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International, award winning, Amazon top 20 Bestselling author! She’s a war I cannot win. She’s our salvation. Erie is the one creature that can save my race from dying out. The thing is, we broke her, but we broke the wrong parts. Now, the only thing that girl craves is revenge and a need to destroy with a rage that burns hotter than the fires of Hell. I’ve loved her longer than she has been alive. She’s in my veins, and this is one war I cannot afford to lose against her. He’s a battle I’m willing to fight. They say nothing worthwhile comes easy, that if you want something bad enough, you have to fight to get it. They’re idiots. They say love is a battlefield, and they were right about that, but this isn’t a battle of wills. It’s a battle to the death. He thinks I can be saved. I don’t want to be saved; I want to destroy everything and everyone that ever hurt me. I want the world to feel my pain, to taste my rage. I’m not their savior; I’m their damnation. I don’t want to be saved by him or his kind. I’m the War they won’t see coming until I’m on top of them, waging it against them. I am Erie, and I’m going to set the world on fire and walk through the ashes of those who have wronged me. Erie isn’t a hero; she’s the antihero in this story. This isn’t a love story. It’s a dark and twisted battle of wills and bare bones. They’re going to war against one another, and it will be brutal, chaotic, and beautiful. So if you’re not into dark re-telling of twisted love stories, this isn’t for you. Thank you for looking, but I’m an unapologetic author of alpha-holes and the women who fight back against them. I don’t believe in insta-love. I believe in putting them through hell and making them earn it first.
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First published June 12, 2019
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Amelia Hutchins
52 books13.1k followersAmelia Hutchins is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of the Monsters, The Fae Chronicles, and Nine Realm series. She is an admitted coffee addict who drinks magical potions of caffeine and turns them into magical worlds. She writes alpha-hole males and the alpha women who knock them on their arse, hard. Amelia doesn’t write romance. She writes fast-paced books that go hard against traditional standards. Sometimes a story isn’t about the romantic aspect; it’s about rising to a challenge, breaking through them like wrecking balls, and shaking up entire worlds to discover who they are. If you’d like to check out more of her work, or just hang out in an amazing tribe of people who enjoy rough men, and sharp women, join her at Author Amelia Hutchins Group on Facebook.
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LEGACY OF THE NINE REALMS
Flames of Chaos
Ashes of Chaos
Ruins of Chaos
Crown of Chaos
Coming Soon
Queen of Chaos
King of Chaos 2024
Reign of Chaos
THE FAE CHRONICLES
Fighting Destiny
Taunting Destiny
Escaping Destiny
Seducing Destiny
Unraveling Destiny
Embracing Destiny
Crowning Destiny
Finished Series
THE ELITE GUARDS
A Demon’s Dark Embrace
Claiming the Dragon King
The Winter Court
A Demon’s Plaything
Standalones, which can be read alone.
A GUARDIAN’S DIARY
Darkest Before Dawn
Death before Dawn
Midnight Rising -TBA
MONSTERS SERIES
Playing with Monsters
Sleeping with Monsters
Becoming his Monster
Revealing the Monster
Finished Series
WICKED KNIGHTS
Oh, Holy Knight
If She’s Wicked
Book Three -TBA
MIDNIGHT COVEN BOOKS
Forever Immortal
Immortal Hexes
Midnight Coven
Finished Series
BULLETPROOF DAMSEL SERIES
Bulletproof Damsel
Coming Soon
Silverproof Damsel 2024
Fireproof Damsel
Alpha’s Claim Standalone
WITHIN THE DARKNESS
Moon-Kissed
Book 2 TBA
THE DARKEST FAE
King of the Shadow Fae
Coming Soon
King of the Night Fae
Queen of the Stars
Fate Series
Whispers of Fate (Intro to Kahleena’s book)
If you’re following the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guards, and Monsters series, the reading order is as follows.
Fighting Destiny
Taunting Destiny
Escaping Destiny
Seducing Destiny
A Demon’s Dark Embrace
Playing with Monsters
Unraveling Destiny
Sleeping with Monsters
Claiming the Dragon King
Oh, Holy Knight
Becoming his Monster
A Demon’s Plaything
The Winter Court
If She’s Wicked
Embracing Destiny
Crowning Destiny
Revealing the Monster
Whispers of Fate
Books by Amelia Hutchins along with reading order for the series.
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/12402...
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/authoramelia...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/author.amel...
LEGACY OF THE NINE REALMS
Flames of Chaos
Ashes of Chaos
Ruins of Chaos
Crown of Chaos
Coming Soon
Queen of Chaos
King of Chaos 2024
Reign of Chaos
THE FAE CHRONICLES
Fighting Destiny
Taunting Destiny
Escaping Destiny
Seducing Destiny
Unraveling Destiny
Embracing Destiny
Crowning Destiny
Finished Series
THE ELITE GUARDS
A Demon’s Dark Embrace
Claiming the Dragon King
The Winter Court
A Demon’s Plaything
Standalones, which can be read alone.
A GUARDIAN’S DIARY
Darkest Before Dawn
Death before Dawn
Midnight Rising -TBA
MONSTERS SERIES
Playing with Monsters
Sleeping with Monsters
Becoming his Monster
Revealing the Monster
Finished Series
WICKED KNIGHTS
Oh, Holy Knight
If She’s Wicked
Book Three -TBA
MIDNIGHT COVEN BOOKS
Forever Immortal
Immortal Hexes
Midnight Coven
Finished Series
BULLETPROOF DAMSEL SERIES
Bulletproof Damsel
Coming Soon
Silverproof Damsel 2024
Fireproof Damsel
Alpha’s Claim Standalone
WITHIN THE DARKNESS
Moon-Kissed
Book 2 TBA
THE DARKEST FAE
King of the Shadow Fae
Coming Soon
King of the Night Fae
Queen of the Stars
Fate Series
Whispers of Fate (Intro to Kahleena’s book)
If you’re following the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guards, and Monsters series, the reading order is as follows.
Fighting Destiny
Taunting Destiny
Escaping Destiny
Seducing Destiny
A Demon’s Dark Embrace
Playing with Monsters
Unraveling Destiny
Sleeping with Monsters
Claiming the Dragon King
Oh, Holy Knight
Becoming his Monster
A Demon’s Plaything
The Winter Court
If She’s Wicked
Embracing Destiny
Crowning Destiny
Revealing the Monster
Whispers of Fate
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June 18, 2019
I can't express how much I hate Callaghan. He ruined this book for me.
I really liked Erie though. I just wished she had more of a backbone. I also wish she killed Callaghan for real and got a new mate. Maybe she did, but I wouldn't know because I couldn't finish.
I really liked Erie though. I just wished she had more of a backbone. I also wish she killed Callaghan for real and got a new mate. Maybe she did, but I wouldn't know because I couldn't finish.
May 12, 2020
4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Don’t let them snuff out that fire, sweet girl. You fight for yourself, even if you don’t think you’re worth it. You are. You’re a rare breed. Stand tall, Erie. Don’t let them see you fall, and if you do, you take the fucking head off the one that watched you fall.”
Reading Eerie & Callaghan’s story was a total mind f***. It took awhile for me to process what I’ve read, my mind was still spinning.😵
Eerie is CRAZY🤪 Hmmm, not crazy but a total PSYCHO 😂, who wouldn’t after all she's been through. I didn’t like Eerie at first but damn as her story unfolds who wouldn’t cheer her to do a killing spree😂. I rarely felt so much for the main female character, sometimes they annoy me😉 but Eerie did. I like her confidence and how her mind works. Its like she’s prepared for everything.😮 Then we have Callaghan, when you thought you know what/who he is, you’ll get get a new info that will blow your mind😵
And who wouldn’t forget and love Fred 😈 I really really love Eerie and Fred’s banter.
Thank you Amelia for giving me a headache😵😂👌🏻
“Don’t let them snuff out that fire, sweet girl. You fight for yourself, even if you don’t think you’re worth it. You are. You’re a rare breed. Stand tall, Erie. Don’t let them see you fall, and if you do, you take the fucking head off the one that watched you fall.”
