Showing posts with label Kat Beyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kat Beyer. Show all posts

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Week 44 Review: The Halcyon Bird

From Goodreads:
For fans of Lauren Kate and Cassandra Clare, a romance with a paranormal streak.

Mia has settled into her life with the Della Torres -- Milan's premier demon-catching family, accompanying them to exorcisms and even learning some way to be useful in the family trade. Then Bernardo comes into her life, handsome, well-mannered, someone who makes her forget her impossible crush on Emilio, her cousin. But always lurking in the background is the demon who possessed Mia once before, and who has not given up on possessing her again--this time for good.

My Review:


Author: Kat Beyer
Series: The Demon Catchers of Milan #2
Read: October 28th, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a End of Series 2024 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book, RR Book and Sophomore Challenge Book! 
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: November 11th 2014
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Week 42 Review: The Demon Catchers of Milan

From Goodreads:
Mia's ordinary life is disrupted in the most horrifying way possible when she is possessed by a hungry and powerful demon--and only saved by the arrival of relatives from Italy, the country her grandfather fled many decades ago. Now her cousins Emilio and Giuliano say the only way to keep her safe is for her to come back with them to Milan, to live, to learn Italian, to fall in and out of love, and to master the family trade: fighting all demons with the lore of bell, book, and candle. Milan is not what Mia expected, but it will change her forever, in this stunningly well-written novel about an American girl who, fleeing an ancient evil, finds her only salvation in her ancestral home.

My Review
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Author: Kat Beyer
Series: The Demon Catchers of Milan #1
First Read: August 27th, 2012
Read: October 18th, 2024
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Rereading, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Liza Dawson Associates
Published: September 15th 2015
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Friday, October 11, 2024

First Lines Friday #700, October 11th

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"I used to be the kind of girl who would check under the bed and in the closet every night before going to sleep. Sometimes I would go so far as to slip out of my room, past my sister, past my parents snoring down the hall, and check every lock and catch in the house. These days, when I walk into a house, I know at once who waits inside. I know who is quick and who is dead—and who among the dead does not want to leave. Even when I fear them, I know what to do. After Milan, I know."-The Demon Catchers of Milan by Kat Beyer

Well, that sounds pretty nice, up until the point with those that were dead! Must reread more now! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Random Reads #213, December 24th

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got 5602 which turned out to be The Halcyon Bird by Kat Beyer! It's been on my TBR pile since January 23rd 2015, and I added it because I loved the first book! Happy reading! 

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Kat Beyer Author Page

The Story: I got The Demon Catchers of Milan from NetGalley, and yeah, I really enjoyed it a lot, and yeah, I can't wait to read the series together!

Website

Series: The Demon Catchers of Milan.

The Demon Catchers of Milan: The Demon Catchers of Milan and her site, my review, my reread, The Halycon Bird and her site, my review.

Monday, September 3, 2012

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #65, September 3rd

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #64
Teaser Tuesday #73
WWW Wednesday #73
WOW #69
Will the Time Come #65
Third Sentence Thursday #56
Random Reads #40
First Lines Friday #61
The Reward Challenge Round 54 Part 1
Follow Friday #43
Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 23
In My Mailbox #64

Week 35 Reviews:
Yesterday
The Demon Catchers of Milan
A Feast for Crows
Kissing Shakespeare
Glimmer
Torn
Ascend
Bane
Touched
The Little Woods

Tours:
Loving Lady Marcia: Review
Betrayal: Review

Random:
Naturals: Cover Reveal

OK, so I got 23 posts in 7 days, and overall it was a great book, and I have some great books coming up soon! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read A Dance of Dragons, The Hands of Tarot, The Kill Order, Crewel, Confessions of an Angry Girl, Demon Eyes, Beautiful Disaster, Blood Crave, A Soldier's Secret, Dead Moon Girl, Seduction, The Blood Keeper, Never After, Unearthed, Against the Sun, The Savage Blood, The Shadow Society, Mystic City, The Secret of the Keepers, The Forgiven Duke, Covet, and Dead Embers.

Currently Listening To: Lover Dearest by Marinas Trench
Currently Reading: A Dance of Dragons by George R. R. Martin
Currently Watching: My Weekly Shows!

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.

Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.
The world of fairy tales is twisted and corrupted. Two years after her entrapment and torture at the hands of the Seven Deadly Trolls, Snow White now works as an assassin for hire. Rude, crude and with her princess status long revoked, she has become a dark angel for the Ever After's damsels-in-distress. A game of cat and mouse soon begins when two of the Deadlies, Pride and Wrath, return to exact revenge on the fallen princess for the murder of their brothers. Armed with her trusty dagger carved from the magic mirror, Snow finds herself drawn into a conspiracy that involves an ancient relic from beyond her world's borders and the destruction of her world. Taking perversion to a whole new level, NEVER AFTER is an estrogen-filled romp to save the Ever After as Snow slices and dices her way through beloved characters leaving no talking animal safe!
Matthew and Bracus of the Band travel alongside eighteen-year old queen, Clara Williamson, as she journeys to the sea to unlock the puzzle of her lineage.

Trouble strikes when the fragment absorbs Prince Frederic and undertake plans that involve Clara and her home sphere in a dangerous scheme of coercion.

It isn't long before Clara discovers the Guardians terrible secret through horrible circumstances she must escape from.

Can Clara protect herself from her own destiny?
Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn’t happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.

Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn’t thought possible. But Conn’s interest in her is confusing. It doesn’t line up with the way he first looked at her.

As if she were his enemy.

When Conn betrays Darcy, she realizes that she can’t rely on anything—not herself, not the laws of nature, and certainly not him. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades’ latest terrorist plot. What she finds out will change her world forever . . .

In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you won’t soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense.
Life for Nora couldn't be better; she has married the man of her dreams and loves living in the pristine land of Kailmeyra.

That is, until the darkness threatens her perfect world.

Now war is upon the land. She and Gavin must strengthen their clan and prepare to fight. But the enemy has an ally—one that not only wields power, but holds knowledge of the ancients' secrets. Secrets that could destroy creation itself.

As the darkness grows, doubt seeps in ... protectiveness hinders progress ... and the unthinkable comes to pass.

Bewildered and alone, Nora shoulders the responsibility of leading an entire race to war. As she struggles with decisions that seem impossible to make, she is haunted by one choice.

"No one has ever doubted that you would die for those you love. The question then becomes ... would you live?"

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Week 35 Review: The Demon Catchers of Milan

From Goodreads:
Mia's ordinary life is disrupted in the most horrifying way possible when she is possessed by a hungry and powerful demon--and only saved by the arrival of relatives from Italy, the country her grandfather fled many decades ago. Now her cousins Emilio and Giuliano say the only way to keep her safe is for her to come back with them to Milan, to live, to learn Italian, to fall in and out of love, and to master the family trade: fighting all demons with the lore of bell, book, and candle. Milan is not what Mia expected, but it will change her forever, in this stunningly well-written novel about an American girl who, fleeing an ancient evil, finds her only salvation in her ancestral home.

My Review
:
Oh, yeah, it was so good to be able to read this book! It was fun, and it was great, and just so great! I mean, a modern day-ish family still kinda stuck in the past, seeing as they fight demons? Yeah, that sounds really great!

I felt pretty bad for Mia, she gets possessed, and then has to move back to the country that her grandfather left. Alone, knowing really nobody well, but going to live with extended family members. Who know why she's there. Kinda awkward! But Mia dealt pretty well!

I kinda wish that there'd been more action, after all, this is a family that fights demons, for goodness sake, which should mean a lot of fights. But there was training for Mia, and since this is going to be a series, well, hopefully there'll be more fighting!

There was romance, and how it was set up, and how it woven in and out of the other elements of the book was just perfect! Because this is a pretty hard, solitary besides family, life. And this is a lesson that Mia learns over the course of the book! But hopefully she won't let the life beat her down, because what romance there was, I want more of it!

Fantastic, awesome book! I loved it so much, and I can't wait for the sequel!

Author: Kat Beyer
Series: The Demon Catchers of Milan #1
Read: August 27th, 2012
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded really, really good, and it's a DAC book!
Publisher: EgmontUS
Published: August 28th 2012
5/5 Hearts
4/5 Books
4/5 Stars


Sunday, July 29, 2012

In My Mailbox #59, July 29th-July Week 4

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren to talk about the books we got in the mailbox or inbox as the case may be!

So I got:

For Review:
Never After
The Bachelorette Project
Flight

Library:
Third Grave Dead Ahead
Rapture

NetGalley:
The Blood Keeper
The Demon Catchers of Milan
Pale
Beautiful Disaster

Yeah, such a great collection of books! I can't wait to read them, because they looks so great! What about you guys? Happy reading!