If there is one lesson I’ve been taught in my life, it’s that fairies are the absolute worst.Finding a fledgling succubus in Faerie is like locating a needle inside a realm-sized haystack. With a guide I can’t trust and a goal more ephemeral than smoke, my odds of success are tenuous at best. Not to mention, as the last Elemental in existence, I have a giant target painted on my back.Because one … back.
Because one half of Faerie wants me dead, and the other half wants to use me as a sacrifice to open the gates to Earth. But I swore I would find my quarry, and I will. Even if I have to rip the entire realm apart to do it.
There is a storm coming to Faerie. And that storm is me.
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I love Max once again she kicks a$$ and takes names. Love it!
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Max is still suffering the devastating loss of her sister when she’s hit with the stunning news that not only is Melody alive, but she’s stolen her son Ronan and taken him to Faerie. Max is determined to keep her promise and make sure Melody’s son is safe, so against all objections she and her motley crew head off to Faerie.
For her entire life Max had no real idea of who or what she was. In this penultimate book of the series, she finally finds her answers and so many things that have happened in the past finally start to make sense. This book doesn’t move at the breakneck pace we’re accustomed to with this series. Instead, much of the book deals with Max’s personal growth as she deals with a new revelations , new powers, her relationship with Alistair, and a seemingly impossible mission. Not to worry though, we all know life with Max is never boring and there’s plenty to feast on here despite the slower pace. The last few chapters of the book give us the explosive action we’re used to and lead to a jaw dropping cliffhanger.
As usual, Annie Anderson doesn’t disappoint with Preistess of Storms and Stone and while I’m extremely sad to see this series ending, I can’t wait to see what’s next.
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Annie Anderson continues to give me hours of enjoyment with her books. Max is back (YEAH!) and you just know that some heads are gonna roll!
There is plenty of action, magic, a little romance, and vengeance in this book. When you pick it up, be prepared for a long day or night of reading until you can reach the end. I love this series and will be sorry to see it end, but I also look forward to Max finally getting some well-deserved happiness.
The world building is great, the characters are well-developed and wonderfully written, and the snark that I have come to love is included in abundance. If you haven’t started this series, what are you waiting for?
Annie Anderson continues to give me hours of enjoyment with her books. Max is back (YEAH!) and you just know that some heads are gonna roll!
There is plenty of action, magic, a little romance, and vengeance in this book. When you pick it up, be prepared for a long day or night of reading until you can reach the end. I love this series and will be sorry to see it end, but I also look forward to Max finally getting some well-deserved happiness.
The world building is great, the characters are well-developed and wonderfully written, and the snark that I have come to love is included in abundance. If you haven’t started this series, what are you waiting for?
I love this series so much! We finally get some more answers about Max’s background and boy is it a doozie.
As usual, Max is kicking butt and taking names; but she now has some understanding of her powers and how to use them. Battle scenes do not disappoint and I want the next book now!!! Fairy does not know what has hit them.
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Excellent book. The Max character seems to be on a journey of self-discovery and learns more about herself. There also appears to be a romance blossoming between her and Alistair. Book ends on a cliffhanger which means more is coming. I honestly wish I had read the previous volumes prior to reading this one. I am sure there are some things I may have missed.
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THIS IS BOOK 5 OF THE ROGUE ETHEREAL SERIES. I LOVE THIS SERIES. THE AUTHOR DOES A WONDERFUL JOB ON THE STORY AND THE CHARACTERS. THE STORY PULLS YOU IN AND YOU DON’T WANT TO PUT DOWN AND I LOVE THE CHARACTERS. I CANT WAIT FOR BOOK 6 AND HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SERIES.
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This is the fifth book in the series and they must be read in order. It seems that Max can’t catch a break. She has always thought she was a rogue witch. Then learned that she was part demon. Now she has learned she is neither. She is fae. Her glammer has been removed. She made a promise to Melody to protect her son. Someone has taken the boy. In fact it was Melody herself or at least that is what someone wants them to think. Max must now go to faery and rescue Melody and her son. Things are about to get even more interesting for Max. I loved this book. I couldn’t put it down once I started. Max is fantastic. Though it seems she never really gets to take a break. Her and her team are going to face some difficult things on this journey. Max is going to learn more about herself as well. This is a fantastic book and I can’t wait for the next one. I can’t say enough about this series and highly recommend it.
Max is back and she’s even better than before. I think you could read this as a standalone but you’ll miss all the backstory so I highly recommend reading all the books, in order.