Reading Eerie & Callaghan’s story was a total mind f***. It took awhile for me to process what I’ve read, my mind was still spinning.😵
Eerie is CRAZY🤪 Hmmm, not crazy but a total PSYCHO 😂, who wouldn’t after all she's been through. I didn’t like Eerie at first but damn as her story unfolds who wouldn’t cheer her to do a killing spree😂. I rarely felt so much for the main female character, sometimes they annoy me😉 but Eerie did. I like her confidence and how her mind works. Its like she’s prepared for everything.😮 Then we have Callaghan, when you thought you know what/who he is, you’ll get get a new info that will blow your mind😵
And who wouldn’t forget and love Fred 😈 I really really love Eerie and Fred’s banter.
Thank you Amelia for giving me a headache😵😂👌🏻
February 7, 2022
Unless I’m confused (which is a definite possibility) the first quarter was Oh, Holy Knight then it moves on to the new stuff. I’m overloaded, but I found this VERY repetitive, yet I’m left confused. 🤷♀️ At this point, I just can’t be bothered… this is supposed to be my hobby… not my job. If you want to use lore and mythology… fantastic… just explain it. I don’t want to have to do research to try to figure out what’s going on in the book.
My issues are the same; I’m just trying to get to the finish line.
🕳️ The lack of worldbuilding makes the plot confusing. I’m not concrete on what she is or where we’re going. I got lost somewhere in the… one goddess→ three gods → three sisters → druids→ Paladins → Knights Templar → Formorians → rebirth/killing parts. I thought Danu created Faery, now three Gods were involved. (Danu, Bilé, and the Morrígan) ??
🕳️ What information we get is provided in drawn-out, soapboxing, monologue conversations repeated numerous times throughout the book. This doesn’t make for captivating storytelling; it’s tedious, and if I’m honest, it feels a smidge lazy. I didn’t notice this is the earlier books, my guess is she’s being rushed to churn these out, but I’d prefer quality over quantity, personally.
🕳️ Part of my confusion stems from the buckets of nonsensical information. Like why did they remarry while waiting for their soulmate to be reborn? Why make her immortal, so she’s still around when said soulmate is reborn? Why, after a millennium, were they good with leaving said immortal wife? Why leave said soulmate to be abused and do nothing? I feel like the author tried to explain it all away as “duty,” but I need it to make sense.
🕳️ Where are we going? I thought this universe was complete with Crowning Destiny (although we’re still hanging from a cliffy in the Monsters series) and there’s no resolution here… no HEA… not even an HFN.
Bottom Line- I love a psychotic female, and Erie didn’t disappoint. This (overarching) series started strong for me, and I’ve struggled through the last few books, but I couldn’t connect to this one at all. It felt rushed. Like maybe Erie will be pivotal in the final FC books, so we needed her story in a hurry, but we lost necessary interconnections along the way. A.H. definitely has talent and a fantastic imagination, but this universe has grown too big to handle. One person can only juggle so much, and I think it’s showing in the issues (plot holes, wordy-repetitive dialogue, etc.) that have plagued the last several books.
My issues are the same; I’m just trying to get to the finish line.
🕳️ The lack of worldbuilding makes the plot confusing. I’m not concrete on what she is or where we’re going. I got lost somewhere in the… one goddess→ three gods → three sisters → druids→ Paladins → Knights Templar → Formorians → rebirth/killing parts. I thought Danu created Faery, now three Gods were involved. (Danu, Bilé, and the Morrígan) ??
🕳️ What information we get is provided in drawn-out, soapboxing, monologue conversations repeated numerous times throughout the book. This doesn’t make for captivating storytelling; it’s tedious, and if I’m honest, it feels a smidge lazy. I didn’t notice this is the earlier books, my guess is she’s being rushed to churn these out, but I’d prefer quality over quantity, personally.
🕳️ Part of my confusion stems from the buckets of nonsensical information. Like why did they remarry while waiting for their soulmate to be reborn? Why make her immortal, so she’s still around when said soulmate is reborn? Why, after a millennium, were they good with leaving said immortal wife? Why leave said soulmate to be abused and do nothing? I feel like the author tried to explain it all away as “duty,” but I need it to make sense.
🕳️ Where are we going? I thought this universe was complete with Crowning Destiny (although we’re still hanging from a cliffy in the Monsters series) and there’s no resolution here… no HEA… not even an HFN.
Bottom Line- I love a psychotic female, and Erie didn’t disappoint. This (overarching) series started strong for me, and I’ve struggled through the last few books, but I couldn’t connect to this one at all. It felt rushed. Like maybe Erie will be pivotal in the final FC books, so we needed her story in a hurry, but we lost necessary interconnections along the way. A.H. definitely has talent and a fantastic imagination, but this universe has grown too big to handle. One person can only juggle so much, and I think it’s showing in the issues (plot holes, wordy-repetitive dialogue, etc.) that have plagued the last several books.
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September 3, 2019
Uf, it took me a while ...and then I forgot to rate it and write a review... *bitch slap*
I liked it, some parts more, some less...some characters more, some less...
but I love this author's writing style very much...but then again, it's Amelia Hutchins, so what's more there to say...*wink*
humbly in awe of her writing and her imagination but sometimes, the story takes a different path from what i had in mind LOL (duh?!) but then again, I deal with it...
I liked it, some parts more, some less...some characters more, some less...
but I love this author's writing style very much...but then again, it's Amelia Hutchins, so what's more there to say...*wink*
humbly in awe of her writing and her imagination but sometimes, the story takes a different path from what i had in mind LOL (duh?!) but then again, I deal with it...
June 21, 2019
Erie is messed up
This book and Erie are so messed up. Thanks for the warning because my head was spinning the whole time. I couldn't even follow along it was so crazy.
The reason I gave three stars is because it seemed like the same lines were repeated a ton of times. This book could have been 2/3 its length if the duplication was removed.
This book and Erie are so messed up. Thanks for the warning because my head was spinning the whole time. I couldn't even follow along it was so crazy.
The reason I gave three stars is because it seemed like the same lines were repeated a ton of times. This book could have been 2/3 its length if the duplication was removed.
September 6, 2019
Repetitive
This book regurgitated the same scenes, dialogue, and actions throughout the whole book! You should just skip to the last 25% and know what happened in the other 75% of the book. Waste of time.
This book regurgitated the same scenes, dialogue, and actions throughout the whole book! You should just skip to the last 25% and know what happened in the other 75% of the book. Waste of time.
July 15, 2019
Got to 72% and couldn’t finish it
Honestly, this book embodies all styles of writing I dislike : taunting you with a super intriguing intro then dropping you; continual mental bs from the mc that never seems to end; pointless sex and instant love / “home”; non-linear storyline; constantly adding ridiculous plot twists as though they were meant all along when you knew the author was just trying to shove shit in there to desperately keep the readers attention; having scenes and then forcing the plot just to warrant having those scenes; telling us the situation over and over again instead of showing us with decent writing. I paid for this book and all I can say is “what the f**k was that bs?!” There’s more than just those issues with this book, but f**k would that be a seriously long list. How is this book so highly rated?
Honestly, this book embodies all styles of writing I dislike : taunting you with a super intriguing intro then dropping you; continual mental bs from the mc that never seems to end; pointless sex and instant love / “home”; non-linear storyline; constantly adding ridiculous plot twists as though they were meant all along when you knew the author was just trying to shove shit in there to desperately keep the readers attention; having scenes and then forcing the plot just to warrant having those scenes; telling us the situation over and over again instead of showing us with decent writing. I paid for this book and all I can say is “what the f**k was that bs?!” There’s more than just those issues with this book, but f**k would that be a seriously long list. How is this book so highly rated?
October 19, 2021
2 stars:
In a few words, this book is a total train wreck. If you want some further explanation take a gander...
2 stars because the ideas in this book were still interesting and I did finish it. Even if I hated every minute of it.
First off, I don’t enjoy leaving bad reviews. I probably even try to avoid it. But alas when a book really pisses me off, I feel an obligation to the other readers out there.
