Scarlett Kol’s "Wicked Descent" captures you from the first page! I was hooked on this page-turner, filled with angst and mystery. Avery is in the middle of a trying time for a teenager as it is, moving to a new town, dealing with an overpr...
4½ StarsPhilip Hoy engagingly depicts the volatile world of high school, where emotions run high and vicious gossip runs amuck. Evelyn Hernandez deals with familiar adolescent issues – first loves, trials with parents and friends, her emerging sexu...
4½ StarsAnother Day is out of this world---AMAZING. I can't tell you how excited I was to get my hands on this book as I’m such a fan of his first novel. I wasn't sure what to expect, except for exceptional! Of course, I can't give spoilers because...
5 StarsI felt bad for Mimi because I know what it’s like to be an outcast and have people judge you, even when they don’t truly know you. In Mimi’s case her situation is ghosts, as in she sees them. Since she was thirteen she has collected ghosts...
4 StarsWhat do you get when you combine The Walking Dead with RuPaul's Drag Race? This awesome book. I had no idea what to expect when I started this story but you tell me it's filled with zombies and drag queens and I'm there. The general plot is...
4 StarsOther than the gorgeous purple maze on the cover, I felt a slight kinship to Suspicion. For whatever reason, I recalled a horror movie from my childhood which featured a sinister maze overlooking a creepy hotel. It scared the pants off me a...
3½ StarsAyla Hammond is hoping for a romantic getaway in Paris with her girlfriend Shannon. Instead she finds the city under the control of a creature named Le Monstre. Ayla being Ayla has to check it out and gets caught up in a mystery and dead bo...
4 StarsGirl on a Wire was a slow story with a blend of magic/paranormal. The story is told through the eyes of talented 16 year old Jules. Girl on a Wire takes us through the life of two circus families that have been rivals for years. I thought t...
3½ StarsI’m not really sure how to review this book. Although I did finish it the story felt very flat and weird. It made me feel like I was dropping into a fully formed world where it is normal to find a girl in the basement after ten years. That...
3 StarsFirst Impression: Initially, Blue Aspen seemed to be a cheesy romance novel. As Dulcee's dreams progress into something more, I started to become skeptical about what was going on. The mystery of Blue Aspen just doesn't quit; the whole stor...
4 StarsThis was a good next installment in the Hidden Wings Series. It gives you an in depth portrayal of the dilemma Emma is facing. Her life is changing before her eyes and what she thought she knew about herself and her family is nowhere near t...
3½ StarsWhen Lila's roomate, Cassie, asked her to take over a journalist job for her because she is injured, Lila reluctantly agrees. It never occurs to Lila that the infamous Shane Alexander would chose her over all the other famous faces on board...
3 StarsJust when you thought that things couldn't get anymore terrifying for Gilly, Kai, Niko, and the citizenry of Bremerton...they do! It seems that taking the stealing the heart of Gilly's one and only love is not enough for the uber-cool and e...
5 StarsAuthor Su Williams has done it again! Book two in the Dream Weaver series is out, and wow, is it powerful. The story picks up right where the first book, Dream Weaver, left off, and continues on, weaving the beautiful and somewhat tragic ta...
4½ StarsThe Descent is the final installment of the Taker Trilogy and man does it pack a wallop. I never expected to find myself totally immersed in this story. Alma did not pull any punches. The reader is sure to enjoy all the twists and turns in...
5 StarsThis is the first in the Lost Daughters of Atlantis series, I can't wait to get the rest! Readers are in for a real treat. Make sure to pick-up your copy now and keep your eyes open for more by Allie Burton. This is the story of Pearl who h...
5 StarsEvery Day is a real life-enhancer. It lets you live through people from different cultures and backgrounds. That's more enlightening than you might think. At least it was for me. The main character is an amazing person with a great heart. I...
4 StarsAnna FREAKING Banks, WHERE have you been all my life? One thing is for certain: the YA authors these days have a LOT to live up to. The good news is, we have authors like Anna Banks for that. Within the first few pages, the main characters'...
5 StarsWell The Exemeus just didn't work out for me! I thought it was confusing and rushed in parts. With being just over 500 pages I think more time should have been spent on Hayalee's full warrior mode since it is her book. All in all it did kee...
3 StarsThe reader is once again taken on a breathtaking journey in the lives of Lanny, Luke, Adair, and Jonathon. The second installment of the trilogy picks up right where The Taker leaves off. I found myself once again immersed in the many twist...
4½ StarsBravo, bravo, and bravo. I adored the first book in this series and the second was even better! The characters have become that much more real to me now. Being a person who still believes that the Gods exist and is waiting for them to regai...
4½ StarsWater dancer is a lovely tale of a young girl named Bailey. She is put to many trials that most girls her age never even imagine. She might even become a mermaid! Through the help of her new surfer beau, Jack, long-lost-sea-creature father,...
4½ StarsThis is the seventh book in the phenomenal Tales of the Order series. This series is just really great and one to get started on. Lucky for us there are lots of books by Candace Sams. In Keeper of the Loch she takes us to Scotland and to th...
