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Alycia's Element Preservers is a refreshingly unique new take on YHA paranormal fantasy. She has created interesting characters with depth and intensity. Dangerous follows the life of Ria as she enters the University for Magic with all its trials and tribulations, study, horrible teachers, boys, love and lust, best friends, people wanting to kill you. Ria lives in a world where long ago people were gifted with elemental magic, all human-kind had to do was follow a few simple rules, most importan ...more
Alycia Linwood's Dangerous is an ambitious book that has an intriguing premise, but lacks strong execution. In the world of Dangerous everyone has magic, bestowed upon by the God of Magic which gave humans control over one of the four elements - fire, water, air, or earth. The only rule was that the elements should never mix. As it was, people began inter-breeding which led to the magical disease.
Ria Milanez comes from a pure element family. Her family element is fire. She has come to the unive ...more
Ria Milanez comes from a pure element family. Her family element is fire. She has come to the unive ...more
I have mixed feelings on this book. The idea behind the book was an interesting twist. This book has a MAJOR cliffhanger…notice I capitalized “major”. I liked the characters, I just wish we knew more about them. It had a great twist on the “elements” idea for a storyline. Element books always make me think of Captain Planet...
As for the book itself, I liked it; I read it in 3 sittings. I felt “short changed” on some of the characters; in particular, I wanted to know more about Michael and Paula. ...more
As for the book itself, I liked it; I read it in 3 sittings. I felt “short changed” on some of the characters; in particular, I wanted to know more about Michael and Paula. ...more
This was a great story. The author did a great job with character building and storyline development.
It was a very original concept, kept me reading and wanting more! The story was full of love, friendship and betrayal. I found myself on edge with the intense relationship between Ria and Adrian.
There were quite a few grammatical errors and I think this book would benefit from another edit.
I can't wait to read the next one to find out what happens to Adrian! Talk about a cliff hanger!!!
I would ...more
It was a very original concept, kept me reading and wanting more! The story was full of love, friendship and betrayal. I found myself on edge with the intense relationship between Ria and Adrian.
There were quite a few grammatical errors and I think this book would benefit from another edit.
I can't wait to read the next one to find out what happens to Adrian! Talk about a cliff hanger!!!
I would ...more
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