This is such a disappointing moment for me because at one point I honestly would have said I thought I’d found my new favorite author in Amelia Hutchins. The books starting out these “connected” series I just Loved and absolutely devoured (basically books 1-3 of both The Fae Chronicles and The Monster Series). I’ve never left her anything but a 5 star review until now.
Now things have started to get Real sloppy for me. And I’m at a point where I’m not even sure if the writing has always been like this, and I just didn’t notice at first, or if it’s just slowly been degrading over the course of these series.
Let me just say I LOVE a good dark romance. That is not the problem here. In fact they may be my favourite. I’m pretty much always looking for those enemies to lover and antihero books. So suffice to say I had high hopes for this book. The overall story and creativity had so much potential and as much as I hated this book, I’m still dying to know how the story ends. However, here are my issues, some of which, are becoming an increasing trend in a lot of Amelia Hutchins books I’ve been reading as of late:
*****Shit ton of spoilers ahead*********
1.
A chunk of this book was a previous book I bought and read, unbeknownst to me. It wouldn’t have been the end of the world if it had just been easy to skip over, but it was intermingled with new parts of the story. This was super super irritating.
2.
The tales behind the characters, in terms of how everything fits together and the lore, has become excessively sloppy.
We started off with one goddess Danu (in reality we started with Fae, now it seems to be a god show), then all of a sudden she has this evil husband Bile, now all of a sudden there were actually 3 gods involved in the creation of Faery and it’s creatures, in enters The Morrigan. Who, in one of the last books we are told created the dragons or some shit in Faery. Wait.... but now The Morrigan is actually 3 goddess sisters, 1 of which is responsible for all this war and Irish lore in the human world....
.....The thing is, it feels like this is so badly explained with respect to how it all fits together. It’s starting to feel like there wasn’t an over arching plan or idea for bringing these series to completion or with respect to how they were supposed to intermingle. And now other random lore is being pulled in to try and stuff into a different series and the puzzle pieces don’t fit nicely.
Generally I’m not a fan of books that don’t give you clues and allow for some foresight into the over arching story. Because then bam out of no where there’s this made up explanation for why everything is the way it is, that you would not have been able to begin to predict in a million years because it just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Nothing feels so unsatisfying and messy then when I read a book like this. Sadly, that’s exactly what I feel like is happening here.
In addition to this, if your going to base your books off of real lore, that’s awesome, but I don’t want to have to go look up that mythology myself to be able to understand your book. And this particular one got so confusing with druids and paladins and, No Wait, now they are actually Knight Templar’s, and then, oh Wait again, now they are actually Formorians. And NOW her lover is two Formorian kings joined into one body, and they hold these beasts... etc. etc.... Like wait what? I’m so lost by this point. Too Much!
3.
It seems that the only way we learn anything in these books are by the characters having these extremely long, drawn out, very repetitive dialogues, where they are literally explaining everything to one another like five different times. This gets pretty boring, and doesn’t feel like a creative way of story telling. I’ve been noticing this a lot in her more recent books.
4.
Enough with the excessively overzealous monologues from everyone. It’s starting to feel like every single conversation is someone just giving this “heroic” speech where they also repeat themselves over and over and over. WE GET IT, YOUR PASSIONATE, NOW LETS MOVE ON.
5.
There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the book that didn’t need to happen, that didn’t add to the story whatsoever and felt forced. Like Erie’s little trip to Faery, where she then turns around and leaves with dudes after they followed her there... like what did it accomplish going to Faery? You faked some preggo test and stole some of Zs blades? You are the goddess of war, pretty sure you could have accomplished that in the human realm.
This felt like a forced scene just to get other characters from other series some page time. Erie also has some uncharacteristic behaviours during this part where she try’s to make a gf with the winter court chick upon spotting her for the first time ever. THIS IS ERIE WERE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE. The girl who spends the entire book talking about how she has no friends, trusts no one, and doesn’t want to be touched not even so much as a hug...? Like who are you all of a sudden.. oh but shout out to Icelyn don’t forget to check out that other book I wrote.
Super annoying.
6.
There’s just so so so much shit in this book that makes ZERO sense. I’m half tempted to release my highlights and notes, but honestly I tore this book apart and was getting super irritated towards the end. So my comments may be a little harsh. I wanted to like this book so bad, and it had so much potential, but I felt so let down and that made me emotional... in a bad way.
For example, One moment your dudes telling her shes not listening to him when he says she’s not evil just lost and broken, then the very next page he’s telling her she’s the evilest monster out there...? Like wait what? Can you say MIND FUCK.
Or how about: when your dudes are waiting for their goddess, love of their life, and soulmate to be reborn, KNOWING that she’s coming back and actively trying to wake her, they decide to take a wife. But not just take a wife, oh no, they decide to make their wife immortal using the very power the goddess gave to them to be immortal so they could be with their goddess... And THEN when their goddess finally does return to them, they get mad at her for disrupting their marriage and new family and tell her she has to be their side piece because now they have a wife that they made immortal and can’t leave, because what... duty? LIKE WHAT???!!!
Fast forward 1000 years and it’s no big deal, they have no problem leaving their wife now. Even though the book continues to go on about how their duties must always come first, which is why Erie was left to be abused.
LIKE WTF.
OR there was that time when your dudes built a castle and protected your infant sleeping form for a 1000+ years but then the second you woke they had to peace out for the most important 20 years of your life while they literally watched you continuously be abused but somehow had zero other option then to leave you (their soulmate, goddess and love of their life) there knowing exactly what terrible shit was happening to you. Not to mention all the while, they are afraid you will become evil and use your powers to start a war, at the same times as needing you to have a child to save their race that your being abused by... wtf did you think was gonna happen boys?
I can’t even keep count of the number of contradictions in this book it’s so overwhelming. In fact, this entire book is just a walking contradiction.
SIDE NOTE:
Erie is supposed to be this antihero. But like she’s not even bad at all. She’s literally just been abused over and over, and the things she’s done that are “bad” has been well earned and has actually been the fault of all the other characters, the very ones who sit there and abuse her and call her a monster. It’s all super fucked up.
Alas, I could literally go on forever, but to wrap this shit show up before my rage comes back from just thinking about this book:
IF you eat up stories and just listen to what the author tells you when they tell it, and you don’t call bullshit on a story when it doesn’t make sense with respect to what was previously written and explained... you will probably like this book.
Alternatively, if your like me, and you read a lot and have been spoiled by some very amazing authors, your going to want to burn this book and likely have pulled out all your hair by the time you finish reading it.... if you even make it that far.
Happy reading folks.
In a few words, this book is a total train wreck. If you want some further explanation take a gander...
2 stars because the ideas in this book were still interesting and I did finish it. Even if I hated every minute of it.
First off, I don’t enjoy leaving bad reviews. I probably even try to avoid it. But alas when a book really pisses me off, I feel an obligation to the other readers out there.
This is such a disappointing moment for me because at one point I honestly would have said I thought I’d found my new favorite author in Amelia Hutchins. The books starting out these “connected” series I just Loved and absolutely devoured (basically books 1-3 of both The Fae Chronicles and The Monster Series). I’ve never left her anything but a 5 star review until now.
Now things have started to get Real sloppy for me. And I’m at a point where I’m not even sure if the writing has always been like this, and I just didn’t notice at first, or if it’s just slowly been degrading over the course of these series.
Let me just say I LOVE a good dark romance. That is not the problem here. In fact they may be my favourite. I’m pretty much always looking for those enemies to lover and antihero books. So suffice to say I had high hopes for this book. The overall story and creativity had so much potential and as much as I hated this book, I’m still dying to know how the story ends. However, here are my issues, some of which, are becoming an increasing trend in a lot of Amelia Hutchins books I’ve been reading as of late:
*****Shit ton of spoilers ahead*********
1.
A chunk of this book was a previous book I bought and read, unbeknownst to me. It wouldn’t have been the end of the world if it had just been easy to skip over, but it was intermingled with new parts of the story. This was super super irritating.
