Book One of The Chalcedony ChroniclesA clean college/new adult time travel romance.Everyone has a past, but for most it isn’t so far in the past as Seth Sangre. His past is literally from thousands of years ago. Seth’s past led him to the present seeking something that might help him save his country from destruction. He has been in the present for over three years now, and he just found exactly … found exactly what he has been looking for.
Mari had dreams of college being a fresh start, one where she would start over and not fall for the good looking player like high school. Unfortunately for her, that’s exactly what ends up falling into her lap on the first day she moves into the dorms. Now she has to hold to her promise to herself not fall for the handsome Seth Sangre. But he doesn’t plan to make it easy for her. Seth has already marked her as his next conquest. As the semester progresses, Mari learns that Seth might just have a past of his own that’s literally in the past. Suddenly, Mari finds her future along with her past put into question. She’s connected to Seth far more than she ever wanted to be, and maybe he isn’t the player who she thought he was. If Mari can trust her heart enough to follow him, Seth will lead Mari on an adventure of a lifetime-and reveal family secrets she never knew existed.
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I read this to remind me of my college days some 40 years ago. Only this had a great twist I never had in college. A book for the younger set but still a fun entertaining read for me.
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Seems more like a young adult book to me, based on a college freshman.
Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael is an excellent book about starting life at college with the touch of romance and time travel.
Will Seth and Mari be able to figure out a way to be together?
Marcella Navina
Marcella Navina is our main character and only point of view character. Mari, as she would instead be called, is going to college for her first year and is rather excited about it. She catches the eye, well more of the head, of the one and only Seth Sangre. He plays football and is the star quarterback. There is a lot that happens in this book, and one of them is the fact that Mari, as a character, grows. She does that by letting Seth get close to her, and Mari does that from how well she plays at CRUSH. A dorm building competition that brings normalcy to the story as a regular thing at that happens at some colleges the first semester.
I think in a different life we could be friends. We both love reading paranormal young adult books, and we are both morning people. Another thing that I like about Mari is that she knows what she doesn’t want to happen again while her heart thinks otherwise. There isn’t much that I don’t like about her.
Seth Sangre
Even though the little bit of Seth that we see before we are in Mari’s perspective is the short prologue at the beginning, Seth, after that point, is a sophomore in college and is helplessly trying to figure out who he is looking for to help him. At first, he seems like a player, but he isn’t. Seth has also seen that he needs to go slow with Mari, which is something that I love about him doing. Seth and Mari are cute together, and I liked seeing their relationship blossom out of the friendship that they started. I just hope that good things can happen with these two.
What I like about Seth is that he wants to prove himself to Mari and make her see that he is right for her. Another that I like about Seth is how protective he is despite the time gap because there are so many reasons why but some of them contain spoilers, but he just doesn’t want anything wrong to happen to her. There isn’t much that I dislike about him either.
The Time Travel
The time travel part of the book is a big spoiler part, but you would never guess Mari’s connection. I thought that I assumed right, but I was blown away by how wrong I was. Now I have more questions as to what will happen in the next book.
Five Stars
Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael is the first book I have read by this fantastic author, and her writing style already hooks me. I think with this book, just having a first-person point of view and having that be Mari was a fantastic choice. The reason for that is because she is new to this and is maybe more connected to it then what both her and Seth think. I am now going to have to wait until September at the latest to pick this series back up. I am giving this book five stars and recommending it to anyone that wants to read it.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from the author. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael.
Until the next time,
Karen the Baroness
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When you open a book, you are introduced to new characters that may join your life for the remainder of the book; sometimes longer. Mari is a bewildering gal who still finds ways to grab hold of some life and make it her own.
It was Ok but a little too wordy and you have to buy the second book to find out how it turns out-which I really don’t like since I didn’t think the first one was good enough to get the second.
I absolutely love it! It just seemed like there would never be any chance for them, and then her whole viewpoint shifted. It was extremely satisfying.
love it
I like time travel books but this book was just lacking something. It started off very slow before it finally got into the plot.
I loved it. It was an interesting read
Middle school
It starts off a bit slowly, but once I got into this book, I couldn’t put it down. As soon as I finished this one, I had to get the next one in the series to see what happened next. I’ve now read all 4 books in the series (thankful for instant availability of e-books so that I didn’t have to wait), and I enjoyed each one more than the last. There were many unexpected twists and turns, and the characters evolved as the series continued. I highly recommend the whole series to fantasy fans.
I liked this book so much I bought the series
Honestly I didn’t even make it through this book. It just wasn’t there for me. I was disappointed that it just never left the ground for me.
The book brought me back to my college years, it’s good for late teens or young adult. The story is quite flowing, easy to read but yet leaving the unexpected turn to follow in the next book in the end.
Great time-travel romance book, it was a real page-turner. The characters were very believable and I kept checking out facts on Wikipedia. The author did the research to make the book factual but still time traveling. Would make a great movie.
Easy fun read! Author can get repetitive at times but enjoyable storyline with a new take on time-traveling romance!
Have been laughing and enjoying this book from the get go.
Three fourth of the way into the story, I lost interest. Still trying to finish it.
I ended up reading the series. The author did exceptional work in the story line and keeping everything flowing.