Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Bitter Pill Series: PsyCop: Book Eleven Author: Jordan Castillo Price Publisher: Self-Published Length: 257 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery/Suspense At a Glance: Jordan Castillo Price has routinely delivered a special sort of brilliance through these characters, but Bitter Pill bumps that up by several notches, and does so through an unexpected character and... Continue Reading →
Title: Shots on Goal Series: Stick Side: Book Three Author: Amy Aislin Publisher: Self-Published Length: 306 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance At a Glance: Shots on Goal is another huge win for Amy Aislin. She continues to impress me with every book—but, her hockey boys are my favorite. I can’t wait to see what’s up next... Continue Reading →
Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes Author: Amy Rae Durreson Publisher: Self-Published Length: 343 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance, Paranormal, Horror At a Glance: There’s a lovely romance in this story that finds its own way amidst the trauma and turmoil of the horror, and the author conducts each chapter and verse of Something Wicked This... Continue Reading →
Title: 19 Love Songs Author: David Levithan Publisher: Knopf Books/Random House Length: 289 Pages Category: LGBTQ Fiction, Love and Romance At a Glance: 19 Love Songs is a diverse and sublime collection of love stories, it’s a love note to the written word, an homage to music, and a celebration of both the fleeting and... Continue Reading →
Title: The Wrath of Wolves Series: Dark Is the Night: Book Three Authors: Kelley York and Rowan Altwood Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 371 Pages Category: Historical Romance, Horror At a Glance: Superb storytelling and irresistible characters set against an excellent alternate historical backdrop populated by various supernatural entities elevates this series to the top of... Continue Reading →
Title: The Hanged Man Series: The Tarot Sequence: Book Two Author: K.D. Edwards Publisher: PYR Books Length: 384 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: K.D. Edwards sets the pendulum swinging in perfect meter from prologue to epilogue in this feat of epic storytelling, and if I were restricted to only two adjectives to describe... Continue Reading →
Title: Bringer of Night Series: SPECTR Series Three: Book Two Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Length: 103 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: The dry humor, the friendships and made family, the murder and mayhem, and the abundant imagination are all present and accounted for in Bringer of Night. It encompasses everything I... Continue Reading →
Title: The Rational Faculty Series: Hazard and Somerset: A Union of Swords Book One Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: Self-Published Length: 325 Pages Category: Mystery/Suspense At a Glance: The Rational Faculty encompasses so many aspects which all vie for equal attention—humor, pathos, suspense, action, love, murder and mayhem, danger, corruption, and on and on—yet the cumulative... Continue Reading →
Title: The Mysterious and Amazing Blue Billings Series: Black and Blue: Book One Author: Lily Morton Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 301 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance, Paranormal Mystery At a Glance: Lily Morton set out to do something a little different with this novel, and she succeeded in spades while still maintaining all the wonders that... Continue Reading →
Title: Graveyard Shift Series: Not Dead Yet: Book Three Author: Jenn Burke Publisher: Carina Press Length: 259 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: Burke handles the plethora of danger and suspense in this novel with nothing less than finesse. The only overwhelming element to the entirety of the story were the emotions provoked by... Continue Reading →
Title: Arcane Adversaries Series: The Simon Pearce Mysteries: Book Four Author: Jess Faraday Publisher: Blind Eye Books/Kindle Unlimited Length: 114 Pages Category: Historical, Mystery/Suspense At a Glance: There is a bittersweet note to the final novella of the collection, one in which Simon must confront his feelings and discern the difference between loving someone and... Continue Reading →
Title: Sanguine Solutions Series: The Simon Pearce Mysteries: Book Three Author: Jess Faraday Publisher: Blind Eye Books/Kindle Unlimited Length: 76 Pages Category: Historical, Mystery/Suspense At a Glance: Jess Faraday is so accomplished at writing star-crossed lovers and yet not leaving readers feeling as if we’ve missed out on a romantic element in her stories. In... Continue Reading →
