LindseyfromBFCG reviewed on 1/13/2015 + 117 more book reviews

{This is not a clean book! If you're under 17 please do not read this book, series or this review!}

**THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW; I'm not holding back my thoughts or opinions!


About this book:

"From the Land of Fire and Ice back to England's shores, Alexandria Featherstone finds herself the new Duchess of St. Easton. Her husband has promised a wedding trip to take them to the place where her imperiled parents were last seen -- Italy and the marble caves of Carrara -- but a powerful Italian duke plots against Alex and her treasure-hunting parents.
Hoping to save them, Alex and Gabriel travel to Italy by balloon. Fraught with danger on all sides and pressured by Gabriel's affliction to the breaking point, they must learn to work and fight together. The mysterious key is within their grasp, but they have yet to recognize it. This journey will require steadfast faith in God and each other -- a risk that will win them everything they want or lose them everything they have."


Series: Book #3 in the "Forgotten Castles" series. {Book #2 wasn't clean either, book #1 was decent.}


Spiritual Content- Prayers; `H's are capital; There's a couple talks about God; A couple Scriptures are quoted; Mentions of Heaven; Katherine doesn't trust/believe in God, Ian does however; a Mention of the city of Jericho, Adam & Isaac; The paperwork that Alexandria's parents were/are hunting for it the blueprints to a weapon, that once they find it (the actual machine) turns out to be a giant music box that supposedly is a "glimpse of heaven's music".
*Note: a "pit of h*ll" and a "devilishly attractive"; saying "Thank God" flippantly


Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a `idiot', two `wretched' and two forms of `stupid'; Curses are said but not written (or they're cut off); Mentions of drinking spirits and tobacco; Lots of fighting and killing (all the way up to detailed).


Sexual Content- GRAPHIC CONTENT- a `hot' when referring to how someone looks; two `hoyden'; Staring and Noticing (semi-detailed); Many mentions of blood of wedding night (detailed and it happens, again, detailed); What happen in Book #2 and being a virgin (detailed); 9 detailed kisses; 10 semi-detailed kisses; Many Barely-above-not-detailed kisses; Wanting to kiss (semi-detailed); Actual s*x scenes (between a newly married couple and not as detailed as it could be but still pretty detailed!); Remember nighttime intimates and doing those in the daytime (semi-detailed); Mentions of what newlyweds do (semi-detailed); A Mention that Gabriel walks around "the room stark naked in daylight and thought nothing of it!"; Touches (very, very detailed); Mentions of two men that ruined a women (barely-above-not-detailed); Katherine conceived a baby out of wedlock, then was married to Ian (not the baby's father) and the baby was stillborn; Katherine mentions losing her virginity (semi-detailed); Franco uses Katherine and it's pretty, Ian is upset that Katherine would agree to be called on, but it's revealed that Franco would use Alexandria if not Katherine(again it's all very detailed and eww); Franco stares at Alexandria and Gabriel doesn't like how he looks at her (semi-detailed); Alexandria was an "accident"; Love, a newly married couple & the emotions. (lots, lots, lots!)

-Alexandria Ravenwood
-Gabriel Ravenwood
P.O.V. switches between them, Ian, Katherine and another dude who's name isn't said (but I think it's Franco).
Set in 1819 {Epilogue 1879}
320 pages

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Pre Teens- Less Than One Star
New Teens- Less Than One Star
Early High School Teens- Less Than One Star
Older High School Teens- Less Than One Star
My personal Rating- Less Than One Star
{I truly would like to rip this book to shreds in this review, but I'll be somewhat nice.}
When I *finally* finished this book I was shaking my head muttering "I can't even". And not in a good way. I didn't like this book and now it's my job to convince you not to read this book or this series.
The romance and intimate scenes completely took over the plot and was there on every page. Talk about Ewwww! And then the pervert named Franco. Really!? Did the author really have to be detailed in those scenes?! I mean, it's bad enough just saying it puts it in your mind but to actually have it detailed!
This book also messes with the Spirit world as far as I'm concerned! The machine they're been hunting for is apparently a music box that sounds like heaven's music (note it's never said with a capital `H') and all the way to the point where a man get burned when he touches it. I mean, what?! A giant box here on earth that creates music like heaven's! That doesn't even make sense! What is this, Fantasy?!
So, moral of this review: Stay away from this series, it leads to sexual details which you DON'T need in your head.


*BFCG does NOT recommend this book. Just don't even bother with it.

*{{'Books for Christian Girls' reviews all genres of Christian books, writing down all the Spiritual, Negative & Sexual content and does ratings for girls ages 9-19.
Keep in mind, when reading a BFCG review, ignore the things that don't bother you, but take notice of the things that do.}}

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