REREAD: JULY 2022Rise of the Iliri is one of my favourite series, and I couldn’t resist doing a reread after spotting that the author has released updated and extended editions of all the books. Rise of the Iliri is an epic high fantasy story that features Salryc Luxx, a rare pure breed Iliri, former slave and army conscript as the main character. Sal has signed herself up for trials to join the Black Blades - an elite special ops unit for the Conglomerate of Free Citizens.I still think this is ...

1.5 Why did you have to be a bad read?! WHY!!!I fell in love with the idea of this series as soon as I read the blurb and saw that there are so many books out, with so many pages each. What more can you want, right?And then I started reading.The first 30% were pretty good, they felt promising, but then Sal's trials ended and we got the actual beginning of the story. Everything felt so rushed and not natural. I felt like I skipped a few (hundred) pages. Sal did some things that were definitely no...

DNF @ 40%Salryc is so smart and amazing at everything, even though she's an Iliri and a woman. Except she acts like an inept teenager who only thinks she's smart because people keep telling her she is.The Blades are supposed to be an elite military squad. They act more like frat boys, especially when they constantly dress Salryc up in ultra feminine, revealing clothing, ogle the crap out of her, and hit on her relentlessly.Every Iliri has a special power. Salryc just so happens to figure out and...

Why write a story with no character development? What is the use of that? There is no fun in starting a story where the main character is instantly good at everything, and that's what Sal is. She is challenged to a sparing match by the WEAPONS MASTER of the black blades, the one only their commanding officer can beat in a fight... and she WINS. She discovers her shapeshifting power late in the evening by herself in her room and MASTERS it that night, able to even hold a shape while sleeping. She...

Omg! what a ride could not put this book down, absolutely loved everything about it.

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Reread number 18 or so ...although I can't bring myself to finish the series (I hate the plot towards the end...) I still can't help reading the first books over and over. I love Sal and Jase. 😍Sal, kick-as heroine, only the kick-ass comes later. At first she is reserved and tries not to get too close to the humans on her planet. Not to attract attention is the motto. But she is looking for a place in this world where she can have something like freedom and respect. She joins the Black Blades, ...

I know people read reviews to see if they should read the book so here's mine and I hope it convinces you. Yes this is an RH book, but it's majorly slow burn and it worms it's way into your to the point you are thinking like an Iliri and believe it's natural (plus the guys are amazing). There is some sex in it but it's not like "Oh I'm gonna stop everything I am doing no matter how important and go have crazy sex". The sex scenes are also not detailed the way some other books detail the sex scen...

I'm confused .........as to what everyone else read because the main character seemed to not necessarily have a personality, but instead was a surrogate to further the action in the book, which I found myself not caring about because I had a hard time caring about the main character. ALSO I feel like I was maybe not living for the book because it seemed like in order to lift up the very white protagonist, who was oppressed in a large part because of her skin color. But the language to contrast h...

I've been on something of an Auryn Hadley kick lately as some of her books just really hit the spot for me. This one was odd because it felt a lot less mature than the others I've read and yet it is published more recently than they were. I wonder if this was pulled out of hiding and polished up and published? Pure speculation, but I'm having a hard time reconciling that less-mature feeling.The biggest weakness is that I had to stuff a lot of things under my "give a story its premise" umbrella. ...

Full review to follow, but, in short, I am heavily on the fence with this one. 29/08/2017Ok , now , let me explain the "on the fence" thing. This is a list of things that irritated me in this book- some are minor and some are not:• It really annoyed me how often everyone giggles, and that includes men (alternatives: sneer, titter, snort, guffaw, snigger, chuckle – pick one or all , but please stop men from giggling)• The vagueness and scarceness of the world-building and historic background - th...