Smada's Book Smack : Release Tour & Giveaway: TROLL WHISPERS (Troll Series Novella) by Ashley C. Harris

Book Blurb:

The highly anticipated standalone novella from the International Bestselling TROLL series!

FANTASTICAL & ADDICTING

At the age of seventeen, Cordelia Connor's teenage life is not what it seems.... By day, she attends high school and pretends to be normal. But by night, she and a select group of other teens, called the Knights, spend their time training and sparring. They are preparing to fight the most magically seductive and wicked creatures of all, the trolls.

Cordelia yearns for her classroom life to end so she can help hunt underground. But time seems to be going by ever so slowly, especially while she watches other high schoolers date and have fun. To Cordelia, non-knight boys are off limits. Something that's not a disappointment until the new kid, Daemon Banks, shows up.

Daemon is nothing like the knight boys or high school males she has known. He's taller, stronger, faster, and up to something in Cordelia's little beach side town. Because he's a normal human, whatever his motives are... they should be off limits. But when a possible troll sighting sends the knights to a débaucheras party that Daemon is attending. Suddenly, his and Cordelia's worlds get scrambled, and she'll have to decide if she should let Daemon in.

Who to trust becomes alarming as troll sightings and mischief turn into a grave battle. Because of a traitor among the knights, the perilous treat only seems to be multiplying in Cordelia's world.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you enjoy Sarah J. Maas or Bella Forrest, this will be a ride you won't want to miss.

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Read a snippet from the book-

Cordelia awoke from her bed to a human’s scream. Was that my mom’s?! It couldn’t be.

The sound made her jump up, immediately her heart racing as she squirmed to the door. She wanted to be fearless and strong like her parents as she ran outside to find. . .

Creatures that made her pause, like they’d turned her to ice. Suddenly, unlike her brave mother, she couldn’t even scream.

Holy God!

There were so many of them. They were unnaturally tall, some reaching the Texas’s home’s ceiling. Others even taller than that, having to bend their marble-like bodies over.

Cordelia’s eyes went from one stone body to another, each monster with skin that looked so hard and unreal it shouldn’t have been able to move and breath. Yet, each creature was fully alive and mobile as they moved and barreled through her house; a home that was grand and considered, to most of their neighbors, the nicest. It had been in Cordelia’s family for many generations. She watched part of its walls crumble… Each demon-like giant flaring their fist into the foundation. More were coming that were well over nine feet tall, hunching just to get in and fit inside. These were all trolls, and there had to be over forty of them!

“Oh my God!” she gasped, overwhelmed.

Her parents had never let her see what real trolls really looked like. They’d said she wasn’t ready. As scary as these trolls were, not all but some of them, the younger looking ones, were also strangely beautiful. Like works of arts. No wonder some false legends lied claiming trolls were the decedents of entrapped titians. They did kind of look like a giant race of false gods. Gods that could tear Cordelia apart for fun.

My Review:

3.5 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Teen--

Cordelia may be set in her dangerous path, but what caused her to be there? This story is the tale of how Cordelia became a Knight and what the Trolls meant to her. But her heart may not be as easy to convince...

I have not read any books in this series but I have been wanting to for forever. When I saw that this was a standalone prequel novella I was really intrigued to get a taste of what sounded like a fascinating world. The author was able to create a very different world from any thing I have experienced before, with Trolls that are evil as well as mysterious and alluring. The story was full of mystery, danger, action and most importantly- romance. I found this to be a fast read with tons of characters that I wanted to know more about. Cordelia was a strong female character, with a backbone made out of steel, the heart of a warrior and the soul of a lover (yes, I went there). As a side note, this story is listed as a novella, but it felt like a complete book and it was 200ish pages, as per my ereader, so I am pretty certain I would not call it a novella.

I thought this story was interesting, but I was not 100% engaged with it because I knew that this would not have a happy ending since this was the beginning, not the end. But that being said, it did reinforce how much I want to get my hands on the first two books in the series to experience everything this world has to offer. I think this story is perfect for those who have read the other books and want another taste.

I received this title in return for my honest review.

Author Bio:

Author and film director Ashley C. Harris resides in Florida. Ashley was first recognized for her edgy writing and unique film work when she wrote and directed the teenage film “Lines”. Lines was the first feature film in the world captured using only Mac Laptops.

In 2013 she teamed up with Barclay Publicity to release the first in a new young adult novel series, “Shock Me”. Ashley then went on to author eight other titles, in multiple genres, as she also worked behind-the-scenes on a morning news show that aired on ABC.

In 2014, four of Ashley’s books landed on the Amazon's Best Selling Top-Ten-List. In 2015, she received her first publishing deal for “Troll”, a KindleScout novel winner.

When Ashley is not dreaming up new manuscripts and working on film sets, she loves spending time with her family, obsessing about biblical mysteries, and watching lots of Doctor Who.

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