Book Review: Iron Crowned - Richelle Mead

Iron Crowned - Richelle Mead

An embattled mystically entwined with our own, the Otherworld is at the mercy of one woman...

Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm.  But as the Thorn Land's queen, she's fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom.  Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear...

Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part.  Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search.  And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way.  To control the Crown's ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation-one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril...

4/5 stars (really liked it)

This book picks up right where the last one left off.  Eugenie and Kiyo are over due to what happened in the next book and she is now with Dorian.  Dorian seems to have changed a lot since the first book as has Eugenie.  Because of the events from the previous book Roland, her step-dad refuses to talk to her.  With the urging of Dorian and a seer at the castle, Eugenie and Kiyo set out to see the Iron Crown.  The war with the Rowan land is not letting up.  Seems like so much happens in this book.  I am really growing to like Jasmine, Eugenie's half-sister.  The ending of this book really makes me want to read more!

Book Review: Insatiable - Meg Cabot

Insatiable - Meg Cabot

Sick of hearing about vampires?  So is Meena Harper.

But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.

Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural.  See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die.  (Not that you're going to believe her; no one ever does.)

But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets--then makes the mistake of falling in love with--Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side.  It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire-hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, Lucien's already dead.  Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met that she could see herself having a future with.  See, while Meen'as always been able to see everyone else's future, she's never been able to look into her own.

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future...

If she even has one.

2/5 stars (it was OK)

Sadly I was expecting something different in a vampire book, instead I got the cliche of a woman instantly falling in love with a vampire.  A vampire with a temper who doesn't kill humans.  I actually didn't care too much for Lucien or Meena.  The characters I really liked were Alaric Wulf the vampire-hunter that works for the Palatine and Meena's brother John.  Who I was very sick of hearing about was Jack Bauer, the dog.  I felt like that's all we heard about was the dog.  Also did not like the chapter headings of time and exact locations.  If Alaric is in the next book more then I will definitely read it.