The most important rule for an Apprentice Consul is simple: Don’t get involved with daemons. Well, Piper is planning to break that rule — big time.
After a near-deadly scandal with the Sahar Stone, she has the chance to return to the only life she’s ever wanted. All she has to do to keep her Apprenticeship is forget about Ash and Lyre. Ash might be enigmatic and notoriously lethal, and Lyre … and Lyre might be as sinfully irresistible as he is irritating, but they’re not bad for a couple of daemons.
There’s just one problem: Ash is missing.
Really, she shouldn’t risk her future for him. He lied. He betrayed her. But he also saved her life, damn it. Wherever he is, he’s in trouble, and if she doesn’t save his sorry butt, who will? But with every dangerous secret she unravels, each one darker than the last, she slips deeper into Ash’s world — a world with no escape for either of them.
The Steel & Stone Series:
Book 1: CHASE THE DARK
Book 2: BIND THE SOUL
Book 3: YIELD THE NIGHT
Book 3.5: FEED THE FLAMES
Book 4: REAP THE SHADOWS
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This book was better than the first one! It was fast paced and had some very steamy moments between Piper and Ash. I didn’t think that Piper could get into any more scary situations, but she does and it’s always a wonder how she gets out of it.
This is giving me a heart attack!!! Really, action packed, twist and turns, planning, escaping, surviving, dieing, fighting, oh my! This book has everything, except a dull moment, so one might get some sleep.
I love how they’re always doing what’s right, and not what they want and that it always feels so real. This author is so amazingly good!
One wild ride. Lots of plot twists and action. A hiss worthy villain. Love Piper, she never gives up. I highly recommend this series.
Annette Marie is the proverbial pot of gold: an author who consistently delivers high quality well written, well edited, grammatically correct, original, entertaining stories. She invites you into her worlds and you never want to leave.
Every time I finish one of her books, my first thought is to read it again, to savor the characters, their development, and their relationships. The relationships developed in her books, both friendships and romantic, develop gradually, revealing layers and connections that strengthen over time. She creates people, not tropes.
Her plots are strong, complex, and keep you riveted. The worlds she creates are internally consistent and vividly imagined.
I realize this is a generic sort of review, but I plan to leave it for all her books. From the Red Winter series (mythic Japan); to the Steel & Stones series, including Piper and Ash, and the Lyre and Clio books; and the Guild Codex series, now including the Robin Piper demon-training: I have yet to find anything less than pure enjoyment, and great respect for her talent.
WOW!!! I was pulled in from the beginning! Fabulous fantasy world, I absolutely love this series of books, the action starts straight away, and the characters are well defined early on and blossom throughout the series, you can feel the tension building between the main characters and each book always leaves you wanting more. The sub plots plus twists and turns keep you surprised and intrigued. Be warned though once you start reading this series you won’t be able to put the books down so be prepared for some binge reading.
Things get so much more interesting in the second book of the Steel & Stone series!
What I liked
I loved that we delved in even more to the characters. We got to see so much more of their past and their inner selves. The character building just keeps getting better with this series!
I love how much the characters are evolving. They are becoming so much closer. We are seeing more than one side to the characters. Their relationships are sprouting into something beautiful.
I love the way that Piper and Ash are coming together. They seem so perfect for each other, and in other ways not at all. I am so curious to see what becomes of them. I am so rooting for them!
The plot is getting so complex! There are so many little things that are coming together from the first book. We are getting glimpses of things that make us see the bigger picture. The story is so well thought out and comes together nicely as the series progresses.
What I didn’t like
As with the first book, I have no complaints about this book! I loved every moment!
Would I Recommend It
YES. YES. YES. Get this series now and thank me tomorrow. This series really is amazing. I haven’t felt this passionate about a book or a series in a long time. I can’t wait to finish the next book!
Title: Bind the Soul (Steel & Stone #2)
Author: Annette Marie
Publisher: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc
Amount of Pages: 304
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Date Read: 28-04-2018
Favorite Quote: “Death is easy. Living is difficult.”
Review:
I liked this book. I can tell that the plot is slowly starting to develop in this one and the ending proved that to me. i think things will really start to go in the next few books.
Lyre and Ash are still my favorite characters in this book. Piper is showing improvement haha. She is still struggling with accepting her new world and views but she’s getting there. It wouldn’t be realistic if she just accepted it over night. So I understand but it still got on my nerves at some points.
What is this book about:
In this book we see Piper trying to get back to her old live. It isn’t as easy as Piper would have thought. She is worried about Ash, especially after the news that he’s missing. Even though she should stay out of it, she can’t help but want to help him.
Together with Lyre she’s trying to find Ash, and when they pin point his location it increases their worry. Piper is set on saving him though and goes to the underworld to find him and save him from the Hades family.
But the Ash she finds isn’t the Ash she knew. He is being tortured, more than usually. And not only that, Piper proved herself to be very interesting to the Hades family, for she is the only one that showed capability into using the Sahar, a deadly powerful stone. The Hades family ( I forgot the dudes name) is willing to do whatever to gain control over Piper and therefor the Sahar by any means necessary.
What did I like about this book
I loved learning more about Ash and his past. Why he does some of the things he does.
I liked that Piper showed some more backbone. Going against her fathers orders and doing what she thing’s is wright.
I like seeing the friendship and banter between Ash, Lyre and Piper.
That cliffhanger made me want to rush into reading the third book! Its starting to get really good!
Rating:
4 1/2 I loved it Stars