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Carnelian
by B. Kristin McMichael
Series: Chalcedony Chronicles #1
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Published by Lexia Press on January 9, 2014
Genres: YA Time Travel Romance
Pages: 236
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Everyone has a past, but for most it isn’t so far in the past as Seth Sangre. His past is literally from thousands of years ago. Seth’s past led him to the present seeking something that might help him save his country from destruction. He has been in the present for over three years now, and he just found exactly what he has been looking for. Mari had dreams of college being a fresh start, one where she would start over and not fall for the good looking player like high school. Unfortunately for her, that’s exactly what ends up falling into her lap on the first day she moves into the dorms. Now she has to hold to her promise to herself not fall for the handsome Seth Sangre. But he doesn’t plan to make it easy for her. Seth has already marked her as his next conquest.
As the semester progresses, Mari learns that Seth might just have a past of his own that’s literally in the past. Suddenly, Mari finds her future along with her past put into question. She’s connected to Seth far more than she ever wanted to be, and maybe he isn’t the player who she thought he was. If Mari can trust her heart enough to follow him, Seth will lead Mari on an adventure of a lifetime-and reveal family secrets she never knew existed.
Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael is an excellent book about starting life at college with the touch of romance and time travel.
Will Seth and Mari be able to figure out a way to be together?
Marcella Navina
Marcella Navina is our main character and only point of view character. Mari, as she would instead be called, is going to college for her first year and is rather excited about it. She catches the eye, well more of the head, of the one and only Seth Sangre. He plays football and is the star quarterback. There is a lot that happens in this book, and one of them is the fact that Mari, as a character, grows. She does that by letting Seth get close to her, and Mari does that from how well she plays at CRUSH. A dorm building competition that brings normalcy to the story as a regular thing at that happens at some colleges the first semester.
I think in a different life we could be friends. We both love reading paranormal young adult books, and we are both morning people. Another thing that I like about Mari is that she knows what she doesn’t want to happen again while her heart thinks otherwise. There isn’t much that I don’t like about her.
Seth Sangre
Even though the little bit of Seth that we see before we are in Mari’s perspective is the short prologue at the beginning, Seth, after that point, is a sophomore in college and is helplessly trying to figure out who he is looking for to help him. At first, he seems like a player, but he isn’t. Seth has also seen that he needs to go slow with Mari, which is something that I love about him doing. Seth and Mari are cute together, and I liked seeing their relationship blossom out of the friendship that they started. I just hope that good things can happen with these two.
What I like about Seth is that he wants to prove himself to Mari and make her see that he is right for her. Another that I like about Seth is how protective he is despite the time gap because there are so many reasons why but some of them contain spoilers, but he just doesn’t want anything wrong to happen to her. There isn’t much that I dislike about him either.
The Time Travel
The time travel part of the book is a big spoiler part, but you would never guess Mari’s connection. I thought that I assumed right, but I was blown away by how wrong I was. Now I have more questions as to what will happen in the next book.
Five Stars
Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael is the first book I have read by this fantastic author, and her writing style already hooks me. I think with this book, just having a first-person point of view and having that be Mari was a fantastic choice. The reason for that is because she is new to this and is maybe more connected to it then what both her and Seth think. I am now going to have to wait until September at the latest to pick this series back up. I am giving this book five stars and recommending it to anyone that wants to read it.
Other Books in the Series
Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael.
Until the next time,
Happy Reading!
About B. Kristin McMichael
USA Today Bestselling Author B. Kristin McMichael writes YA and clean NA paranormal fiction. Her “Night Human World” includes the YA series “The Blue Eyes Trilogy” about a midwestern girl who comes of age in a world of battling vampire clans, the “The Day Human Trilogy” that takes place among the Appalachian Sidhe fairies, and “The Skinwalkers Witchling” trilogy that follows an apprentice witch in the Pacific Northwest. She’s also the author of the NA paranormal time travel romance series “The Chalcedony Chronicles”.
B. Kristin McMichael graduated with her PhD in biology at Ohio State where she worked as a scientist before taking her passion of writing full-time. Besides writing, she enjoys chasing her kids, playing outside, and baking cookies. She lives in Ohio with her husband and three children.
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