Review: Copper Girl by Jennifer Probst

Copper Girl by Jennifer Probst
Published on June 25, 2013 by Spence City
Purchase: Amazon

About the book
Sara had always been careful.
She never spoke of magic, never associated with those suspected of handling magic, never thought of magic, and never, ever, let anyone see her mark. After all, the last thing she wanted was to end up missing, like her father and brother.
Then, a silver elf pushed his way into Sara's dream, and her life became anything but ordinary.

My Review:
First let me say that the idea behind this book is great.  I honestly liked the world that the author created I just wasn't impressed with the way things were presented and the book really lacked in a lot of areas that really bothered me.  I always hate giving a book less than 3 suns, so bear with me while I try and sort my thoughts out.

Like I said I liked the world, it was actually very intriguing.  In it we have magic users who are born with the ability called Elementals and then there are those who are not born with the ability but can work at it and can sometimes use magic, but it isn't as strong as an Elemental.  Things used to be peaceful between the two groups and the everyday ordinary human, but things took a turn when a miscommunication happened and then all hale broke lose.  What was left after the wreckage was a law against any magic being used and Elementals having to hide their true selves so that they wouldn't be imprisoned.   Sara, a copper Elemental, has been hiding almost her whole life and she knows that if she ever slips up she will end up like her Father and Brother who she hasn't seen in many many years.  When she takes a nap an elusive man comes to her dreams and turns her world upside down.  Finally realizing that she is more than she ever thought she enlists the help of this "man" and they go in search of her family.

I don't know about you, but I loved the sound if this and I couldn't wait to dive in.  After about 30 pages though I had a feeling that this intriguing story was going to be lost in insta-lurve and anticlimactic scenes.  I don't mind instalurve in my stories for the most part, but there has to be some kind if heat for me to believe it.  Yes Sara and Micah do have a connection, but there just wasn't enough there for me to care one way or the other.  All they really had were a few moments of panty stealing, token giving, and stolen kisses..not enough for me.  I have read several other much shorter books that made me believe in the couple so I know it can be done.  Plus every time Micah would call Sara "My Sara" my eyes would cross.  It felt weird and I didn't care for all that.  

This story also had no action and I mean the fighting kind.  When you have magic and queens I expect explosions, but there was none and I mean none.  Sara and Micah sneak into a dangerous facility, steal something important, and get away with nobody the wiser.  Even the big scene and the end was ho hum.  I want danger, intense filled moments, and an "oh no are they going to win" moments.  Copper Girl lacked all of that and I was so disappointed.  I really had such high hopes for this book.

It might just be me, I am usually the one on the other side of the fence with my ratings so please don't let me discourage you from reading this.  It does have an interesting world so I hope people pick it up for that alone.

2 suns

Cover Reveal: Death and Mr.Right by Kendra L. Saunders

Today, Waves of Fiction is excited to participate in the cover reveal for Death and Mr.Right by Kendra Saunders!! 

Death and Mr.Right by Kendra L. Saunders

Published by Spence City on October 1, 2013

About the book

It is March 32nd, the day that doesn't exist, and Death, the agent of nightmares, has been demoted and exiled to live among mortals for the rest of his unnaturally long life. Everyone knows They don't look lightly on important items getting lost or an agent falling in love.

Can the diva-like Death navigate the modern world, recover what was stolen from him (the names of the damned ooops!) and get his job back? Or will he fall in love with Lola, the pretty thief who got him into all this trouble in the first place?

About the Author:

Kendra L. Saunders is the author of the magic realism novel Inanimate Objects and the dark comedy Death and Mr. Right. She has been published in Snakeskin Magazine, Premier Bride Magazine and has conducted interviews for Steampunk Magazine, The New England Horror Writers and ipmnation.com. She reports regularly for Pure Textuality and writes helpful writing articles for NerdCaliber's Pages of Note.

She is the creator of the popular "Five Headed Muse" panel, which features fun and witty wisdom from the five aspects of a writer's life: character building, inspiration, writing habits, publishing and marketing, as well as the "What We Can Learn from Fan Fiction" panel which takes a detailed look at the upsides to reading and writing fanfiction. Kendra was also featured as a guest on other panels throughout 2012 and has been noted for her energy and enthusiastic approach to writing education.

She also has a lifelong passion for black and white photography and shares photographs from her travels and adventures through her website, facebook, tumblr and twitter.

Kendra is host of the quirky literary podcast, 13 1/2 Minutes and has been a featured guest and co-host on various radio and podcast shows.In her spare time Kendra likes to daydream about (foreign) boys with dark hair, drink too much tea, read fashion magazines, listen to records on vinyl, plan her dream trip to England and attempt to travel back in time to the Jazz Age

Website / Tumblr / Twitter

 

Cover Reveal: The Other Tree by DK Mok

Today Waves of Fiction is helping Spence City reveal the cover for The Other Tree by DK Mok

The Other Tree by DK Mok

Release Date on December 3, 2013 by Spence City

About the book

It’s been four years since Chris Arlin graduated with a degree that most people think she made up, and she’s still no closer to scraping up funding for her research into rare plants. Instead, she’s stacking shelves at the campus library, until a suspiciously well-dressed man offers her a lucrative position on a scientific expedition.

For Chris, the problem isn’t the fact that they’re searching for the Biblical Tree of Life. Nor is it the fact that most of the individuals on the expedition seem to be fashionably lethal mercenaries. The problem is that the mission is being backed by SinaCorp, the corporation responsible for a similar, failed expedition on which her mother died eleven years ago.

However, when Chris’s father is unexpectedly diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Chris sees only one solution. Vowing to find the Tree of Life before SinaCorp’s mercenaries, Chris recruits Luke, an antisocial campus priest undergoing a crisis of faith. Together, they embark on a desperate race to find Eden. However, as the hunt intensifies, Chris discovers growing evidence of her mother’s strange behaviour before her death, and she begins to realise that SinaCorp isn’t the only one with secrets they want to stay buried.

 This cover has me so intrigued!  The tree is beautiful and I am very interested to know how the snake and the key play into the story.  What do you think??