2.
The tales behind the characters, in terms of how everything fits together and the lore, has become excessively sloppy.
We started off with one goddess Danu (in reality we started with Fae, now it seems to be a god show), then all of a sudden she has this evil husband Bile, now all of a sudden there were actually 3 gods involved in the creation of Faery and it’s creatures, in enters The Morrigan. Who, in one of the last books we are told created the dragons or some shit in Faery. Wait.... but now The Morrigan is actually 3 goddess sisters, 1 of which is responsible for all this war and Irish lore in the human world....
.....The thing is, it feels like this is so badly explained with respect to how it all fits together. It’s starting to feel like there wasn’t an over arching plan or idea for bringing these series to completion or with respect to how they were supposed to intermingle. And now other random lore is being pulled in to try and stuff into a different series and the puzzle pieces don’t fit nicely.
Generally I’m not a fan of books that don’t give you clues and allow for some foresight into the over arching story. Because then bam out of no where there’s this made up explanation for why everything is the way it is, that you would not have been able to begin to predict in a million years because it just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Nothing feels so unsatisfying and messy then when I read a book like this. Sadly, that’s exactly what I feel like is happening here.
In addition to this, if your going to base your books off of real lore, that’s awesome, but I don’t want to have to go look up that mythology myself to be able to understand your book. And this particular one got so confusing with druids and paladins and, No Wait, now they are actually Knight Templar’s, and then, oh Wait again, now they are actually Formorians. And NOW her lover is two Formorian kings joined into one body, and they hold these beasts... etc. etc.... Like wait what? I’m so lost by this point. Too Much!
3.
It seems that the only way we learn anything in these books are by the characters having these extremely long, drawn out, very repetitive dialogues, where they are literally explaining everything to one another like five different times. This gets pretty boring, and doesn’t feel like a creative way of story telling. I’ve been noticing this a lot in her more recent books.
4.
Enough with the excessively overzealous monologues from everyone. It’s starting to feel like every single conversation is someone just giving this “heroic” speech where they also repeat themselves over and over and over. WE GET IT, YOUR PASSIONATE, NOW LETS MOVE ON.
5.
There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the book that didn’t need to happen, that didn’t add to the story whatsoever and felt forced. Like Erie’s little trip to Faery, where she then turns around and leaves with dudes after they followed her there... like what did it accomplish going to Faery? You faked some preggo test and stole some of Zs blades? You are the goddess of war, pretty sure you could have accomplished that in the human realm.
This felt like a forced scene just to get other characters from other series some page time. Erie also has some uncharacteristic behaviours during this part where she try’s to make a gf with the winter court chick upon spotting her for the first time ever. THIS IS ERIE WERE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE. The girl who spends the entire book talking about how she has no friends, trusts no one, and doesn’t want to be touched not even so much as a hug...? Like who are you all of a sudden.. oh but shout out to Icelyn don’t forget to check out that other book I wrote.
Super annoying.
6.
There’s just so so so much shit in this book that makes ZERO sense. I’m half tempted to release my highlights and notes, but honestly I tore this book apart and was getting super irritated towards the end. So my comments may be a little harsh. I wanted to like this book so bad, and it had so much potential, but I felt so let down and that made me emotional... in a bad way.
For example, One moment your dudes telling her shes not listening to him when he says she’s not evil just lost and broken, then the very next page he’s telling her she’s the evilest monster out there...? Like wait what? Can you say MIND FUCK.
Or how about: when your dudes are waiting for their goddess, love of their life, and soulmate to be reborn, KNOWING that she’s coming back and actively trying to wake her, they decide to take a wife. But not just take a wife, oh no, they decide to make their wife immortal using the very power the goddess gave to them to be immortal so they could be with their goddess... And THEN when their goddess finally does return to them, they get mad at her for disrupting their marriage and new family and tell her she has to be their side piece because now they have a wife that they made immortal and can’t leave, because what... duty? LIKE WHAT???!!!
Fast forward 1000 years and it’s no big deal, they have no problem leaving their wife now. Even though the book continues to go on about how their duties must always come first, which is why Erie was left to be abused.
LIKE WTF.
OR there was that time when your dudes built a castle and protected your infant sleeping form for a 1000+ years but then the second you woke they had to peace out for the most important 20 years of your life while they literally watched you continuously be abused but somehow had zero other option then to leave you (their soulmate, goddess and love of their life) there knowing exactly what terrible shit was happening to you. Not to mention all the while, they are afraid you will become evil and use your powers to start a war, at the same times as needing you to have a child to save their race that your being abused by... wtf did you think was gonna happen boys?
I can’t even keep count of the number of contradictions in this book it’s so overwhelming. In fact, this entire book is just a walking contradiction.
SIDE NOTE:
Erie is supposed to be this antihero. But like she’s not even bad at all. She’s literally just been abused over and over, and the things she’s done that are “bad” has been well earned and has actually been the fault of all the other characters, the very ones who sit there and abuse her and call her a monster. It’s all super fucked up.
Alas, I could literally go on forever, but to wrap this shit show up before my rage comes back from just thinking about this book:
IF you eat up stories and just listen to what the author tells you when they tell it, and you don’t call bullshit on a story when it doesn’t make sense with respect to what was previously written and explained... you will probably like this book.
Alternatively, if your like me, and you read a lot and have been spoiled by some very amazing authors, your going to want to burn this book and likely have pulled out all your hair by the time you finish reading it.... if you even make it that far.
Happy reading folks.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 12, 2019
WHAT. A. RIDE! This book is hands down one of the best books that Amelia Hutchins has written (and I love all her books)! Erie is the best anti-hero I have read. She is twisted, dark, calculated, and relentless. Erie is truly ONE OF A KIND! I loved that she started out strong and got even stronger in the end. DON’T MESS WITH ERIE!
Amelia Hutchins is a master storyteller! She has such a talent for weaving a tale that takes you on an emotional journey through multiple plot twists and OMG moments throughout the entire book. Just when you think you have the story figured out, guess again. You’ll be peeling back layer upon layer of this plot, and you will enjoy every single minute!
As per all of Amelia’s books, the male characters are pure assholes who think they are all-knowing and should be catered to and obeyed. Erie gives them all a run for their money. She never backs down and never gives up. You do NOT want to be on Erie’s list!
Amelia always writes the BEST supporting characters and Fred is no exception! I loved Fred and the the banter between he and Erie was absolutely hysterical and had me laughing loudly on several occasions. I hope to see more of Fred in the future.
Let’s talk about the romance! This is not a love story! This is a war story with lots of steamy, hot, domineering sex scenes. So, you better read the warning at the beginning of the book, and then buckle up!
If you are a fan of the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guard, and Monster’s series, you will be pleased that some of the characters from those books make a few candid appearances. Rest assured though; you don’t need to read the other books before starting Erie.
This book was such a fun ride. Erie kept me guessing throughout the whole book and the ending had me applauding at the final plot twist. I didn’t see that one coming! By the end of the book you will have a clear understanding of who Erie is, what she has endured, and how she rose above those that were determined to keep her down and complacent. I cannot wait to read the next installment!
Amelia Hutchins is a master storyteller! She has such a talent for weaving a tale that takes you on an emotional journey through multiple plot twists and OMG moments throughout the entire book. Just when you think you have the story figured out, guess again. You’ll be peeling back layer upon layer of this plot, and you will enjoy every single minute!
As per all of Amelia’s books, the male characters are pure assholes who think they are all-knowing and should be catered to and obeyed. Erie gives them all a run for their money. She never backs down and never gives up. You do NOT want to be on Erie’s list!
Amelia always writes the BEST supporting characters and Fred is no exception! I loved Fred and the the banter between he and Erie was absolutely hysterical and had me laughing loudly on several occasions. I hope to see more of Fred in the future.
Let’s talk about the romance! This is not a love story! This is a war story with lots of steamy, hot, domineering sex scenes. So, you better read the warning at the beginning of the book, and then buckle up!
