Author: Raine Thomas
Rating: 3/5
Genre: fantasy, romance
Recommend To: fans of Splintered
Oooh yay. Entertaining stuff. Plus really light and fun, no heavy, awful, gripping emotions. Unless you are emotional at the slightest bit because there is action, and romance, and fights, and typical awesome stuff that bookish people thrive on. By Raine Thomas.
Plot: Amber “explodes” every three years. And whenever she does it always leaves a huge mess and ends in her moving out of her current foster home to another. Until she reaches Mrs. B’s foster home. There she meets a kid her age named Gabriel and when her inevitable episode happens, he doesn’t tell anyone. They become close best friends (who knows where this is leading?). Anyway, so now three years after that Incident she’s due for another one and it’s stronger this time. They go through it together and what do you know? Love. They go on a trip to Alaska and then meet some people(Amber’s sisters, duh, daughters as in plural) who tell them Amber and Gabriel are both not human, they are Estilorians, and don’t belong on this plane. They were sent to be kept safe and in Gabriel’s case to learn about emotions. More stuff happens, plus there are bad guys out to get them. Who doesn’t love this perfect mix of awesomeness?
Characters:
Protagonist: Amber. Okay she’s pretty cool. Tough. Hardened by the foster system. She’s also pretty funny. She’s intelligent and doesn’t dither all over the place.
The Best-Friend-turned-Boyfriend: Yes. Omg yes, yes. While Amber was okay, Gabriel was much better ;) Funny, caring, protective not to mention hot, yep this boy has it all. Finding out he wasn’t human either was a bit of a surprise but I guess it makes sense because humans don’t transfer planes right?
The Sisters: They both, Olivia and Skye, seem like pretty remarkable characters. I think the next books are going to be focused on them, but it wasn’t like we didn’t get switched to their perspectives in this one, so I’m not too upset about the different protagonist thing which is weird. Usually I hate that stuff, I like my series to just pick a character and stick with it, but I think I’ll survive with this one.
The Romance: OMG. Pick a place in private to read this because you will giggle, smile, and laugh out loud at Amber and Gabriel when they are together. I mean Amber was pretty stupid; of course Gabriel’s in love with you! But it was okay because she figured it out. I was so happy there was no insta-love! Gabriel and Amber have been best-friends for years until they fall in love. Happiness from me. It was sweet but at the same time heated and so oh yes’s to love!
The Villains: Now this is where it gets confusing. There is the Estilorian plane and then on it there are different branches like Gloresti, Mercesti, and more. It was hard to keep track who was who I guess. There was lots going on with snippets of conversations between the bad guys or the good guys who know what’s happening. Argh, you’ll know what I mean if you read it I think. It wasn’t impossible to keep track, it was just harder. But the mythology itself was pretty unique and original.
Overall: Great romance, pretty awesome characters, fast-moving plot, needed more details but nevertheless very fun to read. I bet the next books will answer the questions we have at the end of this book.
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