{Blog Tour Review} The Circle of Tivedon by Ryan Shorten

Series: The Circle of Tivedon #1

Publication Date: October 12, 2012

Publisher: CreateSpace

ISBN-13: 9781479138753

Summary

Jayl and Myah's year at Tivedon should have been the time for them to create alliances and learn the skills needed to be the great successors and bring glory to their lands. A time to learn about life outside their precious homes, expand their knowledge in culture and dominate all the skills they could in a year.

But their time in Tivedon will be cut short when the evil that arouse the Silent War rises once again, not only to invade Tivedon but to shock Tiertyn  to its very core. Alliances are made, friends are separated, hasty decisions are made and people are betrayed.

Can Tiertyn avoid a second Silent War? is the circle of Tivedon ready for what the old evil has in stored for them? Will the young students be able to fufill the future that is fast approaching?

Review

I am not going to lie to you from the moment I started this book there was feeling of connection, like a person you just met that you know you are going to get along. And yes I did enjoy the book it was interesting to see how the war is starting to hit Tiertyn, how such young people must now accept their destiny and play their part in a war far bigger then themselves.
Now the fact that I enjoyed this story and would like to see what the author will have install doesn't mean there weren't any flaws. There was this gap that kept you guessing, why do they send their kids to be educated for a year to Tivedon? Was it because of the Silent War? is it tradition? The fact that we didn't get an explanation bugged me to no end.
The characters where ok, but they didn't have the full impact you get when you are really feel for the character, when you worry, get angry and scared with him/her. Those are the only thing I would hope to see Ryan Shorten work for his second book.

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Dust by Devon Ashley

Series: Of Dust and Darkness #1

Publication Date: September 12, 2012

Publisher: Self Published
ISBN-13: 9781475191103

Synopsis

4. The number of times my delicate wings have been broken and clamped behind my back.
68. The number inked upon my skin, marking me the sixty-eighth pixie to be stolen.
87. The number of days I've been wrongfully imprisoned.
88. The first day the faeries will regret stealing me.

After discovering what her peers think of her Rosalie gets stolen away to work as a slave, now she has to work in the process of producing pixie dust. Cooping with her new life and forgetting the old is hard for her specially when the last words she heard from a fellow pixie was that they expected her to leave them any day now and that they did't expected her to look back. 
Now working from dusk to dawn Rosalie must stay strong and fight to keep her sanity, no matter what problems she must face she must always be strong for Juniper, Willow, Poppie and all the pixies trapped down there with her.