Book Review: A Monsoon Rising

Monsoon Rising was a 50-50 for me. I’m quite proud that I was able to finish it despite my general boredom reading through pages and pages of the Alaric and Talasyn constant-tug-of-war. I will tell you that I am a sucker for romance but I’d pick up a romance book if I am in the mood to read one. I’d picked Monsoon Rising because I was in the mood to read a YA fantasy book with hints of romance between the characters. I did not expect that this book was 85% romance set in a fantastical world and the main…

Book Review: The Hurricane Wars

I never knew that this book existed until I downloaded the eARC of Monsoon Rising from Edelweiss. My bad for not reading the synopsis properly because if I had, I would have known that Monsoon Rising is already the 2nd book of The Hurricane Wars series. So anyway, off I went and bought a digital copy of this book so I could go into Monsoon Rising knowing what the whole story is all about. The Hurricane Wars follows the story of two protagonists who are rivals due to the circumstances of their birth: Talasyn and Alaric. On the first page…