Iniquity Teasers!

Finally we have some news from Iniquity, the fifth (probably the last) book of The Premonition Series.

Teaser 1: A photo that is like a part of the cover of the book

It's hard not to believe this is not the cover of Iniquity!

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Teaser 2: One single mind-blowing damn teaser

Stay wi’ me, Genevieve... I hear Brennus’ deep voice whisper in my mind before it fades away and is gone.
    The darkness between my heart and my soul swells, pushing them further apart, making room for Brennus. I’m the light to his darkness. There’s no escape; he’s a part of me. I close my eyes. Pick a side, demon, I inwardly scold, speaking silently to my own black heart. His kiss was sweet like cinnamon...
    My lips move over Reed’s now, and as I grow more awake, so too does the desire for the one who has me in his arms, my aspire. Light and smooth he teases; it increases the tension that coils within me for him. It warms me, teaching my skin by touch about love. I breathe him in.
    The fire inside stirs, stokes, and then burns me. I open my eyes to see perfect green ones above me. Pleasure spreads; it finds new places I hadn’t known existed. Gravity begins to win; it pulls me to Reed with magnetic stirrings of yearning. I want to fade into him, fit myself under his skin.
    My fingertips reach up behind his ear, entangling in his dark brown hair, tussling it as I draw him closer to me. Our lips part to taste each other. I groan softly. Reed reacts; his wings unfold violently from him with a snap. The darkest gray feathers splay out thrillingly behind him. His arm goes behind me, pulling me nearer as my legs wrap around him. He lifts his lips from mine, causing our cheeks to brush against each other. The sensation of it pulses through me, reaching that dark place in my heart. I feel the darkness retreat for a moment before it fights back, surging forward with the blackest desire.
    My fingernails tense on Reed’s scalp. The white sheet wrapped around me is suddenly unbearably constricting. My bare leg slips from beneath it to rub against the soft fabric of Reed’s loose-fitting pajama bottoms. They’re slung low on his hips, making me want to rip them from him...and there's an equal urge to tear him, too. All of a sudden, I feel a desperate ache to consume him. I want to make Reed bleed. I want to make him bleed for me—only for me. My fingers shift in his hair, sliding to the back of his neck. The sharpest points of my teeth follow the column of his throat downward, grazing the smooth perfection of his skin. His grasp tightens on my hips.
    I feel the beat of his arterial pulse beneath my tongue. His hand threads under the mass of my hair at the base of my neck while his thumb caresses my throat in gentle circles. The greedy desire recedes for a moment as my love for him swells. I sigh against Reed’s skin in relief, freed from the strange impulse.
    Something grows in me, a malicious wave of anger flows out of the dark place in my heart, like poison, it winds it’s way through my veins. I lose my breath. My skin begins to chill as coldness seeps outward from my core. The poison races on, weaving through me. My lips slacken and rest on Reed’s shoulder. This dark elixir travels up my throat and into my eyes. My irises recede to blackness while I take a shallow breath and exhale wisps of frozen air.
    Reed must feel the change in me because he tenses in my arms. A deep point stabs me where I join the darkness, like two lines meeting. I lift my lips from Reed and a smile spreads them thin. Then my mouth opens wide right before I clamp down hard on Reed’s shoulder. My teeth puncture his skin, sinking in. The iron taste of his blood fills my mouth, the shock of which registers in my mind, but my jaw remains rigidly clenched.
    Reed grunts and flinches as he exhales a breath. His fingers tighten on the back of my neck in an attempt to pull me back from him. “Evie?” Reed says my name through clenched teeth. He breathes in and it catches in his chest before he exhales. He growls out one word: “Brennus.”
    A rumble of laughter rolls up from my chest. My jaw eases and my teeth slide out of Reed’s shoulder. Blood collects at the corners of my mouth, sliding down my chin to drip onto the white sheet pressed between us. I feel something inside of me stir; it makes me pull back from Reed. When I catch sight of his face, his expression is grim.
    My eyebrows pull together as my eyes narrow. “Whah part of ‘moin’ do ye na understand, aingeal?” I hear myself say. 

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No. That is... that is just too much. I'm really proud to say I'm a Brennus hater (Sorry if I offend somebody out there that is in love with Brennus, but I just can't stand him). And this one... this one is totally unbearable. Ahh, where's Iniquity? I need Iniquity!

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Iniquity is planned to release in summer 2013. (Okay this is really far away)

Incendiary: Review

I can now move on to another series cuz I finished reading Incendiary!

