laurapatriciarose's review
5.0
Rae has done it again for me with this wonderful novella and prequel to The Keepers: Archer. I have read The Keepers: Archer first so my experience of this novella may be different to someone who reads Sienna first. I promise I won't give anything away.
I was so so so excited to hear that Rae was releasing a prequel to her Keepers series. I read The Keepers: Archer back in June and have been wanting desperately to immerse myself in that world again, and this novella did not disappoint. I already knew all the characters very well, apart from two of them and they were exactly as I remembered and meant that I did not need much character development, but I think Rae still did this well in this shorter story.
Reading the prequel explained a lot of what had happened in Archer's story, with one character in particular making an appearance in the prequel that I had wanted to get to know more about in Archer's story. I was excited to see that the heat between Sienna and Archer was extremely evident in this! Archer is definitely still my top book boyfriend! I am only annoyed that the story wasn't longer! I would have liked to have read more in some parts and get to know one of the characters a little better, but that's just me being greedy.
This was an action packed, fast paced read once again and if you have not read The Keepers: Archer yet I know you will be aching to find out what happens next!
I was so so so excited to hear that Rae was releasing a prequel to her Keepers series. I read The Keepers: Archer back in June and have been wanting desperately to immerse myself in that world again, and this novella did not disappoint. I already knew all the characters very well, apart from two of them and they were exactly as I remembered and meant that I did not need much character development, but I think Rae still did this well in this shorter story.
Reading the prequel explained a lot of what had happened in Archer's story, with one character in particular making an appearance in the prequel that I had wanted to get to know more about in Archer's story. I was excited to see that the heat between Sienna and Archer was extremely evident in this! Archer is definitely still my top book boyfriend! I am only annoyed that the story wasn't longer! I would have liked to have read more in some parts and get to know one of the characters a little better, but that's just me being greedy.
This was an action packed, fast paced read once again and if you have not read The Keepers: Archer yet I know you will be aching to find out what happens next!
emmascr's review
4.0
This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews Rae contacted me as part of Harper Impulse Fortnight to see if I would be interested in reviewing The Keepers: Declan, so I looked up the book and while I was dying to read it, I had a little issue. Declan was not the first book in the series and I am a bit of a stickler for reading books in the order they should be in. So I logged on to Amazon to find that Sienna (book 0.5) was free. I instantly downloaded it. I was almost halfway through Sienna when I knew I had to read the rest of the series. Rae has kindly emailed me copies which I will be reviewing shortly.
So back to the story. Sienna is a witch who has just inherited her grandmothers powers. (Side note: Now I am not sure how the powers were passed to Sienna and I am hoping this is something we discover as the series continues.) Sienna has 4 Keepers Archer, Sarah, Ethan and Declan. These four are sworn to keep Sienna safe at all times.
Now I am not going to go into too much detail on the story as this is only a prequel and under 100 pages. I will however say that it is fast paced, explosive and exciting.
I raced through page after page and couldn't put it down. I was not prepared for so much to happen in such a short book. Rae makes the best use of every single word. There is nothing on the page for filler. There is nothing that wastes your time.
I have to say that this had an interesting ending and I am very much looking forward to reading Archer and Declan.
So back to the story. Sienna is a witch who has just inherited her grandmothers powers. (Side note: Now I am not sure how the powers were passed to Sienna and I am hoping this is something we discover as the series continues.) Sienna has 4 Keepers Archer, Sarah, Ethan and Declan. These four are sworn to keep Sienna safe at all times.
Now I am not going to go into too much detail on the story as this is only a prequel and under 100 pages. I will however say that it is fast paced, explosive and exciting.
I raced through page after page and couldn't put it down. I was not prepared for so much to happen in such a short book. Rae makes the best use of every single word. There is nothing on the page for filler. There is nothing that wastes your time.
I have to say that this had an interesting ending and I am very much looking forward to reading Archer and Declan.
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