Severed Colours
Dawna Raver
Expected Release - 11/18/2013
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Book 2 of The Colour Wielders Series is
awesome! I love, love, looooved it. The way Ms. Raver writes, you get
immersed and can easily lose yourself in her imagination. I love the
world building for Severed Colours; as well as book 1, Colour
Wielders.
SC picks up right where book one left
off, with Arik handing Quinn over to his Bitch of a mother Morgana.
Although poor Quinn has no idea what's happening and thinks the love
of her life is betraying her, Arik knows his mother is her only
chance of survival. Course even though the all-knowing Morgana knows
what her son is up to, she still thinks she has the upper-hand...
Boy, was she wrong. (I love what
unicorn blood does to her BTW Dawna, LOL, I lost it laughing..)
“After centuries,
Morgana Le Fay's beauty was over. She looked like a zombie in search
of brains as she held out her arms and grabbed at empty air”
LOL
So any-who, after Quinn goes thru her
awakening in the Marbh Chamber constructed by Morgana,
she's a changed person. No longer a child with baby-like skin, but
now a woman. Her body, hair, and features all go thru a painful
change, leaving her a more mature, adult Magykal. What's even better
is that she and Arik soul-touch during the process, meaning that they
will both be battling each others' emotions in their minds. This was
pretty neat to see thru-out the book, I thought. Not sure if I'd want
it done to me, but could be handy!
The author throws in a lovely – and
crazy – curve ball after Quinn's Awakening, that really shocked
the Hell out of me. I just sort of sat there and thought, Omgggggg!!!
And I can't tell you!!!!! It leaves Arik desperate and no choice,
but to summon the most powerful beings in all the lands. The
Triarchia.... Where they have him answer a yes or no question
with a no win scenario.
“Can love
surrounded by hate, survive, or is the end of an endless knot forever
lost? Yes or No?”
After Arik's answered and made his
sacrifice, both he and Quinn will have to work extremely hard to get
around this obstacle thru-out the rest of the book. Let's just say
that I hate The Triarchia, and
A lot, and you all will too, ha!
Although Quinn has changed so much from
her Awakening, that after The Triarchia are thru with
her, she's even more changed than before. She may now seem like a
brat, but without her new attitude adjustment the story wouldn't make
sense or get to where it needs to be.
“I do care for
you. I – You are my everything.” Arik Morgaine
Ms. Raver answers a lot of questions
and ties the book up perfectly for the end, all the while, still
leaving some things that need to be worked out for book 3. Which I
can't wait for!
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Things I loved -
Like I mentioned before, her world
building technique and the way she writes her characters. Now I
really want to go to the club Ersatz she made up for the book, LOL!
I enjoyed how the author has her
characters dress like 'normal human beings', since they are Magykals
living in a Magykal Realm, sure it'd be easy to dress them for the
time period of beautiful gowns, etc.. But they still wear band
t-shirts, jeans, leather jackets, etc... That's great! :)
Since I read an early version of the
book, she is making some changes, and one of those changes is
hysterical. Where Princess Quinn has her own Royal Guard, she calls
them Mutts...In the version I read they were humans, but in the new
version, they're going to be actual dogs that walk on 2 legs. Very
different, and very cool. !
