Stealing Embers (Fallen Legacies Book 1)

Julie Hall — 2020

A realm of monsters. A world of lies. She belongs to both. My name is Emberly, and everything I've ever been told is a lie.Monsters don't exist. Wrong.The nightmarish spectrum world is just my imagination. Wrong.In a few months, I'll finally be free. Wrong.It takes being dragged to a secret training academy in the mountains to unravel the truth. My captors--an elite race of angel-born warriors called Nephilim.The deadliest of them all is an arrogant shape shifter, Steel. He's gorgeous, lethal, hot-headed . . . and convinced I'll be the death of them all.Maybe he's right. As soon as I show up, the monsters that have haunted me my entire life breach the academy walls. My only hope of saving my new friends is learning how to control my powers, but when a stunning betrayal hurts someone I care about, I have an impossible choice. Stay and fight for a place to belong . . . or decide once and for all that I'm better off alone.Enter the spectrum world, a realm in-between worlds where shadow beasts draw blood, reality is a maze of twisted lights and sounds, and life goals are whittled down to just one: survive.Fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Cassandra Clare will love this Crescent City meets Crave mash up!"Filled with action, danger, romantic tension, and intrigue, Stealing Embers is absolutely addictive." ?Casey L. Bond, award-winning author of When Wishes BleedJulie Hall is the USA Today and 11x award-winning author of the LIFE AFTER series.

Reviews

Micol Scalabrino@micolreads

Jan 5, 2022

Such a fun read!

Jess Ostrander@metalheadreader13

Aug 27, 2021

4.5! Emberly has been living her life on the streets as a homeless runaway, just trying to make it to the freedom of her 18th birthday. She's always known she was different- she can see a nightmarish spectrum world where there are monsters who hunt her. But she's always thought it's part of her imagination, or maybe that she's a little crazy... until the day she learns it's all real. She's captured and taken to a secret training academy for Nephilim- angel born warriors. And turns out, she's one of them. But her presence draws in the monsters she's been running from, and now she has to figure out her powers and save the only friends she's ever had. First off, I loved this book! It was fun, fast paced, and full of excellent characters! We've got Emberly, our MC, who gets her entire world turned upside down in a moment when she learns she's actually part of the Nephilim. I loved her. She grows a lot in the story, and I loved seeing her learn that she doesn't need to be on her own and that she can trust people. Then we've got Ash, Emberly's roommate and first friend. She's protective, loyal, and loving. And we've got the twins, Sterling and Grayson. I loved them and their humor, and how their whole group fit together. And we've got Nova, who breaks the jealous girl trope. And of course we have Steel. The broody, arrogant shape shifter who knows he's the best, but is also fiercely protective of his family. And aren't we all suckers for a dark haired, blue eyed, emotionally damaged love interest?? We get a great hate to not quite love romance started with this book, and I'm so interested to see where it goes! And I can't forget one of my favorite characters, Tinkle. He's such a funny character and I was laughing out loud at everything he said. Did I mention he's a talking squirrel? Well, sort of. This book has a fast paced plot full of adventure, danger, friendship, and a bit of romance. It hooked me in right away, and I am still personally victimized by the fact that it's over! I can't wait for more from this series!! Overall it's an excellent first book and I highly recommend it!!