Max is a world unto herself. She’s fast to act and she’s made a promise that she’ll keep even though everyone tells her it’s a BAD idea. But she always keeps her word so she and her friends enter Faerie where she has more enemies than friends.
Fast paced action. You’ll read it in one sitting because you won’t be able to put it down. Max is perfectly imperfect. She’s learning as she goes and she’s more powerful than she knows. That doesn’t mean she won’t fall down but she always gets back up and makes the bad guys sorry. I am eagerly awaiting the next book. While there isn’t a hard cliffhanger, we are definitely left wanting the rest of the story. Highly recommended.
Priestess of Storms & Stone by Annie Anderson is an amazing story that I have read. This is book number five in this amazing series that I have loved reading and can not wait for the next book. I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves reading about fantasy.
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This was a great book. It’s book 5 of the series and I’ve really enjoyed following Max’s journey! She is bad ass.
In book five of the Rogue Ethereal series we learn more about Max’s backstory in this page turning read. I loved how strong Max is and her relationship with Alistair is great. They are perfect for each other. This book has it all drama, action, suspense, magic, secrets, twists and a cliffhanger that left me wanting to read the next book asap.
Annie Anderson gives readers an exhilarating ride in Priestess of Storms & Stone (2020) the fifth book in the “Rogue Ethereal” series.
Let me just say though that it is best if you read the earlier books in the series or you will be like me and be “Teresa just grabbed her hands…okay who is Teresa? Good guy or bad guy?” (laugh) (No spoilers here so I am not telling (laugh.)
If you are like me and pick this book up cold you still will not be disappointed as there are magic battles, slap-downs, sarcasm battles, and betrayals. There is some romance, but all of the personal details happen off-page. Anderson concentrates on the quest to save a boy.
There are a lot of fantasy and paranormal characters which is pretty cool. Never mind the types of magic. There is a line that I really like that Max says about thinking that being the first was pretty cool, but being the last kind of sucks. This line really hit with everything going on in the world right now.
Anderson provides the adventure and action to take our minds off the crazy of the outside world, by inviting us to the craziness of Max’s world.
I received an ARC of this book and I am writing a review without prejudice and voluntarily.
I can not get enough of Max, Alistair and their circle. The series keeps getting better and better.
There was a lot of action, suspense and twists as secrets were revealed. I absolutely loved all of it.
I especially love the relationship between Alistair and Max. They make such an amazing team.
I can’t wait for the next book.
Annie Anderson juggles many characters in this series, but this makeshift family has one main thread in common: Max. Whether it’s working with Max, doing things for her best interest, OR trying to make sure she stays alive (it’s mainly this one, lol) never let it be said life is boring!
Max going to Fairie to undertake a highly unrecommended rescue, learning about her powers in fast, dangerous curves, and possible endangering everyone she holds dear… Max brings new meaning to chaos, but darned if I didn’t enjoy her latest adventure!! Snarky banter, action, surprises, back stories that answered a few questions I had…and oh my goodness…Max’s immense emotional growth!!
Thank you, Annie for this book! I stayed up late to finish and LOVED it!
I’m soooo ready for the next book after that wild ending!
After the devastating loss in Hell Max has to pull herself together to get to the bottom of the mystery that is Melody, who is must certainly dead from the first book and how a very dead with her soul moved on and all woman could come back to claim her baby. That can’t be right? Well Max isn’t quite up to her usual Max standards what with grieve still dragging her down and all. But she has her trusty gang of sidekicks to go on an adventure to a place she wanted to visit less than Hell. Max is not down with the fairies whether she may be one or not. Witch, Demon or Fae it don’t matter cause Max is one of a kind and no matter what else happens Max will Max it’s her special superpower and well you know possibly leave a lot of destruction and chaos in her wake but that’s just how things go.
I adore Max I do but her incessant guilt for literally everything drives me nuts. Nope you aren’t at fault for Melody’s untimely death… you aren’t really responsible for her son… you got him sent to a good home that was really all you could have done and really you didn’t get your sister killed. For one thing all Max ever did was try to save/protect her sister if anything what happened to her is their mother’s fault because wasn’t she kidnapped a couple books ago because of pass things involving Mommy dearest and her coven of demon enslavers? Sorry Max dear you really don’t get to be guilty for everything that ever happens to everybody. And Maria made her own choice at the end of the last book isn’t it disrespectful to her memory to be so annoying about it?
