A dystopian look at a possible future Earth about fifty years hence, this book is the first in a planned series of twenty. I absolutely devoured this huge book because once I started I just hated to put it aside, even for short periods. I g...
5 StarsThe Mirror Prince by Violette Malan is her fantastic debut novel that introduced readers to her fascinating and enthralling storytelling. An imaginative tale of Max Ravenhill, an exiled Rider who has been living amongst humans in the Shadow...
4½ StarsRaine Benares is a seeker which means she can find lost things and people. This requires that she has some magical ability though not as much as she has now. Now, she's attached to a rock, Saghred, a rock that gives her unlimited power and...
4¾ StarsI have mixed feelings about The Emerald Atlas . It was exciting and funny and interesting, the characters were real enough and personal enough to slip into and to understand, and the plot was very engaging and surprising. However, it...
3½ StarsThe Griffin's War by K.J. Taylor is the third book in the Fallen Moon series that features Arenadd Taranisaii (formerly known as Arren Cardockson) and griffin Skandar (formerly known as Darkheart). Arenadd finally is convinced that he has b...
4¼ StarsDusty Trails Western with a twist (or 2) Normally, I don't really enjoy the typical Western. I live here, I know how hot and dry it can get. But the teaser for this gave me hope that it would be enough different that I could enjoy it. And I...
4 StarsKeep Your Friends Close, is a short story that tends to lend itself to the Sci-Fi / fantasy genre. It's a tale about Prince Vayel. A month before his wedding he has a lovers spat and goes to see his old teacher Cala Greyson. His betrothed t...
4¾ StarsSet in Elizabethan England, The Scar-Crow Men is a new take on the plague, and the political turmoil of the age. I have to admit that it took a few chapters for me to really get into this book. The characters were fine but the story itself...
4¾ StarsAtticus O'Sullivan is a Druid; no, not an old man with a beard in a white robe waving mistletoe about, but a real, honest-to-goodness, ancient Druid with red hair and the eternal good looks of a twenty-one year old. Long ago, a sword fell i...
5 StarsThere is a deadly sickness going through the Faerie Realms. Tania must go and find a cure to save her family's home. But she must go to a mysterious land outside the Faerie land where no one has ventured for a long time. But Tania and the o...
4¼ StarsTania wakes up in London with no memory of the last couple weeks. How can she not remember that she has just saved the Faerie Realm from a deadly plague, the dangerous obstacles she had to overcome to do so, or her true love Edric? Edric an...
4¼ StarsTROLLS IN THE HAMPTONS was an oddball choice for me to read. Its contemporary fantasy (not quite urban as it deals with mainly 'high end' fantasy creatures like fairies, trolls and elves), but the blurb just didn't pull me in. It kind of pe...
4 StarsThe King of the Crags is a wonderful follow-up to The Adamantine Palace and I enjoyed reading it even more than I did the first book. As a matter of fact, my thought throughout was: Did the book really have to end? I, once again, ...
5 StarsWhile, like with every anthology, there are some stories that I liked more than others, I really enjoyed the whole read. What I found to my liking about the anthology is that while there are different time periods - and genres - covered is...
4½ StarsThis author takes you on an immediate whirlwind of erotic and sensual exploration between the two main characters. As a first time reader of this continuing saga, I was able to follow along with the storyline, but felt on occasion that I ha...
3½ StarsWhile I enjoyed the first book, the ending felt definite to me. I didn't get the feeling that this was to be a more than one book storyline. And to a degree I can still stand by that statement. DREAMING ANASTASIA can still stand on its own,...
3½ StarsThis is the second of a four book series about The People Of The Longhouse, the Iroquois The Gears have given us an exciting recreation of the 1400’s in North America, set in what is now known as New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and...
4 StarsHeather Dixon takes one of the lesser known fairy tales, and manages to pour a lot into the tale. This (on the surface) seems like it would be just a retelling of the tale of the 12 dancing Princesses, but is a much more complex story. Whil...
4¼ StarsThe Wise Man's Fear is one of those books that takes storytelling, fantasy, magic, and great characters, then stirs them all together and what results is an unforgettable story. Fans, of which I am one, of The Name of the Wind have had a bi...
5 StarsThe Raven Queen by Jules Watson is a historical fantasy novel detailing the life story of Maeve of Ireland. She starts as a pawn of her father and the wife of Conor, the ruler of Ulster. Maeve finds herself tiring of enduring the schemes of...
4 StarsWolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan is the first novel in a planned multivolume epic. It combines Vikings, Feneris as well as more elements from the Norse Mythology and a love story. The story begins with a Norse king kidnapping two kids after heari...
5 StarsCaitlin Kittredge jumps into YA with two thumbs up. Her unique and in-depth world draws the reader in with its dark and delicious undertones. In Kitteredge’s dark future world you meet Aoife. She’s no shrinking violet, but a gir...
4 StarsShannon Walker is an English school teacher but not for long... Shannon's world is turned upside down when she is transported to another world , the world of her mirrored self. Now called Lady Rhiannon she is replacing the chosen one of God...
5 StarsI have never read any of Christopher’s books so when I saw this one up for grabs I had to read it. Walking Nightmare is one heck of a page turner. I was so into this book that I have no fingernails left lol. Walking Nightmare will lea...
5 StarsSometimes human will is powerless when “the heart wants what it wants.” Grace Lynn Stevenson appears to lead a charmed life. For one thing, she is gorgeous and popular. She also attends an elite private high school, and is datin...
