YA Review: Anew by Chelsea Fine

 

Anew (The Archers of Avalon #1)

by Chelsea Fine

Purchase Links: Amazon Barnes & Noble

E-Book 400 pages

Blurb by Goodreads

Two years ago, Scarlet awoke in the forest alone, afraid, and unable to remember anything. Lost and confused, her life was a mystery...until she met a boy with a familiar voice.

Gabriel Archer has a voice from her past, and Scarlet's determined to remember why. She immerses herself in his life only to discover he has a brother he's kept hidden from her: Tristan Archer.

Upon meeting Tristan, Scarlet's world becomes even more muddled. While she's instinctively drawn to Gabriel, she's impossibly drawn to Tristan--and confused out of her mind. As she tries to piece together her history Scarlet realizes her past...might just be the death of her.

 

 

I love the idea of the plot with Immortal Twin brothers love triangle and curses.

 

I was not feeling the romance between Gabriel and Scarlet. She falls for him, but later finds out he has secrets. And those secrets have to do with her past. Gabriel seems like the good twin who is the responsible one.

 

Tristan who I like is the mysterious brooding hero. He definitely caught my attention but did get a little annoyed because I kept getting unwanted answers through out the book. I love heroes who are mysterious as long as I get little by little info on why they are so mysterious. Tristan’s mysterious past keeps adding through out the book but nothing is answered about his other mysterious stuff until the very end. Once I found out about some of his mysterious past I was just “Awe”...he is for sure a swoon worthy hero. He is more of the irrational twin.

 

I loved reading almost every scene with Tristan and Gabriel together. Some of their moments together did make me giggle a little.

 

Through out the book there are so many things I wanted to know like what is up with Scarlet’s legal guardian. I felt like she knows something that is going on with Scarlet’s past. Through out the book I got the feeling that Tristan and Scarlet had a secret love affair in the past or something. There is something in their past that is making him vulnerable around her and he should not be like this. The symbol Scarlet likes to draw was awesome when I finally found out what it was and how she knows. But it was at the end and still left more unwanted answers.

For me it was hard to rate Anew between liking it and loving it. I had to go with liking it because it was very easy to put down with so many unwanted answers, especially when I would continue and then find out there were more unwanted answers.

　

The ending is one that left me wanting more. There are definitely some stuff that was not answered in Anew and hoping I will find out more in Awry (Archers of Avalon, Book Two).

 

 

Wishlist Wednesday: Altered by Jennifer Rush

 

 

Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Pen and Paper blog. Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where you can post about one book per week that has been on your wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that you can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

 

 

Found this a few weeks back on someone's blog. Sorry but I forgot and did not write the blog down to give credit.  Thank You for having it on your blog!  After the yummy cover got my attention and the blurb sounded good, wow loved the excerpt and I want to read it. Check out the excerpt will be wanting it too.

Altered

by Jennifer Rush

 

Blurb by Goodreads

 

When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?

Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them.

Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.

Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.

Waiting On Wednesday: Sex and the Single Fireman by Jennifer Bernard

 

 

"Waitng On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Enjoyed 1st book, did not care 2nd  book. Look forward to see how the 3rd in The Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel is. If interested see what I thought of the early books here are the links. The Fireman Who Loved Me #1,  Hot For Fireman #2

Sex and the Single Fireman (The Bachelor Firemen of San Gabriel #3) 

By Jennifer Bernard

Release Date: Jan. 29

 

Blurb by Goodreads

 

The toughest captain on the East Coast, single father Rick Roman has come thousands of miles to San Gabriel to put an end to the "Bachelor Firemen" media hype. But when a stunning woman he nearly hooked up with in Reno turns out to be a firefighter from his new station, Roman realizes it's going to be tough keeping the tabloids at bay.

But there's even more Sabina isn't telling him. Before dedicating her life to battling blazes, Sabina led a very different life, one that made her famous. The last thing she wants is to have her secret exposed. The papers, bloggers, and TV gossips will have a field day with that—especially when they sense the obvious sexual heat between Sabina and Chief Roman, who's torn between firing her...and falling in love with her!