I love this series. Oh how I freakin love this series! Innocent Darkness was an easy 5 star read for me...but Charmed Vengeance was even BETTER than Innocent Darkness..so I guess this one gets 5+ stars! Suzanne takes you back into the amazing world she has created and takes you on an even more crazy adventure than before!

So this is how Charmed Vengeance basically kicks off, Noli has just been heartbroken by V, and on top of that her grandfather has shown up and wants to take Noli and her mother back to Boston. Noli can't bear the thought of living in Boston and being paraded around in front of men to hopefully get a husband. So instead of going with them, she runs off with her brother, Jeff to be an engineer on his pirate airship the Vixen's Revenge. V has been summoned to complete his favor for the Queen which involves, breaking Noli's heart, and then finding the Queen amusement, he sets on this quest with his heart broken brother James.  Then there is Kevighn who is dealing with being banished to the mortal world.

Yeah, ALOT is going on in Charmed Vengeance (and what I tell you above is just the tip of the iceberg).This book was more fast paced than book one, had a little more action, more adventure, just honestly had a little bit more of everything. After reading book two I am seriously dying to get my hands on book three in the series. Not just because the ending to two was seriously epic, but also because if book one was awesome...book two was even more awesome...than I can only hope and wish that book three is going to be EVEN BETTER (if that's possible)!

One of my favorite parts of this novel was some of the new characters added in, the main one being Jeff , Noli's brother. We get to meet him in Charmed Vengeance, and I adored him to bits. He is such a caring brother, and not only did I love him as a brother towards Noli, but just him as a character in general. I found him to be funny, sweet, caring, and I loved how he was all for his sister not being a lady and being a bad ass instead. Besides Jeff I also loved seeing development and learning more about the characters I already loved from Innocent Darkness. Charmed Vengeance has made me very excited to get to know the characters even more in the next installment.

I don't want to say too much in this review, mainly cause I don't want to give anything away. But if you have read Innocent Darkness, then you need to pick up Charmed Vengeance. This book was all around even better than book one and will leave you dying for book three. If you have yet to read the Aether series...well then wth are you doing here? GO PICK UP THIS SERIES!! It is hands down a new favorite of mine, Suzanne is an amazing author and I cannot wait to read book three in the series, and then to read every book she comes out with after that.

• Check out my review for book 1 Innocent Darkness here

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Innocent Darkness was such an amazing start to a series! I flew through this book and picked up book two right afterwards.Suzanne wrote an amazing, magical story that I adored from start to finish. This novel had romance, strong characters, awesome friendships and so much more. 

Innocent Darkness mainly follows Noli, Noli is not like most girls. She doesn't wish to be married off to a man of high living, and she sure as hell doesn't wish to become a lady. No, Noli wants to fix things up, she wants to build things, she wants to go on adventures and fly on a hover board without HAVING to have a man with her, she wants to go to college and become a botanist. She doesn't want society to tell her that she needs a man, she can take care of herself. Unfortunately though Noli lives in a place where you don't get what you want, and after getting in trouble with the air patrol, this time her mother has had enough and sends Noli to a 'boarding school' which is secretly a horrible reforming school for troubled girls. Noli wants to get away from this school, but when she finally does get away and finds herself in the Otherworld of fae, she may wish she had never left the horrible school..here no one can be trusted. Not the handsome Kevighn, and maybe not even her best friend V (Steven).

Ah where do I even start with this book? I am freakin mad for this book! I am a huge HUGE fan of fae novels, it is hands down my favorite paranormal. It is also a paranormal that isn't done often, so when I come across a new fae book..I get super excited...and then when that fae book turns out to be totally awesome? Well lets just say I am 100% fan girling over this book Innocent Darkness right now.  It. was. epic.

Now I must say I can see why some people may be upset about this book. Alot of the negative reviews are people that went into this really wanting an awesome steampunk read. While Innocent Darkness is AWESOME in my opinion, it is lacking in the steampunk area, is it a steampunk novel? Technically yes, but the steampunk mentions are very light. I felt there wasn't alot of detailing on how the world looked or how their different technology devices/vehicles looked, etc. More of Innocent Darkness is spend in the Otherworld which is the fea world, which I personally enjoyed more anyways. So if you are looking for something that is a heavy steampunk read, then you may want to pass on Innocent Darkness. ALTHOUGH I must mention that book 2 does have alot more detailing and more insight on their steampunk world.

The best part to me about Innocent Darkness was the characters. Each character was so interesting and different than the next. I felt myself wanting to know more about all of the characters! I wanted to know more about the Queen, I wanted to know more about Noli, her brother, V, Kevighn, Lotti, James, Noli's mother, V's father, Kevign's sister...EVERY character left me wanting to know more about them! They each have a bit of mystery to their pasts that make you so curious as to the details of what happened. I found myself reaching for book two right away not just because I needed to know what was going to happen next in the storyline, but also because I am dying to know more about these character, and their pasts. To me that 1. shows how awesome these characters are to make me actually care so much about each of them and 2. shows me what an amazing writer Suzanne is to make me feel like I NEED to know more about the characters she has created.

Besides the characters I found myself also loving the worlds that Suzanne has created, the steampunk mortal world, and then the Otherworld where the fae live. I loved the romance, and the slight love triangle. I loved Suzanne's writing and found myself easily flying through the pages..I just really loved this book. I think if you are someone that wants to try steampunk out, then this would be a good start, also if you love fae novels, then this is also something you should try out, or if you're just looking for a new awesome read then this is also for you.  I highly recommend it and hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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