**Caution - this post contains descriptions and reviews of multiple books in a series, which means spoilers may appear in the description &/or review of subsequent volumes.
Dark
Summer (Book 1)
Author: Lizzy Ford
Publisher: Guerrilla Wordfare
Publication Date: 8/16/2012
Formats: Paperback & ebook
Length: 250 pages
Genre: YA Fiction, Paranormal
A girl with a broken past and a dark secret. A boy with a twisted future and no second chances. When they meet, it just might cost them their souls.
Sixteen-year-old Summer doesn’t expect the new boarding school
to be any different than the rest: a temporary stay where everyone will turn
against her after a few weeks. Until she meets the rest of the students at this
special school and realizes she’s not the only one with magic in her
blood. Accustomed to the concrete jungle of LA, she gets lost one night
in the forests of the Rocky Mountains and meets Decker, the boy who will become
the Master of Night and Fire on his eighteenth birthday. Their connection is
instant and dangerous, for both will be forced to choose between Light and
Dark, life and death, love – and their souls.
One choice. One soul. One price.
My Thoughts:
The secrets in Dark Summer are intriguing, well crafted &
revealed at just the right pace to keep you reading. I enjoyed every minute I spent in the world
that Lizzy Ford has created here & would have been disappointed when I
reached the final page, if I hadn’t known that there was more to the
series.
Summer is a great character.
Her insecurities due to being an orphan & having a ‘gift’ that
causes her more trouble than it appears to be worth, are totally
understandable. I connected with her
quickly & found myself more than once, wishing I could impart a little of
my life experience to her, when she was faced with two options & appeared
to be leaning towards the wrong one.
One thing I found help make the story more believable is the
fact that the author did not fall back on the cliché that everyone whose magic
is light, must be good & everyone whose magic is dark, must be bad. Just like in real life, there are shades of
grey in the world that Ms. Ford creates in this series. Dark Summer should be required reading for
teen girls.
Rating: CCCCC
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Summer
Night (Novelette – Book 1.5)
Author: Lizzy Ford
Publisher: Lizzy Ford
Publication Date: 11/9/2012
Formats: ebook
Length: 25 pages
Genre: YA Fiction, Paranormal
One choice. One soul. One price.
Summer’s choice threatens to destroy not only her own life, but
Decker’s, too, on the night she falls into the Dark. With both Summer and
Decker trapped by their choices, it’s up to Decker’s twin to find a way to make
things right.
Beck, the new Master of Light, is forced to step up in his role
as the protector of Light. He discovers that sometimes, the protector must come
between the Dark and its own Master in order to save them both from being
consumed. To save his brother, he must risk everything – even his soul – on the
slim chance Summer can redeem herself, if given a second chance. If he’s right,
he’ll save Decker from a lifetime of agony.
If he’s wrong, he’ll lose much more than Decker and Summer, for
there will be no one standing between Darkness and the rest of the world.
My Thoughts:
Rating: CCCCC
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Autumn Storm (Book 2)
Author: Lizzy Ford
Publisher: Lizzy Ford
Publication Date: 11/22/2012
Formats: ebook
Length: 192 pages
Genre: YA Fiction, Paranormal
A girl with no memory, hidden in plain sight. A boy with no
hope, freefalling into Darkness.
Autumn doesn’t know why she remembers a boarding school she’s
never visited, or why her reflection isn’t always … hers. There’s another girl
in the mirror, a dark-haired ghost that emerges one night to guide her to a
cliff near the school. Only Autumn can’t remember what happened there and why
it’s so important. Beck’s gentle touch soothes her distress while Decker’s
every look sets her body on fire. Caught between the twins, she struggles to
understand her instincts and magick while working through the pain caused by a
mysterious car accident that left her disabled, barely able to walk.
Unable to recover from Summer’s death, Decker slowly surrenders
to the Dark. He can’t live with the pain, and those around him keep Autumn’s
secret too well. The guilt he feels when he falls for her – and betrays
Summer’s memory – drives him farther from the Light, until he loses control and
begins taking the souls of Light witchlings. As the protector of Light, Beck
must choose between confronting his twin and watching more witchlings suffer.
Decker realizes Beck has come between more than him and the witchlings. With
neither of them willing to let Autumn go, they turn on each other.
Only one of them knows the truth. Only one of them will walk
away, unless Autumn can find a way to save them both.
My Thoughts:
What if you are granted a second chance, but have to start over with no memory of who you are, except a weird déjà vu feeling when you see certain people or places? Summer fell off the cliff at Miner's Point in Book 1 of the Witchling trilogy & should have died, at least that's what everyone thinks happened. Instead she is reincarnated as Autumn & sent back to the place Summer died, a boarding school for children with magic in their blood. There she will be tested to see if she can restore the balance between light and dark magic. Everything is at stake, yet the person whose destiny is to save the day, has no idea who she is or what happened the last time.
Lizzy Ford hits it out of the park again, giving the reader a completely new take on familiar characters. I could not put this book down & am anxiously awaiting #3 in the series.
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My Thoughts:
What if you are granted a second chance, but have to start over with no memory of who you are, except a weird déjà vu feeling when you see certain people or places? Summer fell off the cliff at Miner's Point in Book 1 of the Witchling trilogy & should have died, at least that's what everyone thinks happened. Instead she is reincarnated as Autumn & sent back to the place Summer died, a boarding school for children with magic in their blood. There she will be tested to see if she can restore the balance between light and dark magic. Everything is at stake, yet the person whose destiny is to save the day, has no idea who she is or what happened the last time.
Lizzy Ford hits it out of the park again, giving the reader a completely new take on familiar characters. I could not put this book down & am anxiously awaiting #3 in the series.
Rating: CCCCC
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