After being found, inexplicably, standing over a brutal scene involving a pair of recent murder victims, Jade comes to in a hospital with limited memories. Labeled as paranoid by the seedy medical team and locked up, she seems more a victim than a deviant. Promptly drugged and plunged into sleep, she is submerged into a chronic dreamland that seems controlled by another, she soon gives in to a … lavish life with a Malum who seems all too eager to see to her every desire. She awakes in yet another reality with no memories of her past, or even herself. Something is making her forget… and just like that she steps into her new life.
Malum is deeply in love with Jade and is only agenda is to give her the world… Or so he claims. Blindly followed by his people, the Luxans, he works tirelessly to keep them safe from the Rebels, with Jade by his side. Surely his motives are pure… yet, the more time Jade spends with him, the further she seems to fall from herself.
All the while, Jade is plagued by vivid dreams of another life… one she struggles to understand while Malum works to make her forget. As Jade struggles to hold onto her soul and discover her past, Malum seeks to possess all that she is.
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Lux by MJ Vieira is a wonderful story that I have read and fell in love with. This is book number one in this wonderful start to a brand new series writen by a brand new author for me and I fell so in love with this new series.I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves reading about general fantasy and Sci-Fi stories.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Wow. Wow wow wow.
The opening like just has me – IN. So in. The next few lines, as if I weren’t already invested – seal the deal. I’m a fan of the main character and dying to know what is going on in this book before I even know whose head it is that I am in! Seriously impressive writing skills at work here. Amazingly, it still manages to go up hill from there.
It’s Jade, as it turns out. She might be insane… or she might just be extremely self aware and too honest for most people to handle… I’ll let you decide. I’ll also let you decide for yourself whether her values are questionable… or she’s just lost.
This read has some paranormal/fantasty-esq. situations that are made completely plausible. It has romance – real, I-feel-it-in-my-chest romance, sex scenes that manage to be hot and not the same as all the erotica out there, and glorious action, complete with hand-to-hand combat fight scenes. It’s fast-paced and hard to put down. When I did put it down I missed it and found myself wondering what the characters were doing!
One thing that really stood out for me reading this novel was Viera’s descriptions. She manages to paint a perfect picture in my head of people, places, surroundings, fights, etc. without being wordy and with ‘real world’ language and brilliant analogies. Many times I actually had to stop and just admire this analogy or that visual – completely, utterly brilliant. This reads as if Viera is a natural writer and she just has to keep it up – writing like this makes the world a better place.
I’m always picking apart the books I read, but this book was very well written, didn’t leave me with a million questions and was thoroughly enjoyable! I’m dying to read the next book in the series… If you want a book that will truly wrap you up in the characters and take you away for your book escape, then look no further. One author I’m going to keep an eye on right here!
CAPTIVATING IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT – This book had me glued to my seat, turning the pages, excited for what was next. Non stop mind blowing action as Jade (with no memories she can trust) tries desperately to figure out what was real. what was lies, and just who and what she really is. And it seems there is a struggle for power going on that will decide the fate of humanity….. Jade (captain of the kings guard) begins to question if she’s fighting for the right side as she learns some things from the opposing warrior, Jager (why is he so familiar to her?) that makes her start to doubt the Kings intentions which puts her in a dangerous position seeing’s how King Malum is also a demon who is hell bent on making Jade his queen. …. but Jade is about to come into her own and things get real….. really fast, especially when help comes from a totally unexpected source but the truth of it is in the next installment. The one thing I’m absolutely sure of is this is gearing up to become the ultimate love story.