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: Forbidden Gift

 

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to the blog and all our bookish adventures.

 

Tonight's reading material of choice belongs to an author I found completely by accident while browsing BookSirens, and liked the initial premise of her series.

 

Turns out, she's written ANOTHER one (that I'm currently slowly chomping my way through) and is working on expanding her ongoing adventures in the mythical land of Teutonic witches.

 

Aka, there may or may not be people among us who can and do wield elemental magic, hopefully staying on the right path and not worshiping a demon lord in their spare time ...

 

I digress.

 

Tonight, we take a look at the second in her series, and just be aware that these aren't full-length books a la Outlander, they've got WAY fewer pages.

 

But they're page-turners just the same.

 

So let's hop right into Forbidden Gift.

 

Tome Thursday: Mystic Passage

 

Hello everyone!

 

Once again, welcome back to the land of Teutonica.

 

I swear I need to get better at this, because I'd read this one towards the tail end of LAST year, and yet here we are, nearing the end of February, but I'd never put the review up on my blog until now.

 

Sigh.

 

There's so much going on all the time though that it's almost impossible to really make a full schedule and stick to it, at least at the moment, because I keep getting ARCs that twist through it all and make me reschedule EVERYTHING.

 

But anyway, we're going back into the magical world C L Carhart invented tonight, and boy oh BOY am I excited to do it.

 

Because, and I kid you not, we finally get to meet our main character. Well, main MALE character in any event, which funnily enough does NOT happen in book one of this series.

 

So strap on your witchy hats and make sure your intentions are good, because I can assure you, even they might not be able to help. Not in Mystic Passage.

 

Tome Thursday: Magical Gift

 

Hello everyone!

 

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

 

Listen, okay, you cannot be telling me that, if you pick up ANY of C. L. Carhart's books, you won't be hooked. Sure you might occasionally wonder whether a passage might have been written a little bit less rigidly, but those are RARE.

 

Overall, these books are fun to read, they flow nicely, and the characters they introduce usually always slip right into your imagination with no problem at all.

 

Then, to top it all off, they ALL get their happy endings!

 

If that isn't an added blessing then I don't know what is, to be honest.

 

So come along with me as we hop right into another series by the author, set in the same world with the same magical rules, but with different characters testing out slightly different waters.

 

While we're at it, we'll be tying back to the original one and having a whole lot of fun along the way!

 

Ready? Awesome, then let's get right into Magical Gift.

 

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: Arcane Gateway

 

Hello everyone!

 

And oh boy, I'm sure you're thinking to yourself 'welcome back' as well.

 

Because it really hasn't been THAT long since I last picked up a book from this author, but to me it does feel like it's been a bit. Why?

 

Well, unfortunately, I had to finish some other ARCs before I could dig deep into this one, and I'm so happy I waited to be able to take my time with it.

 

It would have been such a shame to rush!

 

Especially since I really enjoyed the Elemental Bloodlines series, and I mentioned at the end of it that I would be backpedaling to the original which started it all.

 

As you can see, this is the start ... of everything.

 

C. L. Carhart really knows her stuff. So you best be prepared for some really witchy business, age gaps, demonic laughter and time travel as we head into Arcane Gateway!

 

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.