ALERT: THIS IS ADULT FICTION The beginnings of each seemed a little slow, but I will tell you why: we live in a fast-track life and we expect everything to start off with a bang. What I've come to learn in life is, instant gratification isn't long term satisfaction. So stop complaining if a book isn't action-packed on the first page. Back to the review. Reid simply amazes me. How in the world did she manage to write so much quality work in such little time? The stories center around six brothers, one book for each brother, although there are exceptions. Cletus and his lady friend have three b ..read more

Author: Ellison Lane Genre: Romance, fiction Published: June 4th, 2021 Jesse can't escape his past. Raina can't escape the present. When the two meet, can they find their way to love and a future? Recovering from a combat injury sustained in the Persian Gulf War, Airman-1st Class & Staff Sergeant Jesse Quarless is on medical leave when he meets Raina. After being enlisted and deployed for six years, Jesse returns to his rural Wisconsin hometown not as the hellion teenager he once was, but as a grown man with a different perspective on his future. Like racing to extinguish a lit fuse, he fi ..read more

Shadow and Bone - Siege and Storm - Ruin and Rising - Six of Crows - Crooked Kingdom - King of Scars What about Rule of Wolves? That is the last one, after all. Well, to be honest, I'm done after King of Scars. Now, I might be missing out, but I've lost interest. Here's the scope of my opinion: The writing is fantastic. No complaint there. Five stars on Bardugo's style. The characters? There are a lot of characters. I'm the kind of person who gets annoyed quite easily with so many POVs. Two perspectives? No problem-o. But then we got the perspective of someone who dies in the end and that I f ..read more

Bubbly. This is the word a stranger once used to describe me. It was New Year's Eve and I was out for a drive (one of my many hobbies). For the first time ever, I purchased my own lottery tickets *spoiler alert, I did not win*. Embarrassingly enough, I had no idea they were to be purchased cash only, so I fumbled around in my purse, unearthing any dollar bill and loose change I could find. Uncomfortable situations warrant mindless babbling on my part, so naturally I made a fool of myself. The clerk didn't find me awkward... or maybe he did. "You have a very bubbly personality," he told me. Per ..read more

Author: Leigh Bardugo Genre: YA Fantasy, Adventure Published: September 29th, 2015 by Henry Holt and Company Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . . A convict with a thirst for revenge A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager A runaway with a privileged past A spy known as the Wraith A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums A thie ..read more

Author: Tiffany Easterling Indie publisher, August 2019 Genre: Supernatural romance, Adult fiction They were never born, time cannot affect them, they can never die, and they have an insatiable lust for human souls. It wasn’t destiny. She wasn’t the promised one. Keely Sheppard made a choice to stand and fight these monsters, the neverborn. After that moment, she was called Priestess, and her life was forever changed. There would never be a time when she wasn’t at war. Death and violence would always follow her, even to a city as magnificent as Tokyo. Keely never expected to fall in love. A ri ..read more

Three Days Till Dawn (Antiquity’s Gate book #1) Author: R. F. Hurteau Published: August 27th 2019 Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy Antiquity's Gate forced two realities to collide-what followed tore one of them apart. Now those who remain coexist beneath the shelter of a domed Antarctic city, held together by a tenuous peace and an increasingly dystopian hierarchy. Any hope of one day leaving the confines of Sanctuary is little more than a fading ember. A mid-level systems operator, Ripley does his best to stay out of trouble. His best friend Felix, an irreverent half-breed shunned by society, can't see ..read more

Author: Katherine Arden Published: January 10th, 2017 by Del Rey Books Genre: Young adult, Fantasy, Historical fiction, Fairy tale Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil. Then Vasya’s widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout, Vasya’s stepmoth ..read more

Author: Nick Clausen Published: Denmark edition 2016, English edition 2019, Indie publishing Genre: YA Paranormal, Horror/Thriller Imagine you could visit a world where everything was exactly the way you wanted; where you had it all to yourself and where everything was possible. And imagine if all you had to do to get there was to sleep. Would you ever want to wake up? Welcome to Dreamland. This book caught me off guard, I'm not gonna lie. After finishing it, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It is a ghost story, suspense novel that had me all turned around. At one point, I didn't know who to ..read more

Author: Alison McBain Published: June 28th, 2018 by Fairfield Scribes Genre: Fantasy, Retelling Explain The Rose Queen in one word: immersive! I was drawn into the story very quickly, and the claws of the beast clung to me all the way through. What I love most about the story is how it is multi-dimensional. The world and the characters were brought to life on the pages. As a reader, I saw everything clearly as though I were watching a movie. I think it's quite clear I love Beauty and the Beast retellings, especially after reviewing Hunted by Megan Spooner. The Rose Queen, however, took the ret ..read more