REVIEW: Halo

Title: Halo 

Author: Frankie Rose 

Synopsis: She has no name. She has her knives. Her training. Her halo. The first and second give her the ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be. Everything is as it should be, until… Fear… Pain… Anger… Happiness… Desire… Guilt… Love. When a newly named Kit escapes the Sanctuary after killing her best friend, the last thing she needs is another knife in her hand. Or Ryka, the damaged, beautiful blond boy, whom she refuses to let save her. The sights and sounds of Freetown are new, yet one thing is familiar: the matches. The only difference? Where the blood in the Sanctuary landed only on the Colosseum floor, Kit will quickly learn that a river of red runs through Freetown’s very streets. Without her halo, the inhabitants of Kit’s new home consider her saved, but is that really the case? The reality of her old life is paralyzing. Would she be better off free of the guilt associated with all the blood on her hands, or is the love of one boy worth living through all the pain? Raksha is the call of the dead. It is the rumbling chant for fresh blood from the other side, the demand for sacrifice. The Colosseum is behind Kit. The fighting pits await. Warning: due to graphic content, Raksha is suitable for readers 16 yrs and up.(Goodreads)

This review has been one of the difficult ones, I´ve been having a book hangover and had so many feelings colliding between them that I didn´t know how to put them on paper. Halo was PERFECT and I am not saying it lightly. Seriously, this book made me feel a lot of emotions, anger, love, grief, laugh...

Frankie Rose has been able to create a beautifully cruel world to set Kit´s story. This dystopian novel is completely unique. Almost every dystopian book I´ve read is centered in what happened to the world to end like that and I love that Halo is focused on the present. Yes there is some slight explanation about what happenned but they don´t live in what happen, they struggle to forge a better future.

The book setting is wonderfully cruel, it has traces of slavery, gladiators and religious fanatism. I loved every minute of Halo and had a difficult time leaving the story behind, it stayed with me for months after. Its characters´hunted me, begging me to keep reading their story and I have to day that I can´t wait to read Radicals once and for all.

I fell in love with Cai from the very beginning and later on Ryka won my heart too. I would love to read a short novella from Cai´s point of view, I cried so much for him! And Kit is the perfect main character, she is amazing, strong, fiercely protective and unique. Once of the best main characters I´ve read in a very long time!

In less than a week I´ll be meeting the author at a London book signing and I am beyond exicted for the chance!

If you love reading dystopian books you should definitely check it out, you will love every word, every feeling!

Cover Reveal: RADICALS by Frankie Rose

Title: Radicals (Blood & Fire, 2)

Author: Frankie Rose

Genre: YA Dystopian

Expected Release Date: May 5, 2014

Tour Host: Lady Amber's Tours

Blurb: A life of fire

A life of blood

A life of sacrifice

When Kit ran from the Sanctuary, she left behind the ghosts of all those she killed. However, unlike the dead, the living she left behind aren’t so easily escaped. Her father and his men are searching for her, and they won’t stop until they find her.

Reunited with old friends, Ryka and Kit must put their trust in the man who killed Ryka’s father if they are to survive.

But can they learn to trust him when their instincts tell them not to?

And can they overcome the revelations the Sanctuary is yet to throw at them?

 A life of fire

A life of blood

A life of sacrifice

When Kit ran from the Sanctuary, she left behind the ghosts of all those she killed. However, unlike the dead, the living she left behind aren’t so easily escaped. Her father and his men are searching for her, and they won’t stop until they find her.

Reunited with old friends, Ryka and Kit must put their trust in the man who killed Ryka’s father if they are to survive.

But can they learn to trust him when their instincts tell them not to?

And can they overcome the revelations the Sanctuary is yet to throw at them?

Frankie Rose was born in Truro, Cornwall, but grew up in the north west of England. Now living in Australia with her wonderful husband, Frankie spends her time writing novels and scripts.

Among her guilty pleasures, she loves singing way too loud in the car with the windows down, dancing when she thinks no one is looking, and talking about herself in the third person. She really does like that.

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Lost Hope - Cover Reveal

Title: Lost Hope (Hope #3)

Author: Frankie Rose

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Expected Release Date: January 15, 2014

Hosted By: Love Between the Sheets

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Synopsis

“How Many Miles To Babylon?” “Threescore and Ten.” “Can I Get There by Candlelight?” “Yes, and back again. If your heels be nimble and light, you may get there by candlelight.” London 1891 Two boys meet in a foggy, darkened alleyway in London. Poised to fight, they recognise a quality in each other that stays their hands: they’re different. Not human. Well, not entirely, anyway. The universe, God, Kismet…something brought them together, forged a bond between them as strong as brothers’, and even they know it has to be for a reason. London Present Day Daniel and Kayden are cut from the same cloth. Their lives, their histories are so intertwined and tangled together that the last fifty years they’ve been at each other’s throats have seemed like an eternity. For Kayden, it’s been a punishment. For Daniel, a painful burden. Now that circumstances have drawn them back to London once more, repairing the bridges they’d once burned to the ground is taking time. Time they don’t have. Farley Hope is used to things going wrong. Epically wrong. A dead mother; a half-brother who recently went on a killing spree and refuses to come out of his room; a friend whose body has been hijacked by a malevolent, powerful being… All of that would be bad enough, but considering her brooding boyfriend hasn’t brought up the fact that she agreed to marry him in weeks…her run of bad luck is really starting to take its toll. Things had better start looking up, otherwise her new-found powers are going to be put to use, and there’s no guaranteeing what will be getting blown up.

