Welcome to my stop. I hope you enjoy my thoughts on a book I ended up adoring.
Series: Mark of Nexus #1
Publication: March 7th 2013
by Sapphire Star Publishing
Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance
Synopsis:
When college student Rena Collins finds herself nose-to-chest with the campus outcast, her rumor-laced notions are shattered. Handsome, considerate, and seemingly sane, Wallace Blake doesn’t look like he spends his nights alone, screaming and banging on the walls of his dorm room. Hell, he doesn’t look like he spends his nights alone, period.
Too curious for her own good, Rena vows to uncover the truth behind Wallace’s madman reputation--and how two seconds of contact had left her with bruises. Of course, there are a few setbacks along the way: guilt, admiration, feelings of the warm and fuzzy variety…
Not to mention the unwanted attention of Wallace's powerful, supernaturally-gifted family.
They’re a bloodline divided by opposing ideals, two soon-to-be warring factions that live in secret among us. When Rena ends up caught in their crossfire, Wallace has no choice but to save her by using his powers. Now they’re really in trouble. With war on the horizon and Rena’s life in the balance, he needs to put some distance between them. But Rena won’t let go. If fighting is what it takes to prove her own strength and keep Wallace in her life, then that’s what she’ll do--even if it means risking a whole lot more than her heart.
When college student Rena Collins finds herself nose-to-chest with the campus outcast, her rumor-laced notions are shattered. Handsome, considerate, and seemingly sane, Wallace Blake doesn’t look like he spends his nights alone, screaming and banging on the walls of his dorm room. Hell, he doesn’t look like he spends his nights alone, period.
Too curious for her own good, Rena vows to uncover the truth behind Wallace’s madman reputation--and how two seconds of contact had left her with bruises. Of course, there are a few setbacks along the way: guilt, admiration, feelings of the warm and fuzzy variety…
Not to mention the unwanted attention of Wallace's powerful, supernaturally-gifted family.
They’re a bloodline divided by opposing ideals, two soon-to-be warring factions that live in secret among us. When Rena ends up caught in their crossfire, Wallace has no choice but to save her by using his powers. Now they’re really in trouble. With war on the horizon and Rena’s life in the balance, he needs to put some distance between them. But Rena won’t let go. If fighting is what it takes to prove her own strength and keep Wallace in her life, then that’s what she’ll do--even if it means risking a whole lot more than her heart.
My Thoughts
Every girl needs a superhero and Strength introduces you to a reluctant one.
Strength has to be one of the most gorgeously romantic superhero type novels that I've read for ages. I simply adored the tale between Rena and Wallace. It was a story that developed slowly, but in a truly enjoyable way. There was action in this book, but for me, it was the love story that truly hooked me from the beginning.
The hero and the heroine was perfect. Wallace being the outcast, alone because of his supernatural ability, and Rena, the girl who was determined to break down the barriers to be able to be with the man she ended up falling in love with. Strength was no insta-love story, but a carefully woven love story that had you aching to see them together.
But, it was more than that. It was also the way the remaining plot blended into the story as well. There was action and mystery that just had me turning page after page, just to find out what happened next. There was enough of a twist to keep me guessing and although I guess some of bad guys, I didn't suspect the ending.
The pace of the story was just the way I love it. There were no moments where I felt the plot had become stagnant or dull. The writing flowed and didn't seem awkward at all. I really do enjoy books like that. I liked the different elements and how they blended in a way that made me really love the characters. Their personalities were snarky, sweet, tender - even remorseful. They just made me love the story more.
I'd love to be able to point out things I didn't like about it, but I couldn't. I just enjoyed the story too much.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys paranormal romance that doesn't include fantasy creatures, because this book didn't.
Now for my rating:-
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Carrie daydreamed her way through college—until they thrust a marketing degree into her hands, slapped a summa cum laude seal on the corner, and booted her out into a less-than-stellar job market. Instead of panicking at the prospect of unemployment, she used her Midwestern logic to steer into the skid and point her life in the direction she really wanted to go: writing out those daydreams.
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