Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.
It's also a lot harder than I anticipated to stay on top of in light of the holidays/stuff. I have drafts for the past three sitting in my blogger, but none of them completed in time to post! What I've come to realize through writing this post is that I had a serious Trilogy thing going in 2014... Maybe I'll start a Trilogy Thursday thing and bring you all up to speed on my thoughts :)
Top Ten New-to-me Authors I Found in 2014
1) Marie Lu - Legend, Prodigy & Champion
I know, everyone's been shouting the praises of this series for years, my mother and brother (who doesn't read willingly) included. Blame it on college, but I never really bothered to pick the books up until my post-graduation binge-read. On the plus side that meant I was able to binge read all three books in one weekend without having to wait years and years between them. Might make me seem like less of a fan and more of a bandwagon jumper but with this series that's exactly what I was. I haven't read her newest book yet, but I'm on the library waiting list!
Title: The Perilous Sea
Author: Sherry Thomas
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: September 16th 2014
Series: The Elemental Trilogy #2
How I Served It: Audiobook (Read by Philip Battley)
How I Got It: Borrowed (Library)
Summary:
"After spending the summer away from each other, Titus and Iolanthe (still disguised as Archer Fairfax) are eager to return to Eton College to resume their training to fight the Bane. Although no longer bound to Titus by blood oath, Iolanthe is more committed than ever to fulfilling her destiny - especially with the agents of Atlantis quickly closing in.
Soon after arriving at school, though, Titus makes a shocking discovery, one that throws into question everything he believed about their mission. Faced with this revelation, Iolanthe struggles to come to terms with her new role, while Titus must choose between following his mother's prophecies - or forging a divergent path to an unknowable future." -- Goodreads
Review:
I liked the first book in this series - Burning Sky. I know it got some really mixed feels from most people, and I'm definitely not saying it was perfect or without faults, but I liked it. I liked the way the relationship between Titus and Iolanthe/Fairfax grew and I liked the overarching plot line.
I feel basically the same way about The Perilous Sea. It was far from perfect, but it made me happy when I was reading it. It's one of those books that has a lot of heart. Yeah, there are a lot of plotholes and eye-brow raises, but it's easy to ignore them and just smile. I like books that make me smile.
The Perilous Sea is written in a kind of cool way. It bounces between the present and future (or present and past depending on how you view it). At the start of the future-y time, Titus and Iolanthe have lost their memories and are stuck together in a desert. The only thing they both know is that they must avoid Atlantis. In the present-y time, they're facing a severe conflict of interest. Wintervale has suddenly begin to display immense amounts of elemental magic leading Titus to believe that it's Wintervale and not Iolanthe who is the prophesied savior. Talk about trouble in paradise.
