Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Monday Book Review


I wanted to come up with a brilliant title for this new part of my blog but I couldn’t come up with anything brilliant.  Monday’s Book Review it is!  I love living in the country and running a farm but I also love reading.  I am going to review some books that I have read every Monday and maybe encourage some of you to read some of my favourites and give you fair warning of some that I don’t like.  (It does happen)


NightShade by Andrea Cremer

I received this book from the library where I ordered it on the picture alone.  I saw it when I was looking up another book on amazon and loved the cover of the book and read enough to get it from the library.  I had no idea really what it was about. 

Let me tell you, it was GREAT!  The main character is Calla Toy who is a guardian – which means she can turn herself into a wolf whenever she wants.  She is also the alpha wolf of her pack.  The Guardians are basically the bodyguards for the Keepers, which are some sort of magicians, and they protect the sacred sites for these Keepers.  This is what the book is based on but it is more about the struggles that each character must face, mostly Calla.

Calla has a chosen mate, Ren, but saves a human boy while in the woods, an act which is against everything that she has ever been taught.  Later she is told by the Keepers to protect this human boy, Shay.  She is now torn between two loves, two worlds and everything that she has ever known.

This book has enough sci-fi to keep you guessing what is going to happen but not too much of it to dissuade you if you are not that into sci-fi.  The romance and friendships are well thought out, hold your attention and make you want more.  This is obviously not a “deep thinker” book but it is a very good, light, entertaining book. 

I would definitely recommend this one to anyone wishing for some fun entertainment. 

I should mention this is the first book in the trilogy and I will review the second book next week.

*I do realize this is posted on Tuesday, it was wrote and will be wrote on a Monday :)

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