 2, 2015

Review of the Selection Series by Kiera Cass (The Selection, The Elite, The One)

Hello y'all!

I hope you've had a good weekend! Mine has being great and today I want to share a review of a series that I read recently.

The Selection Series, by Kiera Cass.

1- The Selection
2- The Elite
3- The One
4- The Heir

* There are also several novellas that accompany this series. Here is the link to the amazon page of the Author where you can find all of it.
Kiera Cass


Lets dive into it!

The best way for me to try and resume this series into a one sentence description its to use some comparison. To me it was a bit of "The Bachelor" (the one on tv in the US) but put into a dystopian setting in order to get a different reaction because of it. Now for those of you who don't know what The Bachelor is, I will explain how it pertains to the books.

The stories of this books are following closely a girl Named America. She is a 5, which means that in society she is behind in the class category. She and her family are artists and there for earning a living is hard when you depend on being hired for parties and the like... Her mother is pushy and wants her to enter the Selection, for she thinks this is the best way for the daughter to get out of the classification their society has pushed on them. The category's pertain directly to the jobs performed by the population, the lowest, #8, are the homeless.
The Selection (here is why I compare it with the bachelor, since its sort of the same thing, without this class classification...)  is the process in which the Prince (Maxon) will chose his wife out of 35 girls from the kingdom. All of different social classes... How ever, America has already given her heart out to Aspen, a boy she's known all her life and that she adores. How ever he is a 6 and if they were to marry, she would also become a 6, something that has had them concealing their relationship since the beginning, both because the law forbids any sort of close encounters between couples before marriage, and because she knows her mother would not approve of her lowering he caste to marry him.

The story is not to complicated at first, how ever, it does become so. America has to figure out if she wants to be there for herself and not for her family. Competition is hard, and all the girls are not as nice as she expected them to be.
For the prince how ever, its a bit more complicated. He is the one who needs to figure out which one of the girls want him, for him, and which one of them want him for the crown, his position and the power all of those will bring to the chosen one and their family. At the same time he also has to deal with the fact that his father is pushing for a certain lady, because of her upbringing, and he does not like how America is showing Maxon things about the lower castes that he'd never known of imagine existed before...
Meanwhile the Palace is being attached by the rebels, making the Selection a bit more complicated that it would have been. They seemed to also come from different fronts, and there for, The Northerners are less dangerous than the Southerners, making some of the selection ladies nervous and  ready to leave when they get to see part of the hardness that the royal family have to endure...

In the mean time, Maxon and America, both being from very different upbringings have found some common ground with in each others way of thinking and get along rather well. Sometimes better than others, of course... This is their story first and foremost.

All in all, I liked it. Its a good YA book and it keeps you hooked. When one conflict gets resolved, another one surfaces, making this series a page turner. I enjoyed the characters and the forward way of thinking (with in the parameters of the book and their society) of both the main characters, Maxon and America. She is a trip! Honestly, you will laugh with her and be completely taken aback by some of her reactions and responses...

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PS: did anyone read "The Heir" by Kiera Cass. It's the last book and I read the synopsis and was not sold... What did you think of it?

Leave your comments below and please tell me what you think!!

As always, I hope you have a great book keeping you company.

Have a great day y'all, Ill see you soon...

C




Friday, September 25, 2015

Cover Reveal for Kristen Proby's Love Under the Big Sky Series!


 Hello everyone, welcome back to the IGeekBooks Blog!
 


Today I am super exited to show you what is new with our favorite Contemporary Romance author Kristen Proby!
 
As you know she is my to go author when I need some uncomplicated, sexy and romantic fix. I love her books, and I have read all of them so far and reviewed them for you here on the blog. Today there is a new STUNNING COVER REVEAL!!!
 
 It’s for her existing series:
 Love Under the Big Sky. That, wait for it…

It also has a new book coming up on November 30th! The new book is called Saving Grace. Here is the link to amazon for pre-order if you want to:

 
I am super exited about all of this and I hope you are too. If you’ve yet to try one of her books think no more, you will not regret it.
 
Also, here are the links to the reviews of all this books that I have done on the blog so far if you want to check those out.



Without further ado, here is a little taste of the first book in this series.

 
 