Summary:

Cold, fine drops of rain fall softly on my cheeks as I emerge from the darkness of the ship's interior to the gray, overcast sky of the main deck. Pulling my dark pea coat tighter to my body, the wind lifts red tendrils of my hair. I walk slowly to the railing overlooking the water.

I catch my first sight of the Irish coastline; its craggy landscape makes me shiver in dread. I find it difficult to imagine now how the Gancanagh had made this their home for so long without anyone realizing it. The cold, moss-covered edifices practically scream their presence. As I study the shadows between the falling-down stone, I imagine creeping shapes of undead Faeries grasping the rock, waiting for our ship to draw nearer to their position.

Tipping my face up, I let the rain wash over me. It bathes away the frigid sweat of fear that has broken on my brow. "You don't know how fiercely beautiful you are, do you?" A quiet voice behind me asks, causing me to stiffen and fix my eyes on the rocks along the shoreline.

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No offense, but I find this book a little bit overrated. It deserves 4 or above out of 5 stars. But 4.63? Isn't that a little too high? And you know what? I still think Intuition is the best book in The Premonition series so far. But don't get me wrong. Incendiary is awesome. 

But there are two very annoying point in Incendiary. Firstly, what's with all the stretching? I really, really cried out "JUST GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!" and it kind of scared my mom. I mean, really, don't just stand here and talk crap. The anticipation is killing me.

And second is the messed-up relationship. Reed is Evie's current love and her perfect angel. Perfect, right? Nah, Russell is her soul mate, but he has his aspire. Yay, right? Still nah, there's Xavier, who should be Evie's aspire, which is very annoying because Reed doesn't deserve a challenge, especially from a full-Seraphim. And then there's Brennus, which is the most frustrating and annoying of all, believe that he loves Evie and she is his. This is not just love triangle anymore. This is a freaking love box.

But still, it's awesome. I mean, there are not so much heart-breaking and more battle. Battle is always cool, especially when all the guys have great killing skills. And then there's less Brennus now, which is very relieving because he's such a jerk, for thinking himself deserves Evie. And then there's the constant anticipation. Yeah, you might think that why I had mentioned that anticipation is a bad thing. Well, there are two sides of anticipation. And strangely, this is both. Anticipation of seeing Brennus being killed, even though it will not happen until Iniquity (if Iniquity is the last book and Iniquity has a HEA ending)

I hope I can read Iniquity soon because the excerpt scares me. So, another anticipation now. UGH. I can live with it.

Rating: 7.5/10

Indebted: Review

I've finished the third book of The Premonition series!

Summary:

I hang my head in sorrow for just a moment when I know I am truly alone. I feel like I’m going to my execution, just as he had said. Then I move forward again. I hop a fence of fieldstone and cross a field dotted with Queen Anne’s lace. Goose bumps rise on my arms as I pass the cluster of windmills that I have seen in a dream. The scent is sweet in the field though, not the scent of heat, like it had been when it was forced upon me in visions. I gaze down the hill, beyond the small, whitewashed house that I knew would be there. The church looms dark and grim with its rough-hewn, timber façade, capped by tall, oblong spires reaching to the sky. Black, ominous clouds have collected above the roofline, as if Heaven is showing me the way.

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I think Intuition is better than Indebted. Indebted make me question a little bit about my choice: keep reading Premonition series. I mean, not that Indebted is disappointing (in fact it's anything but disappointing). But Indebted is just not as exciting as Intuition.

Maybe I should state the good parts first. There is a constant reminder of Reed, which is promising and relieving. I mean, after Intuition, I can't stand Evie not being with Reed.  And the constant reminder relieves me. And then there's their passion, especially Reed's. I mean, come on, how can we not fall for his passion? Their relationship is so loving.

And then there is just a hint of jealousy in all the books. I am not talking about the constant jealousy between Brennus, Reed and Russel. What I mean is Evie. She can handle jealousy really well even when the Undine creature hug Reed like he's the last piece of chocolate in the world. This is why I appreciate Evie much. 

And what is annoying about the book is the constant jealousy in Brennus. He's so freaking stubborn. He knows that Evie is not for him well after the Binding. And yet he still claims that Evie is his. This is so frustrating, especially when half the book is about Evie living in the castle full of Gancanagh.

You may think that this is a small point. But it's not. Jealousy and love triangles/ polygons/ boxes can ruin the whole book. Not that it ruin it. But nearly. I loathe that kind of love relationship. And that's why I love Divergent so much because there are no such kind of annoying stuff.

