BOOK REVIEW: Fated Loss by Claudia Caren (Red Rose & Black Ash #1)

Fated Loss by Claudia Caren

Published date: 29 July, 2017
Published by: PaperHeart Press

Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal Romance 

Pages: 248

Format: Ebook

Rating: 4*

Synopsis:

For two years, her memories were lost.

For two years, she believed a lie.

For two years, thousands of lives rested in her hands. But she didn't even know.

Because she can't remember her past, Rose Kristal thinks she is an ordinary girl until her sixteenth birthday. On that day she discovers she is far beyond ordinary. On that day she remembers what she had forgotten. Now with thousands of people in peril, Rose needs to take back what has been stolen from her. 

Second by second, time ticks down and challenges pile up as Rose struggles to reclaim her kingdom from a vile tyrant. One who is determined to vanquish her. And to make matters more complicated, she is falling for a kind guy with a deadly secret. 

But Rose's biggest fear—losing the one she loves to the prophecy.

REVIEW:

We get to meet Rose, our main character, who has no recollection of her life pior her 14th birthday. She has a couple of strange encounters with her own magic, something she didn't knew she had. Well, at least she didn't remember she had it. At first she thinks she's hallucinating but after eavesdropping some of her grandparents conversations she begins to suspect that maybe magic was real and she wasn't just a regular human. And oh boy she truly wasn't. Besides not being human she has an important role in saving her family and friends, her entire kingdom's fate is resting upon her but with the help of her sister Skylar, her friend Ariel and the one who stole her heart, Logan, she will do everything to save everything and everyone.  

Five hours. It took me freaking five hours to devour this book. I was hooked on the first page and couldn't seem to let it go. I just wanted to keep reading and know what was about to happen.

The first half of the book was quite fast-paced and at first I didn't like that everything was happening too fast but the second half slowed down a bit and it help me enjoy the book a bit more. Besides that I loved every single character from the first moment they appeared and the story about this other world from which Rose actually belongs to was just so interesting. I was thirsty for more knowledge, to know each and everyone's past.

I think that the author is creating an awesome world from where she can give us much more adventures, action, romance. That ending freaking killed me. It ripped me to small shreds and now I need the second book more than I need to breathe. Some things in this book I was already expecting to happen but others I wasn't and that left me impressed because it made the story not so obvious but that ending wasn't even on my mind. It really never crossed my mind and I don't know if I should worship Claudia for such a clever way to end this first installment or if I should kidnap her, hold her hostage for what she did to my pour soul with that last chapter.