Pages:
36
Publisher:
Simon and
Schuster
Release
Date: 4th
July 2013
Series:
Lila #2.5
Edition:
e-book,
purchased
Synopsis
When
Lila and Alex sneak off for a romantic weekend away, Lila’s hoping she’ll
finally have a chance to work on Alex’s resolve.
But
just as things start heating up news reaches them of a serial killer on the
loose on the island and it isn’t long before their intimate weekend away is
interrupted.
A
mind reader, a projector, a protective older brother and a serial killer. One
of them is going to find Lila first. She hopes it’s the serial killer.
Mini-review
I really loved the Lila books
and I’m super excited to read Sarah’s next book, The Sound, so hearing that there was going to be a short e-novella
connecting the novel? I was pretty excited.
Man, I missed Lila and Alex!
The chemistry between them was as sizzling as ever and I think Alex got even
hotter even though I didn't think that was possible. I loved that jack got in
the way every time that Lila and Alex got a little bit...preoccupied and I
found myself laughing aloud at his antics.
I thoroughly enjoyed being back
in Lila’s world and now I’m even more looking forward to The Sound and meeting Ren and Jesse properly.
The
Assassin and the Pirate Lord – Sarah
J Maas
Pages: 70
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Release Date: 16th February 2012
Series: Throne of Glass #0.1
Edition: e-book, purchased
Synopsis
On a remote island in a tropical seas, Celaena
Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She’s been sent by the
Assassin’s Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates.
But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves,
her mission suddenly changes – and she will risk everything to right the wrong
she’s been sent to bring about.
Mini-review
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord takes place two years before the beginning of Throne of Glass when Celaena is sixteen. She's arrogant, annoying and a bit of a brat really - a very different girl to the one I first met in ToG. It took a while to adjust to her character so I was pleased that she grew up in such a short amount of time. By the end of the novella she was on her way to becoming the Celaena I know and love.
I have to say that my faovurite thing about The Assassin and the Pirate Lord by far was who we got to meet: the famous Sam. Yep, Sam who Celaena fell in love with and then got killed. He's completely adorable and I totally understand what she saw in him. But mostly I loved that they were at loggerheards to begin with. It took a dangerous and life-changing mission for them to start to see eye to eye. This e-novella showed their beginning and I hope that we see their relationship progress and develop over the series of novellas.
A must for fans of the series.
The
Midnight Heir – Cassandra
Clare and Maureen Johnson
Pages:
45
Publisher:
Walker Books
Release
Date: 16th
July 2013
Series:
The Bane
Chronicles #4
Edition:
e-book,
purchased
Synopsis
Magnus
though he would never return to London, but he is lured by a handsome offer
from Tatiana Blackthorn, whose plans – involving her beautiful young ward – are
far more sinister than even Magnus suspects. In London at the turn of the
centur, Magnus finds old friends, and meets a very surprising young man...the
sixteen-year-old James Herondale.
Mini-review
This is by far
my favourite of The Bane Chronicles so
far. Set in 1903, The Midnight Heir takes
us twenty five years after the end of Clockwork
Princess and back to the London Institute. So if you haven’t read Clockwork princess yet and plan to, stop reading! And don’t read this
novella until you have – there are many, many spoilers...
I loved revisiting
Tessa and Will and getting to meet their troubled son, James. It made me so, so
excited for the fourth Shadowhunter series, which we only have the initials for,
TLH. Being back in the world of the Herondales and Edwardian London was such a
treat and the relationships and dynamics of TID
where all there in The Midnight Heir.
Honestly, it made me want to re-read The
Infernal Devices...
Sophie
I'm so glad you enjoyed The Midnight Heir! I can't wait until TLH either now. I'm such a huge fan of the Shadowhunter novels. Must endure City of Heavenly Fire first. Don't know how I'll cope!
ReplyDeleteI have the Throne of Glass novellas but haven't read them yet. Will have to soon!