I will still read Incendiary, I think. Even though Indebted is good, it makes my decision of keep reading it a little bit shaken.

Rating: 7/10

Intuition: Review

Another review of The Premonition series! It's Intuition by Amy A. Bartol

Summary:

I don’t open my eyes so I can’t see him, but I can smell him. He thickens the air I breathe, choking me with his scent…his aroma. I shiver. I have to resist. If I’m not strong, then I will be relegated to the same fate as this predator whose sickness infects me even now. But now, I crave him and he knows that; he has been counting on my need to end the gnawing pain. How he would savor my surrender. I’m alive, but how much longer will it take until I beg him not to be?

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You know what? My decision to keep reading the series is the rightest thing I've done in 2012! 

You have no idea how much better Intuition is comparing with Inescapable and how awesome it is! 

Okay, let's get practical first. What is awesome about it is there are endless danger keep popping up! I mean, the character usually struggle with a certain kind of great danger. But new danger keep popping up? That's unexpected, and "mad cool". You have no idea how much I LOVE endless danger. I mean, not on me, obviously. But that excites me.

And then let's get to the more emotional part. This is the book that scatters my emotions like never before. I've endure all different kinds of heart-break. Clockwork Prince is the most famous out of all. But Evie running from Reed? Until I read the whole voice mail scene, I still don't understand the depth of his sorrow (and Evie's sorrow, of course). How Evie endure this and not run straight into Reed's arms is beyond me. But man, this author has got skills to break our heart.

And the whole sort-of-vampire-like-creature-kidnapping-Evie-and-want-to-make-her-their-queen thing? The plot is as awesome as it is kind of creepy. I mean, aren't the angels divine beings? How dare those vampire-like thing wanna turn her? And every creature on this planet is attracted to Evie? That's getting interesting.

I have no doubt that I will read Indebted (in fact I'm reading it right now). Amy has got great skills at writing novels. She should keep doing it.

(I have no idea why my review are so short.)

Rating: 8/10

Inescapable: Review

Finally I've finished reading it!

Summary:

My name is Evie Claremont and this was to be the making of me--my freshman year of college. I had been hoping that once I had arrived on Crestwood's campus, the nightmare that I've been having would go away. It hasn't.

I may be an inexperienced seventeen-year-old, but I'm grounded...sane. Since meeting sophomore Reed Wellington, however, nothing makes any sense. Whenever he is near, I feel an attraction to him--a magnetic kind of force pulling me towards him. I know what you're thinking...that sounds fairly awesome. Yeah, it would--if he liked me, but Reed acts as if I'm the worst thing that's ever happened to Crestwood...or him. But, get this, for some reason every time I turn around he's there, barging into my life.

What is the secret he is keeping from me? I'm hoping that it is anything but what I expect: that he is not exactly normal...and neither am I. So maybe Crestwood won't be the making of me, but it could be the breaking of me. I have been left to wonder if the dark future my dream is foretelling is...inescapable.

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Do you know what it's like reading Inescapable? It's like reading a different version of Fallen.

Well, not that I don't like Fallen, but the resemblance is startling. Well, let's see. Evie being a high-ranked angel. It's like Luce (Well, Luce is the third archangel.). And then there's Reed, so freaking protective and passionate like Daniel. And then there's Alfred (or Freddie, whatever), being nice all the time but revealing his true self (like Cam). And then there is Buns and Brownie, protecting Evie like Gabbe and Arriane. There are all kinds of rankings and annoying stuff like that. Maybe the difference between Fallen and Inescapable is Russell.

I think Evie and Reed is the only part that I love the story. Well, let's see. There's no real pretending between them. Which is fine with me. I'm starting to get all kinds of tired of a guy pretending that he doesn't love a girl (Well, obviously not in the case of Jace and Will and Aiden, but still). And their relationship is just as steamy hot without all kinds of kissing, which is awesome. Amy has great writing skills.

But there's a thing that Amy didn't answer: What is with the whole Evie's-soul-is-evil thing? I mean, if her soul's evil, she will definitely not heal Russell even if he's her soul mate, right? And she has a good heart. Is Alfred lying or not?

This is probably the shortest I've ever written because there are not much about it. 

Now it leaves one very important question: Will I read Intuition?

Well, the thing is I still have tons of books untouched. I wanna read Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I wanna read Sweet Evil. I wanna read Fire Spirits. And I wanna read Mythos Academy. There's a long to-read list. And I still have to prepare for all kinds of examinations. And you know what? Inescapable isn't as addicting as I once thought. I think I will have to struggle with that.

Rating: 6.5/10