Erika's Updates

Erika wants to read 'The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King'

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:47:10 -0700

Erika wants to read The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

Erika added 'The Serpent and the Wings of Night'

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:44:28 -0700

Erika gave 2 stars to The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1) by Carissa Broadbent
bookshelves: adult, fantasy, magic, maybe-continue-series, overhyped, pov-female, to-review, two-stars, vampires

Erika started reading 'The Book of Azrael'

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 18:22:22 -0700

Erika started reading The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

Erika started reading 'The Serpent and the Wings of Night'

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:12:33 -0700

Erika started reading The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

Erika is currently reading 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:16:46 -0700

Erika is currently reading The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Erika commented on Erika's review of House of Sky and Breath

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:15:37 -0700

New comment on Erika's review of House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2)
by Sarah J. Maas

Pale Dreamer wrote: "I see you gave 5 starts to the first one�� the first one was the best of the 3 books. Personally think they keep getting worse as the story goes on 😓"

I would definitely agree that the first one is better! I'm still going to read the next one even though I've heard that people don't like it

Erika added 'House of Sky and Breath'

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:15:04 -0700

Erika gave 3 stars to House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City, #2) by Sarah J. Maas
bookshelves: adult, angels, crush-worthy-guys, dragons, demons, faeries, fantasy, i-ship-it, magic, pov-alternating, romance, series-in-progress, shifter, strong-heroines, vampires, werewolves, witches-wizards-and-warlocks, three-stars, reviewed
I had a really hard time deciding how to rate this book. I feel like its somewhere between a 3 star and 4 star read.

Both this book and the first book are massive and while the first book didn't really feel that long, this book definitely felt long. The plot was interesting, but I think that the first book just had a little more intrigue. Danika kept being brought up and while I really enjoyed that plot line in the first book, this just started to feel like a lot. If I'm remembering correctly, they were barely out of school and somehow she had the time to be involved in everything.

I still really enjoyed Hunt and Bryce's relationship. I definitely appreciated that there didn't really seem to be much relationship drama between them after the first bit of the book. I also enjoyed the side characters and getting to know Ruhn a bit better. Everyone felt a bit more developed, which should be expected with a second book in a series.

I'm definitely excited for where this series is going to go, but if I'm being honest the ending was not my favorite. [spoilers removed]

Erika added 'When the Moon Hatched'

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:48:42 -0700

Erika gave 2 stars to When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1) by Sarah A. Parker
bookshelves: adult, annoying-mc, could-have-been-so-much-better, cover-love, dragons, faeries, fantasy, magic, maybe-continue-series, overhyped, pov-alternating, reviewed, romance, spicy
I heard mixed things about it, but honestly hadn't read any reviews on it because I wanted to read a book about dragons, and I thought this might do the trick. Plus, some were saying it was their favorite book of 2024. Maybe my expectations were too high, but this book fell a little flat for me.

Very early on in the story, a character dies and the death causes Raeve to seek revenge. I truly felt nothing for the character when they died, and that's coming from someone who cries easily. It was very obvious throughout the book that something was going on with Raeve, and when that was revealed, it wasn't a shock.

The romance also fell a bit flat for me. I found myself getting annoyed at Raeve and I wasn't rooting for them. It was hard to want them as a couple when Kaan knew all this other information and I felt no emotional connection to them as a reader.

I feel like the author had a really interesting concept and world that could have been very cool, but too much was happening for things to be well developed. I might read the next book only because now that I've gotten through this one, I'm kind of interested to see where things go.

Erika is on page 376 of 718 of When the Moon Hatched

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:44:15 -0700

Erika is on page 376 of 718 of When the Moon Hatched.
Erika wrote: Ok we’re finally getting more interesting but still weird. Also really hope that wasn’t supposed to be a twist

Erika wants to read 'Smoke and Scar'

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:11:04 -0700

Erika wants to read Smoke and Scar by Gretchen Powell Fox