BLOG TOUR: Caio (The Limerent Series Book 1) - LS Delorme

Sarah Baker is a paralegal in a law firm in modern-day Brooklyn. Her life is bouncing between her abusive lawyer boyfriend, the voices she hears in her head and her soul-sucking work at the law firm. On a New York spring day, she meets Caio as he plays basketball on a street court.

He is alluring, intriguing and young. Yet that’s the least of his mystery, for Caio was beaten, thrown into a hole and left to die. In 1905.

Sarah tries to understand this enigmatic stranger while juggling the dubious ethics of her law firm and the ghosts in her head. As she struggles with loss, grief, love, beauty… and lawyers, she will need to summon the strength to break all of society’s rules, save several lives and step into a new and potentially magical life.

Caio is the opening book of a new series of supernatural romantic thrillers that will pull on your heartstrings, challenge your perceptions and lead you on a singular journey of discovery and revelation.

 

What did I think?

Caio is the first book in the Limerent Series but it's the fourth one I have read so I was very eager to read more of Caio's story as he has become one of my favourite characters in the series.  It's a great story and I don't think it was spoiled in any way by me sort of knowing the ending.

Caio may look like a teenager but he's older than you might think...a LOT older.  Sarah Baker is in her forties so she is confused by her attraction to this basketball playing teen but Caio is persistent and when he trusts Sarah completely he finally shares his incredible secret with her.

Sarah hears voices in her head and they help and advise her throughout her life.  I just wish they'd advised her to stay clear of Karl who abuses Sarah both mentally and physically.  I was so mad at how he treated Sarah but her life is so entangled with Karl's that it's almost impossible to leave him.  Until Caio makes an appearance in Sarah's life and changes it in ways she could have never imagined.

Spellbinding and mind-blowing, Caio is a brilliant start to a highly original series that will entertain and delight readers of many different genres.

I received a gifted hardback to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.

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BLOG TOUR: Ghosting Academy (The Limerent Series Book 4) - LS Delorme

It’s been years since Amelie abandoned her home to become an elite agent of the Academy.

In its embrace she has found support and stability, but in return the Academy uses her gifts for destruction and control. For ten years, she has chosen to live only for the moment, neither questioning nor considering the motives of her employer. But when Amelie and her pod of fellow agents, “graduate” into becoming strategic operatives, they are spirited off to an isolated island. Here they uncover a labyrinth of deception and lies far more sinister than any they ever imagined, including Verite, a new virtual reality game, in which time has no meaning and your blood holds the keys to your soul.

In the Ghosting Academy, consciousness is currency, morality is shackles and there is no death.

 

What did I think?

I've been really enjoying The Limerent series and Ghosting Academy is the fourth book in the series that continues the story of Amelie, who we met in Bright Midnights.  I think you do have to have read the earlier books in the series to enjoy Ghosting Academy, so I wouldn't recommend reading it as a standalone.

The series takes an even darker turn in this instalment as Amelie and a group of similarly gifted friends graduate through the Academy and take part in a virtual reality game that is scary and dangerous.

I really liked catching up with Amelie again and seeing how she was coping without Clovis (the love of her life).  I'm not into gaming at all so I did struggle a bit with the game in the book although I did find it very scary.

LS Delorme has such a vivid imagination that nothing and nobody are what they seem and the story could go absolutely anywhere so it's a book to just sit back and enjoy the incredibly imaginative ride. 

Ethereal, scary and mind-bending, Ghosting Academy is pure escapism set in the alternate reality of both our dreams and our nightmares.

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Bright Midnights: A Dark Paranormal Love Story (The Limerent Series Book 2) - LS Delorme

Amelie has always been different.

Most high school students find life challenging, but 17-year old Amelie has a lot more to contend with than typical teenage angst. Ever since she turned 11, others have been irresistibly drawn to her—with tragic consequences. Her only escape is at night when she flies to different times and places through her “dreams”. Her life begins to change when, on one of her flights, she meets Clovis, an alluring and mysterious young man who hides a secret.

As Amelie finds herself increasingly drawn to him, she learns his story, how it intertwines with her own and finally discovers how to live her life in the real world. Until her own secrets are revealed to the wrong people and that world turns upside down.

Bright Midnights is the second in the Limerent Series and continues in the thought-provoking and beautiful style of the first as it considers different dimensions, different ways of looking at the world, and the transcendental power of love.

 

What did I think?

I discovered The Limerent Series at book 3, Fanning Fireflies, so I'm working backwards by returning to the series with book 2, Bright Midnights.  Each book can be read as a standalone as the main characters' stories are the focus of each book, with some cameo appearances from characters you might recognise if you've read any of the other books.

This is Amelie's story and she has a special gift that definitely feels like more of a curse as people become fixated and dangerously obsessed with her.  The story becomes quite dark as the reader is privy to certain thoughts and feelings that people have about Amelie and it often made my skin crawl.

Amelie can escape her real life through her dreams where she meets Clovis.  It's obvious from the start that Amelie and Clovis have a special connection but there are very good reasons why they can never be together.  The heart rules the head though, and there are some more necessary but slightly uncomfortable moments in store for the reader as inevitable events occur.

LS Delorme's writing is so dreamlike and ethereal, sweeping the reader away to alternative realities.  The plot is imaginative and original as it mixes real life with the paranormal and the characters are beautifully drawn and very memorable.  

Pure escapism with a dark undercurrent, Bright Midnights is a captivating romantasy that is entertaining and provocative.  I am looking forward to reading more books in this magical series.

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