If you are a fan of the Fae Chronicles, Elite Guard, and Monster’s series, you will be pleased that some of the characters from those books make a few candid appearances. Rest assured though; you don’t need to read the other books before starting Erie.
This book was such a fun ride. Erie kept me guessing throughout the whole book and the ending had me applauding at the final plot twist. I didn’t see that one coming! By the end of the book you will have a clear understanding of who Erie is, what she has endured, and how she rose above those that were determined to keep her down and complacent. I cannot wait to read the next installment!
May 27, 2021
There's just something about this Fae Universe that makes me feel dead inside. I'm honestly still trying to figure out what the point of this whole book is because the first quarter seemed like their little novella. Word for word.
So while I'm slowly coming to this realization.. I'm starting to get very annoyed. You'd think that after reading the novella of Erie and Callaghan meeting.. I wouldn't get a refresher course of it actually happening in their full book. It just doesn't make sense.
That being said.. I skimmed the shit out of that first quarter. I wont even lie about that because, again, there was zero point in rereading that (for me). After that, my annoyance didn't seem to simmer and it grew quite quickly. Like picture the angry guy in Inside Out.. and you'll get me with this entire book. Hmm.. maybe even the series?
As for the characters? Yeah, still didn't like them or care about their romance. I'll admit that some scenes were pretty hot but then they would open their mouths and frustrate me all over again. I'm not even sure why I keep torturing myself with this series.. but I do know the wine store people love me now.
With only two books left.. I guess I'll just suck it up buttercup and dive into them. Blindly. With lots and lots of alcohol. Don't send help.
June 18, 2019
Loved the plot, got tired of the monologues. 3 1/2 stars
I liked that there were no heroes in this book. The love-hate-f you up relationship both drove me crazy and captivated me. There were way too many monologues and I ended up skipping pages towards the end because yeah, I get it, you're going to burn the world down bla bla. And, way too many editing errors. You don't abide your time, you bide your time. You don't exhume an emotion, you exhume a grave. It's the difference between an ok/good writer and a great writer. Really Amelia, if you need to defend your editing mistakes in your intro then you need a better editor.
I liked that there were no heroes in this book. The love-hate-f you up relationship both drove me crazy and captivated me. There were way too many monologues and I ended up skipping pages towards the end because yeah, I get it, you're going to burn the world down bla bla. And, way too many editing errors. You don't abide your time, you bide your time. You don't exhume an emotion, you exhume a grave. It's the difference between an ok/good writer and a great writer. Really Amelia, if you need to defend your editing mistakes in your intro then you need a better editor.
June 18, 2019
I absolutely love all of Amelia's books. She is just fantastic. But this book just didn't do it for me. I hated Callaghan. I know that she doesn't write about nice guys, they're assholes and all that but Callaghan was just horrible. What he did to Erie was too much and I don't think he can improve in the next books.
Also, this book is very very repetitive. There are pages and pages of all the same information. It's also very confusing with the amount of info and all the different people they are meant to be. But I loved Erie. She's badass. I hope she tell Callaghan where to go in the next book!!!
Also, this book is very very repetitive. There are pages and pages of all the same information. It's also very confusing with the amount of info and all the different people they are meant to be. But I loved Erie. She's badass. I hope she tell Callaghan where to go in the next book!!!
June 30, 2019
A great start to a new series ... a h who is very important for the continuity of 2 races, neither of which are good to her ... there were so many plot twists and turns that it was a job to keep up but it definitely was fascinating to read ...
I saw so many shades to the h's character ... H tried to protect her but he always failed ... h is definitely the real hero in this book and she runs rings around everyone, including the H ... tear jerker at times ...
I will be waiting for the second book in this series ..
I saw so many shades to the h's character ... H tried to protect her but he always failed ... h is definitely the real hero in this book and she runs rings around everyone, including the H ... tear jerker at times ...
I will be waiting for the second book in this series ..
June 25, 2019
If you’re looking for a light fluffy happy read this is not the book for you. This book does not offer an escape into a lovely romance, with a little drama, or a happy ever after.
I despised the first 60% of this book, the remaining 40% was intriguing. The romantic relationship was toxic & disturbing. I disliked the H(s) & had mixed feelings about the h. Normally, a book that is three stars with a spectacularly written antihero & has the promise of War on the horizon would be enough to keep my interest. However, although the book showcased the author’s talent & the overall arc seems promising, I’m of two minds on my continuing this series. If I’m honest I found the emotional toll this book had on me to be quite heavy. I was unprepared for my angst. it disturbed me as a female on a fundamental level. I’m not opposed to reading a dark book I just have to ready myself going in.
That said a few tips before reading this book. Tip 1 nothing is as it seems. Tip 2 Be prepared for an emotional upheaval. Feelings of pity, confusion, anger, hate, vindication & outrage were a reoccurring theme while reading this. Tip 3 take breaks as needed.
Trigger Warning ⚠️ violence against women & children. Rape. Continuous Emotional & physical abuse.
I despised the first 60% of this book, the remaining 40% was intriguing. The romantic relationship was toxic & disturbing. I disliked the H(s) & had mixed feelings about the h. Normally, a book that is three stars with a spectacularly written antihero & has the promise of War on the horizon would be enough to keep my interest. However, although the book showcased the author’s talent & the overall arc seems promising, I’m of two minds on my continuing this series. If I’m honest I found the emotional toll this book had on me to be quite heavy. I was unprepared for my angst. it disturbed me as a female on a fundamental level. I’m not opposed to reading a dark book I just have to ready myself going in.
That said a few tips before reading this book. Tip 1 nothing is as it seems. Tip 2 Be prepared for an emotional upheaval. Feelings of pity, confusion, anger, hate, vindication & outrage were a reoccurring theme while reading this. Tip 3 take breaks as needed.
Trigger Warning ⚠️ violence against women & children. Rape. Continuous Emotional & physical abuse.
August 25, 2019
Fantastic read
Can I just put it out there that I absolutely loved Erie!! Erie is the best anti-hero I have read. She is twisted, dark, calculated, and relentless. Just when you thought she was just some kind of pushover she surprises you. Erie is in a league of her own!!! I loved that she started out strong and got even stronger in the end. This was definitely not your typical PNR. There were so many plot twists and just random stuff that you just didn't see coming. Which at time made my head spin and made it kind of hard to keep up. But it was definitely a fascinating and intriguing read.
Can I just put it out there that I absolutely loved Erie!! Erie is the best anti-hero I have read. She is twisted, dark, calculated, and relentless. Just when you thought she was just some kind of pushover she surprises you. Erie is in a league of her own!!! I loved that she started out strong and got even stronger in the end. This was definitely not your typical PNR. There were so many plot twists and just random stuff that you just didn't see coming. Which at time made my head spin and made it kind of hard to keep up. But it was definitely a fascinating and intriguing read.
August 3, 2021
Another amazing story from Amelia.
June 20, 2019
UF tale that can also be read as a feminist critique
*Contains spoilers, so proceed at your own risk*
I really, really wanted to give this book 5 stars, and I would have for the first two thirds. But somehow in the last part the plot took an unfortunate turn and the mood changed and I could hardly wait to come to the end (which wasn’t really an end at all).
But first things first: before you start with If She Is Wicked you should read Oh, Holy Knight, which is sort of a prequel; actually it is the same story (at least the beginning of it), but told from a slightly different perspective, which I found an interesting concept that added another dimension. It is set in the same world as the Fae Chronicles, and some of the characters from those stories make an appearance.
I really loved the concept of the anti-heroine with a tortured upbringing, devoid of love and meaningful contact. In a way Erie is the embodiment of a feminist critique of a patriarchal society. She is the allegory of war, but she refuses to fight by the rules of men and constantly undercuts stereotypes of femininity and female behavior/comportment. It’s her that choses her first lover (both times) and in her incarnation as War she is not the one who is taken, but she is the one who does the taking. Also, she is not shy about articulating her sexual preferences.
She also throws into glaring relief society’s double-standard concerning the practice that men could (and still can) have a wife and mistress (and nobody blinks an eye), but women are expected to be pure. Although in defense of Callaghan, the (anti-)hero, he didn’t expect it.
