For 2013's Ato Z Challenge, I am talking about book series, particularly some favorite
series as well as series I've been waiting to read for a LONG time.
N is for ... The 19th Year series by Emi Gayle
Emi Gayle's The 19th Year series is a refreshing take on the paranormal genre. Mac is a changeling and must choose a paranormal form by the time she turns nineteen. Her human boyfriend, however, hopes she'll choose to remain human. It's such a fun series.
What eighteen year old
Mac Thorne doesn't know will probably kill her. In exactly eight months,
five days, three hours and thirteen minutes, Mac has to choose what
she'll be for the rest of her life. She has no choice but to pick. As a
Changeling, it's her birthright. To Mac, it's a birthchore. Like going
to school with humans, interacting with humans, and pretending to be
human during the pesky daylight hours. Once darkness descends, Mac can
change into any supernatural form that exists-which makes her as happy
as she can be. That is, until Winn Thomas, the biggest geek in her
senior class, figures out there's more to what hides in the dark than
most are willing to acknowledge. In this first of the 19th Year Trilogy,
Winn might know more about Mac than even she does, and that knowledge
could end their lives, unless Mac ensures the powers-that-be have no
choice but to keep him around.
Click here to read my review of After Dark.
Or so Winn Thomas always thought.
Since being accepted into the fold of the supernatural, he knows better. None of what he imagined is true, but everything he feared is, and binding himself to his Changeling girlfriend until her nineteenth birthday will give him an education far beyond what he’d get at his human high school.
Luckily, Winn’s not giving up, he won’t back down, and he definitely isn’t going to run away with his tail between his legs. After all, only werewolves have tails. Right?
In this, the second of the 19th Year trilogy, Winn’s facing the challenge of one lifetime. If he doesn’t learn the truth about mythological creatures, his girlfriend Mac Thorne won’t either. That means, in six months, when she chooses her final form, she won’t know what to pick.
Winn, though, has his own ideas about Mac’s final selection—plans she knows nothing of.
He intends to have her pick human.
Whether she can or not.
