Hello lovelies! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Today, I’ll be sharing my review for Ember Burning, the first book in the TRINITY FOREST SERIES by JENNIFER ALSEVER. I’ll also be sharing some of my favorite quotes from the book and there’ll be a giveaway later on this week!
Published: My 6, 2017 by Sawatch Press
Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal
Paperback Format: 348 Pages
AMAZON – BARNES & NOBLE – INDIEBOUND – BOOK DEPOSITORY
Senior year was supposed to be great–that’s what Ember’s friend Maddie promised at the beginning of the year. Instead, Ember TrouvE spends the year drifting in and out of life like a ghost, haunted by her parents’ recent, tragic death.
At home, she pores over her secret obsession: pictures of missing kids– from newspaper articles, from grocery store flyers– that she’s glued inside a spiral notebook. Like her, the people are lost. Like her, she discovers, they had been looking for a way to numb their pain when they disappeared.
When Ember finds herself in Trinity Forest one day, a place locals stay away from at all costs, she befriends a group of teenagers who are out camping. Hanging out with them in the forest tainted with urban legends of witchcraft and strange disappearances, she has more fun than she can remember having. But something isn’t right.
The candy-covered wickedness she finds in Trinity proves to be a great escape, until she discovers she can never go home. Will Ember confront the truth behind her parents’ death, or stay blissfully numb and lose herself to the forest forever?
A Wickedly Mesmerizing, Utterly Thrilling, and Deliciously Twisted Tale
A hauntingly dark, but beautifully affecting read, Ember Burning by Jennifer Alsever had me holding my breath until the end.
This book completely consumed me and I finished it in less than 10 hours!!! It was intense, thrilling, twisted, mysterious, and quite disturbing. Actually, some parts were terrifying and/or painful to read, but the storyline was also so incredibly fascinating that I could not put the book down. The plot was well-written, fast-paced, and suspenseful. I love that I never really knew what was going on and couldn’t predict what would happen next. I went through the story as if I was Ember experiencing whatever she felt as she struggled with her own guilt and tried to figure out what was really happening to her. There’s definitely something intoxicating about Trinity Forest and with a cliffhanger like that, I absolutely can’t wait to see what happens in the next two installments.
Alsever’s spellbindingly gorgeous writing style lured me in and never let go. It was wickedly mesmerizing, utterly thrilling and deliciously twisted and I was wonderfully entertained. I enjoyed the unique world-building, the mystery behind Trinity Forest, the supernatural elements, the intriguing characters, and the romance. This book without a doubt exceeded my expectations and I cannot recommend it enough.
If you’re looking for a beautifully written and relatable story about death, pain, guilt, self-discovery, and love with a paranormal twist, then I highly suggest you add this amazing book to your TBR.
Note: There are some trigger scenes in this book, so just be aware that you could read something you may not be comfortable with.
Huge thanks to the author for sending me a copy of this book which I voluntarily agreed to review. All thoughts, opinions, and feelings are my own.
A glimmer of sunshine pours through my personal Ember armor and into my heart. Something is happening here, and it’s like I’m waking up from a deep, deep sleep.
We’re all broken in some way, beat down, ready to give up. We want a second chance, and Trinity gives that to us.
The kiss sends me spinning, cartwheeling into another world. This is like an out-of-body experience. To open your heart and let someone crawl inside, write their name and take a piece of you. You carry them inside you, you take them with you, you breathe with them. This is what people talk about when they talk about love.
You can’t get so ruled by emotion that you do something you regret.
GOLD MEDALIST
2018 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS
Best Young Adult Fiction E-Book
GOLD MEDALIST
2018 MOONBEAM BOOK AWARDS
Best Young Adult Horror/Mystery
QUARTER-FINALIST FOR PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2017 BOOKLIFE PRIZE
“Excellently plotted, flows well and beautifully written.”
–Publishers Weekly
EMBER’S WORLD
TRE’S WORLD
LODIMA’S WORLD
HEAR OSHUN SING
WATCH VIDEOS
EMBER’S SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
TRE’S SPOTIFY PLAYST
OSHUN RISING SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
VENUS SHINING SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
(THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOOK 1)
THE CRAZY-WOMAN NOTEBOOK
SEE INSIDE TRINITY FOREST
A teenager still lives inside author Jennifer Alsever. She spent two decades as a professional journalist, contributing to such publications as Fortune Magazine, the New York Times, Inc Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, before letting her imagination run wild in 2016. The result is Ember’s story told in the three-book Trinity Forest Series, her first published fiction work.
When not absorbed in writing, Alsever enjoys a good hike, doing some yoga, hanging with her boys, some moguls on skis, a rigorous mountain bike ride or indulging in the simple pleasures of life. Her favorites: untouched snow, frozen chocolate chips, savasina on a yoga mat and yes, bowls of pan fried brussels sprouts. Jennifer is working on her upcoming novel to be released in 2019.’
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Thanks for stopping by loves! I hope you enjoyed reading my review for this book and be brave enough to travel into Trinity Forest. 
Sincerely Karen Jo 