Tome Thursday: Hunted by the Undead

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to tonight's book of choice for the blog.

 

And dare I say, it's yet another banger?

 

To be honest though, I tend to only post the good ones on here, rather than ones I sometimes stumble upon that I either don't finish, or barely make myself finish (yes, they are the rarest of gems as I'm basically a black hole for reading, but they DO exist, I promise).

 

I think I might have only really posted a bad book review on here maybe once or twice, but that's about it.

 

As far as things go, it's only positives, bby!

 

Now without further ado, let's hop right into it, shall we?

 

We're revisiting one of my absolute favourite authors with her newest release that just hit the shelves this month, and it's time to brush off our knowledge of elemental magic for this.

 

Ladies and gentlemen: C. L. Carhart's Hunted by the Undead.

 

Tome Thursday: Claimed by the Undead

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to the beautiful beginning of a brand new series on this blog.

 

I say this quite confidently, as I'm reasonably sure that the couple whose story we're covering in this particular book WILL return for SEVERAL more books, not just one or two more, which makes me all giddy and excited!

 

C. L. Carhart is an author I've been following since very randomly picking up Gift of Fire over on Booksirens, and I have to say I haven't been disappointed yet.

 

She writes magnificently well, and as I'm currently slowly making my way through His Name Was Augustin series - with gusto and much enjoyment, taking my time - I can definitely say that each new book seems to get better than the last.

 

So without further ado, let's jump right in, shall we?

 

We're headed to the 19th century with a brilliant witch of light and the undead Black Priest who claims her as his consort, which unleashes a whole host of problems ... in Claimed by the Undead.

 

Tome Thursday: Veiled Magic

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to the world of Teutonica.

 

I'm slowly chipping away at this series and making it through the books one by one - but that's the best way to do it, in my opinion.

 

If you rush anything, then the job's going to be botched no matter how much you want it not to be!

 

So here I am, with the continuation of His Name Was Augustin.

 

This one's a shorter story compared to the big books, and is actually a bonus to them all since it involves neither time travel nor Swanie, actually.

 

This one's about Vreni, Swanie's best friend in the whole world, and I have to say that I LOVE ME SOME VRENI. She's adorable, she has a heart of gold even though she could have been a total rich classicist, and she's got a really great story to boot.

 

Which means we'll stop wasting time and read it in Veiled Magic.

 

Tome Thursday: Gift of Snow

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome to what I conveniently call the mix-up.

 

See, I was SUPPOSED to work on this particular review last week, because that's just how the schedule was set up, and somehow managed to switch it with Serenity Woods' story instead.

 

Never fear, however.

 

I always make sure to review EVERYTHING I read (or, basically everything).

 

So here we are to finish off a series that I started reading ... oh gosh, when was it? A while ago at this point, but that doesn't much matter because the important thing is we made it. This is the end! The final book to show us exactly who, what, and where, and give us a little bit of insight into some of the characters we see during the main storyline in the big five books.

 

Ah, another thing to explain. I'll be brief, but let's just jump in, shall we?

 

Gift of Snow is calling.

 

Tome Thursday: Gift of Wind

 

Hello everyone!

 

We are once again back in the land of Teutonica, and if I'm not mistaken, the next book in the series might just be the last.

 

What a ride it's been!

 

Although some readers might say there wasn't much to the overarching plot and such, I say differently. It WAS a bit slow in starting, but that doesn't mean that it didn't REALLY get going once it hit full throttle.

 

We've been at it for a bunch of books and a handful of novellas now, and my goodness, have I enjoyed every single one of them so far.

 

This book was no exception whatsoever!

 

So without further ado, let's jump straight into it, shall we?

 

Because we're being called, by ice and wind both, in the book aptly titled Gift of Wind.

 

Tome Thursday: Gift of Water

 

Hello everyone!

And once again, welcome back to the land of Teutonica.

Yes, yes, I’m getting boring I know, but don’t worry – this is the last book of the series I’ll be reviewing for a while, because the next one doesn’t release for a little bit.

