Author: Lynn Crandall

Rate:  4

Summary: Were-lynx Kennedy’s world implodes when she’s sent to a facility for illegal and torturous experimentation. Only after she’s rescued does she learn she’s been living a lie for 22 years. She can count on nothing from her past—not her parents, her surname, or her safety. Only the brother she didn’t know and his colony of were-lynxes offer any semblance of stability. Suspicious of everyone and unsure of her path forward, Kennedy reluctantly starts to realize that charming were-bobcat Asher Monroe might be her only hope.
Sportswriter Asher has been trying desperately to ferret out the truth behind why the sinister Nexus Group has been kidnapping and experimenting on were-cats. But he’s also willing to use his special mind-controlling ability to discover whether the gorgeous Kennedy is a threat to the colony or simply a lost soul.
As their need for the truth takes them into escalating danger, they discover explosive secrets that could bring Kennedy and Asher together — or rip them apart forever.

( by Goodreads )

Review: 
This ARC was sent to me by Irresistible Reads for review.
The premise of this book is very intriguing and caught my eye immediatly since it has the new concept of were-lynx which is something that I had never read about.
The characters are very good and complex, having many layers of personality that we get to know as we read along.
Kennedy changes as the story goes and you can see how her trust in people grows as her relationship with Asher gets serious, giving a terrific example on how the gosts of your past can be sent away by love and trust.
Getting to know each little detail and every little thought I felt like I was in the story, I felt like I was one of the characters.
This book takes your breath away with each chapter and ends the most amazing way ever possible! I don't know if I'm surprised but I can surely tell you that I fell in love with this story.

Goodreads sinopsys:

She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne.

She is a spy. Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate Skyvale Palace to study their foes. They assume the identities of nobles from a wraith-fallen kingdom, but enemies fill the palace, and Melanie’s behavior grows suspicious. With Osprey missions becoming increasingly dangerous and their leader more unstable, Wil can’t trust anyone.

She is a threat. Wraith is the toxic by-product of magic, and for a century using magic has been forbidden. Still the wraith pours across the continent, reshaping the land and animals into fresh horrors. Soon it will reach the Indigo Kingdom. Wilhelmina’s magic might be the key to stopping the wraith, but if the vigilante Black Knife discovers Wil’s magic, she will vanish like all the others

Avery West's newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead.

To unravel the mystery putting her life in danger, Avery must follow a trail of clues from the monuments of Paris to the back alleys of Istanbul with two boys who work for the Circle—beautiful, volatile Stellan and mysterious, magnetic Jack. But as the clues expose a stunning conspiracy that might plunge the world into World War 3, she discovers that both boys are hiding secrets of their own. Now she will have to choose not only between freedom and family--but between the boy who might help her save the world, and the one she's falling in love with.

Goodreads Sinopsys:

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

This is how my shelves turned out:

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 2014 Reading Stats

Number of books I read: 72

Number of re-reads: 10

Genre I read the most from: Young Adult

1. Best book you read in 2014?

City of Heavenly Fier by Cassandra Clare

2. Book you were excited about and thought you were going to love more but didn't?

 None that I can remember.

3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read in 2014?

The Iron Trial by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black. It was way better than I was expecting!

4. Book you "pushed" the most people to read (and they did) in 2014?
Probably City of Bones

5. Best series you started in 2014? Best Sequel of 2014? Best series ender of 2014?
Start: The Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Sequel: The One by Kiera Cass
Ender: Don't know... (sorry)

6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2014?
 Cassandra Clare

7. Best book from a genre you don't typically read/was out of your comfort zone?
Let It Snow

8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

9. Book you read in 2014 that you are most likely to re-read next year?
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2014?
 
11. Most memorable character of 2014?
Kayden from Sweet Evil

12. Most beautifully written book read in 2014?
Voyager (Outlander Series) by Diana Gabaldon

13. Most thought-provoking/life changing book of 2014?
Anna and the French Kiss

14. Book you can't believe you waited until 2014 to finally read?
The Iron Trial

15. Favorite passage/quote from a book you read in 2014?
“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

16. Shortest & longest book you read in 2014?
Shortest: Frei Luis de Sousa by Almeida Garret
Longest: Voyager (Outlander Series)

17. Book that shocked you the most?
 The Fault In Our Stars

18. OTP of the year (you will go down with this ship!)
Kayden and Anna (Sweet Evil); Jace and Clary (TMI); David and Evelyn (Stage Dive); Magnus and Alec (TMI); Will and Tessa (TID)

19. Favorite non-romantic relationship of the year
 Simon and Maia in TMI

20. Favorite book you read in 2014 from an author you've read previously?
 The Voyager (Diana Gabaldon)

21.  Best book you read in 2014 that you read based solely on a recommendation from somebody else/peer pressure?
Lick (Stage Dive #1) by Kylie Scott (thanks to my really good friend Joana)

22. Newest fictional crush?
David Ferris from Lick

23. Best 2014 debut you read?
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

24. Best world building/most vivid setting you read this year?
The Mortal Instruments (sorry I have a really big problem)

25. Book that put a smile on your face/was the most FUN to read?
Isla and the Happily Ever After

26. Book you made you cry or nearly cry in 2014?
Sweet Reckoning, Opposition and City of Heavenly Fire

27. Hidden gem of the year?
A Demanda do Mestre by Isabel Ricardo

28. Book that crushed your soul?
We Where Liars by E. Lockhart

29. Most unique book you read in 2014?
Throne Of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

30. Book that made you the most mad (doesn't necessarily mean you didn't like it)?
I don't know.

Your Blogging/Bookish Life

I completed the Goodreads challenge

Looking Ahead

I'm sorry for not posting for such a long time but, as you may see, I've been working on the blogs layout and exposure which includes spending a lot of hours researching, learning and pain...

During the time I was away I won two GoodReads FirstReads books that are coming in the mail, I bought two books on The Book Depository and received other two books for Christmas!

I'm currently waiting for them and when they arrive I'll do an unboxing and I'll also show you the two books I got for my birthday, back in October.

In the meantime I'm trying to write more posts!

 

Love, Ana