Pub. Date: 26-Jul-2022 Rating: 4 Stars Violet made of Thorns is full of suspense, dark prophecy, and court intrigue with a serving of enemies-to-lovers on the side. There is also plenty of magic in this story and prophesies that spell doom.  If you like your fairy tales on the darker side, this is the book for you. Violet is a young Seer working for the King. She is one of only a few in the world and her talents are highly sought after.  However, she didn’t receive proper instruction on the use of her gifts and though the visions and dreams are easy enough, there are other things her ..read more

Pub. Date: 22-12-2021 Rating: 4 Stars This book, though mostly not set during the holidays, still has the special magic that only the holiday season can bring. It is an imaginative coming-of-age story and will definitely warm your heart. Savannah meets Jordan at the start of the semester when he offers to help her carry her mattress to her dorm room. In the days following move in, they keep running into each other and before long a friendship develops, but Jordan wants more. However, Savannah is convinced that true love does not exist. She thinks love is just a primitive response to mating. Th ..read more

Pub. Date: 28-Nov-2021 Rating:5 Stars Holey moley, this book has a cliffhanger of an ending and I loved it! The romance, the tension, the action all just so perfect in The Last Graduate, which is the second installment of the Scholomance series, by Naomi Novik. It was wickedly delicious and I gobbled it up! The story picks up right were A Deadly Education leaves off. El and her fellow students at the Scholomance now have to prepare for graduation. It is a graduation ceremony like no other and few will survive it. Yet the school seems to be making things harder for EL, leaving her to wonder if ..read more

Pub. Date: 31-July-2020 Rating: 3.5 Stars The Girl From Far Away by Jennifer Austin is a YA fantasy story that has elements of Science Fiction also. It was an interesting take on alternate worlds and has an XMen feel to it. An enjoyable read. The story is told from two points of view. The first is Jess’s and she is from Earth. The other POV is Ella’s whom lives on an alternate earth, called Biack, which has more advanced technology. The two characters are linked somehow (there was never really a good answer on this and I’ll talk about this later) because they both experience the others life th ..read more

Pub. Date: 5-10-2020 Rating: 4 Stars After I finished reading this book I was thinking about what I liked about books when I was younger (a lot younger). The main thing was adventure. I loved stories that had magic and characters that I pulled for and got swept into their story. This is totally what happened to me when reading The Last Angel Warrior. Definitely a great adventure tale for young (and older) readers! The story follows Kalib Andrews as he approaches his sixteenth birthday and discovers that there are, among other things, demons and magic in the world. A stranger tries to kill him ..read more

Pub. Date: 17-March-2020 Rating: 5 Stars There is something extremely wonderful about this book that is hard to put into words because it is so many things all at once. The author has given the reader a great cast of characters to love and an outstanding plot to go along with it. It is just one of those stories that is sure to touch your heart. Linus Baker has been a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICOMY) for a long time. In his job, he investigates orphanages for magical children and makes recommendations as to whether they should remain open or be closed. He is met ..read more

Pub. Date: 20-Sep-2016 Rating: 4 Stars As suggested from the title, Stalking Jack the Ripper, is a YA horror/murder mystery book (very) loosely based on the real murders of young women in London during the 1880s. The author, Kerri Maniscalco, has presented the reader with a young protagonist who will capture your heart with her courage, defiance and tenacity as she works to solve the murders. Audrey Rose Wadsworth is an educated young woman and daughter of a Lord. Ladies of her standing are expected to be prime and proper. Yet, she finds the society demands upon her restricting and she rebels ..read more

Pub. Date: 24-Mar-2020 Rating: 3 Stars The Last Human by Zack Jordan is a coming-of-age, space opera tale. It is the prefer book for fans of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy.   It is a quirky tale about Sarya the daughter, the last of her kind. Her kind being humans. She is raised by an adopted mother of another species. A mother who loves her and will give her life to protect her. Yet, she has a burning desire to know where she comes from and if there is possibly more of her kind still alive.   How can Sarya find out any information about humans when humans are the most feared species ..read more

Pub. Date: 7-Jan-2020 Rating: 5 Stars A Heart So Fierce and Broken is the second installment in the Cursebreakers series by Brigid Kemmerer. The author once again uses her amazing talent to continue the saga of Emberfall. A world where loyalty and friendships will come into question. This is a world you will want to visit again and again. Grey is missing, and Rhen and Harper fear that upon killing Lilith he is stuck in our world. No one knows that he is in hiding and working as a stable boy. His job has always been to protect the king at all costs. Now he hides to protect the king because he f ..read more

Pub. Date: 26-Jul-2022 Rating: 4 Stars Violet made of Thorns is full of suspense, dark prophecy, and court intrigue with a serving of enemies-to-lovers on the side. There is also plenty of magic in this story and prophesies that spell doom.  If you like your fairy tales on the darker side, this is the book for you. Violet is a young Seer working for the King. She is one of only a few in the world and her talents are highly sought after.  However, she didn’t receive proper instruction on the use of her gifts and though the visions and dreams are easy enough, there are other things her ..read more