Review: The Perilous Sea

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.

TTT - Top Ten Books I Want to Re-Read

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at the Broke and the Bookish, I've been meaning to jump in for a while now, but was waiting for a TTT list that I definitely had answers for!

I could basically put any book I've ever liked on this list; I love to re-read.  I like finding new in the familiar and the feeling of coming home.  When I was a smidgen I basically only read Harry Potter and the Tamora Pierce series.  Just those books, over and over and over again.  Now that I'm older and have less free time, I feel kind of guilty when I re-read... is that weird? I think it's weird.

So anyway, for this list I tried to stick with books that I've really been thinking about re-reading lately...

TOP TEN BOOKS I WANT TO RE-READ:

(in no particular order)

1. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan  

Probably because I've been reading The Blood of Olympus, I've been feeling super nostalgic about the original quintet... especially the big finale. Mostly I just want to relive the big turning points for sixteen year old Percy and see how they differ from the boy at the end of the Heroes series.  Kid can't catch a break.