Hello there!! Welcome to a new edition of Saturday Pages!!
By the time this post will be up, I'm gonna be at my parents' cottage, relaxing, enjoying that it's cooler there, playing with the pups, sleeping and reading! Just taking a few days to recharge and find some sort of inner peace!
But since I've been a bit better with my juggling of work and blogging, I have a review ready to share with you guys, and this one is yet another 5 stars for an angel book! Who would've thought, huh? Not me if I had read and paid any attention to the Goodreads blurb! Hush, Hush?? Nope, this is WAAAY BETTER!!
Thankfully I just listened to the very amazing Sam from Realm of Fiction and boy was she right!!
Shimmer by Paula Weston
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Well, this was one of those highly awaited sequels and I was lucky enough to be able to start right after finishing the killer ending/cliffhanger of Haze!
As expected there could be some spoilers for the previous two books in the series but I'll try my best to avoid them!
Shimmer starts right where Haze left us, and includes a who's who and a prologue that will help with bridging the gap between one book and the other so you can be reminded of what's happened (always helpful if a year has passed between books) and that even if I had just finished one and started the other, didn't feel repetitive or superfluous.
When things seemed to be going better on Haze, despite the dangers and the enemies and the unknowns, we got that horrible ending and Gaby and the rest of the Rephaim got quite the awful shock. And now they must regroup and react. Seems like this could be a chance for both sides of the Rephaim to work together, but it seems like that won't be something easily accomplished.
I'm extremely happy about how the author seem to manage to make every book more, without faltering on the pacing, the revelations and the world building. How we keep on getting more clues and little things here and there, and how she keeps us wondering about what will be relevant later on and what won't.
I loved how Gaby continued to grow and despite her acting a bit rashly due to very emotional and understandable reasons, I never really felt like she was being stupidly headstrong. I tended to agree with her questioning the authority and motivations behind the leadership of the Rephaim, and what their real mission was. It was great to see questions thrown into the Rephaim and see how each of them reacted, and how some changed sides and opinions. So much had been kept from them all and so much seems to still be discovered (or re-discovered in case Jude and Gaby had discovered it before the memory loss happened).
I was beyond happy about the romance in this one, and I haven't really been in the right place for loads of romance as of late. This has been the slow burn type of romance and it takes extreme events to push it farther, but once it does, it happens with a vengeance!
This book managed to up the ante a bit more after what Haze did, and that is saying quite something! Seems like all the players are now alligned for a final showdown and the ending despite being a cliffhanger, it's not the kind of horrible killer of a cliffhanger than Haze had, it's more of the "I want to know now!!" kind of cliffhanger, cause we're thrown quite the game changer at the end of this one!
Once again, a very well deserved 5 stars for this book and a series that has managed to wow me with every book so far! Keeping my fingers crossed for Burn, the last book that will be releasing next year!! If you haven't started this series yet, DO IT NOW!
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By the time this post will be up, I'm gonna be at my parents' cottage, relaxing, enjoying that it's cooler there, playing with the pups, sleeping and reading! Just taking a few days to recharge and find some sort of inner peace!
But since I've been a bit better with my juggling of work and blogging, I have a review ready to share with you guys, and this one is yet another 5 stars for an angel book! Who would've thought, huh? Not me if I had read and paid any attention to the Goodreads blurb! Hush, Hush?? Nope, this is WAAAY BETTER!!
Thankfully I just listened to the very amazing Sam from Realm of Fiction and boy was she right!!
Shimmer by Paula WestonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Well, this was one of those highly awaited sequels and I was lucky enough to be able to start right after finishing the killer ending/cliffhanger of Haze!
As expected there could be some spoilers for the previous two books in the series but I'll try my best to avoid them!
Shimmer starts right where Haze left us, and includes a who's who and a prologue that will help with bridging the gap between one book and the other so you can be reminded of what's happened (always helpful if a year has passed between books) and that even if I had just finished one and started the other, didn't feel repetitive or superfluous.
