I would like to welcome Joanna Mazurkiewicz to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Joanna. Please be sure and check out Joanna's novel The Whispers of the Sprite book one in The Whispers series. Please check out my review of The Whispers of the Sprite.
Book Title: The Whispers of the Sprite
Series: The Whispers #1
Author: Joanna Mazurkiewicz
Published: October 7th 2012
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Pages: 230
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The Whispers of the Sprite
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The Whispers of the Sprite
When Ania moves from London to Swansea city in Wales she is hoping that her life will get a bit more exciting, after all she is running away from her controlling mother to taste more freedom and feel more independent. Everything seems to be going the way she wanted until she almost dies while taking a quiet walk around the beach in the late evening.
When she opens her eyes, nothing seems the same...
She starts seeing people that no one else is able to notice. An enchanting looking man keeps following her and Ania’s life seems to getting more exciting than she ever wished for.
After the attack something changes inside her, she has been blessed with the new frightening gift of seeing and hearing sprites all around her... the magical creatures that only existed in folklore, myths and legends of Britain.
Gabriel is attractive and handsome but no ... he is not a vampire. He keeps coming back and Ania feels an instant connection between them but this might get her into more trouble. Supernatural romance is not on her mind right now.
Because he is forbidden to even touch her ... the line between the death and love has never been so thin and the sprites won’t stop whispering until ... she will choose to love or abandon Gabriel.
EXCERPT
The Whispers of the Sprite
“We are staring at each other, forgetting about the harsh reality and I can feel my heart reacting. He touches my cheek and the familiar electric current runs through me. His hands are warm, caressing my pale skin. His deep-blue eyes are filled with serenity and passion. I keep telling myself to breathe, but I am unable to exhale the air from my lungs. Then he leans forward and his lips touch mine, increasing the temperature in my body. He kisses me gently, trying to break his way through, testing to see if I let him in. His lips are sweet and warm. A few seconds later it is all over and he disappears once again, leaving me uncontrollably awake and trying to gather my wild thoughts.”
MY REVIEW
The Whispers of the Sprite
The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I received a copy of The Whispers of the Sprite from the author for review.
Ania is very happy when she moves to Swansea city in Wales where she will be attending the University there. She has been living with her very controlling mother in London. She is excited and anxious to start her new life in Wales without her mother. In her new life she will have no one to tell her what to do all the time. I liked Ania but there were times when she acted like a spoiled brat. Always wanting her way and thinking that everything should be done like she wanted it to be done.
Ania's mother may have been controlling but she loved Ania very much and was only doing what she thought was right. Raising a child all alone without help from anybody is not an easy job. Her mother was only trying to protect her and keep her safe in the only way she knew how.
On Ania's first night in Swansea city she is attacked on the beach. She wakes up in the hospital and her mother is there something she is not too thrilled about. Ania sees a man, a magical creäture but one who is very handsome in her room after waking up. This man, Gabriel is very surprised that she can see him. Gabriel is a sprite or fairy and humans are not supposed to be able to see them. He tells Ania that no human has ever seen a sprite before.
Sprite's are assigned a human to watch over and help to keep them safe. They are like their guardian angels. Gabriel tells Ania that she can't let another sprite know that she can see them. If they find out that she can see them it would mean death. I know you are asking yourself right now "'who's death"? Am I right? Well see I am not going to tell you who. If I told you I would be giving way too much of the story away and would ruin it for you.
Gabriel pops in and out of Ania's life or room as the case is most of the time. I mean he is a magical creäture. One second he is there and the next he is gone in the blink of an eye literally. I've wondered how Gabriel could fall in love with Ania so quick or at all. One minute she is very loving and doesn't want to be away from him for any amount of time. And then the next minute she is yelling at him to get out. Once Gabriel is gone she wants him back and is frustrated because he is not there when she needs him. Ania has a very big heart she cares about people she just needs to grow up a little more and realize that she can't always have things exactly like she wants.
Ania is a very independen type of person with a big heart one who grew up with a mother that tried to protect her too much. A mother who was probably worried all the time that she would lose her. Ania probably felt as if she was being smothered by her mother when all she was doing was loving her.
While reading The Whispers of the Sprite I didn't won't to stop. I wanted to keep turning the pages without stopping until I reached the end. I wanted to know what Ania was going to do next. What was going to happen next in the story. I almost didn't put it down as I read it in one day. I didn't even lay it down long enough to go to the bathroom. No I took it with me and read it on my phone while in the bathroom.
If you like reading paranormal romance with a little mystery and suspense thrown in as well as magical creatures with a new twist on the magical creatures then you would like The Whispers of the Sprite.
I would like to thank Joanna Mazurkiewicz for giving me the opportunity to read her novel. Thank you Joanna for stopping in for a visit with us at The Avid Reader today. I love books with endings like with The Whispers of the Sprite because you know there just has to be more. There just has to be another book. You know you can read more about Ania and Gabriel and their lives. When one of them die? Who will it be Ania or Gabriel or someone else? When they live happily ever after? I can't wait to read the next book in The Whispers series The Dark Night Whispers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joanna Mazurkiewicz was born in Poland. She moved to United Kingdom when she was only nineteen and just finished high school. She had aspired to be a writer upon completion of the Harry Potter series but also enjoyed reading books like ‘Gone with the Wind’, ’Animal Farm’ and ‘The doll’. She graduated from Swansea University with a bachelor degree in American Studies. While studying in the UK she made a decision to start writing fiction in English.
The “Whispers of the Sprite” is her first debut novel and she is currently working on the second book in the series. Joanna lives in Cowbridge, a small town in South Wales near Cardiff with her boyfriend Bruce. She enjoys cycling around Welsh countryside some of which has become the settings in her first series.
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2 comments:
OOh this one sounds so good Nancy! I can't wait to buy this one. I've never read a book with sprites in it before so this one will be my first. Great review!
-Kimberly @ Turning the Pages
It was my first one about sprites too. It is a very good read. I loved the different twist on the faeries. Thanks for the kind comment. Thanks for visiting Miss Kimberly.
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