Ok complaints done let’s move on…
So Max is now a Fae or was always one but her parents were hiding her and her identity until of course it suddenly became necessary to let the cat out of the bad in the sucky way her parents tend to do things. This new version of Max comes with more power and an unfortunate glow. But new look aside Max is still Max. But she’s determined not to jump into things blindly she wants to figure out what’s going on because she does not want to go to Faerie. Nobody does. And everybody makes sure to tell her it’s a bad idea. So naturally despite all that and what she manages to uncover guess where she ends up?
So it’s off to Faerie we go. For you know trouble danger and shenanigans and Max’s colorful phrases.
I love Max always of course and I adore Alistair I’m happy things didn’t go badly with them after the whole his father kinda killed her sister thing. I would so love for Marcus and Barrette to adopt me like they basically did Max. Still hate with a fiery passion Striker because like everything else this is all his fault.
I’m always sooo happy and grateful to get an ARC and I waiting impatiently to get it and yet couldn’t start it because the end always leaves me wanting to scream when I get there and there are no more pages. I did know better of course it happens every single time. And I just want the next one yesterday alas I know life doesn’t work that way and I can’t magic things like Max. So until next I’ll just be sitting in a corner staring at the wall waiting for more because I mean there isn’t a bad book in this series they are all obsession worthy.
I’ve been wanting to explore the ‘Rogue Ethereal’ series by Annie Anderson for some time. So, when I got the chance to read her upcoming release– ‘Priestess of Storms & Stone (Rogue Ethereal Book 5),’ I jumped at it.
As I haven’t read the previous books in the series, even with research.. I won’t go back and talk about the origins of any of these characters. However, the lead– Max, is incredibly likeable. She’s funny, she’s got a smart mouth I can completely relate to, and she often seems to subscribe to the ‘throw punches first, ask questions later’ belief system.. which I..
..well, I plead the fifth on that one.
This book finds Max on the trail of a newly turned succubus, making her way through the realm of Faerie, along with her entourage of guardians, friends, and family members. As is to be expected, not everyone’s a friend. There are those who want her dead and those who want to use her to their own ends, but she’s made a promise and intends to keep it. She’s loyal and seemingly made of determination.
It’s a well-structured novel with a lot of page-turning action. I feel like it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure read because the author just seems to draw in as many tropes as possible and run with them. Long lost relative? Got it. Buried psychological trauma? Got it. Fated mates and tragic origins and characters who are not what they believe themselves to be? Got all those things too.
That’s a pattern throughout the book actually.. the author loves to compile and collect. There’s are multiple worlds of creatures at play, from fawns and dryads.. to demons and angels.. to wraiths and shifters.. even a kitsune.
Action scenes read the same way. They tumble constantly from one situation to the next, always potentially in some new and even greater danger. Even down time is used efficiently to further story or build relationships.. or develop characters.
I’m not complaining. It’s a really fun book. Annie definitely knows how to manage all those spinning plates with ease and none of them ever hit the floor unless she wants them to do so.
Sure, there are a few things that I’m not typically a fan of.
There’s always an easy answer to pretty much every situation. Max instinctively knows how to solve them or who to ask or exactly what to say or do to keep moving forward. Everyone in the group is perfectly reasonable once they understand why someone acts in a certain way. Her demon boyfriend is a perfect mixture of loving protectiveness and supportiveness for her independence. And there’s always a convenient, easy way to deliver/receive information.
The difference is.. with this book.. I just didn’t care. I was having such a good time, she made it all work. And I applaud her for that.
(I received this title as an ARC. All opinions are mine and freely given.)
Max is back with her usual spunk and sass. This book was one heck of an adventure from start to finish and a page turner for sure. Magic, mayhem, chaos, family, friendship and so much more. Alistair and Max are so good together and the new adventure was a huge surprise. You need to read the entire series from start to finish. One of my favorites! I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book.
More Max, more madness, magic and mayhem. Magnificent! Once again Annie Anderson has carried my heart and mind on a wonderful journey full of plot twists, secrets and amazing characters. I honestly took my time and hated to see this book end. I learned so much while reading, yet I have so many questions at the end of this book. I cannot wait to read the next installment of Max’s journey. You have to read the first books before diving into this one or you will be woefully lost. Take the risk, the adventure is worth it.
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Anderson takes our beloved Max and her crew on a perilous journey full of revelations, betrayal and hope. Time and time again, she reminds us to never get too comfortable. Jam packed with twists and turns, she has our anxiety rising with each turn of the page. With the conclusion of the series fast approaching, I truly wanted to savor this story and take my time with it but I just couldn’t, I completely devoured it. I was lost in Anderson’s world with no desire to find my way out.