PERFEKT BALANCE IS HERE!!!!!

Hey!

I was lucky enough to get to be apart of the launch team for ST Bende's new book in her Ære Series Perfekt Balance and received a copy for review! This was so exciting for me as I really loved her Elsker series and had started to read this one when the second book came out so here are my thoughts and feels on Elsa's Story

PERFEKT BALANCE

Title: Perfekt Balance

Author: ST Bende

Series: The Ære Saga #3

Published: ST Bende (Self Published!!!!!)

Genre: NA/Mythology

Goodreads Synopsis:

"Elsa Fredriksen knows there’s a thin line between love and fear. As High Healer, she rights the wrongs committed by Asgard’s enemies. But even the gods’ secret weapon can’t undo every injury—especially when her fate is completely entwined with the god she’s trying to save.

Elsa’s in love with the Norse God of Justice. But Forse’s heart is ruled by fear—fear that the past will repeat itself; fear that opening his heart will compromise his ability to do his job; fear that he’ll hurt the one girl he desperately wants to protect. Again.

When Elsa faces off against the very monster she once swore to protect, her survival depends on a power she isn’t sure she can control. And when Forse’s worst nightmare unfolds in front of him, Elsa has to decide whether it’s more important to hold the realms in perfekt balance . . . or hold onto the guy she can’t imagine existing without"

This is the 3rd book in her series following one of ST Bende's Norse Crew, this time we follow Elsa a high healer who has always known her place and how to do her jobs in fact she is a pretty badass high higher but when she is told to get her mothers Unifier ability up to scratch she gets nervous. Unifier is a very important job helping keep crazy situations between realms calm while helping the God of War, Good thing Elsa is great with energy... except there is so much more to the job then that.

With her amazing best friend of a lifetime Forse to help things should be easy right? Except Elsa is crazy stupid in love with him and they have been doing the flirty dance for centuries but now they may be tested. Elsa's brother the God of War gets a call that they are bringing in the woman who helped kill her parents and she needs to put her big unifier pants on to help. Good luck girl!

I was very interested to see from Elsa's POV she seems like the calm level headed one of the group and to see her relationships and friendships with the other girls but also Forse and her brother Tyr. I loved the relationship with her brother and it helped to understand him more cause a lot of crap happens between them and for Tyr, he may be the God of War but he would do anything for his sister and its great to see how they interact with each other. I would have liked to see more Mia, Brynn and Elsa action because they are all so different and I think would balance each other out perfektly so fingers crossed for the next few books.
With Forse because you get a taste of how they are with each other in the first 2 books its nice to see in her head when it comes to him though at times I did find it a little repetitive it was the same issues and feelings which I can get with the situation she was in but yeah I would have liked more from her character and the deep friendship they built over the years when he was keeping her at arms length.

I loved to see how cool all of Elsa's abilities are! The way she can talk about energy in a way that makes so much sense in modern sense. Plus the brother/sister get into your mind situation super cool but definitely I can see that getting super awkward. I think it was important to see more about the secondary Gods as well, the Keys, who kinda seem even more important than the primary Gods. They have so much power and I hope in future books we can get more information about all of this.

It was also really cool to spend some time in a different realm, this mythology has so much to offer that its exciting to see where they can go next! Especially with the other types of people such as the dark elves I hope we see more of them they seem evil and badass!

The plot was very straight forward and at ties I did see what was coming, the hints that were dropped throughout did really help but the end was interesting. It was great to see some villains being villains and getting second chances hopefully! Although one person who is very large was cool to see again and I really want to see where the story is going to take this character in relation to our crew.

Overall I think this was a very good book, a quick read but enjoyable, it wasn't my favourite out of the series but I still can't wait to see whats going to happen next this mythology is great and there is so many ways this could go. Get on it guys!

I hope you guys are all good and have a great day
Peace : )