Entangled

Title: Entangled (Spellbound #1)
Author: Nikki Jefford
Kindle Edition; 303 pages
Published February 20th 2012

Two months after dying, seventeen-year-old witch Graylee Perez wakes up in her twin sister Charlene’s body.
Until Gray finds a way back inside her own body, she’s stuck being Charlene every twenty-hour hours. Her sister has left precise instructions on how Gray should dress and behave. Looking like a prep isn’t half as bad as hanging out with Charlene’s snotty friends and gropey boyfriend.
The “normals” of McKinley High might be quick to write her behavior off as post-traumatic stress, but warlock Raj McKenna is the only person who suspects Gray has returned from the dead.
Now Gray has to solve the mystery of her death and resurrection and disentangle herself from Charlene’s body before she disappears for good.

I got this book immediately after the finale of The Secret Circle was aired on TV. I have this thing for witches, warlocks and the sorts, that's why I was kind of sad when The CW network announced that The Secret Circle was cancelled. Good thing, a friend of mine suggested Entangled, where I could enjoy reading about witches and bitches. And bad boys too! Oh Boy! I was spellbound!

Get this... Twin sisters; both are witches, GrayLee and Charlene, total opposites -  the other wanted to jump off from the roof but flew; the other died mysteriously because of SUDS (Sudden Death Syndrome)...

The other girl resurrected but had to be alive every other day - using her other twin's body.. Freaky right? It was and it was full of twists! Twin life has never been this so much.... entangled!

OKay, so it was like a battle of the good twin versus the bad twin. Only they could communicate with each other through letters. Because they cannot see each other, they are unable to slap each other.. Ha ha ha.. Their friends and boys are mystified with their behavior, especially since the other one was supposed to be dead. I love how the author Nikki Jefford build Gray's character. But I would want to know what goes inside Charlene's minds when she did those dark magical stuffs.. I want to understand why she had to resort to doing those crazy spells and incantations - what.. just because of a boy who gropes her butt whenever he has the chance? Ugh! I wanna punch Blake in the face whenever he did that.. Double Ugh!

Anyway, before I get carried away, I am making sure that by September I'm gonna read Book 2 of the Spellbound series, entitled Duplicity. I learned that Graylee finally got her own body - not one but two! OMG!!!

This series is much better than The Secret Circle. Kudos to Nikki Jefford for creating this one-of-a-kind spellbinding tale. Can't wait to read more! :)

I'm awarding 4 (stars) bookmarks for Entangled.. Well deserved :)

WWW August 29

Welcome to the last Wednesday of the month.. Here's my WWW  this month of August.  WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

Curently Reading:

I'm currently enjoying the world of dragons, wizards and sorcerers.,
in the book of AMULET by Nancy Lee Parish. 

Sometimes the greatest legends are born from the darkest hearts...

Every page is a mystery.. Can't wait to finish it :)

 Recently Finished Reading:

Book 2 of Rita Herron's romantic Savannah novels - the story of Sophie Lane and Lance Summers.

Sleepless in Savannah...

And I was literally sleepless when I read this.. :)

Will be Reading:

God of Mischief. Father of Lies. Harbinger of Destruction. 

Exiled and tortured by the gods, Loki swears vengeance. He will summon the mighty Fenris Wolf and the legendary Midgard Serpent, and they will lead an army of giants and all the dead in Niflheim. 

Brimming with the power of the most destructive being in the Nine Worlds, he will not rest till Asgard is in ashes.

Blood Debt

Title: Blood Debt
(Touched series # 1)
Author: Nancy Straight
Kindle Edition; 304 pages
Published July 2012

Her whole life, it had just been the two of them. Before her mother’s last breath, she gave Camille the information she had craved her entire life: the identity of her father. Daring to contact him, Camille was welcomed by an entire family she never knew existed. But nothing comes without a price, as she discovers when her family claims a legendary heritage tracing back to a centaur touched by Zeus. 

As she learns the secrets of her Centaur bloodline, she is drawn into a forbidden love with Drake. Her life may be the blood debt required to pay for her mother’s transgressions. The same person who once held her mother captive, and forced her into decades of hiding, now controls Camille. Her only chance is to seek a piece of her mother’s past that will win her freedom and the life she desperately wants.

Let me just say that I absolutely love this book!

When Nancy Straight first announced on Goodreads that she was having a contest for the title of her series about a bloodline that goes way back to the time of Zeus, I was excited.

At first I was thinking of the title The Centaur Bloodline, but I felt like, the title might already reveal the mystery of the story, so  I agreed with the others that Blood Debt would be a perfect title. To me, it sounded mysterious enough :)

Truth is, I haven't read any book touching a topic about centaurs (well, except for the Percy Jackson series but that was a children's book and centaurs there were of the minority) so I was ecstatic about Straight's concept that I made sure of getting the book once it got released on amazon. And of course, I was not disappointed. I couldn't put the book down! It's definitely a page-turner!

The story began with Camille and her dying mom where she learned about her long lost father ten minutes before her mom's last breath. Cami soon embarked on a journey to finding her real father and found out that she actually have, not one, but five attractive brothers. I really enjoyed the characters especially the Strayer brothers and their strong kinship with their step sister Camille. When I noticed how they were more than willing to welcome her in their threshold, I got this strange feeling that something was up. And there's Gretchen, the family's matriarch who was so sweet and accepting;  and that's when I realized I didn't want to put my Kindle down until I finished the story.

I thought I would hate Gage, the man who was supposed to be Cami's future husband, but I was wrong. I actually liked him. And there's mysterious Drake! Cami and Drake seems to belong with each other, but I cannot really say that they're gonna end up together because there's still a second book to watch out for. I would love to see Cami get her Centauride powers 'cause that would definitely be a kick!  I am also definitely intrigued with the other characters, like Gage and Bianca, Daniel and grandma Zandra and I am excited to read more about them and how they would fare on the sequel Blood Ties.

Once again, Nancy Straight created a masterpiece! I loved her previous series (The Destiny series) and I am sure that Touched would be a bestseller too.

My rating for Nancy Straight's Blood Debt: 4 bookmarks!!