blood of the roses
1 up/week (Sun); ---- Ezekiel Jiang has his hands full when a deadly conspiracy threatens to destroy the world - all because the Crown of Fire, an object with magical abilities, was stolen. At first, it was only about recovering the crown. But things start to get complicated when secrets that shouldn't have come out made him question the motives of everyone he thought he knew. The past was catching up quick and it was nothing less than a threat. Time was slipping away from his grasp and he had only cold leads. Enter Irene and Genevieve Pierce. Two sisters who could easily rule the world if they wanted to. With goddess-like looks and lethal intelligence, they suddenly offer their help to Ezekiel for locating the crown. But what was their personal motive behind all of it? Why were they so sure they could find the crown before something bad happens? Mostly, what was this past that tied them all together? Excerpt: The way she looked was bound to take any man's breath away. Dressed in an elegant rose-gold dress, she walked on her high heels like she owned the place. Golden eye makeup that looked like a belt of asteroids rested on the sharp, winged eyeliner that accentuated her brown eyes and a smirk on her nude painted lips dipped with the confidence of a huntress coming to hunt her prey. She had an aura of power that surrounded her, an aura that made her shine with radiance yet capable enough to burn anyone who dared to mess with her.
ROSES OF BLOOD will make you hate nearly every other novel, the plot sounded common to me but was surprisingly uncliche if I must say it is full of so many extremes.