Review: The Guardian's Wildchild by Feather Stone

The Guardian's Wildchild, Feather Stone

Rating:  DNF (Did Not Finish)

Genre: Fantasy/Romance, Adult

Publication: 9/27/2011, Omnific Publishing

# of Pages: 277

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Source:  I received a copy free of charge from the publisher in exchange for a thoughtful and honest review. This has in no way affected my review.

Synopsis from Goodreads:  Sidney Davenport is known as Wildchild to her Guardian mentor, Greystone. She rebels against rules. Wildchild is gifted in the paranormal, but carefully conceals her powers from the world. Even in the crises that threaten her life, she refuses to use her powers of telepathy, telekinesis, space/time travel. If her enemies discovered the truth of who she is, her Guardian people would be destroyed. She calls upon her spirit guides, Seamus and Celeste, to guide her through a mine field of the insane - Madame and Captain Butchart.

Sidney leaves her home on Hawk's Island to help the underground stop two people who are about to cause worldwide madness. Unskilled in esponage, she is arrested and sentanced to death. But, God help Sidney, she can't deny her attraction to the man who has orders to perform her execution - the tall, dark eyed Captain Waterhouse. He's meticulous, disciplined and lives by the strict rules expected of an officer of the American navy.

Captain Waterhouse is about to scrap his higher morals to bust out of his hell. When a female prisoner is delivered to his ship, he has no idea she is capable of turning his disciplined life into a storm of unimaginable experiences. His prisoner's enemies, he discovers, are also the ones who hold his life in the palm of their hands.

Through stunning imagery, an intricate and adventurous plot, and a strong cast of characters, Feather Stone gives readers a fast paced story woven with murder and magic.

My Review:  I used to feel bad about not finishing a book. About not giving it its best chance to thrill me, but with all the books out there that I want to read, I can't waste time on books that fail to interest me. The Guardian's Wildchild is one of those books. The writer's style and voice failed to grab me. The dialogue never rang true and, to be perfectly honest, I just found it boring.

Granted, I didn't even make it 100 pages in, but by that point, I'd had enough. I have to stop when reading becomes a chore. Life is far too short to read books you don't enjoy.

Now, to be fair, this book has received some positive reviews. I've included links to a few below:

Novels on the Run Goodreads Review
Nicki Elson's Goodreads Review

But in the end, this one just wasn't for me. I'll leave you all to read both the positive and negative reviews, and decide for yourselves. You can read the first chapter for free on Kindle if you're curious.


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Loramendi's Story, Angela Carlie

 3.5 of 5 Stars

Genre:   Young Adult, Paranormal Romance

Pages:   210

Published:   8/7/2011, DarkSide Publishing

Format: e-ARC

Why I Chose It:   I was given an e-ARC by the author but it was an e-ARC I had requested after reading about the novel on the author's website.

Synopsis (from Good Reads):   Lora wants nothing more than to be the wind behind sexy windsurfer Chance's sails. But fulfilling that wish just became...complicated. After seventeen years of normal life, someone wants Lora and her family dead. And the attempted massacre isn't nearly as strange as the reason behind it.

My Review:  Loramendi's Story is the first in the new Lord of the Shifters series from Angela Carlie and it shows. The novel ends just when I was most anxious to see what happened next. I found myself staring at the page on my e-reader willing more words to appear.

But this is a good thing. Despite a rocky beginning in which there was a few moments where the writing and description choices made me cringe and pulled me from the story, by the time it ended I wanted more.

Lora was occasionally a little gross. At one point belching several times in a friend's face and another describing a moment in which she didn't care if she was swallowed whole and pooped out. I know they are probably real life actions and thoughts, but they weren't exactly moments I wanted in a paranormal romance.

However the story was intriguing enough to keep me turning the pages. And Chance more than made up for any of Lora's shortcomings. He was tall, dark, handsome, and just as dreamy and protective as I want my heroes to be.

All in all it was a really good story that introduced me to an interesting new world. A great start to a series that I definitely want to see more of.

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