Book Review- Dearly Departed By Lia Habel

First let me start off by saying I absolutely love the cover to this book. It definitely has become one of my favorite covers. Now the real question is did the beautiful cover live upto the book? That would be a oh yeah! I absolutely loved this story. It was a definite different spin on the vampire-zombie tales. Once I picked this story up I could not put it down. It grabbed me from the beginning and the pacing was perfect. It had just enough action plus world and character building to keep me glued to the pages till the final page turn. Then I wanted more, more, more of this story.

  Dearly Departed is told from multiple POV’s but it mainly follows Nora Dearly in the year 2195. It’s a high tech era which has gone back to a more simpler time of the Victorian era. Nora’s the type of girl who is more interested in military history then debutante ball. Being orphaned when her parents died she ends up living with her aunt who is more interested in money and status then what her niece wants out of life. Everything changes when a group of zombies tries to take Nora and she is saved by a team of soldiers and her life will never be the same again. In this team of soldiers Nora meets Bram Griswold a handsome man who makes Nora feel more alive than she has in a long time, but there is one catch Bram is undead.  They know there love is destined to be doomed but nothing can stop them from loving each other no matter how long they have left. Now together with a group of other undead they will try to find an end for the fatal virus known as Laz which is responsible for creating the undead.

 I don’t even know where to begin with this review except I loved this story.  Everything about it was well written. I felt myself being drawn in from the very 1^st pages. I loved the world building and the spin of the Victorian Era with the advance technology. I wasn’t very sure at this concept at first but the author makes it work and creates a fantastic world. I really felt for Nora who turns out to not be a typical heroine in stories as of late she manages to handle her own in a world that to her that has gone mad. Bram was so very lovable I could understand why Nora was drawn to him. I can’t wait for the next book in this series. I will definitely be keeping my eyes out for it.

Book review- On A Dark Wing By Jordan Dane

I was really looking forward to reading this book, but in the end the anticipation was more exciting then the book itself. I’m not saying that I didn’t find the book good, just that I found it boring in parts and because of that it didn’t hold my attention like some of my favorite books have. 
On A Dark Wing is a story about Abbey Chandler who cheated death 5 years before, when a horrific car accident took her mother’s life but not hers. She believes and Ethereal boy took her hand and saved her life. Now 5 years later Abbey is an outcast at school she still carries the guilt of what happened 5 years before and she is seeing deaths ravens and her long time secret crush Nate Holden appears to be deaths taget. As Nate begins his dangerous climb up Alaska’s Denali she will learn that death never forgets. 
The premise for this story sounded very intriguing and I was so glad when I was approved to read this off of Netgalley, but as I began to read it I felt like something was lacking and it never grabbed hold of me like I wanted it to. The authors writing was good and I enjoyed the characters, but I never could connect with anyone of them and maybe that’s why I couldn’t get engrossed into this story. In the end it left me wondering if maybe had I connected with the characters better if I would have enjoyed this story more. Overall it was an ok read. I didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it. What saved the story for me was I loved the idea behind it I just didn’t love the execution. I am not completely brushing off this author I will definitely give her a try again.