Travel, Food & Books
A trip without cruising the Amazon river or stepping inside the Amazon rainforest is like a trip to London without visiting the Big Ben or the Tower Bridge. Leticia which is in the heart of the Amazonian forest provide easy access to the rainforest, and though in this day trip it wasn’t deep inside the jungle, it’s still part of the Amazon rainforest 😉.Â
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Clean read books packed with actions, adventures, despairs and a tiny bit of romance. This series is a must-read for fans of The Soul Guardians series.
Series Title: The Horizon Chronicles
Author: Kim Richardson
Genres: Fantasy > Paranormal > Angels / Demons
Read Format: Kindle Edition
Total Pages: 1,298
Reading Date: 13th June 2020 ~ 26th June 2020
Book Series In Order
Alexa has a very big problem. She’s dead.
Worse, instead of meeting her maker, she’s pulled into the world of the Guardian Angel Legion—a secret band of angels dedicated to protect mortal souls from demons.
But Alexa’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she’s sent back to the mortal world to investigate a series of murders and missing souls and is attacked by a demon. But are demons responsible for the killings? Or is it something else?
To make matters even worse, an ancient, evil shadow grows over the world, and with it a force more terrible and destructive than the world has ever seen. Can Alexa find a way to stop it or will it doom the mortal world forever?
Although this series was written in a third person, just like the Soul Guardian series, which made me hard to connect with the main character, however, with the intriguing storyline in this book, it was much more enjoyable.
Having the same concept of the world, this time, we get to read the guardian angel stationed on earth. Alexa didn’t do it on purpose, but her fear of water had prevented her to go back to the Horizon.
In the mortal world, Alexa met Erik, who has an issue with the Legions. He’s part of the Sensitives group, and almost all of his team members were wary on the Angels. Alexa and Eris’s forbidden romance started slow but heading somewhere, unlike Kara and David’s affair.
I loved that the author included the Scout – a talking dog in this book. I missed them from the previous series, and I learned more about them in this book. Towards the end of the story, when Alexa met the Chief, I thought that the story would be like Kara’s, but thank god it wasn’t heading that way, and now I can’t wait to read the next book and find out more about Alexa’s next adventure.
Against all odds, Alexa survives the pagan god Hades’ clutches and returns to Horizon—but at a steep cost. Part of her soul is missing, and with that, a darkness brews inside her.
When the Legion pairs her with a new petty officer, Milo, a mysterious angel who seems as annoyed as she is to be teamed together, they head to New York City on a lead and things quickly move from bad to worse.
Hades is angry. Hades wants revenge. Now, as the pagan god’s threat grows stronger and plagues the mortal world with evil, Alexa must decide whether to trust the secretive Milo and find a way to come together and defend everything they hold dear—before it’s too late…
After losing half of her soul, Alexa was fuelled with determination to get the other half back. However, to do so, she needs to kill the pagan god Hades. It was a mission impossible for Alexa, and her quest was still far from over by the end of the story in this second book.
Alexa’s romance afterlife wasn’t going well in this book, and I found it dulled and more intrigued by the new character Milo. I was hoping that the two of them would end up together, but my wish didn’t come true, yet (Maybe in the next book? Who knows). Milo was a mysterious and a badass guardian angel, and I hope to read more about him in the next book.
The story was action-packed, but with the same repetitive storyline as in the Soul Guardians series where the main character had darkness growing inside of her and also misjudged by the superior. Overall, if you haven’t read the mentioned series, you’ll enjoy the story.
The mortal world is at risk. Darkness brews in Horizon. Hades is mustering the full force of his power with the help of the Helm of Darkness, and he releases an apocalyptic nightmare onto the mortal word.
Alexa and Milo must travel to another dimension, a world of flames and ash and shadow, in search of a secret weapon that can destroy Hades.
While Alexa realizes exactly how much she’s willing to risk for Milo, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the mortal world?
The city of flame and shadow was a place in Purgatory, where Alexa and her petty officer ventured to retrieve the Bone sword, a weapon that they believe could harm Hades. Having named the book’s title as this place, it was unfair that their adventure to this place only started after halfway into the book.
