Blog Tour: My Merlin Series by Priya Ardis: Review, Excerpt, and Giveaway

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Title: My Boyfriend Merlin
Author: Priya Ardis
Publisher: Ink Lion Books
Publishing Date: December 1st 2011
Pages: 304
Genre: YA Fantasy
Series: My Merlin #1Source: Kindle  

  

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He was a little older than he was letting on. By a few eons…

In this modern day Arthurian, 17 year-old Boston high schooler Arriane, aka Ryan, DuLac just found out the guy she's been crushing on, hot biker Matt, is a little older than he was letting on. In fact, he is really Merlin—the Merlin, King Arthur's Merlin, the greatest wizard who ever lived. Frozen in a cave for over fifteen hundred years, he's woken for a purpose. But Ryan's not impressed. Tired of being a relationship loser, she'd rather kick his legendary behind.

Sure, the world has been crazy ever since the sword and the stone fell out of the sky like a meteor. But despite gruesome gargoyles, a deadly new world of magic and the guy driving her crazy, Ryan knows that family is everything. Will Merlin sacrifice hers to save the world? Will she be able to stop him?

I was so excited to read this book. I love Merlin and anything to do with Merlin. I loved this book. It was hook, line and sinker from the first page, the excitement started right away. The book was full on mystery, action, and romance.

It is present day and Ryan is in school when the tremor hits. It’s all over the news. A stone with a sword has fallen from the sky and landed in England. This was the last moment that Ryan’s life would ever be normal. She finds out that the myth of King Arthur, mostly true, the wizard Merlin does exist (oh and she dated him), and magic is real. Now the magic and the world is in danger and it’s all in the hands of Ryan, her friends, and her family, oh and Merlin.

I liked everything about this book. The flow was great, the writing just my style, the story action packed, the characters all amazing, the twist on the original myth was exciting.

I fell in love with Ryan and Merlin right away. Ryan is one tough cookie and has a heart of gold to go along with it. She will fight for those she loves without a second chance. As the story progressed, layers and layers of Ryan were discovered and she never ceased to amaze me. Merlin was so swoon worthy for me. He sounded really hot, and in my head he was the geeky hot, just the way I like them. He was everything that a hero from medieval times should be and lived up to my every expectation. I think it was Vane who stole the show for me. I wanted to like him, he was dark, mysterious, full of attitude, but something drew me in. The only problem... I wasn't sure if I could trust him and I was sure what his intentions for Ryan were. I think that if the trust issues wouldn't have been there, he would have been the perfect guy for me. The book was full of great characters bad and good. 

The story took unexpected turns around every corner and I really didn't know what to expect from page to page. I was always waiting for the other shoe to fall and I was never sure who to trust. 

I am all over this series and can’t wait to get the next book.

Title: Prologue; unreleasedSetup: *This prologue has never been released. Exclusive*

I got there too late.
I don’t know why I came at all.

You came for her, my insidious mind laughed at me.

Blood soaked the walls. The harsh light of the sun shone down on the townhouse’s white walls. The once pristine kitchen ran with streaks of red. The red didn’t bother me. It hadn’t bothered me since I made my first kill at the age of eleven.

I walked past the boy in the school letterjacket—the headless boy. His head tumbled off after I hacked it from his shoulder, and his youthful face, its invisible beast underneath, lay lifeless under a cheap wooden table with sunny yellow placemats.

I ran the sword against my leg. I don’t know why I bothered to clean it. Any sword I touched got dirty. This one wasn’t mine. It belonged to the dead mother and the girl on the floor. I didn’t look at the mother, another casualty in a silent war. If I’d gotten there a few minutes sooner… I clamped down the thought. It never paid to look back.

My eyes sought the girl. She looked broken, her soft golden hair splayed around her still face like a torn halo. She wasn’t though. She was strong, surprisingly so.

The way she laughed, freely yet with a hint of yearning. The way the light caressed her profile when she stared off into space, almost as if she could sense me in the shadows.

For weeks, I watched her. I shouldn’t have after I found out she wasn’t the one I sought. She wasn’t anything special. Then, why did I linger? Why did just looking at her make me want to forget every purpose and every vow? Why did I feel as if I waited over a thousand years for a chance to know her?

I gnashed my teeth. I couldn’t get distracted. My brother needed me although he’d never admit it. I’d failed him too many times. I was a wizard and I had a destiny to bend.

I laid the sword beside her. In a small burst of magic, I melded the fabric of her torn shirt. I touched her pink lips, just one touch. A bit of blood smeared where my finger pressed, marking her. She would never even know I was here. She wasn’t mine. For a moment, though, I wanted her to be.

But then, I was selfish that way.

My Merlin Awakening (My Merlin #2) by Priya Ardis

 
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He was the right one, the chosen one, but was he meant for her?

The end of the world. The day of reckoning. The final battle. In the last chapter of the My Merlin Series, it is a time of great strife for Arriane (aka Ryan) and Merlin (aka Matt) as they struggle to stem the flood of destruction unleashed upon the world. Their only hope rests in the one object that can restore their greatest ally: the Healing Cup.

With every scrap of life hanging in the balance, Ryan must convince both friends and enemies that the key to survival rests in the plans of a sword-toting girl of only eighteen. She must reconcile a fifteen-hundred-year rivalry between two brothers, and be ruthless enough to break a heart—and a life—in the process. And at some point, she really needs to get herself to Prom.

Every My Merlin (My Merlin #3) by Priya Ardis   

           

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He was the right one, the fated one, but was he right for her?

The end of the world. The day of reckoning. The final battle.

In the last chapter of the My Merlin Series, it is a time of great strife for Arriane (aka Ryan) and Merlin (aka Matt) as they struggle to stem the flood of destruction unleashed upon the world. Their only hope rests in the one object that can restore their greatest ally: the Healing Cup.

With every scrap of life hanging in the balance, Ryan must convince both friends and enemies that the key to survival rests in the plans of a sword-toting girl of only eighteen. She must reconcile a fifteen-hundred-year rivalry between two brothers, and be ruthless enough to break a heart—and a life—in the process. And at some point, she really needs to get herself to Prom.

Priya Ardis loves books of all kinds—but especially the gooey ones that make your nose leak and let your latte go cold. She started her first book at sixteen, writing in notebooks on long train rides during a hot summer vacation in India. Her favorite Arthurian piece is the poem The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson. A hopeless romantic, she's a longtime member of the Romance Writer's of America. When not living in her characters' world, she might be found at the local coffee shop—her nose buried in a book.

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