The Crown - Kiera Cass (Book 5 in the Selection Series)

 

So this is the fifth book in the series and the second part of Eadlyn's selection process.

The selection process continues for Eadlyn and in the midst of public scrutiny and internal palace goings on, will Eadlyn find the one she wants to spend the rest of her life with?

The first part was a tough read because of Eadlyn's character.  This one was easier but the continuation on of this series is falling flat for me.    And honestly the ending was terrible.  I don't want to ruin the ending for anyone but I feel Kiera rushed writing the last 3 chapters and threw in the ending to just finish it.  I feel sad in some ways that I did read these last two books. I should have finished it with The One and America and Maxon's fairytale ending.

Finish reading the series if you must but you'll be disappointed.

Elementary - Edited by Mercedes Lackey

I have long been a Mercedes Lackey fan and her avid reader.  Her elemental series has captured my imagination and interest like few series' have.  She combines turn of the century England, loosely based fairytales and masters of air, fire, water and earth.  I own almost all of this series and when I happened to be in a bookstore the other day and happened upon this treasure I picked it up without hesitation as I didn't have it yet.

I am not the only one who have been sucked into Lackey's universe as this book is a collection of 18 other authors penning their own tales and Mercedes adds her own short story to the end.  Each page turned in this book shows another story, another perspective of the elemental masters universe and it was a very interesting read.  It was nice to have shorter stories to read but still just as captivating as reading a whole novel, in some cases I wished the story was a tad longer!

This novel is the second collection of short stories of elemental masters.

If you have read some of the elemental masters books, this is a delightful read.  If you haven't read any - I wouldn't recommend.  Go read Mercedes Lackey's books first :P