Excerpt from LOVING CARA (Book 1):
“This is a great place,” I murmur, and turn in a complete circle, taking everything in. The forest is thick here, but with a clearing by a wide pool of water,which is being fed by a creek that empties into it via a beautiful waterfall about twenty yards away. Slabs of rock frame the pond, making a natural ledge to sit on and enjoy nature.
“This is where I’ve always come whenever I’m happy or mad or just need to think.” Josh wraps his arms around me from behind and kisses the top of my head.
“You brought me to your happy place?” I ask, half kidding, and turn my head to kiss his biceps. I can’t seem to keep my lips off this man.
And he doesn’t seem to mind.
“It seems that anywhere you are is my happy place these days, Carolina.”
I gasp and look up into his soft brown eyes.
“So, I brought the person who makes me happy to my happy place,” he clarifies.
Well . . . wow.
Before I can respond, he kisses my lips quickly and then pulls away to grab a blanket out of a saddlebag. He takes me by the hand and leads me up onto the rocks by the water. He spreads the blanket out and pulls me down next to him.
“Are you hungry?” he asks, and pushes my hair back over my shoulder.
“Not quite yet.”
He nods and his eyes heat as they rake down my face, my neck, and over my tank top, which I know shows off the girls nicely.
If he was going to keep me perpetually turned on today, I was happy to return the favor.
“You are so beautiful,” he whispers, and leans in to claim my mouth gently. His lips are gentle and soft, sweeping across my own rhythmically yet slowly, sending shivers down my arms and making my stomach clench.
He has only touched me with his lips and my stomach is clenched. I’m panting, ready for him to take me right here, in the middle of nature.
He cups my cheeks in the palm of his hand and pulls me closer, sinking into the kiss, but then he abruptly pulls back, his brows pulled into a frown.
“You really are warm,” he mutters, and feels my neck and forehead.
I laugh at him as I rub my hand up and down his firm chest. “It’s hot outside, Josh.”
“Let’s cool off.” He smiles down at me wickedly and begins to peel me out of my clothes.
“We might give the wildlife quite a show,” I warn him mildly, excitement coursing through me.
“That’s the plan.” He winks at me and quickly strips out of his own clothes. He pulls me up onto my feet and peels my jeans and panties down my legs.
“Now what?” I ask with a wide smile.
“Now we cool off.”
I hope you guys enjoyed this little teaser. Here is some more about the author herself, without whom we would not get to know Carolina & Josh and all the other wonderful couples she’s created…
 




About KRISTEN PROBY:
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristen Proby is the author of the popular With Me in Seattle series. She has a passion for a good love story and strong characters who love humor and have a strong sense of loyalty and family. Her men are the alpha type—fiercely protective and a bit bossy—and her ladies are fun, strong, and not afraid to stand up for themselves. Kristen spends her days with her muse in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoys coffee, chocolate, and sunshine. And naps. Visit her at KristenProby.com
 
That’s all I have for you today.

 I’ll be back soon with more reviews to fill up your TBR list.
 

 




Until next time, I hope you have a great book keeping you company, 
XOX Caro


Thursday, August 27, 2015

Review of the Bloodline Series by Richelle Mead

Star Rating: 5 stars
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1.     Bloodlines
2.     The Golden Lily
3.     The Indigo Spell
4.     The Fiery Heart
5.     Silver Shadows
6.     The Ruby Circle

 I wanted to wait, as I usually do, to finish the whole thing before reviewing it as a first impression and jinxing it. Since lately no matter how great a series or single book starts, more times than not, I end up disappointed. For this I had high hopes and now that it is finished I can recommend it to you all!

I loved Vampire Academy too, but in a different way. For me the books got a lot better when Adrian entered the picture, and the best part of it (although I didn’t know that when I read it) is that it created a premise for this series in witch you see the characters grow trough out all 12 books (counting both series’ together) and even so, you still want to know more. Or at least I did. That in on itself makes a great series for me.

It’s all about Sidney, the alchemist that helped Rose and Dimitri under the orders of “Smey” or the snake also AKA Rose’s father and Adrian, who is now linked to Jillian or “Jailbait”, since, that is her nickname.

Her mission now is taking care of Jillian Mastrano Dragomir, the illegitimate (now less so) daughter of Lissa’s father and her only living relative, not to mention the one person that could make the difference  in whether or not Lissa can hold the throne per Moroi law (every ruler has to at least have one more living relative in order for them to be elected Moroi queen or king) and so she is now to be hidden from rebels who think Lissa is not fit to be a ruler and the alchemist have to play a part to it.

I love Adrian in the Vampire Academy and the fact that he and Rose didn’t find there happily ever after, as predictable as that was, stung a bit. He is one of those characters that make you love him simply because he not only has the charisma but the heart to accompany it.  I felt he was owed a story, all by himself, not as someone else’s side kick and when I heard that this series was finished and it game my favorite character another chance, his chance, I had to read it.


For me it has it all:

1.     Long series with long books
2.     Great characters that you can no only empathize with, but also become while reading about them
3.     The transformation is also great; the fact that they appear in the Vampire Academy and have non-too small roles helps a lot to.
4.     The story surprises you more often than not. Just when you thought it was on one line, it changes to another. I like a book that can keep me on my toes.

5.     The best thing about the series is how the characters change.



Take Sidney for example:
She is an alchemist who was raised with a lot of hang-ups about Moroi and Damphirs. How they are all evil creatures that are not natural and there for should not exist. She is how ever forced to sacrifice herself for the good of her family, weather is by vengeance and the repayment of a debt or by going to the the Moroi’s bidding and following orders once again. She goes from having to be  here, to wanting to be there… and well, if I tell y’all more I might as well relate the books! But I am sure you get the point I am trying to make.


Ill be back soon with another review!
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