Reflected In You by Sylvia Day

Sex is a powerful tool. Sometimes, it can even be a weapon.  There are people who know how to use sex to their advantage to get what they want.  I too have fallen victim to it.  Just like Eva "[t]here'd been a time when I'd turned to sex to feel affection, confusing momentary desire with genuine caring."  I guess that's why I really like this novel.  I feel there are times that I can relate and empathize to the characters because I have felt and experienced what they are going through.

Reflected In You is the second book in the Crossfire series.  The relationship between Gideon and Eva has really deepened in this book.  At the start of the novel, it can be seen that the thought of two days away from each other is unthinkable and unbearable for them both.  Being the intense individuals that they are, that is expected.  However, something as consuming as their affair is not healthy (and their therapist shares my opinion).  Two days is not that long a time for one not to be able to endure the separation.  They have become too dependent on each other and I think that it is bordering to something obsessive.  Isn't it suffocating if you're with your partner all the time?  We need our space once in a while, some "me" time, don't we?

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The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

At the end of The Red Pyramid, the Kane siblings decided to take the path of the gods.  they also wanted to reconcile the gods and the House of Life in order to restore Ma'at and defeat Chaos.  So the siblings left djeds that only those with the blood of the pharaohs will be able to find.

The siblings have already set up Brooklyn House as training ground.  About twenty young magicians (including Carter and Sadie) now live there.  They are a mixed bunch of kids of all ages from around the world.  There are a few who were old enough to be in college which is a good thing because they can chaperon the younger students.  The rest are mostly between the ages of nine and fifteen - there's nine-year-old Felix, who believes that penguins are the solution to every problem which proves to be traumatic for the birds; there's Julian from Boston and Sean is from Dublin; Alyssa is from the path of the earth god; then there's Cleo, who wanted to study the path of the god of knowledge, came from Brazil; Jaz is a cheerleader from Nashville who has a knack for healing magic; and Walt is from Seatlle, who has an innate ability for making charms, he himself made all the amulets that he wears around his neck.

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Fiction Flings #1

Whenever I read books, there are times when I can't help myself but develop an admiration for a male character.  Call it a crush, if you may.  Here's what I call my "Fiction Flings", it has two vampires, a Fairy Prince, a Nephilim and a Divergent.

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