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The Silver Queen by Josie Jaffrey
Hi all! Sorry for the silence! I can’t remember if I updated readers that I was expecting last summer so…surprise! I had twin boys about a year ago now. I have been working on getting the mom thing down and now that my little ones are a little more independent, I have been able to pick up a book more often (not much more I am afraid). I cannot fan girl over Ms. Jaffrey enough and so I thought I would start with her second installment of the Sovereign Series to get me back in the groove. I was not disappointed!
I received an ARC or review copy of this book from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.
Title: The Silver Queen
Author: Josie Jaffrey
Series: Sovereign 02
Publish Date: October 17 2018
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal , Fantasy
Source: Provided by author
Publisher’s Description: The last city on Earth is contaminated. Now blood is the only thing that can wash it clean.
Julia is trapped inside the Blue as the Nobles fight over the few humans who are still alive. When the dust settles and she finds herself shackled to a new master, she knows she must escape or die.
Meanwhile, Cam has gathered a handful of comrades and is on his way into the Red to rescue his queen. But not all of his friends can be trusted, and not all of them will make it back alive.
The Silver Queen is the second book in Josie Jaffrey’s Sovereign trilogy, set in a dystopian Europe where vampiric Nobles control the last remnants of the human race.
Luna Lovebooks says…
Josie Jaffrey has done it again with another amazing read. It is dark, gritty and filled with devious twists that once again had me wanting to throw the book across the room (trust me this is a good thing)! Ms. Jaffrey brings characters of depth, natural dialogue, expands upon her world building.
I absolutely adore Lucas and Julia! She is tough and isn’t going to let anyone or anything stop her. Even when she faces death not once but twice! He grows over the course of the novel into a powerful young man!
Once again there is a cliff hanger ending that makes you want to rush out and get the next book. Sorry this review is short and sweet but over all I love love love this book. I 
hope I can get to read the last novel in this series (maybe, eventually like when the boys are in college?).
Our reviews in this series…
Other recommendations…
Check out these other reads!
Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, The Morganville Vampires Series by Rachel Caine, Immortal: Love Stories with Bite edited by P.C. Cast
I received an ARC or review copy of this book from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.
The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey
I received an ARC or review copy of this book from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.
Title: The Gilded King
Author: Josie Jaffrey
Series: Book 01 of the Sovereign Series
Publish Date: Expected Publication June25, 2018
Genre: YA Paranormal Fantasy
Source: Provided by Author
Publisher’s Description: In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well.
Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside.
But not everyone in the Blue is human, and not everyone can be contained.
Beyond the city’s boundaries, in the wild forests of the Red, Cameron has precious little humanity left to lose. As he searches for a lost queen, he finds an enemy rising that he thought long dead. An enemy that the humans have forgotten how to fight.
One way or another, the walls of the Blue are coming down. The only question is what side you’ll be on when they do.
Luna Lovebooks says… 
‘Of course. You want to hear the fairytale, don’t you?’
Ms. Jaffrey quickly became one of my favorite authors when I read her Solis Invicti Series. I, of course, jumped at the chance when she asked me if I would be interested in reading the first book in a new series set in the same world, where the events of the Solis Invicti are mere legends and fairy tales. Hey, all fairy tales have a seed of truth right?
Two stories are brilliantly melded into one without shortchanging the other. We read of Julia in the Blue. A world of humans ruled by Nobility in the last city on Earth. Julia is well written in her struggle to keep with the status quo but also her wonder at what really lies beyond the walls of the Blue. This internal battle continues even after she is assigned to be an Attendant for a young Silver named Lucas, who also questions their world.
But we also get to catch up with an old acquaintance, Cam, in the Red – a wasteland filled with death (or so the humans of the Blue believe). Cam searches for Emmy and it is through this search that we learn about the events that happened in between the two series. We also learn that the Red really is a dangerous place as the monsters of the previous series have grown in numbers – but for a horrifying reason.
This tale is told through Julia and Cam’s alternating point of views and when the Red starts to bleed into the Blue and world collide, it is explosive. We get both Cam and Julia’s emotions and insecurities and hopes and maybe even budding romances.
Characters and world are both well written. The only issue I had is that while these are two separate stories, I feel like you really should read the Solis Invicti series before this one. It is not necessary, but I feel like you will get more out of the secondary characters if you have their background and the history behind the fairy tale. Overall I enjoyed this promising new start but I didn’t devour it the way I did the prequel series. I give it 4 silver studs.
Other recommendations…
Solis Invicti Series by Josie Jaffrey, The Lux Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Secret Keepers Series by Jaymin Eve
I received an ARC or review copy of this book from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.
Excerpt From Gilded King By Josie Jaffrey
It is no secret that Josie Jaffrey quickly became one of my favorite authors. I love her vampire novels! So when she asked me to review the first book to her new YA series I jumped at the chance. I am also excited that I get to share a snippet of that with you today! Read on my fellow bookworms and stay tuned for my review!
At the very furthest point of the temple, at the end of the double row of pillars that processed towards it, there was a pedestal mounted on a stepped dais. A figure was laid out on top of it. For a moment, Julia froze, thinking it was a real person lying there, slumbering in the temple, but something didn’t fit.
The figure wasn’t breathing. It wasn’t moving at all.
‘Come on,’ Lucas said, leading her down the aisle towards it.
‘Is it a statue?’ she asked.
‘A tomb, really.’
