BOOK REVIEW - STORM by BRIGID KEMMERER - ELEMENTAL # 1 - 5 STARS!!! - ALLEN & UNWIN

By : Brigid Kemmerer

Published By : Allen & Unwin Australia

Released : Available Now

Details : Paperback, 343 Pages

RATING :  5 'SMEXI BROTHERS ...... PLUS ONE'  STARS!!

BLURB: GOODREADS

Becca Chandler is suddenly getting all the guys - all the ones she doesn't want. Ever since her ex-boyfriend spread those lies about her. Then she saves Chris Merrick from a beating in the school parking lot. Chris is different. Way different: he can control water just like his brothers can control fire, wind, and earth. They're powerful. Dangerous. Marked for death.

And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca.

Secrets are hard to keep when your life's at stake. When Hunter, the mysterious new kid around school, turns up with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, Becca thinks she can trust him. But then Hunter goes head-to-head with Chris, and Becca wonders who's hiding the most dangerous truth of all.

The storm is coming. 

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle :

Batten down the hatches. ‘Storm’, was an incredible ride. The rain will be pelting your face, the wind whipping your hair into a frenzy, and the earth will shake.....errr.....literally, the boys are hot!

But, you have heard that already , I am sure.

Meet the Merrick brothers.... plus one. Michael, Gabriel, Nicky and Chris....plus New Kid, aka Hunter. I took a fancy to Hunter straight away. Sandy blond hair, streak of white, multiple ear piercings and eyebrow piercings, green eyes, lean, muscled arms....tattoos.... what? I am letting fictional aged self out for a good airing and fictional self had a wonderful time ogling in this book J

Happy days J

Michael is the ‘parent type’, because he has to be. Gabriel and Nicky are twins. Gabriel is more sin. Nicky is the one that comes along for the ride and gets into whatever trouble Gabriel is chasing. The boys don't want Michael playing the parent card. They want him as their brother. Michael has to be the responsible one.

Chris, he is in trouble straight from the word go......

Enter Becca. A few moves from self defence classes and she is jumping into the action. She never really had a chance not to get mixed up with these lads. Becca has gotten herself a reputation and it has stuck like mud, thick, dripping mud that won’t wipe off easily. She has a kind heart and she sees trouble and jumps in without assessing the danger until she is knee deep. 

It's a bit like watching tennis with Becca, Chris and Hunter. I was the ball. Was I with Chris or was I with Hunter..... oh the conundrum. Hunter, caring, a good listener, all new age guy with his crystals and stones. Chris was there when it counted.

Was I in or out?

Earth, Fire, Air, Water, and New Kid. Let the tension, trust issues, fights, friendships and danger begin..... and the kisses. Becca finds herself mixed up in a whole lot more than she bargained for, and she can't just walk away.

Seth and Tyler are the pains in the butt of the storyline, they seem to land on their feet every time they seek out the brothers to cause pain.

Monica , Tommy and Drew, all were in need of a good ‘stinky dead fish slap’ from me. Some needed more than one slap!

Everybody is suffering . Everybody is hiding pain. Who can be trusted and who is to blame?

Brigid had me hoping the whole book that I wasn’t onto something,  it was riding on my shoulder. I kept turning the pages, hoping. I won’t say if I was right or not but I got slammed in the face with a couple awesome OMG moments that I just did not see coming, and I was quietly high fiving Brigid.

I LOVE nothing more than getting blind sided, makes me very happy.

Brigid will draw you from the word go, into her story. You will love this band of brothers, no matter how much they argue or keep Michael in the dark, isolate him because he had to draw the ‘parent' card. He has no choice, he is the glue that keeps them altogether, even though they are making it very hard for him, resenting him at times. I did feel sad for Michael. He has lost as much as his brothers, carries more guilt, and to boot draws the sucky ‘parent’ card.

I loved Brigid’s writing. How she wrote the boys and their drawing on their power. The feel you got when reading, the wind ,rain, and earth etc. I thought her writing was very good with making us ‘feel’ water and everything that went with the scene with Chris and his brothers, depending on who was drawing on what. I really felt it was all happening around me, the descriptive was really cool. I could feel the Storm coming, I was a part of it when it hit.

I am eager to crack open ‘Spark’, to see what Gabriel the cheeky rebel is getting up to. I have also bought ‘Fearless’ the novella.

Yup , the rip cord is pulled and I am addicted to Brigid’s character’s. I’m very interested to see where she takes Hunter.......’time will tell’. 

Will I be in or out?

FAVE QUOTE:

He moved closer, until a breath would bring their lips together. 'You deserve better than a first kiss in a deserted parking lot.'

