| Title | : | Moonbeam (Beam, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 450 |
| Publication | : | First published November 2, 2016 |
What if your 'what if' becomes an option. Would you change the past?
Moonbeam (Beam, #1) Reviews
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Im so lost right now at how to rate this book. I gave it 4 stars but I really see it as a 3-5 star rating….
Ok so im giving it 5 stars because…well its Blake and Elena…
Ya that’s it, that’s the only reason. I missed them so much. They were both such amazing characters and when I saw that this book was about them I just had to read it.
Ok so on to why I hate this book.
I truly believe that this book should not have been written. This book is basically Elena and Blakes ‘what if’ book. What if they actually grew up together? Would their lives be the same?
Ok so the dragonian series were such great books! You learned that life is messy and things are gonna happen that will make you feel empty but it can be overcome with time. Blake and Elena were who they were because of the hardships they faced and they were amazing characters. It should have been left at that!
Queen Catherine- I hate her. I hate her. I hate her.
She was absolutely ridiculous…the reason she did the things she did was so stupid! It made me really dislike her that she would act like that. The previous books talked about her grace and kindness and how great she is and blah blah blah. I saw none of that. She was no longer the person she used to be and it made me mad that she let her worries consume her for no reason…or I should say for selfish reasons.
Blake-will always love him no matter what but…..
I was so disappointed that his character lacked the depth I got from the previous books. His struggles in this book just didn’t seem that bad compared to what he had been through before but I guess that was the point.
Elena- I liked the old Elena better
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This was kind of pointless from the main series narrative, but I did really enjoy it. I liked seeing this alternate story of Elena and Blake. I loved seeing all of the old characters in these new lights. Especially King Albert, he shines as always--I love this man so much. Katie was a bit hard to like at times. She was extremely overprotective of Elena and it made her do outrageous things which harmed their relationship.
While I did enjoy this story, Elena was super young throughout the whole thing and I wish we had gotten more of the "after" phase. I wish we could've seen her when she was older. I wanted to see more of the "merged" memory Elena and what she did. The events in the beginning of this were never really explained either which was strange.
Overall, good fluff but I miss the adventure of the original series. -
I can't wait for this omg please come out already
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2 stars - Note: Although this is a standalone, without reading the Dragonian series first, you won't really get attached to these characters and things they do will be less forgivable as a reader because you aren't as invested in them. This book had the potential to be a 4 star read for me and if it wasn't for the unnecessary drama in the end, I probably could have overlooked some of the more annoying aspects of the book.
SPOILERS AHEAD
The most bothersome things about this book are:
1. How selfish the heroine is. No good mother would risk traveling to an alternate timeline without knowing their child would still be in it. The heroine is rather unconcerned and only cares about how she could have grown up with a mother. In real life, no respectable mother would sacrifice their child for anything. Additionally, the grieving for the subsequent loss of said child is practically non-existent.
2. The hero falls in love with someone else. The audience doesn't want to read about the MC's love affair with someone else. It's okay to have him date other people before they figure out their feelings for each other, but love, no. Their love is supposed to be the greatest in history. That's a lot less believable when he's already fallen in love with someone else.
3. The hero cheats on the heroine in the alternate timeline after they've already slept together and exchanged, "I love you's." I get that the author was trying to get the reader to see his dark side come out, but she should have come up with some other way to do this. She basically cheapened the idea of them being destined for one another and again, having "The greatest love story in history." It also really downplays the whole denting process that's supposed to be such a big deal because they reference the process having started but not being totally complete (until she ascends and claims him as her dragon.) But either way, if it's supposed to be this rare, amazing thing, the hero wouldn't have wanted to be with anyone else. Oh and the fact that the author basically equates the heros cheating to, "Oh, sorry, I was high and didn't know what I was doing. My bad for sleeping with my ex. You weren't here for me and I was stressed." just completely pisses me off. How is his behavior any different than a regular crap bag addict cheating on someone when they're under the influence of some substance? What an unfortunate way to completely ruin a good story. If it wasn't for this in particular, I probably could have even accepted bullets 1 and 2 and given the book 3-4 stars but this by itself ruined the entire story for me. -
I wanted to love this one because The Dragonian Series was such a great story! I was so excited to be back in the world of Paegeia! Sadly, I did not get the same feeling as I had with the first series. I didn't get the world building and character development that I fell in love with in The Dragonian Series. What I got was a "what if" type of story and alternate reality. It was a little confusing and full of too much teenage drama. It had enough going for it for me to rate it with 3 stars (or faeries), and I will be reading the next book. But I wish it had left out the character changes, the teen angst, and the story discrepancies, and had just brought me back to Paegeia and Blake and Elena's story.
