Wolves & Roses
Christina Bauer
(Fairy Tales of the Magicorum #1)
Published by: Monster House Books
Publication date: October 31st 2017
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
“If Janet Evanovich teamed with a young adult, fairy-tale author like Marissa Meyer (the Lunar Chronicles) or Alex Flinn (Beastly), the result might be something like Christina Bauer’s Wolves and Roses.” –Blue Ink Review
Seventeen-year-old Bryar Rose has a problem. She’s descended from one of the three magical races—shifters, fairies, or witches. That makes her one of the Magicorum, and Magicorum always follow a fairy tale life template. In Bryar’s case, that template should be Sleeping Beauty.
“Should” being the key word.
Trouble is, Bryar is nowhere near the sleeping beauty life template. Not even close. She doesn’t like birds or woodland creatures. She can’t sing. And she certainly can’t stand Prince Philpot, the so-called “His Highness of Hedge Funds” that her aunties want her to marry. Even worse, Bryar’s having recurring dreams of a bad boy hottie and is obsessed with finding papyri from ancient Egypt. What’s up with that?
All Bryar wants is to attend a regular high school with normal humans and forget all about shifters, fairies, witches, and the curse that Colonel Mallory the Magnificent placed on her. And she might be able to do just that–if only she can just keep her head down until her eighteenth birthday when the spell that’s ruined her life goes buh-bye.
But that plan gets turned upside down when Bryar Rose meets Knox, the bad boy who’s literally from her dreams. Knox is a powerful werewolf, and his presence in her life changes everything, and not just because he makes her knees turn into Jell-O. If Bryar can’t figure out who—or what—she really is, it might cost both her and Knox their lives… as well as jeopardize the very nature of magic itself.
FAIRY TALES OF THE MAGICORUM
1. Wolves And Roses (Fall 2017)
1.5. Moonlight And Midtown (Spring 2018)
2. Shifters And Glyphs (Fall 2018)
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My Review:
A young girl Bryar Rose is a Magicorum and all Magicorum
have a life template they must follow and Bryar’s life template is sleeping
beauty. But Bryar doesn’t live up to her life template so she must attend this
special school for people who don’t live up to their life templates.
At this school Bryar meets her best friend Cinderella or
Elle who like Bryar has secrets of her own. Elle is a very talented con artist who must
hide out from her stepfamily. If Elle meets up with her stepfamily or they find
her it could cause her a world of problems. Bryar and Elle become best friends
who have each other’s backs always no questions asked.
Bryar has these episodes where she will fall asleep standing
on her feet if it were not for her inhaler. Bryar was raised by her three
aunties who make this special medicine for her to keep her from falling asleep.
Bryar’s three aunties want Bryar to marry prince Philpot but
Bryar Rose wants no part of this prince but the thing is she has to fake it until
her eighteenth birthday which is just right around the corner and then she will
be home free. She won’t have to listen to her aunts anymore or anyone else for
that matter. She will be free as a bird to live her life as she wants and that
is a normal human with no magical powers.
Bryar meets the man of her dreams literally a man that she
has been dreaming about her whole life. Knox is a werewolf who wants to protect
Bryar from the moment he lays eyes on her. Whenever Bryar is around him her
legs don’t seem to want to support her any longer. Knox is one hot dude that
will make your tongue come out and slap your brains out.
Oh man I don’t know what to say about Wolves & Roses
except that I fell hard and fast for the world the author created in Wolves
& Roses and all the characters as well or most of them anyways there were a
few that I didn’t care for much. From the very beginning I was drawn in and I
couldn’t get enough of Wolves & Roses I fell asleep trying to devour this
one, oh yeah. And that ending was awesome but it did leave me wanting more
which is what a good story will do. Yes, I can’t wait to read the next book
Shifters and Glyphs in the Fairy Tales of the Magicorum series.
I would recommend Wolves & Roses to anyone who loves
fairy tales.
Author Bio:
Christina Bauer knows how to tell stories about kick-ass women. In her best selling Angelbound series, the heroine is a part-demon girl who loves to fight in Purgatory’s Arena and falls in love with a part-angel prince. This young adult best seller has driven more than 500,000 ebook downloads and 9,000 reviews on Goodreads and retailers.
Bauer has also told the story of the Women’s March on Washington by leading PR efforts for the Massachusetts Chapter. Her pre-event press release—the only one sent out on a major wire service—resulted in more than 19,000 global impressions and redistribution by over 350 different media entities including the Associated Press.
Christina graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School with BA’s in English along with Television, Radio, and Film Production. She lives in Newton, MA with her husband, son, and semi-insane golden retriever, Ruby.
1 comments:
Great review, Nancy! I like how addicting and well developed this sounds!
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