Michelle

US Covers

Elemental #.5 - Released
Storm # 1 - Released
Fearless # 1.5 - Released
Spark # 2 - 28th August 2012
Spirit # 3 - May 2013

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BLOG TOUR # 44 - BOOK REVIEW/GIVEAWAYS - AIR by SHAUNA GRANGER - ELEMENTAL # 2 - ELEMENTAL SERIES BLOG TOUR

Today on Novels On The Run on our stop on the blog tour I have my review of Air, Elemental # 2 by Shauna Granger and giveaways.

ENJOY!

By : Shauna Granger
Published By : Self Published
Released : Available Now
Details: Digital, 357 Pages

RATING: 4 JENSEN & STEVEN STARS!!

Book Blurb : Goodreads

It was a rough start to the school year for Shayna and her friends, Jodi and Steven, but thankfully summer break is near. Trying to sort out her feelings for the new guy in town, Shayna agrees to let Jensen join her on a group date with her friends. While out they end up at a local coffee house where their classmate, social outcast Jeremy McCormick, is humiliated by his baseball star brother.

When Jeremy runs away from the jeering crowd, Shayna and Jodi hear the unmistakable sound of a thousand wings chasing after him, but no one else seems to hear them. These are not like any air elementals that Shayna or Jodi have ever encountered before and they fear Jeremy has gotten himself tangled up in something too dangerous for him to handle. But when Shayna tries to help Jeremy control his magical abilities she realizes it might be the biggest mistake of her life.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle :

Evil Faeries are the creatures causing major disruption in this instalment of the Elemental series, nothing like an evil fairie to try to contend with. This of course, is easier said than done, as our crew of three elementals, plus Jensen, who pops up every now and then to lend a hand, find out.

Air’s story centres around Jeremy a classmate of Shay’s. He has always been this odd guy at school , being picked on, especially by his brother Jimmy. Nice one Jimmy ( said sarcastically), you think you could rely on your own family to accept you and stick up for you.

Jimmy does the unforgiveable while Jeremy has stood up at open mic night to read some rather bad poetry, humiliated , Jeremy works some weird mojo , and there we have the direction this story takes.

Shay , Jodi and the ever loveable Steven try to track down Jeremy and find out what is going on with all these faerie type creatures.

But, all may not be what it seems.

Shauna has entertained me with some colour characters in this instalment, Hobya, Iris of Shattered Light and Tegan.

I loved having Tegan the wee little Earth faerie about. He was a great addition and I hope he sticks around.

Jensen and Shay have a sometimes physical relationship and a sometimes, not really relationship. I would have liked to have made more ground in this book with them. Jensen was more a sub character ,as Shay, Jodi and Steven are this tight crew who don’t leave much room or time for others in their life. Shay is always finding somebody that needs help and she can gungho it with her other elementals, leaving not a lot of space for Jensen.

I liked meeting Anthony , Steven’s current squeeze. If Steven wasn’t gay , he would be a gorgeous boyfriend for Shay. He is very caring and protective when Shay permits him to be, even when she doesn’t. There is just something very Team Steven about him, even though he bats for the other team.

Jeremy’s character is really taking the reader on a chase with all the things he is getting up to. The Bookstore and Police Station scenes were rather intense and a scene with Jimmy....oh dear!

I thought this book would be from Jodi’s pov as it is titled Air, but it was Shay running the show and trying to keep herself and her friends safe and others out of harms way.

Shauna brought some new creatures to my attention as I hadn’t heard of them which I thought was great.

I enjoyed this instalment, I would have liked more Jensen and relationship development with Shay. Her character was very independent , not taking a lot of time to play with her feelings with Jensen. Bad boy Jeremy stole the show with the at times violent behaviour he got up to.

BOOK REVIEW - EARTH

Michelle

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BOOK REVIEW - EARTH by SHAUNA GRANGER - ELEMENTAL # 1

By: Shauna Granger

Published By : Self Pub

Released : Available Now

Details : Digital , 230 Pages

RATING: 4 JENSEN STARS!

Book Blurb : Goodreads

Shayna and her two best friends have the abilities to manipulate and control the four elements, earth, air, water and fire. While learning to hone their growing powers, they discover a new and malicious presence in their sleepy beach town. Someone is performing blood magic and threatens to expose their small magical community. So far only small animals have been slaughtered, but then the nightmares start.

Shayna suffers nightmares of being chased and sacrificed only to wake up bloodied and bruised. She thinks her magical blood is the ultimate target for the final blood rite. When an innocent girl, Tracy, is kidnapped Shayna knows it's only a ploy to draw her out; she can't let someone die because of her.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle :

Shayna aka Shay, Jodi and Steven are Elemental’s. They have nicknames for each other. Terra = Shay as she is an Earth Mother. Fae = Jodi as she is an Air Elemental. Drake = Steven , who is Fire. There is a water Elemental, but we don’t meet this character.