In view of the current political climate in the US it’s impossible not to read the major plot of the story as an indictment: the story focuses on the attempts of various factions on getting Erie pregnant. Erie herself is a strong magical being, the result of the combination of the bloodlines of Templar and Druid, and not only is she the only female Druid in existence, but she is also magically more gifted then all her male counterparts from a young age, which made her an outcast and a target for their cruelty. But now the Templars are slowly dying, and as foretold by a prophecy, only a child from her womb can save them, and time is running out. Callaghan and the Templars are doing everything to try to get her pregnant (and to keep her that way), appealing to Erie’s compassion to save their race. But firstly, Erie does not feel beholden to the Templars, since they made her growing years an unimaginable hell, so she wouldn’t mind the entire race dying out and she refuses to be just a womb and give up her bodily autonomy; also, she is not really the motherly, nurturing type. The irony of course is that the curse that is killing the Templars came about through the murder of an unborn child and the sacrifice of a child that was already born.
I also like Callaghan (at least during most of the first two parts of the story): he is an alpha-hole, but he also tried to protect Erie as well as he was able (although he failed on a number of occasions). I loved their battles in bed and outside of it. I also found it very poignant how he kept his men from telling her what he had sacrificed for her.
But then somehow the mood changed when the focus shifted to their past lives; I liked their past characters a lot less then their present ones and knowing that their present selves were just playing out things that were set in motion in the past somehow took away from the story.
What especially bothered me was that after Callaghan steadfastly refused to use his past deeds to bring Erie to his point of view, he then recounts all his great deeds and sacrifices in an attempt to jog Erie’s memory of her past incarnation, which I found very unheroic and deflating. Sorry, but belaboring your own noble deeds just diminishes them. This should have been handled differently, maybe one of his men could have told her or she could have found out by some other means.
I am not averse to the idea of two souls inhabiting a body, and/or shifters that can change form, and I liked the glimpses of Callaghan’s beast. But I was totally weirded out (and not in a good way), when the beast literally came out and they had these ménage encounters. Not that I have anything against a good ménage, but please not with a shifter that is supposed to be one. This also made the relationship between Callaghan and his beast very strange in hindsight; at the beginning we hardly ever got a glimpse of it and they seemed much more in tune with each other, more like another wilder side of him rather then two distinct persons inhabiting the same body.
And finally, the editing (if any was done) really sucked. I am not overly nitpicky, I can overlook the occasional slip of the pen or some grammatical errors, but there were several instances in this book when the complete wrong word (though it may have sounded a bit similar) was used, which catapulted me right out of the story. The two most egregious instances where “abide my time”, which should be “bide my time”, since abide means “accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation)”. The other was “He felt it, the power that exhumed from me.”. The right verb her is “exude” (emanate, radiate). “To exhume” means to dig out/disinter a dead body, corps. This enumeration is not exhaustive, there are other semantic errors.
As a reader/reviewer it is not my job (and also not my place) to tell an author what to write or how to write it, I can only criticize the work that is before me. But if I were Amelia Hutchins’ editor, I would not only correct those errors, but also make her rewrite/cut/rearrange the third part of the book, for the reasons outlined above. As it is, I can only give it 4 stars.
*Contains spoilers, so proceed at your own risk*
I really, really wanted to give this book 5 stars, and I would have for the first two thirds. But somehow in the last part the plot took an unfortunate turn and the mood changed and I could hardly wait to come to the end (which wasn’t really an end at all).
But first things first: before you start with If She Is Wicked you should read Oh, Holy Knight, which is sort of a prequel; actually it is the same story (at least the beginning of it), but told from a slightly different perspective, which I found an interesting concept that added another dimension. It is set in the same world as the Fae Chronicles, and some of the characters from those stories make an appearance.
I really loved the concept of the anti-heroine with a tortured upbringing, devoid of love and meaningful contact. In a way Erie is the embodiment of a feminist critique of a patriarchal society. She is the allegory of war, but she refuses to fight by the rules of men and constantly undercuts stereotypes of femininity and female behavior/comportment. It’s her that choses her first lover (both times) and in her incarnation as War she is not the one who is taken, but she is the one who does the taking. Also, she is not shy about articulating her sexual preferences.
She also throws into glaring relief society’s double-standard concerning the practice that men could (and still can) have a wife and mistress (and nobody blinks an eye), but women are expected to be pure. Although in defense of Callaghan, the (anti-)hero, he didn’t expect it.
In view of the current political climate in the US it’s impossible not to read the major plot of the story as an indictment: the story focuses on the attempts of various factions on getting Erie pregnant. Erie herself is a strong magical being, the result of the combination of the bloodlines of Templar and Druid, and not only is she the only female Druid in existence, but she is also magically more gifted then all her male counterparts from a young age, which made her an outcast and a target for their cruelty. But now the Templars are slowly dying, and as foretold by a prophecy, only a child from her womb can save them, and time is running out. Callaghan and the Templars are doing everything to try to get her pregnant (and to keep her that way), appealing to Erie’s compassion to save their race. But firstly, Erie does not feel beholden to the Templars, since they made her growing years an unimaginable hell, so she wouldn’t mind the entire race dying out and she refuses to be just a womb and give up her bodily autonomy; also, she is not really the motherly, nurturing type. The irony of course is that the curse that is killing the Templars came about through the murder of an unborn child and the sacrifice of a child that was already born.
I also like Callaghan (at least during most of the first two parts of the story): he is an alpha-hole, but he also tried to protect Erie as well as he was able (although he failed on a number of occasions). I loved their battles in bed and outside of it. I also found it very poignant how he kept his men from telling her what he had sacrificed for her.
But then somehow the mood changed when the focus shifted to their past lives; I liked their past characters a lot less then their present ones and knowing that their present selves were just playing out things that were set in motion in the past somehow took away from the story.
What especially bothered me was that after Callaghan steadfastly refused to use his past deeds to bring Erie to his point of view, he then recounts all his great deeds and sacrifices in an attempt to jog Erie’s memory of her past incarnation, which I found very unheroic and deflating. Sorry, but belaboring your own noble deeds just diminishes them. This should have been handled differently, maybe one of his men could have told her or she could have found out by some other means.
I am not averse to the idea of two souls inhabiting a body, and/or shifters that can change form, and I liked the glimpses of Callaghan’s beast. But I was totally weirded out (and not in a good way), when the beast literally came out and they had these ménage encounters. Not that I have anything against a good ménage, but please not with a shifter that is supposed to be one. This also made the relationship between Callaghan and his beast very strange in hindsight; at the beginning we hardly ever got a glimpse of it and they seemed much more in tune with each other, more like another wilder side of him rather then two distinct persons inhabiting the same body.
And finally, the editing (if any was done) really sucked. I am not overly nitpicky, I can overlook the occasional slip of the pen or some grammatical errors, but there were several instances in this book when the complete wrong word (though it may have sounded a bit similar) was used, which catapulted me right out of the story. The two most egregious instances where “abide my time”, which should be “bide my time”, since abide means “accept or act in accordance with (a rule, decision, or recommendation)”. The other was “He felt it, the power that exhumed from me.”. The right verb her is “exude” (emanate, radiate). “To exhume” means to dig out/disinter a dead body, corps. This enumeration is not exhaustive, there are other semantic errors.
As a reader/reviewer it is not my job (and also not my place) to tell an author what to write or how to write it, I can only criticize the work that is before me. But if I were Amelia Hutchins’ editor, I would not only correct those errors, but also make her rewrite/cut/rearrange the third part of the book, for the reasons outlined above. As it is, I can only give it 4 stars.
January 25, 2020
Rating- 4 very good
Heat- 5
Tropes- heroine doesn’t know what she really is
All of Amelia Hutchins books begin with a warning. If you aren’t familiar with her work, you need to take this warning to heart. Amelia doesn’t write characters or plots that meet the typical romance genre model. Her characters are dark and their stories are even darker. However, there is just something about them that draws you in.
