Saturday, August 18, 2012

Book Review: Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz

Serpent's Kiss
Book Two of Witches of East End Series

Author: Melissa de la Cruz
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Hyperion (June 12, 2012)
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Note: I received a review copy of this book free from Goldberg McDuffie Communications. The review posted below is based on my personal thoughts while reading the book.

Ratings: ★ ★ ★ ★

My thoughts:

Fryr or Freddie, Freya's twin brother is back. He was locked up in Limbo by the Valkyries because they thought he was responsible for the destruction of the Bofrir bridge but it isn't Freddie who destroyed the bridge. Freddie believes Killian did it and he wants Freya to help him get his revenge. Problem is, Killian is Freya's fiancĂ©. Freya loves her twin brother as much as she loves Killian. Who will she choose? Her brother or her lover?

Serpent's Kiss is the second book to the Witches of East End novel. With Freddie, the story of the Beauchamp family is getting more interesting. I also liked the fact that Joanna's sort-of :) husband, Norman is back. After thousands of years, he's still in love with Joanna! I loved it when they were together. The book has some funny moments and my favorite part is when they were celebrating the Thanksgiving Day. 

The story has a lot of interesting twists to make me read this until the wee hours of the morning, finished it in three days and during weekdays! I loved Killian and Freya's love story but not much when it comes to Ingrid and Matt's. I found their relationship dull and it wasn't like how I felt when they were just friends. 

The book did not disappoint. I loved it and if you're into witches, I'm sure your money is well-spent on this one.

About the book:

The powerful Beauchamp family, introduced in the New York Times bestselling Witches of East End, returns in The Serpent's Kiss, with dizzying plot twists and the spell-binding magic that have made both Witches of East End and Melissa's Blue Bloods series such enormous successes.

Just as things have settled down in the off-the-map Long Island town of North Hampton for the magical Beauchamp family, everything gets turned upside down once more when Freya's twin brother Fryr, or "Freddie" as he's called now, returns from Limbo with shocking news - that it was none other than Freya's fiancé, Killian Gardiner, who set up his downfall.
He begs Freya to keep his presence a secret, even from their own family, but somehow the irascible Freddie is still able to conduct many affairs with the town's young lovelies from his self-imposed exile. Until he falls for the wrong girl.

While Freya tries to keep her brother from exacting revenge on the man she loves, Ingrid has her own problems. Her human boyfriend, Matt Noble, becomes entangled in a complicated investigation, and when the magical creatures at the center of it come to Ingrid for help, she has a difficult choice to make.

To top it off, a dead spirit is trying to make contact with Joanna - but does it mean to harm or warn the witches? All hell breaks loose at the family reunion over Thanksgiving, and much mayhem ensues, but when the culprit behind Freddie's imprisonment is finally revealed, it may already be too late to staunch the poison that's been released by the serpent's kiss. The spells cast by the bestselling Witches of East End continue in this bewitching follow-up that Melissa de la Cruz's many fans won't want to miss.

About the author:


Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including The Au Pairs series, the Blue Bloods series, the Ashleys series, the Angels on Sunset Boulevard series and the semi-autobiographical novel Fresh off the Boat.

Her books for adults include the novel Cat's Meow, the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys and the tongue-in-chic handbooks How to Become Famous in Two Weeks or Less and The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-inch heels and Faux-Pas.

She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for many publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney's, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews.

Melissa grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. She majored in art history and English at Columbia University (and minored in nightclubs and shopping!).

She now divides her time between New York and Los Angeles, where she lives in the Hollywood Hills with her husband and daughter.

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