5 StarsCandace Sams has done it again with her fifth installment of the Tales of the Order and another 5 star review. The reader is brought once again into the realm of mythical creatures that inhabit the Order. Gawain has survived a fire that dev...
5 StarsHaving not read any books in the Cassandra Farbanks series, I was a little behind when I began this novel. However, that did not stop me, and the novel explains all a reader needs to know without reading the other novels. The story moves ve...
4 StarsThis novel is hilarious. The love scenes are beyond scorching, and the tender moments are enough to make the hardest heart sigh. When reading Diary of a Vampire Stripper, I had many moments of laugh out loud hilarity, and more than a few te...
4 StarsSex, Death and Moist Towelettes by Jordan Dane is a collection of stories ranging from contemporary to paranormal about interesting characters dying on the pages. If you have ever read any of Jordan Dane other books, these stories contain h...
4 StarsTarnished is a beautifully written and fantastically descriptive. The imagery in the novel is extremely vivid and easy to comprehend. Tarnished is a wild steampunk ride, full of adventure, intrigue, mystery, and, of course, alchemical exper...
4 StarsBlood Forge by Kathryn Meyer Griffith tells the tale of an ancient evil that is awakened after slumbering for many centuries. I have been a fan of the horror genre for as long as I can remember and Kathryn Meyer Griffith immediately pulled...
4½ StarsWaking Up is a very enjoyable, though short, read. The book starts out in 1000 A.D. with our hero Declan who becomes cursed by a goddess and must search the world for a cure. We meet our heroine, Morgan Callahan in present day New Orleans....
3½ StarsNicole Baker (or Cole as she prefers to be called), a South Carolina college student, finds out over Christmas dinner that she really isn't a Baker. Nor is the rest of her family. Grandpa springs it on them that they are really descendants...
5 StarsLiz is psychic, garnering the ability to have prophetic dreams of death. When her boyfriend Michael is late picking her up the night of their anniversary, she dreams of him taking her someplace and begging her to remember him always. To rem...
4¼ StarsOn a cold winter's night Luke meets Lanny during his shift at the hospital. She comes to him covered in blood with no marks on herself. She tries to explain why she doesn't have a mark on her. What Luke witnesses causes him to doubt everyth...
4 Stars"Love Story" by Taylor Swift is one of my favorite songs/music videos. Actually I'm rather fond anything Swift puts out, so it wasn't hard for me to decide to want to check this book out. Since I'm also a sucker for reincarnated love storie...
3¾ StarsMeg is a half-human-half vampire who is still learning the ropes of being a vampire. Her vampire side comes from her mother. Her grandmother died before she could pass on the secrets of vampirism to her family so both have had to learn the...
3½ StarsJacinda, a dragon girl, has betrayed an ancient secret to save the one she loves. But what can happens when she, her mother and sister try to make their way back to the tribe? How will the tribe treat her after her betrayal? What happens wh...
4¾ StarsI decided to pick this book up out of sheer desperation. I am kind of burned out from reading only romance, erotica, and mainstream fiction for the last few months and I wanted to try something completely different for once. So when I saw t...
4¾ StarsAmara is a very special woman with very special powers. Since she was a young girl she has been trained to be the oracle of Avaris, she alone was destined to help her people in times of need. That is until a certain dark and evil force deci...
3½ StarsSarah and David have survived the first few months of the zombie apocalypse and started their own business clearing zombies for supplies. Their company is Zombie Busters Inc. and their marriage is better now that they share responsibilities...
4½ StarsSarah and David are leaving Phoenix for the east to the fabled "Wall" and to safety. They are leaving with a secret. They are leaving with a zombie bite. After escaping from Mad scientists and changed zombies they have a secret "cure". The...
4½ StarsWhen the Zombie outbreak happened Sarah and David were on their way to a couple's counselor trying to save their marriage. So caught up in their argument and anger they didn't notice that there were no cars on the highway, and the security...
4½ StarsHalloween has always been my favorite holiday. So this eclectic anthology of Halloween stories was a natural choice for me to read. Over all, this diverse group of stories is well written and well put together. I especially enjoyed A Witchy...
4¼ StarsOMG, OMG, OMG........Diane Farr's book "Wiked Cool" is just that, wicked cool! Zara, has a gift; a gift that grows as she grows in age. Her 16th birthday is one of discovery. Her best friend, Meg, has an analytic...
5 StarsWhen the world’s gold supply starts disappearing top agents from multiple divisions of P.L.A.S.M.A. - Paranormal League Against Social Menace Agency, are put on the case. One by one each agent assigned goes missing during their invest...
4½ StarsEla Montahue is resolved to save her family from an unsavory king, even if it means losing her healing powers. She is to marry only for love, for if she marries for any other reason she will lose all of her supernatural healing abilities. T...
4¾ StarsAs Timeless As Stone by Maeve Alpin is a nice little romp through the Steampunk world of mechanical men, time travel, and Paris in the early 1800's. I enjoyed the story and the use of an actual historical character. Ms. Alpin mixes som...
4½ StarsKatie MacAlister gives us an exciting and zany book in Steamed, where the Victorian era and steam power are alive and well. She gives us a wonderful look into what steam punk really is and how two people from different times can fall in lov...
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