Untamed City : Carnival of Secrets

from BookishThings

I need to star this off by stating that I tried to take my time with this audiobook. I want James Marsters to read to me all the time! *swoons*Melissa Marr does a great job with the world building. The City seems like a shady place to live, even if you're a daimon. I also loved that the daimons c...

from LaneLiterati

As a reader of many of Melissa Marr's novels, I wanted to give her newest a try. It was difficult to get into, just trying to get the world set up in my imagination. However, once that was established I couldn't get enough of this story. The story is set in a similar world as her Wicked Lovely se...

from readerspeak

Having really enjoyed Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely series, I was looking forward to this. I dived into it with the audio version. Listening to the story was a great diversion, and probably necessarily a slower pace to understand all the various kinds of creature/characters and secrets they kept f...

from TheYodamom

Gritty, sexual, intense fighting, insta-mate, torture, belittling of women. I have a hard time thinking of this as YA. it was very original, and has intensive world building, that is never boring. Mallory is raised in the human world by witches. She was taken from the Daimon world as an infant to...

from erincathryn

This review can also be found at: Written Permission Actual rating: 2.5 stars Ok, so it was really slow going for me when I started reading Carnival of Souls initially. And I didn't want to blame the book, because I felt it wasn't the book's fault. But in hindsight, I think it might have been. Th...