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Genre: New Adult, Fantasy
Pages: 400
Point of View: First Present (Maxon, Lianna)
Released: May 12th 2015
Series: Angelbound 4
Predictability: 4 out of 5 (Where 1 is totally unpredictable and 5 is I knew what was going to happen way ahead of time.)
Source: Netgalley
My Rating: 7/10 Stars
My Summary:
Lianna is one on the apprentices training to become the next ruler of the water elementals, but she’s only a Thrax (half angel) so the odds of her being chosen are slim. Zephyr the leader of the air elementals has been killing off water’s apprentices. He attacks Lianna, but she manages to escape and stumbles into Maxon and his friends demon hunting.
Maxon is the prince of the Thrax. He’s spent his whole life fighting demons, and living in the spotlight of the Thrax world, since his mother is also the one responsible for sending souls to heaven or hell. He can’t become her heir until he falls in love, but no one can see that happening any time soon.
My Review:
Rated new adult due to swearing, sex, and torture.
Though it’s the Fourth book of the series, Maxon can be read alone.
Note: Both main characters have some PTSD. (Personal pet peeve.)
The good:
We get to find out what happened to all of the characters from the first trilogy. Though they weren’t in it much, it was fun to see them again.
I love how Bauer manages to add some awesome new world building to each of her books. The world of the elementals was fascinating and I loved Lianna’s powers!
This is a fast paced book with plenty of action. It’s hard to pull off magical battles, but these were well done.
I was afraid it would be attraction at first sight, but both Lianna and Maxon had reasons to want to stay apart and this let their relationship progress more slowly. It turned out rather sweet, even if it was quite fast.
I liked Lianna right away! Maxon inherited his mother’s sass, (the main character of the original trilogy) but it took me a while to warm up to him.
The Bad:
At the beginning, Maxon came off like a moody womanizer and he seemed way too overpowered. Luckily, he grew on me after he met Lianna.
Lianna did something really stupid towards the end. (The kind of stupid they use a lot in TV, but that didn’t stop me from yelling at her.)
What are your feelings on New Adult? I’ve had some bad experiences and I’d almost written off the genre, but I liked this series so I wanted to see where it went. There was only one sex scene and it didn’t just feel thrown in. (Though some of the swearing did.) I’m glad I gave it a second chance since I enjoyed this book.
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I still need to read Angelbound. I’ve had it forever. Great review!
Angelbound is really good! It’s a little long, with some stuff that didn’t really need to be there, but it’s not boring so it’s all good. Thanks! I hope you like it!
I do like this genre but I’ve been burnt out on it too for awhile now with a few exceptions. I like that this has some paranormal elements mixed in with it. It sounds like even though it was predictable you did really like it by the end of the story.
Great review Molly!
Seems like I’m not the only one who’s run into issues with young adult. This one is primarily a fantasy novel, so I was happy. I don’t usually mind predictable. (Unless of course I’m promised unpredictability like the book I’m reviewing next week.) thanks!
I do not understand NA. Suddenly everything is NA. Even though some earlier guidelines was they are just out in life on their own, whatever and doing new stuff. I have no idea. Also they should be 19-25. Sigh. I do not understand NA…
I’m glad I’m not the only one. New adult makes no sense to me either! More often or not it seems like it’s young adult with sex. Ideally it’s somewhere in maturity between young adult and adult, which this book actually is.
Totally! I see it as YA with more angst and sex. And most often with a nice girl falling for a bad boy. But some seems to get it right
That’s the same experience I’ve had. It’s like there should be two NA classifications.
NA is always a tricky genre for me. I like one from time to time but I couldn’t read many at once. It’s nice to see the series is good and I didn’t know that another book was out. But not sure I’ll try this one out.
I agree with you on new adult. Oddly enough I wound up reading two in a row, both good.
Angelbound is a good series! She’s pretty quick at writing them too. I hope you like it.
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