Review: Midnight Lily by Mia Sheridan via Goodreads

Midnight Lily by Mia Sheridan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5+ My Lily, my ghost, my dream Stars

Mia Sheridan is definitely one of my favorite authors. I feel like whatever she writes I would read it. Even it was her shopping list.
The awesome thing about her books is she never repeats herself. She always comes up with something different, something new.
But there are also some things what never changes...Like her amazing writing skills, lovable characters, sweet but not too cheesy romance, steamy scenes and lots of emotions. This book had all of them.

I didn't read any reviews about this book, I read only the blurb and I knew it would be mysterious. But to think this book just mysterious is an understatement. Midnight Lily was nothing like I've read before. It left me speechless. It was brilliant with the flowing storyline.

But also, writing a review for Midnight Lily without giving any spoilers is pretty hard thing. Anyway, I'll just try...

Holden Scott was famous, he was a football player. But behind of his fame, his life was on a downhill. He wasn't happy with his life and he found the peace in drugs. Till he touched the bottom. Finally, to get his life back he came to a lodge in Colorado.

Nothing except ait, forest, stone and sky. Oh, and an abandoned mental instituation.

Something's about to happen.

His therapeutic trip became interesting when he saw a girl in the woods. A girl with dark hair in a white lace dress. Who was that girl, in the middle of nowhere? Was she real or a hallucination?

She walks in beauty, like the night.
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
And all that's best of dark and bright

Midnight Lily is about love.
It is about perfection in the imperfect situations.
It's about jumping to the darkness for our loved ones.
It's about accepting each other with the flaws, with the demons and with all the uncertainty.



In short...
This book shocked me time to time with its twists. But at the end, I felt like my eyes were jumping from their sockets. My jaw dropped to the floor. I had a lot of theories while reading the book but I didn't see THAT coming at the end.
This book was brilliant!!

Review: Finding Eden by Mia Sheridan via Goodreads

Finding Eden by Mia Sheridan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5+ -You were made for me- Stars!!

Finding Eden is the second book of Aquarius Sign and the story continues from where Becoming Calder left it.
So as a warning, if you didn't read Becoming Calder this review might have some spoilers for you. I highly suggest you to read Becoming Calder before you read any review about Finding Eden.

Calder and Eden have known each other for so long, since their childhood. But call it destiny or soul mate or just a simple coincidence life brought them together. Life gave them an epic love in the least hopeful places. They found light when it was darkest.

Sometimes I felt like falling down on my knees in front of her worship. She was unbelievably beautiful in every possible way. Still. After all this time and after everything, still. Only now, she not only held a gentle beauty but quiet strength I'd always seen in her was even more apparent.

But something so pure and bright gave them the most pain for years. They lost each other, they lost the purpose in life, they lost their happiness. But they couldn't end this misery just because an awful possibility to not end up together in the spring, in the Elysium.

Sometimes it seemed so much of the beauty in life resulted from the ugly. And how did you make sense of such things? How could you be thankful for something when so much suffering was necessary to bring it to you? Or was that the very thing that defined real beauty-light after darkness? And maybe that was the whole point. If you constantly sought beauty in the most obvious places, in only the brightest of circumstances, perhaps you weren't really looking for it at all.

I know what she was like at ten. She was a brave, little dreamer who has an unbreakable spirit. She was mighty enough to snatch my heart right from my chest.
Fourteen was when she really started to glow and suddenly, I couldn't look away. I wanted to. Because where I came from, it was a dangerous thing to notice. Anytime she was in the room, it was like the whole place was bathed in her warmth. Does that sound like an exaggeration? maybe overly dramatic, poetic words from a boy who has loved her his whole life? They're not. It's simply tthe truth. Eden blossomed into a woman before my very eyes and although there wasn't anyone there to help her do that, she did it with grace completely by herself. It's her strength, her unwavering courage, the thing that makes her the most beautiful in my eyes.
When she was sixteen, she had the power to take my very breath away. And she did it often. She made me miserable and blissful and everything in between.

While reading this book Mia Sheridan made me awe in the way how life works. In life, everything happens for a reason. Life has a strange way to do it, sometimes it is harsh but in the end...it looks like a little detail in the big picture.
In this book, I was sitting on the edge while praying they would find the way toward each other. Finally, when they became together again after years...It was like feeling that magical click.
It was awesome how years can change everything but not the feelings if they were real.

Did you even think it was a choice? For me, it's not.

Eden and Calder have been through so many things together. In the past and in the present. But they always together whatever it is. They fought the world together, hand in hand.
Their love started so pure and innocent. With each passing day, it grew just like Eden and Calder. It became hot like a lava. At the end, their love was strong, hot and sincere.

I want to fuck you and worship you. I want to worship you while I fuck you. I want to fuck you until you feel how much I worship you. I hate it and I love it because I know it will never change. It's been this way from the moment I laid eyes on you and it'll be this way until the day I die.

They were in the world that was pretty different and unfamiliar what they've known. They felt like out of the fishbowl. A foreign world when they didn't have each other. When they became together, they were hungry for information, knowledge. They longed for feeling belonged somewhere. They were desperate to understand what all they suffered. They were hungry to open a blank page after all the nightmare they've been through.

And at the end, the big picture settled in place. Everything ended up the way it should. And they found the solace they were looking for.

We agreed in ways both spoken and unspoken that the world was ugly and broken and love was ridiculously dangerous and absurdly unsafe...And that we would love anyway. We would keep our fierce and tender hearts open. It felt foolish and ridiculous and right. It felt like the bravest thing we'd ever do.

Review: Becoming Calder by Mia Sheridan via Goodreads

Becoming Calder by Mia Sheridan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5+ Morning Glory and Butterscotch Stars!