Of course once it DOES, there’ll be a review on here, you can bet as much.

But I think that we can leave the witches and their priests to their own devices after this, don’t you?

In any event, it’s time to finally review the one book that’s eluded me because of my laptop troubles, which I read back on summer vacation and didn’t get to up until now.

Not a novella, but none of these are long enough to really cause headaches, so here we go, shall we?

Gift of Water, ladies and gentlemen.

 

Tome Thursday: Gift of Air

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to yet another wandering into the land of Teutonica.

 

I may, at some point, stop writing reviews solely about this series - but I have to admit that they have me hooked, and as it's ongoing, and I'm kind of lagging behind (I'm missing the latest entry in the mainstream books!) I need to catch up.

 

So here we are.

 

Having just recently discovered that the prequel to the ENTIRE series was free on Kobo, you can probably guess what happened.

 

Yep, I grabbed it.

 

Then I read it in one sitting.

 

And here I am now with a review for you guys.

 

Gift of Air is now here.

 

Tome Thursday: Gift of Light

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to the land of Teutonica.

 

Yep, we're back with the witches, appropriate, isn't it, given that we're headed towards the end of October?

 

Although speaking of, WHERE has the time gone??? I really wonder.

 

I swear it was just yesterday when we walked into autumn and now we're already halfway through it, marching straight towards winter.

No clue where the time went. None.

BUT back to the actual point of this blog post, which is that we're taking a look at a prequel novella of sorts for the Elemental Bloodlines series, you know, the one by C. L. Carhart?

The books I've been reviewing on here for a while now?

Well, they're getting an addition tonight, and it's called Gift of Light.

Tome Thursday: Gift of Darkness

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm back with another fresh installment from the Elemental Bloodlines series, which if you haven't discovered or picked it up yet, you absolutely should.

 

It's been a while since I've last read anything about magic which would cover the elements as well as this one does, though I'll admit it occasionally does leave something to be desired and you might struggle on moments.

 

BUT the important thing?

 

Is that these are fun, heartwarming books with an underlying tension that's slowly starting to come to the fore, and I love it.

 

I also love how even though we're seeing repetitions of certain elements, we also get to see slight differences of them and how people use them.

 

Besides, it's not like we have a ton of said elements to begin with, after all.

 

But enough blathering on my side. Because it's time to dance with the darkness and see if we can come out unscathed. Gift of Darkness will tell us all about it!

 

Tome Thursday: Gift of Stone

 

Hello everyone!

 

I return to the land of Teutonica, if I remember the correct name, or more importantly, to the land of witches in Germany, Austria, potentially Czech Republic and roundabout there in the Central European area.

C.L. Carhart is an author I didn't know before I picked up Gift of Fire a couple of weeks ago, but I'm happy to say that I'm intrigued enough now to wish to continue.

Particularly as I'd still really like to understand some of the rules of this magical world!

More importantly, however, I think that the author just writes really, really well.

I'll talk more about that down at the bottom, the way I would normally do it of course, but the thing is that when you read as much as I do, there's just no chance of NOT running into bad writing every once in a while. That just makes actual good writing something to really hold on to.

But enough of this blabbering nonsense from me.

It's time to check our magic gauges again, in the next book of the series: Gift of Stone.

Tome Thursday: Gift of Fire

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to yet another magical review, and I do mean magical.

 

Because we're going to be talking about witches and wizards in this one.

 

BookSirens just keeps on coming through with the ARCs that you can get off the site, and tonight's book of choice is also one of them, followed by a sequel that I'll equally be reviewing at a later point.

 

However, you have to start at the beginning, am I right?

 

Although technically there's a novella before the main books start, but I didn't know that until I was already well into the two novels, so I'll circle back to it eventually at some point.

 

For right now, suffice to say that we're headed to Germany, there will be talk about the elements, and there will be magic.

 

Among other things.

 

Gift of Fire opens this world up for us and, boy, does it do a good job overall!