Rating: 5 out of 5 Livi Talbot’s world has woken up to magic. Thanks to the Pulse a few years back–not that anyone seems to understand what it actually was–magic has returned to the world. It isn’t on every street-corner…
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Review: “Yampellec’s Idol,” Skyla Dawn Cameron
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Review: “My Soul to Keep,” Tananarive Due
Rating: 5 out of 5 Tananarive Due’s My Soul to Keep (African Immortals series, 1) is almost a vampire book, but not quite. There’s no blood-drinking, but there is an immortality that can be passed on to others through blood.…
Review: “The Ruin of Delicate Things,” Beverley Lee
Rating: 5 out of 5 Beverley Lee’s horror/paranormal novel The Ruin of Delicate Things is absolutely fascinating. Dan Morgan and his wife Faye recently lost their son, Toby. Dan just inherited a cottage from his Aunt Lucinda and thinks that…
Short Take: “Obsidian,” Alan Baxter
Rating: 4 out of 5 Alan Baxter’s Obsidian (Alex Caine) (Volume 2) makes for a really interesting follow-on to book one. In Bound, Alex Caine discovers he has powers–a lot of them. He’s tossed head-first into the world of magic…
Review: “Bound,” Alan Baxter
Rating: 4 out of 5 This is the first Alan Baxter book I’ve thought was less than perfect, but I’m still giving it a 4, so it certainly did something right! Since Bound (Alex Caine) (Volume 1) is listed on…
Review: “Wrath Child,” Erik Henry Vick
Rating: 5 out of 5 I had never heard of Erik Henry Vick when Amazon recommended his Wrath Child: A Supernatural Thriller to me. This setup rarely ends well, but this time I’m glad I went with the recommendation! FBI…
Review: “Lakehouse Infernal,” Christine Morgan
Rating: 5 out of 5 I’ll have to try to unpack why Christine Morgan’s Lakehouse Infernal is one of my favorite books of the year-so-far when I’ve read so many awesome books already. Apparently the world is based on some…
Review: “Mongrels,” by Stephen Graham Jones
Rating: 5 out of 5 In Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels: A Novel, werewolves are real. Our young teenaged protagonist listens to his grandfather’s crazy stories about being a werewolf, and later realizes there were secrets and lessons hidden in each…
Review: “Brain Storm,” Cat Gilbert
Rating: 3 out of 5 In Cat Gilbert’s Brain Storm (The Taylor Morrison Psychic Thrillers Book 1), Taylor is just starting to realize she’s a telekinetic. Most of the signs she could see as her imagination running wild, but when…
Review: “Girl on Fire,” Gemma Amor
Rating: 5 out of 5 Gemma Amor’s Girl on Fire is a wonderful, wild ride of a book. Ruby Miller crashes her car and is inside of it when it goes up in flames. Yet somehow she survives unscathed. Shortly…