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Tempest Revealed (2013)

by Tracy Deebs(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0802734839 (ISBN13: 9780802734839)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Walker Childrens

series

Tempest

review 1: As with the other two books in the 'Tempest' trilogy, 'Tempest was fast-paced, action-packed, and fully immersive. I was sad to reach the ending of such an interesting series! Tempest has just settled back into her home in California after choosing Mark (the predictable human) over Kona (the hot, sweet, and capable selkie prince) and is terribly happy (for some reason) when the story begins. However, her paradise is short lived. She has barely been home for a week when Kona (eek!) arrived, bringing news that Queen Hailana died and Tempest is now merqueen. Tempest immediately sets out to claim her throne. But no sooner had she arrived in her city when she was thrown in her own dungeon by Sabyn, Tiamat's (her arch nemesis, the sea witch) loyal sidekick. Tempest discovers t... morehat Tiamat is finally making her move to take over the entire sea, at the expense of thousands of lives, including her own. She must escape her prison, and do the seemingly impossible- ultimately defeat Tiamat and her host of blood-thirsty mythical sea creatures. Hugely entertaining and addictive, I couldn't put 'Tempest Revealed' down once I FINALLY got it from the library. Tempest developed a great deal as a character from the first book in the series. Not only that, but it was enjoyable to be in her mind, and read from her perspective due to the rich descriptions and the fact that she made the decisions that I wanted her to (haha). Except for one decision. ONE TERRIBLY CENTRAL DECISION THAT I WAS MAD AT HER THE ENTIRE BOOK FOR CHOOSING WRONG. BECAUSE HOW ARE A HUMAN AND A MERMAID SUPPOSED TO WORK OUT IN THE LONG RUN? ONE LIVES 10,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA AND THE OTHER JUST LIVES ON VERY DRY LAND PINING ALL DAY. *Ahem* That being said, both guys were appealing options that did click with her. It's just that I thought ONE GUY seemed to be better than the other. I will miss reading the Tempest books, and all the fantastic adventures that she went on. But as far as endings go, 'Tempest Revealed' wrapped the series up well, and brought it to a satisfying end.
review 2: I received this e-ARC from the publishers via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I was in no way compensated for this review.I was totally psyched to get the approval from the publishers for Tracey Deebs' Tempest Revealed! This trilogy has been a fun one that definitely takes a fun twist to mermaids! Tempest definitely makes for one intriguing mermaid as she was born one but it's not until she turned seventeen that her mermaid powers and abilities come into existence and when they do it's just like bam! Her whole life has changed and not necessarily for the better. Since she's become a mermaid, her life has gotten more dangerous and lot more complicated. Trying to balance her mermaid life and her human life isn't easy, and she cannot always make it work.Tempest is home for break after battling Tiamat yet again. The merQueen, Hailana, is back in the kingdom on her death bed. It's been decided that once she dies, Tempest will come back and take over. But in the mean time she's spending time with her family and Mark, her boyfriend.But before she knows it she's Kona is there to tell her it's time for her to go back, the merQueen is dead and her kingdom needs her. Tempest doesn't really want to leave Mark and her family, but she knows she must go, and tearing herself away from Mark is harder than she thought it would be. And the swim back with Kona is more challenging than she expected because he still holds a grudge of sorts for their breakup.When Tempest returns to her kingdom, it's to find that it's already underule by the new merKing, Sabyn, who had been working with Tiamat last time around and betrayed them all. He wants her to be his queen and Tempest wants nothing to do with him.The battle begins after Tempest makes her escape with Mahina where they meet up with Kona and the remaining survivors of the ocean. Tiamat had been very busy in Tempest's absence in taking over the entire Pacific Ocean. Now Tempest and her friends will have to work together in order to defeat her.This was a wild ride of a read! It's hard to say exactly all that happens without spoilers, as you know! I've been noticing my reviews have been longer lately and I am trying to hem that in with shorter reviews, but I struggle with it! I just get excited and don't want to leave anything out! But I think I did pretty good here, even though I know I am leaving lots out!The first part of the book was a tad slow for me, this was when Tempest was still on land and trying to live a normal life for a short time, but once she gets under the ocean is when the pace starts to move a little faster. Tempest hits one problem after another and she never seems to catch a break. The girl goes through hell in this one and yet she manages to survive through it in order to get to the final battle to end Tiamat and all her enemies, which are many and are accumulating.There was quite a bit of tension in this one in regards to Kona. He didn't handle the breakup well since he loves Tempest, and of course losing his family and more played havoc with his emotions. But the time under the ocean that Tempest spends with him is seriously ripe with tension! It's clear that while Kona acts like a jerk at times, that he's not over Tempest. Throw Mark into the picture and things get a little crazy!It's weird, in the first book, I was sure I liked Kona. I guess because that was what Tracey wanted the reader to do, but by the second book I was totally for Mark, even before it ended. He makes my heart melt with the love and devotion he has towards Tempest. So it kind of rattled my nerves a bit when Kona tries to start things up with Tempest again, as well as rattling her nerves.The ending was what I was expecting in the long run! The story moved pretty fast with a few moments of downtime in between, but were really more battle strategy moments. One thing that I kind of wished was touched on more was what happened with Tempest's family. Sure, Tempest says this and that, but I wanted to see for myself, you know? Just a kind of closure. Then there's another thing, that I cannot mention that just kind of popped up out of nowhere and it took me by surprise. There was one tiny hint at the end prior to this conclusion, but I guess I overlooked that hint. It's conclusion, however, I felt was just kind of random in some sense, just to push forward towards that HEA ending. And like with any series ending, you know that there will be a HEA ending for the heroine but it wasn't without its own heartache,Tempest Revealed was everything I hoped it to be! It was fast, exciting and filled with plenty of action, romance and tension! I am sad to see this series end, but I feel that Tracey did a helluva job of ending it!!Overall Rating 5/5 starsTempest Revealed releases June 4, 2013 less

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