Review and Release Day for Wucaii by Pembroke Sinclair

Blurb:
Urban Fantasy

Tags Dragons, urban fantasy, romance, revenge, destruction and rebirth,

After five hundred years’ labor destroying worlds, half-dragon half-human Aelana returns to her home planet. She expects to be anonymous, but instead she is worshipped as a god. She finds the reincarnation of her centuries-dead first and only love and life begins anew. Little does she know, however, that a shrewd and formidable evil lays in wait, one with the power to undo everything she’s worked for. To maintain the balance of the universe, she must confront and destroy the menace before it annihilates her and everything she loves.

Review:
I have mixed feelings about this book, but I think it's because it's so different. There are very dark undertones to it that aren't going to give you that happy go lucky feeling like the happily ever afters do. No,this is something entirely different. It's the end of the world. And unfortunately there will be very few survivors. The dragons are the harbinger of death and will destroy everything on the planet. This is a scenario Aelana has been through several times and it never gets easier. This time though she meets her old love reincarnated once again and they still have that deep connection. Several times I had to ask myself if she wouldn't try to stop so many innocent deaths. But this is one of those books where things are the way they are and it's just the will of the universe. However, as bleak as it sounds, the book offers a unique turn on the apocalypse and a very interesting read involving dragons. 
4 out of 5 stars!

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Wucaii-Pembroke-Sinclair-ebook/dp/B01GNAHWIS

Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17791503-wucaii?ac=1&from_search=true

Amazon Author Page:
http://www.amazon.com/Pembroke-Sinclair/e/B007RFYJ6W/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1464815795&sr=8-1-spell

Pre-Order for Erica Stevens

Erica Stevens now has the last book in her Survivor Chronicles for Pre-Order!!  Check out the link below and order it!  It's sure to be an exciting ending!!

http://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Chronicles-Risen-Serial-Story-ebook/dp/B00S5MIET4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1423156006&sr=8-3&keywords=erica+stevens

                                                               
                                              Blurb:

With new challenges and threats arising every day, the survivors struggle to reach their destination in the hopes of finding somewhere safe to stay. Along the way allies will become enemies and startling answers will be uncovered that will rock the very foundations of who they are. As the world continues to change around them, they begin to realize that it is not who they were, but what they will become that matters the most in their frightening new world. Find out who will survive in the exciting conclusion to The Survivor Chronicles. 

Love and Decay, Volume 1: Season 1 (Episodes 1-6) by Rachel Higginson

   The world used to be a normal place.  People lined up at the local coffee shops for their morning caffeine boost, while chatting or texting on their cell phones.  Reagan Willow was in high school, going to cheer practice while her nearly perfect boyfriend was the star football player on the team.  It was normal, nice even.  Now, two years later, Reagan and her best friend Haley were trying to make it the best that they know how.  They were living like homeless vagabonds, sleeping in abandoned places back-to-back so as to not be caught unaware by the flesh eaters roaming pretty much everywhere now.  It was the zombie apocalypse, and all because someone cured herpes.  The cure turned out to be the end of the world.  No more electricity, and no more fast food.  In fact, the two of them would go days at a time without eating and just hoped they would get through the night and then the next day.  One day they got into a situation that looked bad until the Parker family showed up.  The brothers get them out of harm's way and take them home where they meet Page, the little sister.  This is a very close family determined to survive this apocalypse together.  Not only do they survive, but they actually live.  Haley and Reagan had little hope of anything other than survival until they are grafted into the Parker family.  Women were in short supply these days so it was dangerous for them even traveling with a bunch of survivalists like the brothers.  These guys were armed to the teeth and had food!  The girls find much more than a measure of security with them.  Two of the brothers are interested in Reagan and one was interested in Haley.  They were all gentlemen who would never press a woman to do something she didn't want to.  Haley finds it easier to fall for Nelson, but Reagan fights it and is determined to not fall in love so her heart won't be broken when he gets killed by a zombie.  She felt like it was just impossible to find that kind of happiness in this kind of life.  But Hendrix is determined to show her otherwise.

   Wow.  I am stuck on this series now!  I love the occasional zombie apocalypse book, but this one could possibly beat all others.  I love the complexity of everything.  There are no modern conveniences anymore and everyone has basically been plunged back into the stone age.  There are still a few running vehicles and some gas, but for the most part Haley and Reagan are walking to South America where Reagan had a family member last she heard of.  It could be a much safer place for them, if they can get there in one piece.
   The Parkers are unlike anything the girls had yet to see in this dark and depressing world.  They lived with honor and love for their family.  They respected others.  And they protect those they love.  Falling in love with a zombie apocalypse going on turns out to be a challenge.  Haley can only fight her love for Nelson for so long.  But Reagan is unwilling to really let her heart go.  In fact, I don't think she ever really lets it go all of the way during this entire book.  It seems that she just can't yet.  She cares for Vaughan, and even more for Hendrix, but love is not yet in her vocabulary.  With the fact that any one of them could die at any moment, it keeps her heart in check.  This is painfully obvious when little eight-year-old Page becomes ill and most of them are captured by a colony of people who keep women like possessions.  Even after escaping one predicament, it seems like they just fall into another.  One has to ask themselves, is there ever any kind of peace in a world like this?
   A fantastic book!  Definitely 5 out of 5 stars!

The Survivor Chronicles: The Upheaval by Erica Stevens

 
 For those of you who are into books about the end of the world, or the apocalypse, then this is a book you should read.  It has all of the doomsday stuff in it that you see a lot, but it is also much more psychological and at times very realistic when it comes to the actions and thoughts of the characters in the book.  From major earthquakes to volcanoes and birds dropping out of the sky, it has a lot of action in it and there is a lot of death.  It's the end of the world as these people know it; of course there will be death and loss.  Lots of it.  This books is essentially what happens in one day to the world.  It is through the eyes of a few different people in a few different places in the U.S.A.
   The Upheaval is a very appropriate title because the Earth itself has rent in places, causing mass chaos after the mass shock wears off.  Massive earthquakes happen and the birds start diving towards the ground at full speed, some taking people out with themselves.  Unfortunately they are not the only animals you will see in this book gathering together to commit mass suicide.  That was one of the most disturbing things about the book to me, besides the people that are jumping out of buildings trying to escape what's coming, only to never live through the fall.  This is very much reality about people.  It is what happened during the Great Depression.  Suicide rates were up quite a bit during that time.  Some people just couldn't handle the stress.  And it is the same in this book.  There are those that just mentally check out too.  Then there are those who are doing the very best they can under the circumstances and stay with what loved ones or friends that they have left.  Everyone has suffered loss, but they are determined to find what is left of their families and they are determined to stay together.  It is a test of will power.  And it is inspiring to see goodness in some when chaos is reigning.  The characters definitely make you want to root for them to survive!