Review: Ruins of Fate by Jamie A. Waters (@jawatersbooks)

Ruins of Fate

Author: Jamie A. Waters

Release Date: April 4, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

The Omni Towers Book #0.1

ASIN:   B07P9MRZJK

Genre: Fantasy

Review Copy Source: NetGalley

One wrong decision, and the future will crumble…

Skye Levanthe traded everything she owned in order to secure a place for herself and her son, Veridian, in a scavenging camp.

But all contracts have an expiration date.

Desperate to obtain the resources they need to survive, Skye agreed to navigate the dangerous ruins of fallen cities to search for tradeable materials. When a strange storm forced Skye and her scavenging partner into forbidden territory controlled by The Omni Towers, a ruin collapsed, nearly taking their lives and destroying countless others.

Only one other person survived the ruin collapse: a mysterious young girl named Kayla.

Faced with the decision to save her son or abandon her new foster daughter to a terrible fate, Skye agreed to the only possible course of action—to go into exile and take on the Omni traders in their own den.

No one ever said survival would be easy.

And every choice has consequences.

I liked RUINS OF FATE so much that I grabbed myself a copy of book one of the series and then the rest of the series after that.

The Omni Towers series is an established series with RUINS OF FATE giving everyone a glimpse of the character's pasts. I went into ROF with a blank slate having never read the series and I had no trouble getting into the storyline. I enjoyed meeting Skye, Kayla, Leo and Veridian and witnessing the start of their story together.

I enjoyed both the world and learning about the events that made the world what it was. After RUINS OF FATE was over I wanted to know what would happen next for the characters, so I immediately grabbed a copy of BENEATH THE FALLEN CITY. I wasn't disappointing. 

I gave it 4/5 stars

* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Week in Review: 3/31-4/6

Books Received for Review

Deadworld by Debbie Cassidy

Books I've Read

Beneath the Fallen City by Jamie A. Waters
Shadow of the Coalition by Jamie A. Waters
Tremors of the Past by Jamie A. Waters
Drop of Hope by Jamie A. Waters

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Review: Grave Destiny by Kalayna Price (@kalayna, @AceRocBooks)

Grave Destiny

Author: Kalayna Price

Release Date: April 2, 2019

Publisher: Ace

Alex Craft Book #6

ISBN:  0451416597

ISBN13: 9780451416599

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Review Copy Source: Publisher

The thrilling sixth book in the USA Today bestselling Alex Craft series.

Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, and that makes her a dangerous enemy for anyone with something to hide. . . .

Alex is still trying to come to terms with her changing powers and her growing ties to Faerie when a case she’d rather avoid falls right into her lap. A fae prince desperately needs Alex to investigate a politically sensitive murder. She reluctantly agrees to the case, taking FIB agent Falin Andrews along as her backup.

But as Alex begins to delve into the mystery, she realizes that the intricate web of alliances and intrigue in the Faerie courts is strained to its limits. War is about to break out, one that threatens to spill over into the mortal realm. This murder is tied right to the center of centuries-old arcane unrest, and if Alex isn’t careful she may follow the twisting path ahead of her right into her grave end.

GRAVE DESTINY is up there with my favorite installments of the series.

GRAVE DESTINY is big on Faerie. Not only does it take place in Faerie for a majority of the story, but we learn a lot more about faerie and the people that inhabit it. There are a lot of twists involved as well as mystery. Alex continues to learn more about her powers and her place in Faerie. I enjoyed the action, I enjoyed the characters and I enjoyed the storyline.

A few thoughts on the men in this series. Prince Dugan—of the shadow realm— plays a pretty big part in GRAVE DESTINY and I have to say that I like him a whole lot. I wouldn't be sad if he ended up being a real contender for Alex's heart. We don't see much of Death in GRAVE DESTINY, so if you're a Death fan, you will be disappointed. And then there's Falin. I never disliked him and can see him and Alex ending up together. The events in GRAVE DESTINY definitely made that a possibility.

I read on one review that this might be the last book of the series and I really hope that it's a horrible rumor because I don't feel like Alex's story is over. I really want to explore more of her world and watch her get her HEA.

I gave it 5/5 stars

* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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For those who deal in the fate of the world, salvation and destruction is not a game of chance.

Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger never intended to live among the Immortal Dealers, much less to be party to an ongoing battle where the fate of humanity is in the draw of a card. And the stakes have gotten only higher now that a shady new Forger has been crowned.

Virginia may be in charge of creating the chaos that makes the universe tick, but her assignments have been noble—each one in the aid of strangers. But when Ernie discovers Virginia’s true purpose, she realizes it’s going to take an entirely new kind of play to stop her.

The game changer lies within a mysterious artifact dredged from the ocean. To unlock its powers, Ernie and her partner, Gabe, must traverse dangerous new realms and uncover the history of Forgers past. Joined in a tenuous alliance with a former enemy and stalked by old friends turned lethal foes, Ernie had better play her cards right—because this time, the whole universe could be destroyed in the shuffle.

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She is also the co-author (with Walter Jury) of two YA sci-fi thrillers published by Putnam/Penguin: Scan and its sequel Burn. Her bestselling adult urban fantasy romance series, Servants of Fate, includes Marked, Claimed, and Fated, and was published by 47North in 2015, and her second adult UF series —Reliquary (and its sequels Splinter and Mosaic) was published 2016. When she’s not writing, she’s psychologizing. Sometimes she does both at the same time. The results are unpredictable.

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Review: The Night House by J.C. McKenzie (@JC_McKenzie)

The Night House

Author: J.C. Mckenzie

Release Date: March 22, 2019

Publisher: JCM Publications

ASIN: B07NKSTLKF

Genre: Fantasy Romance

Review Copy Source: Author

What would you pay for your freedom?

Caught by a powerful lord from the alternate realm of Arkavia, Taya’s offered the chance to avenge the dead, save her home world, and win her freedom.

Her days of stealing supplies and surviving among the remnants of Earth are over, but can she afford the price of Lord Thane’s deal?

I fell into THE NIGHT HOUSE the moment it started.

THE NIGHT HOUSE reads in a few different genres. We start with a bit of survival/apocalyptic and then it jumps into fantasy and then they combine at the end. I enjoyed the story as a whole and the characters were easy to like and read about.

I enjoyed learning about the world of Arkavia. I would have liked more from it, but what I did get kept me intrigued. I enjoyed the action scenes and the romance development between Taya and Thane.

There were a few pacing issues in THE NIGHT HOUSE. Time jumped at points that I would have liked to know more. Then there was the ending. It felt super rushed and unfinished. It felt like another book was to come, but it's a standalone so that isn't going to happen.

My final thoughts: I didn't get enough of the story and the world and I would read more if more was to come in the future.

I gave it 3.5/5 stars

* This book was provided free of charge from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

New Releases: 3/31-4/6

Mon. Apr. 1st

 Devil Forget Me (Demon Huntress #5) by Karilyn Bentley

Tue. Apr. 2nd

 The Astral Traveler's Daughter (School for Psychics #2) by K.C. Archer
 The Devouring Gray (The Devouring Gray #1) by Christine Lynn Herman
 Grave Destiny (Alex Craft #6) by Kalayna Price
 In LIEU by Barry Dean
 Lovestruck by Kate Watson
 Smoke and Key by Kelsey Sutton
 We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett
 Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy #1) by Emily A. Duncan

Thur. Apr. 4th

 Ruins of Fate (The Omni Towers, Prequel) by Jamie A. Waters

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