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I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from the Author. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael is an excellent book about starting life at college with the touch of romance and time travel.

Will Seth and Mari be able to figure out a way to be together?


Marcella Navina


Marcella Navina is our main character and only point of view character. Mari, as she would instead be called, is going to college for her first year and is rather excited about it. She catches the eye, well more of the head, of the one and only Seth Sangre. He plays football and is the star quarterback. There is a lot that happens in this book, and one of them is the fact that Mari, as a character, grows. She does that by letting Seth get close to her, and Mari does that from how well she plays at CRUSH. A dorm building competition that brings normalcy to the story as a regular thing at that happens at some colleges the first semester. 

I think in a different life we could be friends. We both love reading paranormal young adult books, and we are both morning people. Another thing that I like about Mari is that she knows what she doesn't want to happen again while her heart thinks otherwise. There isn't much that I don't like about her.

Seth Sangre


Even though the little bit of Seth that we see before we are in Mari's perspective is the short prologue at the beginning, Seth, after that point, is a sophomore in college and is helplessly trying to figure out who he is looking for to help him. At first, he seems like a player, but he isn't. Seth has also seen that he needs to go slow with Mari, which is something that I love about him doing. Seth and Mari are cute together, and I liked seeing their relationship blossom out of the friendship that they started. I just hope that good things can happen with these two.

What I like about Seth is that he wants to prove himself to Mari and make her see that he is right for her. Another that I like about Seth is how protective he is despite the time gap because there are so many reasons why but some of them contain spoilers, but he just doesn't want anything wrong to happen to her. There isn't much that I dislike about him either.

The Time Travel


The time travel part of the book is a big spoiler part, but you would never guess Mari's connection. I thought that I assumed right, but I was blown away by how wrong I was. Now I have more questions as to what will happen in the next book.
Five Stars

Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael is the first book I have read by this fantastic author, and her writing style already hooks me. I think with this book, just having a first-person point of view and having that be Mari was a fantastic choice. The reason for that is because she is new to this and is maybe more connected to it then what both her and Seth think. I am now going to have to wait until September at the latest to pick this series back up. I am giving this book five stars and recommending it to anyone that wants to read it.


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