Review - The Promise by Jessica Sorensen

Release Date: March 24th 2012
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My name is Gemma Lucas and my life’s a mess. Alex is gone, my dad’s trapped in his own mind, and my mom’s working for the dark side. Not to mention Nicholas refuses to quit haunting me. 

The world has also entered apocalyptic mode. Everyday more vampires, witches, and fey run the streets. Innocent people are dying. The Mark of Malefiscus is showing up everywhere. And I’m the only one who can stop it.

The only problem is I have to die in order to do so. And I have to let Alex die. Something I’m not sure I can do.

The final story in this series is great and does not disappoint readers because Gemma and Alex finally reveal their feelings for one another.

The story was action packed from the start and I found it hard to put the book down because it has so may twists which kept me turning those pages.

While reading the book I was wondering why it was called The Promise until Jessica brought in the blood promise that Gemma and Alex had made in secret as kids, at first you don't realise how important that, that blood promise is going to be.

I loved how there was two different endings the vision and the actual ending. While reading the book and reading about the vision and how the world would end was heartbreaking knowing that the two characters you have loved threw the whole series are going to die and then reading about how they both make deals to save the another was great it shown how much they really cared for each other.

I think Jessica did an amazing job of tying up every last detail in the last book so you weren't left wanting a fifth book (although most Fallen Star readers would love this series to go on forever).

I can't wait to get started in the spin off series Fallen Souls, because I want to read more about Gemma and Alex.

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Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 books to be read in a day.

1. The whole series of Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. The whole series of Riley Bloom by Alyson Noel
3. Matilda by Roald Dahl
4. 52 Reasons to Hate my Father by Jessica Brody
5. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
7. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
8. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
9. Ash by Malinda Lo
10. Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen

Review - The Vision by Jessica Sorensen

Release Date: October 23rd 2011
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Gemma thought she was trapped—that Stephan had finally won. But then time resets and she’s given another chance.

The clock is ticking as Gemma tries to figure out how to change the vision that ends the world in ice. If she can, then maybe she can save the world from Stephan and give her and Alex a chance at a real future. But changing visions can be dangerous, and sometimes one small mistake can lead to disastrous results.

This series just gets better and it doesn't disappoint.

I was over the moon when Nicholas was killed off that half Fae, half Forseer really drove me insane, he always seemed to be in the way of Gemma and Alex.

An the start of The Vision Gemma is trapped in a cabin by Stephen and she escapes and she gets sucked into a vision meets her father, he is trapped in the Room of Forbidden which is a place inside his head. While she is there he gives her some strange instructions on how to stop the world from ending and he gives her a crystal ball with a star inside it (not a real star) which she must use to correct a vision he changed but he doesn't tell her how to do it.

Alex and Gemma find out that the star was split and that the buzzing electricity they both feel is because they both have half of the star in them and to help save the world they must keep away from each other in order to keep the stars energy alive.

There a fair few near death experiences in The Vision and Gemma some how survives them all. Alex and Gemma relationship seems to grow even more and how there relationship changes. Gemma grew up in this book and learns a lot more about her powers and she finally becomes a Keeper and puts Alex in his place.and began to take charge a little more and make her own decisions. Alex doesn't like this, he realists that he can't protect her anymore like he wants to and in the end he leaves Gemma to find a way to save her

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Review - The Underworld by Jessica Sorensen

Release Date: July 31st 2011
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Gemma thought her mind was gone, but she was wrong. And now she is left trying to figure out the truth to what Stephan is planning to do with her and the star, before it’s too late.

But finding out the truth is hard, especially since Gemma doesn’t know who she can trust. There may be only one person who Gemma can turn to for answers, but that means having to go to the one place no one wants to go—The Underworld.

The Underworld is the sequel to The Fallen Star and it was just as good as the first one if not better normally for me the second book doesn't really live up to the first book or the expectations I had for it but this one totally did.

The action started right away and the cliff hanger from the first book was answered. The characters are well written and you can't help but fall in love with them. The book started off with all the same characters that we finished with in book one.

Stephan tried to wipe Gemma's memory at the end of book one but for some reason it failed, and now Gemma doesn't know who to trust or who to believe, all she knows is that she needs to find her mother because Gemma know's her mother will have all the answers that she will need and Gemma will do just about anything to get her back. Needing to find out what Stephan's plan is Gemma, Alex & Laylan head on a mission to the underworld, so Gemma can try and save her mother from the Water Fae and the Queen of the Fae but before she can do this she has to be able to control her visions and get the right crystal so she can travel there back from the one place no-one escapes from... The Underworld if they get stuck down there they become the Queens prisoner.

You could never tell what Sorensen was going to throw at you next so I spent most of my time in anticipation wanting to know what happened on the next page.

With this book you get to learn more about Alex and fall in love with him even more as we get to see a sort of sensitive side to him and see that he can be nice and not just an annoying pain in the backside.

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Review - The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen

Release Date: April 7th 2011
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For eighteen year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she's around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life. But with Alex seeming to hate her and secrets popping up everywhere, Gemma's life is turning into a chaotic mess. Things that shouldn't be real suddenly seem to exist. And as her world falls apart, figuring out the secrets of her past becomes a matter of life and death.

I had been wanting to read this book for just over a year because I had heard good reviews for it, so I bought the whole series for my kindle. My mum, my sister and my cousin  had already read it before me so I decided that now would be the time to read the series so that when there talking about it I knew what they were talking about and so it didn't spoil it for me when I finally read it (I made my mum and sister promise not to talk about the book in front of me or until I had read them) they all said they were okay but they didn't get into the book until around 20/30% of the way into it but I was hooked from the start. 

The pace is pretty slow going at the start and the plot has been done a thousand times before - shy girl meets cute boy - but Sorensen put her own amazing spin on it which I didn't see coming. Obviously I knew the book was about a fallen star as the book title gives it away but who knew that the fallen star would be inside a person, a star that can save the world.

There is a lot of tension between Alex and Gemma from the time they first meet to the end of the book and it seems like Alex and his sister Aislin know an awful lot about Gemma even though they had never met before or so she thinks, there are plenty of cliff hangers throughout the book which I love because it keeps me reading. There is plenty of adventure and it is packed full of interesting new characters Forseers, Death Walkers, Keepers etc. and the further into the book you go the more there is to learn about Gemma, Alex and all the other characters in the book and they important roles they play in Gemma's life.

Not long after meeting Alex and Aislin we meet Laylen a nice guy who used to be a Keeper like Alex but he is now a Vampire/Keeper. Laylen shares with Gemma some information on her life, who she is, who her mother is and Gemma finds that he is the only one that she can trust to tell her the truth.

Gemma has a recurring dream of the strange man with the scar on his face telling monsters - which we later find out are Death Walkers - to slay her, barely escaping the dream when she wakes, only to find that the monsters are in fact real along with the man with the scar, but you will have to read it to find out who it is.

I read the book in 2/3 days and the cliffhanger we're left with is huge and it left me wanting to read The underworld right away.

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