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My Review:Title: Changing Nature
Author: April White
Series: The Immortal Descendants #3
Published by: Indie
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 400
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Time Travel
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2023 Backlist Reader Challenge, Lenoreo's 2023 COYER Chapter 1
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My rating:
Blurb:Immortal Descendants are disappearing one by one, and seventeen-year-old Clocker Saira Elian is next on the list…
Saira and Archer’s London summer is carefree and romantic, until a brazen attempt to capture Saira looks suspiciously like the handiwork of the Descendants of War. When the kidnappings of other Descendants come to light and Mr. Shaw is taken for questioning under threat to his family, Saira realizes that for herself and young Shifter Connor, Time is the only refuge.
But one danger is merely exchanged for another. Believing that their time-warping nemesis Bishop Wilder may have fled Elizabethan England for medieval France, Saira and her friends emerge onto the gloomy streets of Paris in 1429 to find it besieged by marauding wolves. When they encounter an illiterate peasant girl, whose deeds as Joan of Arc are extolled in an obscure sixteenth century book, but are unknown in their modern history, they realize the wolves may be the least of their problems.
As Saira, Archer, and Ringo reunite to track down Wilder, they are faced with increasing evidence that time has been split and history altered. Crossing the time stream to repair it drops them in the heart of a battle, where friends are enemies, and foes are lethal. And in a fight for their lives, they encounter an old friend to whom Time as not been kind. To help him heal and end the deadly game of cat and mouse with Wilder once and for all, Saira must confront her greatest challenge yet: the truth about her changing Nature.
4 stars — This series just keeps getting better and better as we get to know the characters and the world more! I think I even had a brilliant theory appear at the end there and I can’t wait to find out if my theory is correct!
There were definitely elements that were heartbreaking and that I wasn’t expecting…and that open up all sorts of doors that I mostly don’t want the author to step through.
It was nice to see Saira and Archer find more balance in their relationship after what went down in book 2. They took the fears and concerns of the other to heart and started trusting more and leaning on each other more. It was absolutely wonderful to see. And we got to see their relationship change and develop even more. I’m still neither here nor there about them together, for some reason I’m just not wowed by them, but I enjoy them together and enjoyed them more in this book.
We learned quite a bit more in this book about a few different families, and I’ll be interested to see how things play out with certain artifacts.
I also loved that we got to learn a bit more about a few other characters (that I don’t want to mention because of spoilers, but I really enjoyed their addition to Saira’s “made” family).
It’s funny because I don’t know if I felt like the time period setting was as prominent in this one, even though I learned some interesting things about the time period. But it didn’t play as big a role as Elizabeth did in book 2, at least in my mind.
I can’t wait to see what happens next, especially given some of the things that occurred during the climax.
COYER Community: I buddy read this book with Berls, and I managed to stay pace until about halfway…*snort*. We’re definitely both falling in love with this series more as it goes on, and she rated it 4.5 stars (her review coming soon).
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