'Seven Black Diamonds' by Melissa Marr : Mel's Review

Title: Seven Black Diamonds

Series: Seven Black Diamonds #1

By: Melissa Marr

Genre: YA Dystopian/Urban Fantasy

Lilywhite Abernathy is a criminal. Her father’s “unconventional” business has meant a life of tightly held secrets, concealed weaponry, and a strict code. But Lily’s crime isn’t being the daughter of a powerful mob boss. Her guilt lies in the other half of her DNA—the part that can coax ancient rumors from stones and summon fire with a thought. Lily is part fae, which is a crime in her world.

From the time before she was born, a war has been raging between humanity and fae. The Queen of Blood and Rage, ruler of both the Seelie and Unseelie courts, wants to avenge the tragic death of her heir—a death that was the fault of reckless humans.

Lily’s father has shielded her from the repercussions of her ancestry…until she is sent to the prestigious St. Columba’s school, straight into the arms of the Black Diamonds.

Mysterious, glamorous, and bound together in their mission but constantly at odds, Zephyr, Creed, Will, Roan, Violet, and Alkamy are a Sleeper cell of fae, planted in the human world to help destroy it from within. With covers as rock stars and celebrity children, the Black Diamonds carry out the queen’s war against humanity. And unbeknownst to Lilywhite, she’s been chosen to join them.

Now more than ever, Lily’s heritage puts her in peril, and even the romantic attention of the fae singer Creed Morrison isn’t enough to keep Lily from wanting to run back to the safer world of organized crime.

Melissa Marr returns to faery in a dramatic story of the precarious space between two worlds and the people who must thrive there.

Snag your copy now!

    

GHBT- Review- Before the Full Moon Rises

Book Info-
Title- Before the Full Moon Rises
Series- Chronicles of the Secret Prince Book # 1
By- M.J. Bell
Blurb-
Deston Lespérance grew up believing faeries and monsters are just stories told to children at bedtime. However, when his mother mysteriously vanishes and he stumbles into the mystical realm of Tir na-nÓg, he discovers the shocking truth that these beings are not only real, they hold the key to his future. With a new friend, Margaux, and Excalibur’s twin brother sword, Caluvier, at his side, Deston races against time to find his mother and the Light Crystal before the full moon rises on the autumnal equinox. The odds are stacked against them and the obstacles they run into push the limit of what two teenagers can handle: an attack by gremlin-like creatures; captured by 6 foot tall vampire bats; hunted by a giant wolf, and almost lost forever in the mist of Avalon. Yet Deston doesn't give up, for he vowed to do whatever it takes to get his mother back—even if that means fighting the devil himself. The thing is … when he made that pledge he had no idea how close he would have to come to doing just that!

Treasured Thursdays: Most Treasured Faeries

Treasured Thursday is a weekly event created by Touya over at The Reader's Garden that is all about our most treasured. I'm hosting it here now, for those of you who are interested in joining me. This week our topic is our most treasured fairy/faerie novel/series.


I'll be honest; I'm not the biggest paranormal reader anymore. I used to be, but there are so many vampire stories and werewolf stories out there and most of them are just the same things with different words, and maybe something tweaked from the last book I picked up. Don't scowl; you know you've thought it too. But, that being said, I have a ginormous soft-spot for stories involving the fey. Because there are a billion different ways to write it! You can see them, you can't; they grow out of flowers; they're at war; etc., etc. It remains entertaining. 


That being said, I will share with you all my most treasured; Wings, by Aprilynne Pike. 

Wings is an entirely new version of Faeries, for me. It's the first I've read like this - and I've read a few. It's not the classic story of, "I bounce around from flower to flower helping things grow I'm friends with bees" blah blah. It's new, fresh, and the triangle going on? Unf. I always pick a side, quite easily in books, and I do...when she's with David, I'm Team David, when she's with Tamani, I'm Team Tamani.. This counts as "choosing", right? No? ...Well, let me get farther along in the series and quit shaking your head- they are both hot and sweet and earnest and...and...why are they fictional?


Ahem, minor rant over. Point being; Wings is a suspenseful, gripping the book and trying to read faster kind of novel, and I love it! I can't wait to get my hands on "Spells"! (I know I'm behind, shh)


This is my most treasured, what's yours?