[Review] Dangerous Deception, by: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Dangerous Creatures #2

DANGEROUS DECEPTION

by: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Release Date: May 3rd, 2016
Read Date: May 7th, 2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384

After a disastrous car crash outside New York City, Ridley Duchannes--Dark Caster, Siren, and bona fide bad girl-has gone missing. Her wannabe rocker and quarter Incubus boyfriend, Wesley "Link" Lincoln, was driving, and when he comes to, Ridley is nowhere to be found. The only clue is the giant raven emblazoned on the hood of the truck that hit them, which can mean only one thing: Silas Ravenwood is back. And he has Ridley.

Determined to find her, Link reunites with old friends John Breed and Liv Durand, his New York bandmates, and the mysterious Lennox Gates--who has his own reasons for tracking down Ridley. Together they travel through the Caster Tunnels and the Deep South to New Orleans, where they uncover the truth about the infamous Ravenwood labs and exactly what Silas has been doing within those walls. By the time Link and his friends reach Ridley, she is no longer the Siren they know and love. She's something new. This time, love might not be enough to save them.

MY RATE

The end of this book gave more issues than the ones can handle. It totally broke my heart. Left things inconclusive and, again, freaking wreck me. My heart was broken, but kind of together. Now, it's in pieces and all over the world so they don't get together ever again. My mind is confused and everything is chaos.

This book picks up right after the end of the last one. We were left with that tragic car crash, which was not an accident. Our beloved Siren is in hands of the most terrible person. She changes and then stops being our beloved Siren to become in something more than a Dark Caster, but the Darkest. Our perfect Link is moving heaven and hell to get to her, but how can you rescue a person that can save itself only by being willingly. You know, this book was so fucked up that I'm doubting why it was created in the first place. I wanted a freaking happy ending, dammit. Why I can't have that?

Ridley has always done whatever she wants and that's admirable of her, but when the things she does breaks Link's heart, that's a line you don't cross with me. I love Link that I love Ridley, so that's why I was very excited for this series, I wanted together. It's sad to say that wishes are never fishes, so, we, beggars, cannot eat a meal every day. These authors broke my heart so hard, that I don't even know what to read now to make my day better.

I have to admit that there is a little story after this end. Which is why I am so confused. A Gatlin Wedding comes time after this book and it show us, tada, Ridley. She has a lot of more powers now and her lackey, Nox, is with her. Silas is coming for revenge, but the power of these friends is enough to take him down, once and for all. So, evil aside, the end of the story made me wondering. Read it and you'll feel as confused as me. I want answers, but I think I will never have them.

Seriously, my final thoughts are simple. I was better off without reading these. I was fine with Ethan and Lena's happy ending. I was totally fine with it all, but, noooo, I had to read this book and ruin my happy vision that I had about Ridley. Fellow readers, I suggest you not to read these books, but at the end of the day is your opinion and your heart to break.

 

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[Review] Dangerous Creatures, by: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Dangerous Creatures #1

DANGEROUS CREATURES

by: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Release Date: May 20th, 2014
Read Date: May 3rd, 2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 327

Some loves are cursed . . . others are dangerous.

Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she's a bad girl. She's Dark. She's a Siren. You can never trust her, or even yourself when she's around. Lucky for her, Wesley 'Link' Lincoln can never seem to remember that; quarter Incubus or not, his heart is Mortal when it comes to Ridley. When Link heads to New York City to start a music career, Ridley goes along for the ride-and she has her own reasons. As if leaving small-town Gatlin for the big city, trying to form a band, and surviving life with a partially reformed Siren isn't hard enough already, Link soon learns he has a price on his head that no Caster or Mortal can ever pay.

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are back and casting another magical spell. Their signature mixture of mystery, suspense, and romance, along with a dash of fun and danger, will pull fans in and leave them begging for more.

MY RATE

My heart is in a million pieces, but still together... do you get me? Let see if I can explain.

Dangerous Creatures is a series to finally tied up some loose ends, but mostly to have a happy ending for Ridley and Link. Now, Ridley always is the troublemaker, but this time around she made a grave mistake. She owns people... scary-horror-movie people. She has two makers for Lennox Gates, a powerful Dark Caster. One of them is that Ridley has to bring a drummer for a band in New York, check. Because Link is a drummer and he needs a band in NY. The other maker is a house type, anything can come up for that. Ridley should be scared. She's a siren, she's supposed to know how to lie, but when Link doesn't believe them anymore, things get messy. Plus, there's the fact that their heads have a price. Everything went from bad to worse, as Mrs. Lincoln would say, and the Wheel of Fate hasn't stop spinning.

After resuming the book a little, I will say why my heart is in pieces but together. Ridley is a liar, so is a no-brainer that she would lie all the way to stop owning makers to a powerful Dark Caster. BUT she played with something precious to me, Link. She's a siren that from the moment she was Claimed, she only knew rejection, so now that finally someone LOVES her, what does she do? She fucks up and I was so mad at her. Everything was going from bad to worse to shitier to "oh hell". Ridley broke my heart piece by piece, until she finally put it all back together with a cheap glue that she found in a drawer. When I was finally happened, the AUTHORS killed me with a truck. Nothing is left of me, just my desperation to start reading the next book.

I have to tip my hats to the authors who create all these old and new characters. I fell in love with it all, like I did last time. I have to say, I don't have a favorite, I have tons. From Necro to Sampson, all of them rock.

People, Beautiful Creatures series might not be for everyone, so neither would be this one. I seriously recommend reading that one first and then this one. If you cannot swallow that one, why would you read this one? But if you read that one, you should definitely read this one and you should not wait for more time. Buy the book and read it now.

For anyone who doesn't know shit what I am talking about... This is about witches and all magical and beautiful, but dangerous creatures.

 

[R] Unmade, by: Sarah Rees Brennan

Unmade
(The Lynburn Legacy #3)
by: Sarah Rees Brennan

★★★★☆

Powerful love comes with a price. Who will be the sacrifice?

Kami has lost the boy she loves, is tied to a boy she does not, and faces an enemy more powerful than ever before. With Jared missing for months and presumed dead, Kami must rely on her new magical link with Ash for the strength to face the evil spreading through her town.

Rob Lynburn is now the master of Sorry-in-the-Vale, and he demands a death. Kami will use every tool at her disposal to stop him. Together with Rusty, Angela, and Holly, she uncovers a secret that might be the key to saving the town. But with knowledge comes responsibility—and a painful choice. A choice that will risk not only Kami’s life, but also the lives of those she loves most.