Sunday, November 29, 2015

Friendship, fangs, and a bit of gore of course! #Review of E.J. Wesley's Devil's Snare



5 STARS!!!

Before I fangirl over Devil's Snare (my absolute favorite in the Moonsongs series), here's a taste of my first encounter with this story with Blood Fugue...

Jenny does her best to be your typical hostile gaming hermit. Then she opens a seemingly innocuous email. Suddenly she has a living grandfather she believed long dead, commits to doing a favor that involves bullets, and discovers a destiny that will test her tendency to push people away. You can read more of my review here.

Jenny is all sass and toughness as in the girl sports a purple mohawk and feels naked without her tomahawk. But Jenny isn't whole without her best friend Marshal. He's the bee's knees (in designer loafers). They come across some seriously gruesome baddies and they survive with a healthy dose of fear and an even healthier dose of humor. I love them! In Devil's Snare we see through Marshal's eyes at the start, which rocks the planet because Marsh isn't just sitting back being the gay sidekick. In E.J.'s world of monsters, you sink or swim or get eaten. He can write gnarly things that bite. I'm telling you. 

After a suspenseful glimpse into what Marshal is going through, we dive into Jenny's precarious situation. Back to the suspenseful glimpse for a second...I was reading my kindle at the window of my favorite coffee place waiting for my drink. In the few minutes it took them to make my white mocha I had sunk so deep into the story that I jumped when the barista reached toward me with my coffee. The writing is that good.

If you haven't started the Moonsongs series, dive in. They're divided up into short novellas E.J. calls episodes. 6 episodes so far and I cannot wait for the next one! 

7 comments:

  1. Well, I don't know what to say, Robyn! " feels naked without her tomahawk" that is a character I'd like to read. You know how I love the dark and tough ones!

    I'm glad you're enjoying this series!
    Have a wonderful month with your boys and family!

    Happy reading!

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    1. You'd like Jenny. She's feisty and ready to kill baddies. I do know you like the dark and tough ones.

      Are you getting to visit your family for the holidays? Happy fa la la la la la ing!

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  2. Hahahaha! I love the visual of you jumping with your coffee. I can soooo see it :D

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    1. You know I won E.J.'s first two novellas on your blog. It's the neatest thing getting to share our reads. And that was ages ago. I hope you and Zane are having a wonderful holiday season! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Did you dive into the HP movies? We did over here.

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  3. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Hope all is well.

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    1. Hey! I hope all is well too and I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Are you having to navigate icy roads a lot this winter? How are your characters? I've been slacking on the blogging forever now and I'm doing my best to make time for writing. How come it gets so hard to fit everything in? I blame football.

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    2. Glad all is good your way. Surprisingly there's no icy roads this year, however it's going to snow like crazy starting this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, so that's making it up for these two months that it didn't snow. Totally sucks. As for my characters, thanks for asking, they haven't bothered me into their Regency world, but my super old writing ideas from when I was way younger in the sci-fi futuristic contemporary realm is calling me. As for blogging, I haven't been touching it much either. Haven't done much reading too so I think that's where blogging sort of stopped for me. But it's okay to take it slow, life is already crazy enough as it is and we don't need to add another task to the hassle. It'll slow down, hopefully, when the New Year starts. =)

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