Title: After Ben Series: Seattle Stories: Book One Author: Con Riley Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 344 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance At a Glance: After Ben is not a novel full of bombast or populated by outlandish characters. That, in fact, is what makes a Con Riley book a Con Riley book. There is a certain... Continue Reading →
Title: Carved in Bone Series: Henry Rios Mysteries: Book Eight Author: Michael Nava Publisher: Persigo Press Length: 226 Pages Category: Mystery/Suspense At a Glance: Carved in Bone goes straight for the emotional jugular. And Nava’s aim is true. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: November, 1984. Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, fresh out of rehab and picking... Continue Reading →
Title: Tallowwood Author: N.R. Walker Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 375 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance, Mystery/Suspense At a Glance: I can’t recommend this book enough, guys. My pulse was racing, my palms were sweaty, and at the end my heart was full. I really loved it so much. Go check it out!! Reviewed By: Jules Blurb:... Continue Reading →
Title: A Crown of Iron & Silver Series: Soulbound: Book Three Author: Hailey Turner Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 379 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: Hailey Turner gives such great diction. Every scene manifests into something beautiful, and that's wholly attributed to her ability to turn a phrase. A Crown of Iron & Silver... Continue Reading →
Title: Ziggy, Stardust and Me Author: James Brandon Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Length: 368 Pages Category: YA/Teen Fiction At a Glance: Ziggy, Stardust and Me is author James Brandon’s debut novel, and it is a stellar entry that has left its mark on me in the way only a book can. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb:... Continue Reading →
Title: Triangulation Series: Borealis Investigations: Book Two Author: Gregory Ashe Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 446 Pages Category: Contemporary, Murder Mystery, Romantic Suspense At a Glance: Gregory Ashe never takes the shortest distance between two points to get to the resolution of a story, and his readers benefit from it. He’s a proficient spinner and tangler... Continue Reading →
Title: The Marked Prince Series: The Darkest Court: Book Two Author: M.A. Grant Publisher: Carina Press Length: 305 Pages Category: Fantasy At a Glance: Laid out in an elegant prose, Grant draws readers into this story by the heart, gives us two heroes to support, to suffer the sting of failure with, and to celebrate... Continue Reading →
Title: Spellbound Series: Magic in Manhattan: Book One Author: Allie Therin Publisher: Carina Press Length: 243 Pages Category: Historical, Paranormal Romance Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: There has been a lot of early buzz about the brilliance of this book. Believe it. All of it. Spellbound not only lives up to it but exceeded... Continue Reading →
Title: We Contain Multitudes Author: Sarah Henstra Publisher: Little, Brown Books Length: 385 Pages Category: Young Adult At a Glance: This book isn’t going to be for everyone. But, I LOVED it. I hope some of you are willing to give it a try!! Because the pay off is so worth it. Reviewed By: Jules... Continue Reading →
Title: Birthday Author: Meredith Russo Publisher: Flatiron Books/Macmillan Publishing Length: 275 Pages Category: Teen Fiction At a Glance: Author Meredith Russo has delivered another win with her sophomore release, a story of lifelong best friends, a coming-of-age story, a coming-to-terms story, and a story of the courage to face, and then live, one’s own truth... Continue Reading →
Title: If I Was Your Girl Author: Meredith Russo Publisher: Macmillan/Flatiron Books Length: 288 Pages Category: Contemporary Romance, Teen Romance At a Glance: There is a reason this book has won so many awards and garnered all the accolades. It is, hands down, one of the most candidly beautiful novels I’ve read so far this... Continue Reading →
Title: Silver in the Wood Author: Emily Tesh Publisher: Tor Publishing Length: 112 Pages Category: Fairy Tale/Fantasy At a Glance: Emily Tesh’s Silver in the Wood is a Green Man story, a little bit fairy tale and a whole lot of magic wrapped up in a writing style that flows like poetry off the page,... Continue Reading →
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