Audiobook review: How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back by Diana Rowland Picking up a couple months after the conclusion of the previous title, our story finds Angel living a somewhat normal life, for a zombie that is. She’s loving her job at the morgue, she’s taking martial arts classes, she’s passed her GED and is getting help with her dyslexia, and she’s getting to work in the zombie lab with Dr. Nikus. Things start to go south when Pietro goes missing and it looks like the Zombie Mafia (now Tribe) has a trader.  How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back is a high-octan ..read more

Audiobook review: Gray Seas by Hailey Edwards Gray Seas picks up Rue and Asa’s story roughly four days after the conclusion of the previous book. The team is trying to draw out Luca so they can give her to the Director, getting Rue back in his good graces and on track to make changes at Black Hat. Rue also worries for Aiden, who agreed to serve as Calixta’s heir. Overall, I really enjoyed Gray Seas and like the direction the series is heading. The action is intense right from the get go, when a bomb nearly kills Rue and her friends. It appears that there are multiple assassins after Rue, Asa ..read more

Archangel’s LineageAuthor: Nalini Singh Reviewer: Jen Rating: B What I’m Talking About: Angels live for a very, very long time, so it’s not surprising that Singh jumps readers ahead in time, setting Archangel’s Lineage about 20 years after start of the Guild Hunter series, and roughly ten years since the end of the last Cascade. Things have settled down, and it’s a time of peace. I love that Lijuan and her reborn and Charisemnon’s poisons are finally gone. Yet, the earth itself seems unsettled and something is coming. Archangel’s Lineage is one of my favorites of the series, and the best book ..read more

Audiobook review: White Trash Zombie Apocalypse by Diana Rowland It’s been about six months since the previous book, and Angel has found herself in a stable routine. She’s studying for her GED, dating Marcus, and enjoying her work at the morgue. Her relationship with her alcoholic dad is stable and he continues to respect her rule about drinking at home. It’s all good until Angel sees Phillip, her zombie-baby, on the set of a movie production and then again at a fancy dinner event. Even though Angel just wants to live her normal zombie life, it looks like the fates aren’t going to allow it ..read more

Flea Market DragonsAuthor: Shawntelle Madison Reviewer: Jen Rating: B-/C+ What I’m Talking About: Picking up a few days after the conclusion of the previous book, Nat and her family are on the run, trying to protect Nat from Diana’s vicious hellhounds while searching for a magic seed that will spawn a champion to help protect her. While I didn’t expecting it heading into this book, it appears that Ferocious Flea Market Dragons may be the final book in the Flea Market Magic Mysteries. Overall, this was a decent wrap up to the series-long storyline of Diana the Huntress going after Nat. I loved ..read more

Audiobook review: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland It’s been a couple of weeks since Angel and Marcus reported their once friend, now known zombie killer, Ed, as missing. He’s been seen buying camping supplies and ammo; however recently, someone phoned in a tip that he is the serial killer chopping off the heads of his victims (that was him, but they were zombies). Meanwhile, Angel senses something off with a body they collect at a secret biotech lab, and when a masked man steals the corpse from the morgue, the head coroner lets the press lay blame on Angel. Knowing sh ..read more

Audiobook review: My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland When Angel wakes in the hospital, she only has vague memories of the night before, including being severely injured in a car accident. Yet she doesn’t have a scratch on her, and she was brought into the hospital naked and nearly dead from a drug overdose. Someone leaves her clean clothes, a mysterious letter telling her she has a job at the morgue, and some “energy drinks” she’ll need over the next couple weeks. This mysterious person doesn’t explain what happened, but tells her that if she doesn’t keep her job, they will ..read more

Audiobook review: Scourged by Kevin Hearne Having read this series previously, I knew this was coming. The difference this time: I’ve read subsequent novellas and the Ink & Sigil spinoff series, plus time has passed, and I’m not as shocked by the events of Scourged. I came at the story from a different place, and it impacted my enjoyment and feelings about all that goes down. I know this story isn’t the end of the journey, so I’m not quite as emotional as I was the first time. Having read my original review, I still believe that Scourged is the story it needed to be, and it was everything ..read more

Audiobook Review: Last Dragon Standing by Rachel Aaron NOTE: This series was on my TBR for a while, at the recommendation of Linda and Melanie. This past year, I listened to the five-book series as a buddy read with Anne. The reviews were written at the time the book was read.   Last Dragon Standing is the fifth and final story of the Heartstriker UF series which follows nice dragon Julian and his best friend mage Marcy. This is NOT a standalone story and my review contains spoilers from the first four books.  Last Dragon Standing follows the final battle against Algonquin ..read more

Audiobook Review: A Dragon of a Different Color by Rachel Aaron NOTE: This series was on my TBR for a while, at the recommendation of Linda and Melanie. This past year, I listened to the five-book series as a buddy read with Anne. The reviews were written at the time the book was read. A Dragon of a Different Color is the fourth story following nice dragon Julian and his best friend mage Marcy. The story picks up after the explosive events in the previous book. Julius is overwhelmed with grief at the loss of Marcy. Meanwhile, Marcy is lost in her death, but reunited with her decease ..read more