The Wicked Nights series is a part of Hutchin’s Fae Chronicles world. It can be read as a stand alone, but to understand the setting fully, it is best to read it in the order intended. There is not only character crossover, but the story happens simultaneously.
If She’s Wicked is the story of Callaghan and Erie. Callaghan is a member of the Knights Templar, but the Knights are not as history paints them. They are not only more than just knights, but they have a much more important role in our world than we could ever imagine. The fate of the Knights depends on Erie having a child to break a curse. If the Knights end, so does the world. Erie is not exactly down with this plan. Erie doesn’t know the full repercussions if the Knights died out, but she does know that she has had a rough life, and she can lay a lot of that at the feet of the Templars. Why help a group of people that abused her and now want her only for her uterus? While Callaghan wants to help and protect Erie, he is not willing to let her walk away from them and doom innocents.
Out of all of Hutchins books, this is my least favorite. (Although it should be noted that 5 star ratings are unusual for me, so a 4 star, least favorite book really just shows how incredible the other books are.) Lucian & Lena, Ryder & Syn, and Knox & Aria are all couples that screamed chemistry. Now matter what horrible things the men did, you wanted them to throw the heroine over their shoulder and carry them to bed. You could feel the sexual tension between them thickening the air in you living room as you read. Your heart hurt when they were fighting, and you just kept turning pages until the issue was resolved. I just didn’t feel that with Callaghan and Erie. The storyline, the world building, and the character development are all spot on. However, I just couldn’t bring myself to truly become invested in their relationship.
Heat- 5
Tropes- heroine doesn’t know what she really is
All of Amelia Hutchins books begin with a warning. If you aren’t familiar with her work, you need to take this warning to heart. Amelia doesn’t write characters or plots that meet the typical romance genre model. Her characters are dark and their stories are even darker. However, there is just something about them that draws you in.
The Wicked Nights series is a part of Hutchin’s Fae Chronicles world. It can be read as a stand alone, but to understand the setting fully, it is best to read it in the order intended. There is not only character crossover, but the story happens simultaneously.
If She’s Wicked is the story of Callaghan and Erie. Callaghan is a member of the Knights Templar, but the Knights are not as history paints them. They are not only more than just knights, but they have a much more important role in our world than we could ever imagine. The fate of the Knights depends on Erie having a child to break a curse. If the Knights end, so does the world. Erie is not exactly down with this plan. Erie doesn’t know the full repercussions if the Knights died out, but she does know that she has had a rough life, and she can lay a lot of that at the feet of the Templars. Why help a group of people that abused her and now want her only for her uterus? While Callaghan wants to help and protect Erie, he is not willing to let her walk away from them and doom innocents.
Out of all of Hutchins books, this is my least favorite. (Although it should be noted that 5 star ratings are unusual for me, so a 4 star, least favorite book really just shows how incredible the other books are.) Lucian & Lena, Ryder & Syn, and Knox & Aria are all couples that screamed chemistry. Now matter what horrible things the men did, you wanted them to throw the heroine over their shoulder and carry them to bed. You could feel the sexual tension between them thickening the air in you living room as you read. Your heart hurt when they were fighting, and you just kept turning pages until the issue was resolved. I just didn’t feel that with Callaghan and Erie. The storyline, the world building, and the character development are all spot on. However, I just couldn’t bring myself to truly become invested in their relationship.
June 25, 2019
Let me start off that I absolutely LOVE this author and I am old enough to know that critique is something that has to be taken in order to be a better writer. I know that she does taking negative reviews a little hard, but the journey of getting to be one of the top authors is learning from your mistakes. That being said,
May 20, 2021
This was in no way my favorite Amelia Hutchins book. I found myself skimming through the book because I was just bored? I'm not entirely sure why because finding out about Callaghan and Erie's pasts was quite interesting. But I just didn't connect with them the way I've connected with every other character in this Universe that I've read about. With that being said I am definitely interested in the next book starring these two. Bring it on baby! Hopefully we don't need to wait too long! :)
June 12, 2019
WOW What a EPIC journey this book was.
Can i just say that i love all Amelia's books but this one blew the rest out the water as this story was just epic with the world building and story telling with how she tells this story of Erie and Callaghan from the very beginning and how they came to be.This is a dark read but i freaking loved it.
Amelia never ceases to amaze me in how she pulls you into the worlds that she has created for us to read,just sit back as you will be pulled along with her in this amazing, intriguing journey along with Erie and Callaghan as it's a huge book,but there was plenty of action and i was glued to this story through out with how it was all unfolding.
I need to have a bff like Erie as she is a kick ass take no crap kind of girl,i absolutely loved her character and what she kept doing to Callaghan was just pure brilliance,as no way was she going take it that she was a walking womb to be used to produce a boy by the Templar Knights to save two races that she totally hates with a passion.She fights them all the way and god i would never want to be on her hit list at all.
There is a huge back story about Erie and Callaghan that we learn,and the torture and abuse that Erie was put through would totally break a lesser being,but i flipping loved how she just keep her darkness to herself and planned for the future on her own and never ever gave up from wanting to be free.We get to meet some of the Fae as well in this story mainly Zahruk and Synthia which i loved and of course Lucian,i was hoping we was going to find out what he is.....damn but no he is very very old so has to be a god of some form, well i am guessing.
The chemistry between Erie and Callaghan is smoking and the sex is off the charts hot,as come on this is Amelia we are talking about and she sure knows how to write a sex scene,these were panty meltingly hot!!!PHEW....loved Callaghan he can be mine any time he wants,as he does have 'a wreking Ball'.
The ending to this story was just how it should be as when you find out what Erie is you will understand that this is how she wanted it to be.Sorry if that was confusing,you will just have to pick this amazing book up and read for yourself this epic journey that Erie and Callaghan had been on for a very long time.Five Huge Wreking Ball Stars.
Can i just say that i love all Amelia's books but this one blew the rest out the water as this story was just epic with the world building and story telling with how she tells this story of Erie and Callaghan from the very beginning and how they came to be.This is a dark read but i freaking loved it.
Amelia never ceases to amaze me in how she pulls you into the worlds that she has created for us to read,just sit back as you will be pulled along with her in this amazing, intriguing journey along with Erie and Callaghan as it's a huge book,but there was plenty of action and i was glued to this story through out with how it was all unfolding.
I need to have a bff like Erie as she is a kick ass take no crap kind of girl,i absolutely loved her character and what she kept doing to Callaghan was just pure brilliance,as no way was she going take it that she was a walking womb to be used to produce a boy by the Templar Knights to save two races that she totally hates with a passion.She fights them all the way and god i would never want to be on her hit list at all.
There is a huge back story about Erie and Callaghan that we learn,and the torture and abuse that Erie was put through would totally break a lesser being,but i flipping loved how she just keep her darkness to herself and planned for the future on her own and never ever gave up from wanting to be free.We get to meet some of the Fae as well in this story mainly Zahruk and Synthia which i loved and of course Lucian,i was hoping we was going to find out what he is.....damn but no he is very very old so has to be a god of some form, well i am guessing.
The chemistry between Erie and Callaghan is smoking and the sex is off the charts hot,as come on this is Amelia we are talking about and she sure knows how to write a sex scene,these were panty meltingly hot!!!PHEW....loved Callaghan he can be mine any time he wants,as he does have 'a wreking Ball'.
The ending to this story was just how it should be as when you find out what Erie is you will understand that this is how she wanted it to be.Sorry if that was confusing,you will just have to pick this amazing book up and read for yourself this epic journey that Erie and Callaghan had been on for a very long time.Five Huge Wreking Ball Stars.
June 13, 2019
Wow was this Wicked brilliant!!
First off I MUST say this. While Yes this is a standalone, in order to fully enjoy and understand what is happening please, please read the Fae Chronicles, Monsters and the Elite Guard series. There is even a reading order in the beginning of the book so, no worries on where you should start.