When things seemed to be going better on Haze, despite the dangers and the enemies and the unknowns, we got that horrible ending and Gaby and the rest of the Rephaim got quite the awful shock. And now they must regroup and react. Seems like this could be a chance for both sides of the Rephaim to work together, but it seems like that won't be something easily accomplished.
I'm extremely happy about how the author seem to manage to make every book more, without faltering on the pacing, the revelations and the world building. How we keep on getting more clues and little things here and there, and how she keeps us wondering about what will be relevant later on and what won't.
I loved how Gaby continued to grow and despite her acting a bit rashly due to very emotional and understandable reasons, I never really felt like she was being stupidly headstrong. I tended to agree with her questioning the authority and motivations behind the leadership of the Rephaim, and what their real mission was. It was great to see questions thrown into the Rephaim and see how each of them reacted, and how some changed sides and opinions. So much had been kept from them all and so much seems to still be discovered (or re-discovered in case Jude and Gaby had discovered it before the memory loss happened).
I was beyond happy about the romance in this one, and I haven't really been in the right place for loads of romance as of late. This has been the slow burn type of romance and it takes extreme events to push it farther, but once it does, it happens with a vengeance!
This book managed to up the ante a bit more after what Haze did, and that is saying quite something! Seems like all the players are now alligned for a final showdown and the ending despite being a cliffhanger, it's not the kind of horrible killer of a cliffhanger than Haze had, it's more of the "I want to know now!!" kind of cliffhanger, cause we're thrown quite the game changer at the end of this one!
Once again, a very well deserved 5 stars for this book and a series that has managed to wow me with every book so far! Keeping my fingers crossed for Burn, the last book that will be releasing next year!! If you haven't started this series yet, DO IT NOW!
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I love the cover of this book and the series sound great!
ReplyDeleteIt is a fantastic series! I hope you'll check it out!
DeleteI've seen this series around but not to much and so I never gave it much thought but your 5 stars makes me want to reconsider that. I'm glad to see that you enjoyed the romance in this one. It seems to be the type I'm looking for as well. Great review Pili :)
ReplyDelete-Mari
It had been a while I have loved ALL the books in a series quite this much!
DeleteI cannot wait to hear what you think of them if you read them, Mari!
Hmmm, better than Hush, Hush... well, that's quite a thought. I LOVED Hush, Hush, but just that one, not the following three novels in the series. Five stars is a lot of stars! There will be another, Burn? I think I might wait and then binge-read the series. Excellent review, Pili!
ReplyDeleteHope you're enjoying the time at the cottage! :)
Alyssa @ The Eater of Books!
Yep!! (I also liked Hush Hush, but DNFed the second book and ignored the rest).
DeleteI cannot wait till you read all these, I can understand waiting till Burn, this is a brilliant series to binge read, Alyssa!! =D
Here's a new gem! I've never heard of this series but omg this sounds fantastic! It's really rare for sequels to keep up the pace and intensity of the story, much less surpass its predecessors, and I admire authors who develop enough substance to cement a solid series (instead of a filler middle book that everyone else could do without). Thank you for the recommendation :)
ReplyDeleteAlicia @ Summer Next Top Story
Yes, Alicia! None of the books so far have felt like a filler AT ALL, and now we're just awaiting the final one, so I highly recommend this series!!
DeleteAw, yay :) Amazing review Pili. <3 I'm so happy you loved this book too. And yay for there not being such a bad cliffhanger, lol :) And so happy you loved the romance as well. Thank you for sharing :D
ReplyDeleteThank you, sweetie!
DeleteI was quite relieved when the ending was like it was but not worse, if it makes sense!
OMG, another Shimmer review. I can't even with this series. I have to read this! I feel so left out. I think I'm going to wait until Burn is out so I won't have to suffer Paula Weston's cruel ending in this one. Amazing review, Pili!
ReplyDeleteWaiting till Burn is not a bad idea Sarah, even if this ending is NOT as bad as Haze's was... I need Burn now too!!
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