I wished the story focused more on that world because I loved their quest, and I thought that’s the most exciting part of the whole book. The black and white dimension world reminded me of one of my favourite series, Sam Winchester and Castiel the angel in Supernatural series!
Although the story was predictable, nevertheless, it was still entertaining with a sprinkle of a tiny bit of possibility of love, lots of hatred between the legions and the sensitives, betrayal by their trusted superior and the hopelessness against the evil. It was marvellous.
Love. Betrayal. Revenge.
Lucifer has escaped from purgatory. Darkness descends on both Horizon and the mortal world. The Order of the First is the on move, systematically turning angels against angels. Their numbers continue to grow as chaos and destruction overwhelm the Legion.
Meanwhile, Alexa is trapped in Tartarus, the impenetrable and inescapable angel prison, knowing all too well that she’s responsible for Lucifer’s breakout. But can she find a way to escape her prison to fight the greatest evil she has ever faced?
Worse, Milo has sacrificed himself to save the angels from his father’s deadly wrath. Will Alexa ever see him again? If so, is he allied with his father? Can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?
The stakes are higher than ever in the last instalment of The Horizon Chronicles series.
In this final book, Alexa faced a much more challenging foe, the famous Lucifer. The story continued with Alexa being in Tartarus and with Milo off with his dear father, she was lonely and losing hope. Lance, the scout dog, didn’t go and visit her, and she had no idea what’s going on in the world.
It was by accident that Alexa got out of prison, and again she was thrust into a mission impossible task. The Oracle had put faith in her to gather three things which would help to defeat Lucifer. When things seemed bleak, Alexa almost lost her hope. Would she be able to save humanity and what’s Lucifer most significant plan if it wasn’t to annihilate the mortals?
I wasn’t sure how Alexa could defeat the mighty Lucifer, but my guess to some of the plot came true. However, there’s still some aspect that surprised me. Overall, the ending was excellent, and I was glad the author wrapped it up nicely. In my opinion, I prefer this series more than the Soul Guardians series.
Kara was only sixteen when she died. But what she didn’t know was that there’s life after death, and her new role as a guardian angel was about to take a different turn with her unique heritage. Other readers might find the story predictable and annoyed with the repetitive storyline, but for a clean reader, this might be just the series for them.
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Hive Trilogy by Jaymin Eve and Leia Stone is a young adult paranormal story featuring Vampires, Humans and Ash – an offspring of Vampires and human beings. Our heroine, Charlie, is not happy with her new life. Her unique blood has made her a target, and to survive, she will need help from the six sexy Ash.
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Secret Keepers series by Jaymin Eve is a young adult paranormal story about aliens and four human girls – secret keepers. The four handsome aliens from each house would have to find, protect and team up with the girls to stop a power-hungry alien from destroying both worlds.
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Curse of the Gods by Jaymin Eve and Jane Washington is a young adult fantasy story about one clumsy girl uncovering her power with five toughest beings in the universe. This series with five main books which is about Willa and the Abcurses and one short story for the sidekick characters. It will either entertain you or pissed you off with the cheesy storyline.
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Walker Saga by Jaymin Eve is a young adult paranormal romance series. An epic journey traversing the worlds to gather seven half-walkers in the battle of time before all of the Seventine members get freed from the prison and destroy the worlds.
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Do you know that the nearest Colombian highway to Leticia is located about 800km away? This capital city of the Amazon province is on the banks of the Amazon river and getting away from this place is either by aeroplanes or river transportation.
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The Mermen trilogy by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff is unlike the typical fairytale story we often read. Those who love dark fantasy would find the story engaging! Packed with action and heart-wrenching decisions, readers will want to finish reading the books to find out how it ends.
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A continuation to the Accidentally Yours series, where Cimil and Zac must pay their penances by helping one hundred immortals to find their better half, this includes the other characters we’ve read from the previous story. The book in this series is stand-alone, and currently, there are only five books which have been published by the author, and in this post, I have listed it down according to the reading order.
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