Steven is fun, witty and oh so snappy with the makeup touch up, when a girl needs a little touch up in her day. Jodi isn’t as fun as Steven and Shayna appears to be like their leader. They can speak to each other in their heads. Love a bit of Jedi mojo.

The story has this group of three wanting to cast a spell, call forward a Guardian Angel to find the one guy that will treat their friend Tracy right. Tracy is in an abusive relationship with Nick, who is more than a jerk. He leaves bruises and hurts Tracy, but she is too weak to give this fool the flick. I know what I would be doing. He would firstly get a ‘stinky dead fish slap ‘ from me then.....

The story detours a bit from their plan as a set of twins arrive at their school , Ian and Jensen. Ian lays Nick out on the pavement , giving him a taste of his medicine back. We all know medicine doesn’t taste nice.

Meanwhile, Shay is having nightmares and waking up injured from them. She is seeing Jensen in her dreams. Animals are being sacrificed in the woods, which is looking like the wrong kind of magic, by the wrong kind of person, so a little mystery takes off in that direction.

We begin to wonder if Ian and Jensen are involved. Is the gorgeous Jensen a baddie?  I picked up they weren’t identical twins? Maybe I got that bit upside down. Shay always seemed to be able to tell them apart easily enough. 

Jensen and Ian are a bit mysterious and we see Jensen popping up where Shay is and letting her know he knows what she is. Poor Mike didn’t stand a chance. Awww, Mike was sweet.

The plot thickens and gets a bit darker with what the bad guy or guys are up to.

Shay takes it into her own hands to pull a Nancy Drew and get more information, she gets a bit too close to the source.

We have guardian angels, mystery, a Grimoire ( sounds like a creature but it is a Book of Shadows) , witches, hooded robed man, runes, some action scenes, dreams, sacrifices, light on the romance, and a cousin named........ and...... who knew Steven could look so smexi in his ...........

I enjoyed this first instalment in the Elemental series and look forward to reading Air and reading more about Team Jensen. But, is he a good boy or a bad boy?

Michelle

STORM BOOK TRAILER & ELEMENTAL by BRIGID KEMMERER - FREE AMAZON - LIMITED TIME ONLY - ELEMENTAL SERIES

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There is a Storm coming....... and those Merrick Boys........

Michelle

BOOK REVIEW - ELEMENTAL by BRIGID KEMMERER - ELEMENTAL # 0.5 - NOVELLA

By : Brigid Kemmerer
Published By : K Teen, Kensington
Released : Available Now
Details : Kindle , Novella

RATING: 5 WET MY APPETITE STARS!!

Book Blurb : Taken From Goodreads

Earth, Fire, Air, Water – they are more than you dream.

As an air Elemental, 17-year-old Emily Morgan doesn’t have much power. That’s okay—she knows what happens to kids who do.

Like Michael Merrick. He’s an earth Elemental, one with enough power to level cities. Which makes him sexy. Dangerous. And completely off limits. At least according to Emily’s family.

But her summer job puts her in close contact with Michael, and neither of them can help the attraction they feel. When forces of nature like theirs collide, one misstep could get someone killed. Because Emily’s family doesn’t just want her to stay away from him.

They want him dead.

BOOK REVIEW:

I haven't read anything in this series other than this prequel novella which is set 5 years prior to book #1 titled 'Storm'.

This is our introduction to Michael, the eldest Merrick boy, primarily. We are also introduced to the twelve year old twins, Gabriel and Nick and also Chris.

Michael Merrick has a lot on his shoulders. He is a 'Pure' Elemental. Earth is his mojo.

This little entree novella, really wet my appetite for more of these boys, now I realise 'Storm' is set five years later , I think the Merrick boys are going to be a handsome handful. Might I also add, very popular.

I am hoping Emily stays in Michael's life as she too is an Elemental, she can control Air or in this book , it's more of a breeze.

I think Tyler is going to be a handful, Emily's brother, as her family are not liking Michael. I think their fear of his power is getting out of hand.

This little novella was over far too quickly and I want more. I had the opportunity to read an excerpt from 'Storm' , but I chose to wait. It was bad enough this prequel finishing too soon, cause you just want more.........

I highly recommend reading this novella, if you are unsure about how high to put this series on your TBR list...I can guarantee you will be sliding it to the top. I know I am in for the long haul.

Brigid's writing captures the readers interest in so few pages. I will be all grabby, grabby for 'Storm' , due for release April 24th 2012 for US and apparently May for us Aussies.

I wanted to add this most awesome character interview with the Merrick Boys from Brodies Page I have to admit I kinda fell in love with the boys reading this.

Michelle