Mild warning for language and sexual content.
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I still love the series but this one had a few ticks for me that made it less than perfect. The whole thing with their daughter for one. Katie was so different than what I ever expected. And not in a good way. What a control-freak mother! UGH she infuriated me at every turn!! Yet through it all this book still holds the emotional upheaval abilities of the past book. I almost cried. I laughed. Yep Adrienne Woods is very good at that. There were parts I could not sit still and others I felt were a bit too slow. Still, I immensely enjoyed!
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This book is what Elena's life would have been like being raised by her mom and dad. How much easier it would have been, how normal her life could have been, the normal struggles. I loved how Catherine was with her and her personal struggles as her mom.
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Guys don't get me wrong, I am a massive fan of the original series but honestly this book just confused the hell out of me.
I was skeptical when Blake and Elenas new power came to light but I kept on reading and thought that it could have worked really well buuut it didn't.
I get the whole idea of what if and all that but not only did it feel as though the characters were picked up and thrown into some weird teen reality show or a fan fiction but it also made me despise characters that I previously loved.
All of the characters became flat and it didn't even feel like I was reading about the same people. -
This book is great . Even better than Dragonian last book .
I start this book with dread feeling that what else could possibly go wrong in the next ten years and when i found out , i almost stop reading .
But , the storyline getting better ,even though there are things i didn't like .
Hopefully , the next one is way better. -
A big thank you to Adrienne to write this book.
Yes I loved it.
Wanna know the reason why? It gave a chance to see all the characters that died in the series, alive.
This story was a happy story, which is exactly what we needed.
I was so emotionally attached to the whole series, and this book just gave a dose of coming back to reality.
So what was in the story that made me like it?
SPOILERS ALERT
The book starts with 1 millenium year later. Where blake is now dead and elene is soon going to die.
Just when she is one day from dying blake visits her.
And ask her to remember, that something needs to be done.
I didn't get what he was trying to say, qhich Iam sure a lot of people couldn't understand either.
So I just trusted the author and continued reading the book.
Then I got to know that blake can time travel. Thus elena decides to change the past. To prevent the deaths of all the loved ones she lost in the etan war.
And I don't think this is sepfish of elena
Trying to Save live one's is selfish?
Anyways blake and elena get a visit from the future blake. Who asks them to change the past. Because if they don't do it, then sinho will also kill elena.
Thus in the end blake and elena go to the past.
And change the past by informing of the treachery before the attack to the queen.
Thus etan mever gets trapped under creepers.
And happy Beginning occurs.
The day elena claim blake, their past memories return , the one which was in the original series.
And here the story of this book ends.
In the end we get to know that the guy who visited from future was actually theo and not blake.
Thus the question remains qhich is the reality?
In the end it is a good book.
And if you have been emotionally attached to the series like Iam, then you can't end this series without reading this book.
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So Ok I do love the story of Elena and Blake, and I was intrigued reading about an alternate reality of what could have been however - spoilers ahead- There is something really jarring about Elena be ok with going back into to past and basically sacrificing the daughter she has now to grow up with the mother she wanted. It's like she had no affection for her child, like she was like yeah I might lose my kid but I'll get my mom, how come you don't understand that Blake? I wish Woods would have figured out a way to make that decision, at least for Elena, seem more gut wrenching and absolutely necessary instead of as an orphans fantasy dream come true. Elena had the perfect ending and she was willing to throw it all away for the one thing she didn't have.
