By: Aimee Easterling
I was given a copy of Half Wolf for free in exchange for an honest review.
Fen has been cast out of her old pack and become the alpha of her own small pack. She has a hard time embracing her new role. She is a half wolf, a "halfie", and prefers to use her human wits (and a katana) rather than her wolf abilities.
By: Aimee Easterling
By Amy Engel
This picks up right where The Book of Ivy left us after that horrible cliffhanger! In the first half of the book Ivy is struggling to survive after being put out beyond the walls of Westfall without any knowledge of how to fend for herself. After struggling for a week on her own she is found and taken in by Caleb and Ash. They take Ivy back to their camp where they teach her to hunt, fight, and survive off the land. It's here that we see Ivy come to terms with her banishment from Westfall and grow into a stronger, more independent person.
By Amy Engel
"Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story."
I kept passing over this book because I thought it was going to be another sub par dystopian novel. I was so wrong! And I'm glad I was. It does have the same dystopian backstory: a catastrophic event, in this case nuclear war, destroys the world and leaves very few people who have to figure out how to survive. After the war there was a disagreement between the Lattimer and the Westfall families about how to run things in this new world and the two went head to head. The Lattimer's defeated the Westfall's. To maintain the peace the Westfall daughters are married off to the Lattimer sons and vice versa. This year it is Ivy Westfall's turn to marry Bishop Lattimer, the President's son. Ivy's father is tired of being on the losing side and wants to take over control of the city. He, along with her sister Callie, have been training Ivy to kill Bishop so that the Westfall's can take over.
By Anna Carey Once is the second book in the EVE trilogy. Just like with Eve, Once had me hooked from the very beginning. So many things happen in this book but I'll try to avoid any spoilers.Eve has been living in Califia for 3 months. She is desperately missing Caleb and doesn't feel like she quite fits in with the other women in the camp. After hearing rumors that Caleb is injured and in an abandoned warehouse ouside Califia, Eve sets off to rescue him. It was all a trap of course and she is captured and taken to the City of Sand. When she meets the King he is not at all what Eve or I had expected. I'll just leave it at that.
It is the night before graduation and all the girls at Eve's school are attending a celebration. As the other girls are excitedly talking about the future and their careers, Eve catches Arden sneaking away from the school. Eve follows her and learns that everything they have been told is a lie.
They are not going to the city to study and learn their crafts. Instead they will be strapped to tables and used as breeding machines to help populate the new world. With the help of a teacher Eve escapes and sets off across this New America with Arden to find Califia, a safe haven for girls.
Rio and her twin sister, Bay, live in the underwater city of Atlantia. When the children of Atlantia come of age they are able to choose whether they want to stay Below or go Above. Rio has dreamed of going Above and is devastated when Bay chooses to go Above instead, leaving Rio alone in the Below. Rio is a siren but has to keep this a secret from everyone. Sirens are very rare and her society deems the sirens too dangerous and keeps them locked away. Rio is determined to get to the Above and with the help of her love interest, True, she saves up money by racing in the Deepmarket after hours. Rio does eventually make it to the Above and the story wraps up very neatly, leaving no questions unanswered.
