🍷🍷🍷🍷 .5 #Review of Twisted Palace by Erin Watt

Title: Twisted Palace

Series: The Royals #3

Author: Erin Watt 

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Published: November 21, 2023 by Berkley

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Source: November 21, 2023 by Berkley

Reviewer: Crystal

Rating:  🍷🍷🍷🍷 .5 / 🌶️🌶️

The TikTok sensation Twisted Palace , the third in the #1 New York Times bestselling The Royals series, now in a new special edition with bonus material!

From mortal enemies to unexpected allies, two teenagers try to protect everything that matters most.

These Royals will ruin you…

Ella Harper has met every challenge that life has thrown her way. She’s tough, resilient, and willing to do whatever it takes to defend the people she loves, but the challenge of a long-lost father and a boyfriend whose life is on the line might be too much for even Ella to overcome.

Reed Royal has a quick temper and even faster fists. But his tendency to meet every obstacle with violence has finally caught up with him. If he wants to save himself and the girl he loves, he’ll need to rise above his tortured past and tarnished reputation.

No one believes Ella can survive the Royals. Everyone is sure Reed will destroy them all.

They may be right.

With everything and everyone conspiring to keep them apart, Ella and Reed must find a way to beat the law, save their families, and unravel all the secrets in their Twisted Palace.

Crystal's Thoughts:

"These Royals will ruin you."

🍷🍷🍷 #Review of Hunt on Dark Waters by Katee Robert

Title: Hunt on Dark Waters

Series: Crimson Sails, #1

Author: Katee Robert 

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Published: November 7, 2023 by Berkley

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Source: NetGalley/Publisher

Reviewer: Crystal

Rating:  🍷🍷🍷 / 🌶️🌶️

Sail the magical high seas with this first book in a new sexy fantasy romance series from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods.

Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she’s fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She’s immediately given a choice—join their group or die.

Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cŵn Annwn. He and his pirate crew are bound by vow to patrol through Threshold, the magical sea in between realms, keeping the portals to other worlds safe. When he rescues Evelyn, he doesn’t expect to be attracted to the unflappably brassy pickpocket. The longer he spends in her presence, the more he begins to question if his heart is the next thing she’ll steal.

But as tension heats up between Bowen and Evelyn, danger escalates as well. Because Evelyn has no intention of keeping her vows to the Cŵn Annwn, and if she betrays the crew, both she and Bowen will pay the ultimate price....

Crystal's Thoughts:

Happy #BookBirthday to King of Sloth by Ana Huang

King of Sloth by Ana Huang is now live! 

About the Book

King of Sloth

Kings of Sin #4

by Ana Huang

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

Published: April 30, 2024

He'd never wanted anyone enough to chase them...until he met her.

Charming, easygoing, and rich beyond belief, Xavier Castillo has the world at his fingertips. 

He also has no interest in taking over his family’s empire (much to his father’s chagrin), but that hasn’t stopped women from throwing themselves at him…unless the woman in question is his publicist. 

Nothing brings him more joy than riling her up, but when a tragedy forces them closer than ever, he must grapple with the uncertainty of his future—and the realization that the only person immune to his charms is the only one he truly wants.  

***

Cool, intelligent, and ambitious, Sloane Kensington is a high-powered publicist who’s used to dealing with difficult clients. 

However, none infuriate—or tempt—her more than a certain billionaire heir, with his stupid dimples and laid-back attitude. 

She may be forced to work with him, but she’ll never fall for him…no matter how fast he makes her heart beat or how thoughtful he is beneath his party persona. 

He’s her client, and that’s all he’ll ever be. Right?

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🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 #Review of Broken Prince by Erin Watt

Title: Broken Prince

Series: The Royals #2

Author: Erin Watt

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Published: October 17, 2023 by Berkley

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Source: NetGalley

Reviewer: Crystal

Rating: 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷/ 🌶️🌶️

From wharf fights and school brawls to crumbling lives inside glittery mansions, one guy tries to save himself.

THESE ROYALS WILL RUIN YOU...

Reed Royal has it all—looks, status, money. The girls at his elite prep school line up to date him, the guys want to be him, but Reed never gave a damn about anyone but his family until Ella Harper walked into his life.

What started off as burning resentment and the need to make his father’s new ward suffer turned into something else entirely—keep Ella close. Keep Ella safe. But when one foolish mistake drives her out of Reed’s arms and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed’s entire world begins to fall apart around him.

Ella doesn’t want him anymore. She says they’ll only destroy each other.

SHE MIGHT BE RIGHT.

Secrets. Betrayal. Enemies. It’s like nothing Reed has ever dealt with before, and if he’s going to win back his princess, he’ll need to prove himself Royally worthy.

Crystal's Thoughts:

"He told me to stay away. He told me I didn't belong. If only I'd listened to him."

🍷🍷🍷🍷.5 #Review of Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffin

 

Title: Bring Me Your Midnight

Series: n/a

Author: Rachel Griffin

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

Published: August 1, 2023 by Sourcebooks Fire

Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N 

Source: NetGalley

Reviewer: Crystal

Rating:  🍷🍷🍷🍷.5 

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a lush romantic fantasy about forbidden love, the choices we make, and the pull between duty and desire.

Tana Fairchild’s fate has never been in question. Her life has been planned out since the moment she was born: she is to marry the governor’s son, Landon, and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches of her island home and the mainlanders who see her very existence as a threat.

Tana’s coven has appeased those who fear their power for years by releasing most of their magic into the ocean during the full moon. But when Tana misses the midnight ritual—a fatal mistake—there is no one she can turn to for help…until she meets Wolfe.

Wolfe claims he is from a coven that practices dark magic, making him one of the only people who can help her. But he refuses to let Tana’s power rush into the sea, and instead teaches her his forbidden magic. A magic that makes her feel powerful. Alive.

As the sea grows more violent, her coven loses control of the currents, a danger that could destroy the alliance as well as her island. Tana will have to choose between love and duty, between loyalty to her people and loyalty to her heart. Marrying Landon would secure peace for her coven but losing Wolfe and his wild magic could cost her everything else.

Crystal's Thoughts: 

"I would set the world on fire just to see your face."

"Then we can burn together."

Happy #BookBirthday to Archangel's Lineage by Nalini Singh

Join the archangels, vampires, and mortals for this extraordinary sixteenth addition to the New York Times bestselling Guild Hunter series. With plenty of inspiring romance, epic world building, and staggering emotion readers are guaranteed to adore, ARCHANGEL’S LINEAGE - out now!!!

About the Book

Archangel's Lineage
Guild Hunter #16
by Nalini Singh

Format 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published April 23, 2024 by Berkley

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s dangerous and beautiful world of archangels, vampires, and mortals has never faced a threat this cataclysmic…

Raphael and Elena are experiencing their first ever year of true peace. No war. No horrors of archangelic power. No nightmares given flesh. Until…the earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind’s precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held their most innocent safe for eons.

Amid the chaos, Elena’s father suffers a violent heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to heal the bonds between them and make sense of the ruins of their agonizing shared history.

Even as Elena battles grief, Raphael is torn from her side by the sudden disappearance of an archangel. But worse yet is to come. An Ancestor, an angel unlike any other, stirs from his Sleep to warn the Cadre of a darkness so terrible that it causes empires to fall and civilizations to vanish.

This time, even the Cadre itself may not be able to stop a ticking clock that is counting down at frightening speed…

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