Showing posts with label Anna Banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anna Banks. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Ally (Nemesis #2) by Anna Banks (Review)

        The second instalment in the Nemesis series, Ally takes off from where Nemesis left off. Trying to stop a war that would kill so many innocent people, Sepora and Tarik must work together, despite their rough history to save everybody. While this is happening, Tarik is trying to find any way to get both his kingdom and the heart of Sepora. Sepora is trying her best to cure the disease plaguing Tarik's kingdom, without revealing her powers, making herself a powerful and dangerous target.
        Ally was good, but not amazing. I found it was fun to read with its magic and many realms, but it definitely did not have the same spark as book one did. I still really like Sepora. She is a determined, intelligent and generously kind hearted. Tarik was also a good character, but again he was just not as intriguing as he was in the first novel. The plot of this novel kept to a pretty steady pace, but there were not many twists and turns to spice things up throughout the novel. That was prominent in the first novel. We just kept learning new exciting things everywhere throughout the story, but in Ally there were less new plot developments or magical moments. Although there was one really exciting and big plot twist that was engaging to read. Overall, I did like Ally and give it the rating of FOUR OUT OF FIVE STARS!!!
*Advanced Readers Copy Review*

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Nemesis (Nemesis #1) by Anna Banks (Review)

    Addicting, romantic and wonderfully creative, Nemesis throws readers into a wonderful magical world that seems to contain a fun hodgepodge of different environments varying from ancient Egypt to medieval times. In this world Princess Sepora is running away from her evil tyrant of a father to prevent a major and violent war. During her escape she is thrust into the royal court of the Pharaoh Tarik, a kind you ruler of an opposing kingdom, and things grow more and more complicated as she tries to help his people from within his court without revealing her own secret powers.
     I loved Nemesis! Its amazing storytelling and fantastic character development had me engaged from page one. I loved both Sepora and Tarik infinitely. Sepora is an honourable, strong and intelligent character that is both emotionally deep and not whinny. That is a combo I have noticed to be surprisingly hard to come by in young adult novels. Tarik is a gentile, wise and intense romantic lead that takes the big and un-relatable challenge of ruling a kingdom at 18 and makes it something believable to readers from this century. On top of those two, there was a whole host of characters that just enriched the story along side them. Surround that with the amazingly engaging plot and you have an amazing book. I definitely recommend Nemesis and give it the rating of FIVE OUT OF FIVE STARS!

*Advanced Readers Copy Review*