Holy Freaking Shite. Thus was just freaking amazing. Hands down AMAZING. Never in my wildest dreams, would I have even begun to imagine that THIS, was Eries story. The world just fell away from me as I immersed myself into the pages of this masterpiece. I'm so freaking in love with how Hutchins was able to pull all my emotions to the surface. Love. Fear. Anger. Happiness. Joy. Sadness. Elation. Infatuation. Hatred. Lust. Envy. Loathing. I've felt it all and then some.
The best moments I had were the jaw dropping WTF moments, that Huctchins slid in at the perfect moments. Eveything you thought you knew, well she shattered those illusions.
Erie and Callaghan are just the epitome of dysfunctional relationship, and I adore them. I crave them. Their lives, their love; are so complex. Their history is just fabulous.
This is one for the ages. One I will love for the rest of my life.
First off I MUST say this. While Yes this is a standalone, in order to fully enjoy and understand what is happening please, please read the Fae Chronicles, Monsters and the Elite Guard series. There is even a reading order in the beginning of the book so, no worries on where you should start.
Holy Freaking Shite. Thus was just freaking amazing. Hands down AMAZING. Never in my wildest dreams, would I have even begun to imagine that THIS, was Eries story. The world just fell away from me as I immersed myself into the pages of this masterpiece. I'm so freaking in love with how Hutchins was able to pull all my emotions to the surface. Love. Fear. Anger. Happiness. Joy. Sadness. Elation. Infatuation. Hatred. Lust. Envy. Loathing. I've felt it all and then some.
The best moments I had were the jaw dropping WTF moments, that Huctchins slid in at the perfect moments. Eveything you thought you knew, well she shattered those illusions.
Erie and Callaghan are just the epitome of dysfunctional relationship, and I adore them. I crave them. Their lives, their love; are so complex. Their history is just fabulous.
This is one for the ages. One I will love for the rest of my life.
June 16, 2019
It was definitely one of her darker books, but like always I loved it. She kept all of her main characters from the world present even though this wasn't necessarily their book. HATE that it ended with a cliff hanger, but I know more is to come so I will impatiently wait. Lol
February 16, 2021
OMG
Okay, so the first half this book was redundant, but the last half, more like 25% was soooo worth the read. It answered a whole heck of a lot of questions and helped build a foundation for the next books. And yeah, I skipped this one before reading them the first time.
Okay, so the first half this book was redundant, but the last half, more like 25% was soooo worth the read. It answered a whole heck of a lot of questions and helped build a foundation for the next books. And yeah, I skipped this one before reading them the first time.
June 18, 2019
Amelia I love your books. I've read every single book you've written but I didn't enjoy this one :-(
Sorry, but still love Erie...looking forward to the next installment.
Sorry, but still love Erie...looking forward to the next installment.
July 8, 2019
Erie is my soul-sister.
July 14, 2019
DNF
I got bored, it is super repetitive, so gave up.
I got bored, it is super repetitive, so gave up.
June 24, 2020
Note: This is the first full novel in the Wicked Knights series and 14th overall book within the Fae Chronicles universe. This book should be read after The Winter Court (The Elite Guards #3).
This was, by far, the most bizarre of Amelia Hutchins’s Fae universe books. By very far.
Erie was created for one purpose: To save the Druid and Templar races. According to prophecy, a female Druid and a male Knight would create a child and break the curse on the races. Problem is, Erie is the only female Druid in history. She was also tortured growing up and told she was evil, so she’s kind of unhinged.
And oh yeah, she keeps the head of a talking demon named Fred in her freezer next to the coffee because she wants a friend.
Callaghan is a Knights Templar who wants to save the races, and he knows he needs Erie to do it. But he also wants Erie because she’s the most beautiful and dangerous creature he’s ever seen. He’s wanted her since she was created, and he intends to have her.
Erie and Callaghan are outrageous And disturbing together. Erie kills him over and over again because she’s so over him - fire, poison, decapitation, explosives, blade to the heart. But as he’s immortal he just regenerates. At one point she even bit his penis off, and she left him to bleed out on the bed.
Similarly, she kills herself over and over to get away from him in increasingly bizarre ways: Opening her veins, swallowing drain cleaner and bleach, electrocution, poisonous gas, etc.
But both Erie and Callaghan carry something more ancient than the land itself inside them. Callaghan is waiting for Erie to remember who she is, and Erie, well, she’s kind of playing the long game. There is an entire mythology within this book, and it’s woven throughout beautifully. Yeah, it’s out there, but no one can do centuries long love and bizarre like Amelia can.
However, this book does not end the story of our anti-hero and anti-heroine. I believe their story will end when the war in Faery comes to an end, in the next two Fae Chronicles novels.
This was, by far, the most bizarre of Amelia Hutchins’s Fae universe books. By very far.
Erie was created for one purpose: To save the Druid and Templar races. According to prophecy, a female Druid and a male Knight would create a child and break the curse on the races. Problem is, Erie is the only female Druid in history. She was also tortured growing up and told she was evil, so she’s kind of unhinged.
And oh yeah, she keeps the head of a talking demon named Fred in her freezer next to the coffee because she wants a friend.
Callaghan is a Knights Templar who wants to save the races, and he knows he needs Erie to do it. But he also wants Erie because she’s the most beautiful and dangerous creature he’s ever seen. He’s wanted her since she was created, and he intends to have her.
Erie and Callaghan are outrageous And disturbing together. Erie kills him over and over again because she’s so over him - fire, poison, decapitation, explosives, blade to the heart. But as he’s immortal he just regenerates. At one point she even bit his penis off, and she left him to bleed out on the bed.
Similarly, she kills herself over and over to get away from him in increasingly bizarre ways: Opening her veins, swallowing drain cleaner and bleach, electrocution, poisonous gas, etc.
But both Erie and Callaghan carry something more ancient than the land itself inside them. Callaghan is waiting for Erie to remember who she is, and Erie, well, she’s kind of playing the long game. There is an entire mythology within this book, and it’s woven throughout beautifully. Yeah, it’s out there, but no one can do centuries long love and bizarre like Amelia can.
However, this book does not end the story of our anti-hero and anti-heroine. I believe their story will end when the war in Faery comes to an end, in the next two Fae Chronicles novels.
June 12, 2019
She’s my kind of crazy
I really loved Erie’s story. For once I feel more connected to one of Amelia’s characters. Not that they aren’t all awesome, it’s just Erie isn’t the heroine. She’s got her issues and I really enjoyed seeing how she evolved. She was strong to begin with but her strength just grew throughout the book. This is a book of war and I’m all about people having their butts handed to them when it’s well deserved. This book led me on a journey that kept me interested and asking questions. I did not expect the end that we got. I can’t wait for the next book about Eerie because I know it’s going to be fabulous.
I absolutely LOVED Fred and the banter that he and Erie had throughout their time together. I was seriously laughing out loud and getting looks about that in the waiting room at the dr office. I didn’t care though because you know a book is great when it gets real reactions from you. Amelia has always been able to do that to me. She makes you feel what her characters are feeling, and you become a part of that world while visiting.
While a few characters from Amelia’s other series make an appearance, it’s not absolute that you read them first.
I really loved Erie’s story. For once I feel more connected to one of Amelia’s characters. Not that they aren’t all awesome, it’s just Erie isn’t the heroine. She’s got her issues and I really enjoyed seeing how she evolved. She was strong to begin with but her strength just grew throughout the book. This is a book of war and I’m all about people having their butts handed to them when it’s well deserved. This book led me on a journey that kept me interested and asking questions. I did not expect the end that we got. I can’t wait for the next book about Eerie because I know it’s going to be fabulous.
I absolutely LOVED Fred and the banter that he and Erie had throughout their time together. I was seriously laughing out loud and getting looks about that in the waiting room at the dr office. I didn’t care though because you know a book is great when it gets real reactions from you. Amelia has always been able to do that to me. She makes you feel what her characters are feeling, and you become a part of that world while visiting.
While a few characters from Amelia’s other series make an appearance, it’s not absolute that you read them first.
June 13, 2019
its the first book of Amelia, after a while i just wanted to finish it. Some parts just made me tired but i can’t wait for fae & his monster series
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