Review: Develop (Project Adapt Series Book 3) by Jade Waltz

Develop by Jade Waltz
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ruling A Moon

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

This third book in the series sees Selena trying to adjust to her new life on the moon, gifted to her by Zirene. She has created so many plans to ensure her people of many races are safe, happy and fulfilled. She’s trying to make sure there will be income for her moon to sustain it’s people by developing tourism. At the same time she is coming to terms with trying to be a leader, a position she has no training for or experience of. Her nestmates, the two princes, are helping guide her in the ways in which she must act in order to ensure her people’s confidence in her.

At the same time she is adjusting to motherhood, with three cubs of a different species, due to her unique DNA. She’s having to accept the help of others because she’s can’t fulfil all their needs.

She’s also trying to ensure all her nestmates are happy and getting equal attention because she doesn’t want to act like other nestqueens, and take her nestmates for granted. She wants everyone to be happy. However, it seems that the outside universe doesn’t seem to agree with her philosophy and the outside tries to keep pushing it’s way in.

I really enjoyed this book. This series is great fun, and I love how the different species and cultures interact. The world building is superb in this series. The first half of the book was mainly focused on the relationships within the clan and it was a more gentle pace, but as things moved into the latter stages of the book, everything shifted up a gear, and ended in a HUGE cliffhanger. Jade Waltz, you are mean! It would appear that in the next book there are going to be even more changes for Selena to face!

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Review: Wolf Child (The Year of The Wolf Series Book 1) by Serena Akeroyd

Wolf Child by Serena Akeroyd
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Fantastic New World To Dive Into

I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.

I haven’t read all of Serena Akeroyd’s book, but most of them have rated pretty high on my list of books I’d like to read again. I particularly enjoyed TriAlpha Chronicles and this book takes us into another wolf shifter based world.

The world building is complex and interesting and I really enjoyed getting the outline of the way the shifter culture was structured, especially learning about the role the Mother plays in their society.

Ethan and Austin are twin wolf shifters, a rarity in their world. They are joint enforcers for their pack and are having a rare time off wandering round a carnival when they find a woman who has been nearly killed by an alpha wolf shifter. As it is a full moon she is likely to survive and transition, even though her attack is forbidden and her attacker will be punished. The twins take her back to pack land and watch her transformation before taking her to Eli the pack alpha. All three are drawn to her.

Sabina has had a very hard life and has spent the last 12 years hiding in carnivals to avoid being killed by her father or brother. When she is transformed she has no life to walk away from and reaches for her new life with open hands, not realising the full depth of the changes about to happen in her life.

As always with this author’s work the character development is excellent. They are all distinctive in a believable way that avoids the caricatures that are easy to use when writing about multiple characters. The plot construction is clever and engaging, as the author pulls you through the twists and turns of their relationships with each other, the Mother and the pack. There were a few slower moments in the middle of the book, but I still quite enjoyed them because they were essential to the growth of the characters.

This world is so enticing I can’t wait to read the next book in the series, which seems to involve Sabina’s sister from the tantalising snippet at the end of the last book. This is the only problem with reading a book as soon as it comes out, you have to wait ages for the next one. At least there was no cliffhanger, just a well written book that encourages the reader to get their hands on the next book as soon as possible to carry out learning about the author’s world.

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Review: A Broken Jewel (Jade Series Book 1) by Lucy Rains

A Broken Jewel by Lucy Rains
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Genetic Experiments and Evil Mothers

I’d not come across this author before this week when someone recommended this series on a group I belong to. After reading the blurb I was happy to download the book. It more than met my expectations.

It’s Jade’s birthday and her mother hasn’t come home again. She’s a respected scientist who travels the world and leaves her daughter at home with only the supervision of a house manager. Her mother is undemonstrative, unkind, absent even when physically present, strict and incredibly demanding. Jade constantly strives for her approval and yet she never gets it.

Jade’s mother keeps her isolated so she lives an incredibly lonely life with only two real friends and even they are not aware of Jade’s life outside of school. Jade has plans to escape her mother’s control but it’s going to take some time. Then she meets two young men who try to convince her to leave with them before she’s ready. She doesn’t trust them or understand their need to get her away from her mother so urgently, until things come to a head and she has no more room to put off making decisions.

For an 18 year old, Jade was pretty mature. She was intelligent, patient and determined. Then when she met the guys she became a bit hormonal teenager with rage issues. Normally I’d be put off by that, but it was obvious from the direction of the plot that were reasons for her behaviour, it just wasn’t obvious when it occurred.

This story really draws you in. It starts off quite ordinary and slowly drop by drop the intrigue builds and you become more and more captivated by the secrets that start to be revealed. It’s a fascinating book and I can’t wait to read the next in the series because the ending raised a whole lot of new questions just as a few are answered.

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Review: Legacy (Shifters of Consequence Series Book 2) by Mazzy J March

Legacy by Mazzy J. March
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Meeting the Neighbours

This is the second book in the series and carries straight on from the first book. Wendi is getting much stronger and doesn’t need her wheelchair often. She’s still not completely secure about the use of her body, but she’s getting there, the longer she is without the pills.

Another local pack has heard about Wendi and invokes an old treaty that allows them to ‘court’ her whether she likes it or not. She is forced to visit their pack in order to avert a war. She goes with Escher, because it used to be his pack. It’s during this visit she is first introduced to the idea of harems. It’s not the best introduction.

I enjoy these books, but part of me is a little sad that the main character gets better and no longer has a disability. I don’t mean it’s sad that someone gets better, but that it’s so rare to find books about characters with disability that I kind of hate it was a plot device rather than a difficulty the character had to live with. It plays into the idea that if you try hard enough you can find the reason for disability and get better. This isn’t the case in real life very often and I don’t like the attitude to bleed into fiction when I deal with it in real life. Apart from this I still enjoy the books for the character development.

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Review: Angus (Conner Brothers Constructions Series Book 2) by Cee Bowerman

Angus by Cee Bowerman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When Two Families Meet

The second book in the series about the Conner Brothers is about Angus, ‘the grumpy one’.

Violet Merida is the daughter of a country music legend, who sadly died in a plane crash with her father. She lives with her two sisters in a big old house that her parents had built for their entire family to live in long term. One of Violet’s sisters followed in her mother’s footsteps and the other is a famous video game designer. Violet writes books under a pen name.

Violet and Angus meet in awful circumstances when she is a on date that she needs rescuing from. Angus is attracted to Violet but they don’t get a chance to exchange information before a family emergency occurs. When they meet a few months later everything changes and the families are pulled together.

I like Violet. She’s insecure about herself and the way she looks, but loves her work and her family and is secure with those aspects of her life, just not the romance side of things. She loving and supportive of her siblings.

Though Angus is a grump, he also is very loving and loyal to his family. It’s sweet to see how he responds to Violet and to her sisters too. I love how the families embrace each other’s traditions and help each other.

Once again this is a sweet insta-lust/love romance and things move quickly. There is drama but the story is more about the romance and the family side of things. It’s an enjoyable, warm and fuzzy read.

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