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

The Last Titan Author: Craig Wainwright Published: 2018 Genre: Adult Sci-fi, Superhero First they came as explorers. Then they came and interfered. Now, one has arrived on Earth with her gift of death. On the run from the government and a local gangster, Daniel White thought things couldn’t get any worse. But then, he’d not reckoned on meeting a woman who informs him that his whole life has been a lie and he is in fact an alien brought to Earth as part of a surrogacy program… --Amazon All right, so I am a little behind on book reviews. Let’s just say, February has been a busy month. Marching o ..read more

Author: Meagan Spooner Published: March 14th 2017 by Harperteen Genre: YA fiction, Fantasy, Retelling Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit ..read more

The Shape of Rain Author: Michael B. Koep Publishing date: October 1st, 2018 by Will Dreamly Arts Publishing Genre: Adult Fantasy, Paranormal Discredited mythology professor, Astrid Finnley believes gods and immortals once battled for a place in Creation--for a place of their own on the earth. When she is summoned to a secret archeological dig site in Northern Idaho to translate an ancient script, she uncovers an unthinkable nightmare: a woman buried alive--for over a thousand years. Psychologist Loche Newirthʼs assassination is ordered to prevent him from rewriting history. But his former men ..read more

Kiss of the Royal Author: Lindsey Duga Published: July 3rd, 2018 by Entangled Publishing, LLC Genre: YA Fantasy Faced with the war against Forces of Darkness, Ivy and her other Royal comrades rely on their Kiss to aid them. It is only when she is partnered with a new prince that she begins to doubt the power of the Kiss. On their quest to prevent the land from experiencing the wrath of a Sable Dragon, Ivy begins to see the world through the eyes of her new partner. She begins to believe in a force more powerful than her Royal Kiss. Yet she is torn between five hundred years’ worth of teachings ..read more

Unblemished By: Sara Ella Published 2016 by Thomas Nelson Genre: YA Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Adventure Eliyana is your typical seventeen-year-old girl—ugly seventeen-year-old girl, due to the red birthmark scribbled on her face. It’s no wonder Joshua pushes her away when she gets too close. Or is it? Life is suddenly flipped wrong-side up when her mother dies, a mysterious man named Makai shows up at her house and a certain Ky Rhyen tries to kidnap her. And it all ties to her birthmark, she soon learns. No one is who they seem, not even the young man who tried to kidnap her. Eliyana is intro ..read more

Cinder Author: Marissa Meyer Published: January 3rd, 2012 by Macmillan Publishers Genre: Sci-fi, Retelling, YA Fiction Cinder is a teenage cyborg, practically owned by her stepmother after her stepfather died of the ever-present plague. When her favorite stepsister also shows signs of the deadly illness, Cinder is involuntarily sent to the lab as the next test rat for a cure. There, Cinder learns things about herself that leave her questioning her past. In the meantime, the Commonwealth faces its own dilemma as the Lunars threaten to take over Earth by force. Prince Kai of the Commonwealth str ..read more