As they walked, he snuffed out the lamps that lined the walls, until finally the only illumination came from the rounded alcove into which the dais rose. It was a bright island in the centre of the darkness, and in the middle of it the statue shone: a man, wearing fine clothing in an unfamiliar style, with a blanket of stone covering his body. His exposed skin was tinged with a sheen of gold that glowed like the walls of the temple.
‘He looks so real,’ she said, reaching out to touch the golden curls that crowned his head. They were slick under her fingers, so intricate they might have been moulded from a real person.
‘They say he was.’
‘You mean this is his coffin?’ The pedestal certainly looked like a tomb. It was wide and deep enough to accommodate a body.
‘No,’ Lucas said, ‘I mean that this is him, that this statue was once alive.’
Julia’s hand had been tracing the lines of the face, but now she snatched it away. ‘You’re not serious.’
‘I am.’
‘This is why you brought me here,’ she said.
‘Of course. You want to hear the fairytale, don’t you?’
The Price of Silver by Josie Jaffrey
FTC Notice: This book was provided free in exchange for an honest review. This is no way impacts my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Title: The Price of Silver
Author: Josie Jaffrey
Series: Solis Invicti Book 02
Publish Date: October 31, 2015
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy
Source: Provided by the author
Publisher’s Description: In the straits of necessity, sometimes there isn’t room for freedom.
The Price of Silver is the second book in Josie Jaffrey’s Solis Invicti paranormal romance series, set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic London where a deadly infection threatens to wipe out humanity. The only people who can stem its advance are the Silver, a vampiric race who offer a simple exchange: protection in return for blood and subservience.
Emmy is fenced in by the city, the walls marking the edge of safety closing in around her and sealing her in with one vampire who loves her and another who wants her dead. As she struggles to keep herself and the people she cares about alive, her fellow humans chafe against their enforced submission, and it becomes clear that there are bigger schemes and greater deceptions in play than she had ever imagined.
All the while, the monsters wait outside the barricades for their moment. Of one thing she is certain: without the help of the Silver, the humans won’t be safe for long.
Possible spoilers beyond this point.
Luna Lovebooks says…
Likes: I love the way the lines in this novel are blurred. Are the humans just as bad as the Silver? Can the Silver show the same compassion as a human? The world of this novel is no longer black and white. I also love that Emmy questions her place in this new world. She still clings to the old world but after several mishaps forages, a new mindset while maintaining her semi-rebellious attitude. There are plenty of surprises and delicious twists to make readers want to continue reading and continue the series.
Dislikes: There was a lot of going back and forth in this one. Does Emmy love Sol or does she love Drew? Are her feelings nothing more than an effect of the Brand? While I do understand her dilemma, it got tiresome after awhile.
Overall I loved this book as much as the first and can’t wait to read the next installment, leaving me to give this book four stars as well.
Our reviews in this series…
- A Bargain in Silver, Book 01
- The Price of Silver, Book 02
- Bound in Silver, Book 03
- The Silver Bullet, Book 04
If you like this book…
Here are more vampire novels for your enjoyment! Impure: Resurrection by J. R. Bailey; Enter, Night by Michael Rowe; Blood Vice by Keith Melton
FTC Notice: This book was provided free in exchange for an honest review. This is no way impacts my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Bound in Silver by Josie Jaffrey
I received an ARC of this book from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.
Title: Bound In Silver
Author: Josie Jaffrey
Series: Solis Invicti, Book 03
Publish Date: May 22, 2016
Genre: Post-apocalyptic urban fantasy
Source: Provided by the publisher
Publisher’s Description: If you’re living against the clock, try not to do it in a cage.
Exiled from the city and from the affections of the vampire who had loved her, Emmy finds herself pushed into a captivity she never expected to experience. With the bond to her former protector broken, she knows that the chance to turn Silver is now a monstrous obligation rather than a glittering opportunity.
In an unfamiliar place among unfamiliar people, Emmy feels deserted by those Silver she had thought of as friends, out of sight and out of mind. If only her enemies were equally forgetful.
Bound in Silver is the penultimate book in Josie Jaffrey’s Solis Invicti paranormal romance quadrilogy, set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic London where a deadly infection threatens to wipe out humanity. The only people who can stem its advance are the Silver, a vampiric race who offer a simple exchange: protection in return for blood and subservience.
Possible spoilers beyond this point.
Luna Lovebooks says…
Likes: What can I say? This series has made me a fan girl! I love the world. I love the premise. I love the characters! Jaffrey has quickly become a must-read author with the crazy world of the Solis Invicti. It is filled with heartache and surprises and an ending that will make you want to hurl the book across the room shouting “You ended it there????” (Or maybe that was just me.) I am rooting for both Sol and Drew even though they aren’t really featured in this story until the end.
Dislikes: I dislike all of the love triangles. It seems that almost every male in this series falls in love with Emmy and I was disappointed that Oliver does as well. I was also a little disappointed that I figured out right away that Sol had Silvered for Emmy with the clues from the second novel and was both elated disappointed to have my suspicions confirmed.
Rarely is a sequel better than the first, but this five fang rating is based solely on the last chapter of the book! I was serious about the jaw dropping and the wanting to throw my nook across the room! I devoured the Casting ritual and the revelation and all the action that followed including the cliffhanger ending!
Our reviews in this series…
- A Bargain in Silver, Book 01
- The Price of Silver, Book 02
- Bound in Silver, Book 03
- The Silver Bullet, Book 04
If you like this book…
…you might try Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King, or Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
I received an ARC of this bbook from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.
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