It's Laura Thalassa spotlight month! We'll be running two giveaways this month!

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Welcome to August in the year of 2020! This year will probably go down in history as one of the wackiest, scariest, most stressful years in recent history. That's why we're running two giveaways this month. What's worse than the dog days of summer in August? The dog days of summer during the worst year in of the 2000's! So we're gonna do our best to help make staying inside the best adventure you've gone on!

The first series of hers I'd like to introduce to you all is 'The Unearthly'

That Awkward Moment-When a series you're reading makes you question your own morality.
This series by Laura Thalassa was one of those series you pick up expecting one thing and then getting SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY! 
The premise of the series is the 16 year old main character Gabrielle Fiori (thank you for not giving us weird, hard to pronounce names) who is accepted to an exclusive boarding school on the Isle of Man in the British Isles. Once there she learns that she's some sort of supernatural and during the awakening it's discovered she's half vampire and half siren and all the way damned. Yes she's damned from the start. She discovers she has a soulmate who is the biggest, baddest, scariest, dude in the entire supernatural community, think Godfather. He's wanted on the Supernatural's "most wanted list" so OF COURSE he's complete soulmate material. 
Oh but what's a young adult book series without an epic love triangle! This one has one so epic it's literally hellish as in literal hell. You read that correctly Laura "Rules are for mortals" Thalassa broke YA formula and gave this girl two soulmates. 
Gabrielle faces off against some pretty scary bad guys but never alone. She has her Seer friend and roommate Leanne and BBF (Best Bitches Forever) Oliver the gay fairy. Yes he's a gay fairy and you will LOVE him! As expected Oliver provides most of the humor in this series that spans five books and his jokes usually come at the expense of Gabrielle and Leanne (again thank you for not giving them weird, unpronounceable names). 
Laura does a great job of painting the devil as the true father of lies, the deceiver, and it's not until book five that you really start to question everything you thought you knew about him. I was so torn by book five I wasn't sure if I was rooting for the Hell to win Gabrielle's heart or  Andrea de Leon. 
I wasn't unhappy with how the story ended but I've come to realize I will always be the girl that hopes Dracula wins in the end. Not sure what that says about my own morality but whether your Team Hell or Team Earth this series packs a punch! 

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