This is where it all began.

Where chance meetings set an unstoppable

chain of events in motion.

How a prophecy came to be realised.

How Lost Hope was found.

About the Author

Frankie Rose was born in the United Kingdom, but now lives with her husband in sunny Australia.

She officially makes things up for a living, and when she's not doing that, she is generally making paper birds out of receipts and old lists or taking photographs that make her smile.

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Other Books in the Hope Series

Sovereign Hope (Hope #1)

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Everyone has a soul

Some are just worth more than others

Farley Hope was seventeen when her mother disappeared. In the last six months not much has changed, except that her eighteenth birthday came and went and still no sign of Moira. Her life is just as complicated as it always was. Since her father died in a car crash before she was even born, she’s officially parentless, and to top it all off she’s still suffering from the hallucinations. Mind-splitting, vivid hallucinations- the kind prone to induce night terrors and leave you whimpering under your covers like a baby.

The last thing on her mind is boys. Farley is on break from St. Judes’ when she meets Daniel. It’s not some casual run in at a party, or even a blind date with friends, though. Daniel is the guy following her in his 1970′s Dodge Charger; the guy standing at her window in the LA lunch hour traffic, trying to persuade her to leave everything behind and follow him. And he's hot as all hell.

The moment Farley lays eyes on Daniel, everything changes. He is cold and withdrawn, but there are cracks in his harsh veneer- cracks that betray the secrets he is trying so hard to hide. Farley is drawn into a world that will shake apart everything she thought she ever knew. There are truths out there that she must learn: that a person’s soul is their only real currency, and there are people who would do anything to take hers; that loving someone can hurt so much more than hating them; but, most importantly, when your future is predestined, there is little you can do to change it.

Farley Hope is prophesied.

Her coming has been awaited for hundreds of years.

She is destined to end the tyranny of the Soul Reavers.

To do so she must die.

Eternal Hope (Hope #2)

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He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me

When your friends go missing and you don’t know if they’re dead or alive; when you tie your soul to the one you love; when you kill to protect and your family suffers, there’s only one thing you can do:

Move to Montana.

Farley Hope is special. She was prophesied to kill the forebears of her bloodline- a race of cold-blooded Reavers, men who steal the souls of the living to gain power. The Quorum had counted on Farley ending her own life in the process, but when Kayden came to her aid and helped save both her and Daniel, he undid their plans. Now the Quorum are displeased, not only with Kayden, but with Farley and Daniel too. Though her father is now dead, Farley’s troubles with the Reavers are far from over. An ancient Immortal, trapped for a thousand years, wants Farley for himself, and he will stop at nothing to claim her.

With secrets that lead to anger and pain, that turn friendship to dust, the group must overcome the problems within their own circle before they have a hope of fighting off the powers that threaten their lives.

Ryka

Long time since we don´t post any hottie in our Bad  Boys Monday. Today you are going to meet my current book boyfriend Ryka!

Ryka is the main male character of the wonderful novel Halo by Frankie Rose. I met him yesterday and it was love at 2nd sight xD ( I was mourning Asha, I have a soft spot for that guy).

Ryka does not fit in the typical Bad Boy role, he is more kind of a Badass Boy. 

He is eighteen years old, he is one of the most prominent figures in Freetown. He is tall, he has blonde hair and brown eyes. He is super hot and totally swoon worthy! And it is not just for his physic, which helps a lot, but for his personality and feelings toward Kit. I have whole pages highlighted when he speaks.

“Well, we’re friends. In that weird way where you’re eternally mad at me, and I’m eternally imagining what you look like naked.”

He is really protective with his family and the ones he love. He is a fighter and he would give his life for his family and Kit.

“I’m begging you not to choose this. Choose something else. Choose the possibility that there could be something else worth feeling all the bad stuff for. Choose me.”

You need to read Halo, like right know! You don´t know what you are missing till you meet Ryka.

Hace mucho tiempo que no publicamos a algún bombón en nuestro Bad Boys Monday . Hoy vais a conocer a mi actual novio ficticio Ryka !

Ryka es el principal personaje masculino de la maravillosa novela  Halo de Frankie Rose. Lo conocí ayer y fue amor a segunda vista xD ( cuando conocí a Ryka estaba de luto por Asha , tengo una debilidad por ese chico ) .

Ryka no entra en el papel de típico chico malo , es más una especie de patea traseros .

Tiene dieciocho años y es una de las figuras más prominentes en Freetown. Es alto , tiene el pelo rubio y ojos marrones. Es super sexy y totalmente  digno de desmayado. Y no es sólo por su físico , lo que ayuda mucho , sino por su personalidad y sentimientos hacia Kit . Tengo páginas enteras de subrayadas cuando habla.

"Bueno , somos amigos, en esa  extraña manera en la que tú estás eternamente enfadada conmigo  y yo estoy eternamente imaginando cómo te verás desnuda " .

Él es muy protector con su familia y con los que ama . Él es un luchador y  daría su vida por su familia y  Kit .               

" Estoy rogandote que no elijas esto . Elige otra cosa, elige la posibilidad de que podría haber algo por lo que valiera la pena sentir todas esas cosas malas . Eligeme a mí " .

Necesitais leer Halo, ¡ahora mismo! En serio, no sabes lo que te falta hasta que conoces a Ryka.

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