AND Katie wtf? ended up being controlling and borderline creepy. She was willing to watch her daughter suffer because of Katies own invasive and deceptive actions just so she could be needed by and enjoy Elena more for herself? and then there was even a point were she was like damn when is the alternate Elena finally going to manifest, as if she is not technically giving up the daughter she raised for the one that never even knew her?
Though I'd still read more of Elena and Blake any day, though this book made me look at both Elena and Katie sideways. -
So again - no editor has touched this. I really thought we'd get a new story with better writing, but nope. It is a mish mash of happily ever after and time travel. I honestly don't even get why Blake and Elena's daughter would disappear or why they would re-emerge with their memories when the dent formed. This also allowed the author to completely gloss over the fact that Blake cheated on Elena only moments before the claiming and that she then doesn't even have to deal with it... Again just such lazy writing. I mean Blake has waited for years and now he is in constant contact with Elena by cammy and yet the dark takes him over and NONE of his friends do anything to stop him? Pass. The whole story didn't really have any logic to it and the fact that the mother Elena wanted so desperately was manipulative and childish. Erm yuck I mean I am sure she was mostly a good person, but the way she was presented was NOT someone valiant, strong, and brave - just mopey, whiny and awful. I just couldn't get past the queen being so un-likable and immature. You would torture a young man who is fighting against turning evil by witholding your daughter's friendship from him? And intercepting their mail.
Side note: When Elena is saying goodbye to her daughter she says she cries big 'crocodile tears'....um crocodile tears are when you fake cry, so she's fake crying about losing her daughter? creepy. EDITORS have a purpose. -
I’m sad that the author had to go back and change things. I feel like Elena and Blake wouldn’t have chosen to do that. They are much better people not changing their past. Their trials made them better. I don’t want a whole series to keep going about this alternate reality. Which series happened? It’s like one overtook the other? They didn’t both happen? How does this work? What’s the point in writing one series if the other tells a whole different story? The second being a less good story. If this series continues, I hope one thing happens by the end, that they decide the first series was the life they want to go with and they make it so the second series never had to happen! Plus, they don’t just trade in their daughter to go back, they trade their entire posterity?? No. Just no.
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It is actually rated for 3,5 stars...
When I started reading I almost put it away. It was confusing and weird. I did not like how it went but I kept going even though I wanted to stop. But thennnnnn.... Elena and Blake came back in how we know them so well and the real story continued. They went back in time and from now on I will tell nothing about the rest of the story. You have to do so yourself.
I never knew I would hate a character who should have been really nice. But I did. She was awful and I'm not talking about Elena.
Weird ending. I cannot say more. Some things don't add up. But it was still nice to read again about my Elena and my Blake... -
Futuristic warning
This was a melding of Elena and Blake from the future and the life they would have had if her parents hadn’t been betrayed by Goran.
Their warning worked and Elena got to live the life she wanted with both her parents.
Fans of The Dragonian series will love this book. -
DNF. None of the books in this series are exceptional or even very well written, but what works is that they’re from the perspective of a teen girl. This book is supposed to be from an adult (and leadership!) perspective but within the first few chapters it’s already a hot mess of cliches, redundant phrasing, and full-on ableist language. Yuck-o!
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Maybe 3.5
I didn't emotionally connected in this book. I read all the other ones and this one felt rushed more like a summary to me. There's still the major editing problems and misplaced words that I feel an author on her 6/7 book should be done with. -
The beginning and end are rough, like they were tacked on to the meat of the story that she wanted to tell. Also, she desperately needs a new editor. But the story is fun if you have already read the Dragonian series. An interesting alternative timeline to the original story.
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The first chapter is hard to swallow.
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I am so excited about reading this new series, I loved Elena and Blake in the Dragonian Series and this is such a great concept for a new series. Looking forward to seeing where these books go.
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I loved the dual storyline. what if's sometimes come true.
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Not what I expected, but overall a pretty good book.
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The story line was beautiful. She had to go and ruin it. It’s like this books was written by some other author, almost like a fan fic. Absolutely hated it!