This is the second book I've read by Mia Sheridan. After Archer's Voice, I was so excited to read another book from her, to dive in her amazing writing skills. Because there is something in her writing that makes you feel every emotion deeply in your soul. Every word creates a tingly sensation on your skin. The story and the characters put a smile on your face. Also, she makes you feel pain, sorrow, longing.

Becoming Calder is the first book of Aquarius(my sign) Duo and it has a lot of connection with the sign. This book is literally a Young Adult and Contemporary Romance book. But this book has more than that. I wouldn't categorize it just with those two. Because Becoming Calder "feels" like a magical, mythical, historical, even a little bit dystopian, young adult and contemporary romance. So...To categorize this book just with one category wouldn't do the justice.

Let me use the blurb to explain what Becoming Calder is about:

There is a place in modern day America with no electricity, no plumbing, and no modern conveniences. In this place, there is no room for dreams, no space for self-expression, and no tolerance for ambition.

There is a cult named as Acadia with a leader named as Hector. They live the simplest way possible, are obedient to the Hector and what the Gods' rules. Living isolated from the real world, the modern world, they don't have anything for themselves. Because being selfish is sin and not allowed.
And the most important thing is they don't ask questions, they just believe.



In this place, there is a boy with the body of a god and the heart of a warrior. He is strong and faithful and serves his family honorably. But he dares to dream of more.

Calder Raynes...We met him when he was only ten years old sweet boy. He is a Water Bearer. With each passing days, he became a young man. He is intelligent, sweet, handsome, simply beautiful in and out. He has the simplest but the rarest attribute in him. He is GOOD.

I watched the way he was smiling and laughing and the way other people, whenever they were around him, seemed to smile, too. It was like he just exuded joy and goodness.
He was beautiful...

In this place, there is a girl with the face of an angel and a heart full of courage. To her family, she is the vision of obedient perfection. But she dares to want that which she has been told can never be hers.

Eden...The Blessed One...The one who carries the responsibility of big destiny. The one who has to be selfless and obedient to take everyone to the Elysium. But she is too strong to be ruled and too delicate to be selfless. All those years, she wanted one thing and she is too passionate to give up on that dream.

As I stared at her, a strange feeling gripped me, almost lie a sort of déja vu, as if this moment was a memory- not one that was in my mind, but in my blood, in the very fiber of who I was.

Becoming Calder is the story of good versus evil, fear versus bravery, and the truth that the light of love has always found its way into even the darkest of places . . . From the beginning of time to the end of the world.

Where they lived there wasn't a place for their love. That was selfish, impossible. Everything was against them. The destiny was against them. But the love found a way to grow in them. Slowly, surely and irrecoverably.

"His smile lit up my world, even from afar. he was perfect. And I loved him. I loved him desperately."
"I will protect your sweet and hopeful heart. I vow to shield you from any ugliness in this world and always be your shelter in the storm."

This book was an epic read for me that I'll never forget. Even while writing this review I already want to re-read Becoming Calder. Their pure love and innocent passion were captivating, steamy and sweet.
After Archer's Voice, I thought I knew what I should expect from this book but Mia Sheridan totally surprised me. I'm spellbound by the book, the storyline, how different this book than Archer.
Although I know it's wrong to compare books, I couldn't help but ask myself if I loved Archer or Calder more. I can say both are the same but then...I may even love Calder more.

If you want to witness how love grows in two people's heart, how they can find a sacred place to worship that love day by day...Read this book. This book reminds us how the real love should be and how strong it is.

I truly, absolutely loved everything about this book!!

Review: Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan via Goodreads

Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5+ -Deafening-Silent-Screams Stars

Give me a few moments to hate myself for not read this book earlier. This book is a treasure.

This was the first time I have read a book from Mia Sheridan and she became one of my favorite. There is no such word to describe this book. It is sweet, sexy, emotional, funny and so much more. So much more that no "spoken" words can describe. But maybe Archer...Maybe he can describe it.

Because I totally Archer this book.



This book is so different from what I used to read. Archer Hale is so much different from what I thought I love in men.

Billionare, alpha-male, husky voice, self-confident, know-them-all, done-that-been-there kind of guys...You know them, right?
Now, forget them all. There is more here. There is Archer Hale.

Archer Hale is sweet, inexperienced, using his insurance for living, silent, insecure...He is total opposite of we used to. But he is everything a girl can want at the same time.



Archer Hale lives his life isolated. Everyone knows he is there but noone cares enough to know the real him. He ignores people in town and they ignores him as well. Such a waste!

When Archer was a seven years old boy, he met cruelty of life and it didnt just traumatized him, it left scar on him. There was a damage on his voice box so he cannot speak anymore. Silence took him away...

Until her. Until Bree Prescott.



Bree Prescott is in a short road trip. Atleast that is what she says if you ask her. But the truth is she is running away. From her life, from her loss, from her own issues.
One day she makes a wish with a dandelion. And her wish comes true when a strange, silent but mystery man came to the view.

Archer's Voice is hard to review. Because this book is full of emotion. This book was real. This book makes me question life and our prejudices toward people who is different than us.

But I think we will see so much more if only we can shut up and listen. If only we can look inside.

Bree does this for Archer but Archer does same for Bree, too. These two lost souls save each other. They face fears together or wait for each other when the other needs to fight alone.



Bree and Archer dont need any words spoken out loud. They have silence communication which is much better and deeper than anything.



I love so much Archer and Bree's story and so glad that I read this book, finally. This book is not something you can read and feel nothing. This book is a MUST-READ.

Archer's Voice captivates you from the first page of the book. And with every page it just steadies its place in your heart.