Victor (The Eden East Novels)

I'm an avid fan of this author and the Eden East Series. I've also read and reviewed the first book in this series, Keepers, which you can find on colleenchesebro.com.Victor is the second book in the series and starts out with a bang! After crashing Eden's coronation it becomes apparent that Victor is very much alive, even though Eden stabbed a poisoned knife through his heart. It's as if Victor can't die!And if that it isn't enough to grab your attention, Eden finds that she must rule as the "Fallon of the East" and as the head-girl in Keeper school. She also becomes part of a conspiracy to overthrow the First Fallon and joins in the rebellion.Meanwhile, Eden is still reeling from the deaths of her parents. Those feelings comingle into her life with Trey, her balancer, and soul mate.  Look for some steamy scenes between these two! Whew! Their relationship is all consuming. These two are so twisted up together that the reader knows one cannot live without the other.Yet, a sense of uneasiness hangs over Eden's world. For all the happiness she shares with Trey, she is plagued with horrible nightmares about the fate of Trutinor and her beloved. She finds herself consumed by these dreams terrified they are prophetic in nature. Eden turns to two friends, Sheridan, and Charlie who is able to provide some interpretation to her dream sequences. Charlie travels within her dreams searching for the answers that Eden needs to save Trutinor and Trey.In my humble opinion, Victor surpasses the first book, not in storytelling, but in the detail given to the worldbuilding of Truitnor. This novel could almost stand alone, it is so powerful. However, from the skillful words of this author, the reader learns more about the dryads and the shifters, and the role they play in this realm of existence. By the end of Victor, I found myself fully vested in the characters and in the mystery that envelopes Trutinor. This is an action-packed novel that transmits just the right amount of tension so the reader will beg for more. I'm begging! I can't wait to find out what happens next!MY RATING:Character Believability: 5Flow and Pace: 5Reader Engagement: 5Reader Enrichment: 5Reader Enjoyment: 5Overall Rate: 5 out of 5 Stars

Victor buzzes with magic. It's an intense thrill ride that will have you on the edge of your seat! With a vivid world, dynamic characters, and a heart pounding plot, you will not be disappointed!Once again, Sacha has astounded me! Victor was everything I had hoped it would be and so much more! I could not put it down!It picked up shortly after the ending of Keepers and was driven with an exciting pace. Bits and pieces of reminders from book 1 were sprinkled in throughout the story to help bring back important events so I didn't feel lost. It was well done and I loved it more than the first!Victor returned me to the incredible world that Sacha had created in Keepers. I loved how the culture and history of Trutinor continued to be developed and flourished with vivacity! I didn't realize how much I had missed the keepers, fallons, shapeshifters, elementals, and sirens. There was also more history introduced regarding the mermaids of the world!To avoid spoilers, I've decided to only talk about Eden. I loved her tenacity and strength. She continued to grow and develop from book 1 and had some crazy obstacles thrown her way in this one! I've become so invested in her, and the other characters, that I cannot wait to see what happens in the next book!This one was so wild and unpredictable. I loved it! I can't really talk about the main events, or the main characters, without giving spoilers away, but I'd definitely recommend buying both Keepers and Victor and reading them back to back! Victor was so much better than Keepers, and I had already given Keepers 4.5 stars. Both books had this amazingly vivid world that Sacha imagined, and amazing characters, but Victor really kept up the exciting pace and shocked me so many times, and left me in a tizzy with the ending!

The first thing I loved about this book was that the action never stopped. I would promise myself that I’d put the book down after whatever chapter I was reading, and then I would come to the end of that chapter and HAVE to go on to the next one, I could not stop myself. The second thing I loved was the love story/romance storyline—super steamy and absolutely great chemistry between Eden and Trey (our leading lady and man). I loved both of them so much, so it was incredibly satisfying to see them finally together, and navigating the rollercoaster of their relationship and the events happening around them. The story revolves really nicely around the action and the romance elements, and the backstory is seamlessly woven throughout, so I felt literally every second like I was being carried along with the story and had no conception of time passing. This is my favorite “zone” to be in while reading!Now, I will say that I already read Keepers (the first book in this series) before I dived into Victor, but I honestly feel that Victor can be read as a standalone book. The author does such a great job of inserting the essential tidbits of backstory that you never feel confused or like you’re missing something if you haven’t read Keepers. However, anyone who reads Victor is going to automatically want to read Keepers if they haven’t already, because you will guaranteed get sucked into this world and want to know as much as possible. It’s a highly addictive series to get hooked on.I strongly recommend this book for anyone who’s into YA fantasy, YA sci-fi, steampunk fiction, YA/NA romance, speculative fiction, or just wants an amazing series to sink their teeth into. Victor does not disappoint!