It's my Birthday Week: Today I'm giving away Midnight Thief!!

Hello guys!!

It's my birthday this next Sunday the 28th, and I'm not feeling extremly excited about it this year. I'm not sure if it's just a question of the rather messed up emotional state that I am as of late, or maybe I'm not ready to turn 34 yet! Either way, I decided that I needed to do something to be more excited about it, and how to do that? Easily, with books!!

I've decided that on the week leading up to my birthday I'll be giving away a different book each day! Those books will be books that I've really loved this year and I cannot wait to spread the love about them all over the place, and what better way than to share them with my fellow book lovers! And I forgot to add ALL giveaway are INTERNATIONAL!!

I'm starting this week's long giveaway with a book that although it might have not made it into the giveaway since it didn't get 5 stars from me but I found myself with two copies that I ordered (Amazon and Book Depository) without realizing. I'm sure any of my fellow bookworms can relate to that... Whoooops!


Midnight Thief is Livia Blackburne's debut and it's a fantasy book with a few very unique and unexpected twists! You can see my review HERE.

So dears, start celebrating my birthday on ahead with me and enter the Rafflecopter giveaway!


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Saturday Pages: Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne!!

As the final entry for this week's Saturday Pages I have a book that came highly recommended from some of my fave bloggers and canaries!


Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Midnight Thief came highly recommended by one of my fave canaries and book bloggers, Alyssa from The Eater of Books, since it was one of her few 5 stars and fave books of the year, with this recommendation and the fact that I am very much in the mood for fantasy, I knew I needed to read this one as soon as possible!

As always, I will try my best to keep spoilers out of my review as much as possible, but that might make the review a bit more vague.

Kyra is a thief and has been pretty much since she can remember. She was one of the kids living on the streets and started doing better for herself using her abilities and some friends she made. We meet her when she's doing a special job for a new employer, James, a powerful man of the underworld of the city, and we see how she ends up recruited into the Guild of Assassins.

There are two different but intertwined plot lines & POV, one where Kyra is employed by the Assassin's Guild to do some special jobs for them and we meet James and some of his best men. And the second one is Tristam's, a knight that is working on discovering and fighting the threat of the Demon Riders.

Both POVs were very distinct and I cannot say which one I liked most during the first half of the book, but during the second half I prefered Tristam's POV because I was growing uncomfortable with Kyra's involvement with James and his plotting. I was really enjoying the book and the plot till we got to the point of the Demon Riders revelations... I was just bewildered and I'm not sure how everything will tie together and there's too many unknowns about them.

Since this is the first book and there are more to come, I'm hoping we'll get more about the Riders and it will be making more sense. It's probably the part that makes this book more fantasy than just historical fantasy, but still it didn't work entirely too well for me, and I'm not even sure why!

I liked Kyra's character and her not-by-blood family and I liked how the interactions between Kyra and Tristam worked. There really wasn't much romance per se, just a few little hints here and there, but it worked very well with how the story progressed.

Despite some of my reservations, I really enjoyed the story and kept on turning page after page! I give this very interesting debut 3.5 stars and I'm looking forward to read the sequel!



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Saturday Pages: Mini-review of Poison Dance by Livia Blackburne!!

Hello guys! How's your Saturday going? I'm finally getting all my pending parcels from the PO, so no matter what, today is gonna be a good day!

I'm starting this week's Saturday Pages with a mini-review that has been pending for a little while, but finally I have it here!



Poison Dance: A Novella by Livia Blackburne

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Poison Dance is a prequel novella, and it's about James and the Assassin's Guild. It's a bit difficult to say if you ought to read it before or after The Midnight Thief, but I read it after and it worked pretty well.

James is a young assassin in the Guild in this novella and it gives us a bit more of insight into his character and how he became the man that we meet in Midnight Thief. Things are unstable in the Guild and the seeds of the organization as it is on Midnight Thief are all in here.

The tone and narrative voice is quite different between Poison Dance and Midnight Thief. Here it is darker and a bit more adult, cause James is older and in a darker path already that Kyra is. He's a killer already, but he isn't overtly ambitious and is only trying to carve a life for himself and his friends.

Somehow even if this made me understand James a bit better and even relate to the heartbreak and betrayal and anger that drove him to where he ends up, but I guess because I already disliked him enough I didn't get to feel too much sympathy for him.

It was quite interesting to see the events to led to James being who he is in Midnight Thief and read about the events only hinted at in there, but a word of warning... if you don't like this one too much, don't discount Midnight Thief on account of this one, they're different enough. 3.5 to this one.



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