It came out August 11th 2015, however I discovered that the Chapters nearest my house was not informed of this release date as I was able to purchase it on August 9th.
Good news for me considering that Colleen Houck is one of my favourite authors.
I hadn't gotten around to reading it up until September although and I just finished it probably twenty minutes ago so I might not be in the right mind to really write a review on it but here goes nothing.
When I started this book, I was rather disappointed with it. the first few chapters were all smeared with my anger as I judged them so harshly. I realized soon after that I was comparing this book so much with Colleen's first series that I fell so much in love with, the 'Tiger's Curse' series.
So I took a step back and started to read it as if it was all on its own, as if this wasn't the same author. Which lightened my mood dramatically. Although that I believe this book isn't as good as the Tiger books that I read exactly one year ago in the course of five days, it has its own charms.
Today I managed to read the last two parts of it and I went through all of the emotions. Happiness, love, anger, sadness, and even some regret.
Reget mostly because I didn't pick it up sooner.
A part of me wished I never picked it up at all, but it had a lot of twists and turns I didn't see, and some that I did. It kept me reading, but that's not all that matters in a book.
I love books that can make me cry, and this one did. Even though I did not try to cry and made myself hold back the tears as much as I could, they still came and I was a little disappointed at myself for crying.
I wasn't particularly attached to the main character Lily. I think it was mostly because I didn't feel like I could relate to her life in anyway. (Before meeting Amon, not after meeting him of course.) Maybe that is also why this book will not be making its way onto my favourites list any time soon.
I did give it a rating of five stars on goodreads, though I really do feel like it's more like a 4.7 (/5) star rating. I just round up.
Maybe if this book had more of a smoothly written feel - rather than a choppy feeling - and Lily made more humanly mistakes and perhaps even felt a little more real and relatable to me, then this rating could be a full five stars.
I do not hate this book, on the contrary it took me three days to read which pretty much means I enjoyed it a lot.
You'll see as more of my reviews are posted that if I read a book within a week then it grabbed my attention enough that I can say I loved it.
I loved this book, I guess I just raised my expectations so much in the time waiting for it to be released and waiting to read it that I had very unrealistic expectations in mind.
I still loved learning more about Egyptian Gods and Goddess'. Colleen is very good with her research if you have ever read her Tiger's Curse series you would know this.
Maybe that's really why I like her writing so much is because of the history she uses in it (even if the characters added to history aren't real). I wouldn't recommend this book to all of my friends like I constantly do with the Tiger series. Maybe just some who are into reading as much as I am and could hold a conversation about it with me.
Although it is a flawed book, no book can really be that perfect. I still love it and I can't wait to see what she does with the second one. Because although there are hints in the epilogue, I don't know how she'll do it. As you near the end you really do wonder why this book is set to become a series of three rather than just a stand alone like it would seem.
I think that's what will make it more interesting.
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