5 StarsEliani left her newly hand fasted lover, Turisan, the morning after their ceremony. Her mission was more important than her relationship with Turisan, though Turisan was necessary for her mission. Eliani and Turisan are the first mindspeake...
4¾ StarsFrom its Jon Sullivan cover art to its mind-boggling finale, The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man brings back Mark Hodder’s unlikely detective duo of Sir Richard Francis Burton, in the waning years of his exploring career and now a K...
5 StarsThe Soul Mirror by Carol Berg continues the saga of the Collegia Magica that started with The Spirit Lens . The horrendous events that exposed the actions of her father have devastated Anne de Vernase’s family and her summons to...
4¾ StarsSomeone is sabotaging the development of The World, a massive theater being built by Max Weider, the richest man in TunFaire. For the uninitiated, TunFaire is a fantasy world were trolls, wizards, shapeshifters, humans, and other life forms...
4½ StarsWhen I said that I would read this for Night Owl Reviews I didn't know that it was kind of a sequel to Bleeding Violet. I hadn't read it yet so I wanted to read it in case anything floated over to the next one. Honestly after reading Bleedi...
2 StarsWhat if you woke up one day and the whole world was not as you thought it was? Everything that you thought you knew and could trust was forever altered. Lil Falcon, newly sixteen, has encountered just such a situation. Her grandfather has b...
5 StarsOf Truth and Beasts is the third installment in Barb & J.C. Hendee’s second series of the Noble Dead Saga. Sage Wynn Hygeorht is still searching for Baalale Seatt mentioned in the mysterious writings that she discovered even...
4½ StarsIn this tale, no pun intended, our heroine is growing up after the tragedy of losing your mother and having to endure your first period, first crush, first changing into a mermaid all with the help of your father. This is another well told...
4½ StarsRaine doesn't usually fit in but when her best friend Shania makes her go to the Halloween dance it turns out much better than Raine expected. She meets Tristan who has just moved to town. He seems sweet and romantic and the two begin to go...
4¾ StarsToby's life has always been strange. Being a changeling, one foot in the land of humans and one in the land of Faerie has just been the tip of the iceberg. Through the previous volumes, her journey has continued down this strange path and w...
5 StarsIn The Heroes the latest offering from author, Joe Abercrombie, readers are taken back to the northlands where the union and Northmen are slugging it out once again, witches and magi conduct their covert behind the scenes, and nothing is qu...
4 StarsIs it truly the end of James Barclay's epic fantasy involving the band of warriors known as the Ravens? Book 3, DEMONSTORM, is considered the Finality. And it's true the ending goes out with a bang, leaving nothing for readers to wonder abo...
4 StarsWhen fourteen-year old Lucette (or Luce) is assaulted and left on the cliffs of an Alaskan fishing village, she expects to die; however, in the dark, Luce tumbles into the waves below and becomes a mermaid. Yes, mermaid. This extraordinary...
4 StarsThe Obsidian Key by Eldson Thompson is book two in the Legend of Asahiel fantasy trilogy. After reclaiming the Crimson Sword in the first book, Torin has accidently reopened a dimensional realm that contains the Illysp, foul spirits that po...
3¾ StarsI love this book! Susan has a way of filling every corner of your mind with the essence of her writing. I really love characters like Cage. We know he is the hero only because of his unbending sense of self-worth. Dark and powerful, Cage ma...
4¼ StarsOh Yes! Susan did this one in style! This entire book was as I expected it to be without being predictable. When you put the fate of the world in the hands of your characters, you can always expect something to knock you for a great loop. O...
4½ StarsHer voice can heal, bring about love, and kill. Teya, or Songbird, is a magical creature that has the voice of an angel? I don’t know about that. Her voice is her gift; a gift that is to bring her people back together. Songbird, writt...
4 StarsThis is the first book in a new series, Hunters of the Pack by this writing duo. Kiera is an outcast, hunted by other members of her pack because she disobeyed her Pack Master, Fenris, by tracking down the murderer of her beloved brother an...
3¾ StarsHannah has grown up in an orphanage all her life. She seems to be a normal girl except for an odd infatuation with the sea. When she becomes of the age to be sent to work, Hannah discovers she is being sent away from the sea. The farther aw...
4½ Stars Richly poetic prose that is at once familiar and epic -- McKillip's latest offering is a study in ballad-drenched imagery. McKillip, as usual, has a fine hand with bringing a culture, an alien world to life whilst weaving in elements...
4 StarsThirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent is a historical paranormal military fiction. The book is set during 1825 which leads up to the mysterious death Tsar Alexander I of Russia and the Decembrist Uprising. Set thirteen years after Aleksei Dan...
4 StarsAddy isn't satisfied in her world, with her life, with the mean girls from school always telling her that she's worthless. She wants to be free, be respected, and not have to work for her food every night. She knows she's better than what s...
5 StarsThe Shining Ones have new plans for Branwen. With new friends at her side, she must go to free the powerful Iwan. Now with an uneasy treaty, Branwen must work with her old mentor to get important things from the Saxons. How can Branwen succ...
4¾ StarsFaery and gremlins and dragons Oh My! It is very seldom that I come across a series that so captures my heart and mine ad the Iron Fae series by Julie Kagawa, and the newest addition to this wonderful series did not disappoint. The Iron Que...
5 StarsThe Griffin’s Flight by K.J. Taylor is the second volume of The Fallen Moon series and follows Arren Cardockson after he flees the shambles of his former life as Master of Trade in Eagleholm and Griffiner to Eluna. His previous...
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