Title: Soul Bound Author: Cari Z Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 146 Pages Category: Fantasy Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: Cari Z does the novella/short novel medium so well that she has become a go-to for me in that category. Soul Bound satisfies the craving for a fantasy world with just enough vision and insight…
Tag: Magic
Review: The Solstice Cabin by Arden Powell
Title: The Solstice Cabin Series: Flos Magicae Author: Arden Powell Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 95 Pages Category: Holiday Romance, Fantasy Rating: 3.5 Stars At a Glance: If you’re looking for something a little different and a bit fantastical this holiday season, a story that reunites two friends and gathers together their fears, strength, and courage…
Review: A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
Title: A Restless Truth Series: The Last Binding: Book Two Author: Freya Marske Publisher: Tordotcom Length: 400 Pages Category: Historical Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Maud Blythe is such an engaging heroine, and I loved her intrepid spirit even as I feared for her life at nearly every twist and turn of her…
Review: The Tower by Cari Z
Title: The Tower Series: The Spell Saga: Book Two Author: Cari Z Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 118 Pages Category: Fantasy, Steampunk Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: The setting has changed in The Tower, but the suspense and threats to life and limb are no less absolute or intense. More magic, more curiosities, and surely…
Review: The Bachelor’s Valet by Arden Powell
Title: The Bachelor’s Valet Series: Flos Magicae Author: Arden Powell Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 148 Pages Category: Historical Romance, Fantasy Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: The Bachelor’s Valet is a gentle and charming story with happy endings for all involved, short on drama and long on anticipation, waiting for Alphonse to suss out his…
Review: Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin
Title: Proper Scoundrels Author: Allie Therin Publisher: Carina Press Length: 309 Pages Category: Historical Romance, Mystery/Suspense, Paranormal Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Proper Scoundrels has come in at the eleventh hour and effortlessly propelled its way onto my list of favorite books of the year. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Their scandalous pasts have left…
Review: The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner
Title: The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry Series: Unnatural Magic: Book Two Author: C.M. Waggoner Publisher: Ace/Penguin Books Length: 383 Pages Category: Gaslamp Fantasy Rating: 3.5 Stars At a Glance: Delly Wells’ unique elocution was such a fun novelty, and the opposite-side-of-the-tracks romance between Delly and Winn was terribly, irresistibly sweet. The pace was slow-going…
Review: An Iron Fist by Nazri Noor
Title: An Iron Fist Series: Arcane Hearts: Book Three Author: Nazri Noor Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 268 Pages Category: Fantasy Rating: 4.5 Stars At a Glance: I loved all the new characters introduced in An Iron Fist, even the villains because they were the catalyst for all the trouble. This is hands down my favorite…
Review: A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Title: A Marvellous Light Series: The Last Binding: Book One Author: Freya Marske Publisher: Macmillan/Tor Books Length: 377 Pages Category: Historical Romance, Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Freya Marske’s prose is nothing but lush, and I found myself chewing through the beauty of her scenery and the world she built around a magic…
Review: Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton
Title: Trailer Park Trickster Series: The Adam Binder Novels: Book Two Author: David R. Slayton Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Length: 295 Pages Category: Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Trailer Park Trickster was on a short list of my most anticipated books in 2021 and is now on my Best Of list for the year….
Review: Reborn by Richard Amos
Title: Reborn Series: Fallen Fire: Book One Author: Richard Amos Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 356 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy Rating: 3.5 Stars At a Glance: Reborn is some fun, if not groundbreaking, Urban Fantasy. I’m still warming up to these characters and their story, which is why I can’t go as far as to say…
Review: Sonata Form by Carole Cummings
Title: Sonata Form Author: Carole Cummings Publisher: Forest Path Books Length: 290 Pages Category: Fantasy Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: Sonata Form is charming, at times sweet, fraught with external conflict, and is yet another example of the sort of fantasy Cummings writes—it isn’t romance, but there is a clear and present romanticism to…
Review: The Engineer by C.S. Poe
Title: The Engineer Series: Magic & Steam: Book One Author: C.S. Poe Publisher: Self-Published Length: 84 Pages Category: Steampunk, Historical, Fantasy At a Glance: The Engineer is positively fun and such a great tease for what’s to come. This is a series that I’m on pins and needles—or, maybe I should say cogs and gears—awaiting…
Review: The Hanged Man by K.D. Edwards
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…
Review: Pyre at the Eyreholme Trust by Lin Darrow
Title: Pyre at the Eyreholme Trust Author: Lin Darrow Publisher: Self-Published (2nd Edition) Length: Novella Category: Historical Fantasy At a Glance: Magic, intrigues, blackmail, double-crosses and fun all come together in a 1920s gangland setting born from Lin Darrow’s imagination. I’d have happily read many more pages of story set in the seamy and sensational…
Review: Mainly by Moonlight by Josh Lanyon
Title: Mainly by Moonlight Series: Bedknobs and Broomsticks: Book One Author: Josh Lanyon Publisher: Self-Published Length: 222 Pages Category: Contemporary, Murder Mystery, Fantasy At a Glance: If you’re expecting a gritty, hardboiled murder mystery here, you’re in for a big disappointment. Mainly by Moonlight is a cozy mystery with a side of relationship angst and…
Review: The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards
Title: The Last Sun Series: The Tarot Sequence: Book One Author: K. D. Edwards Publisher: Pyr/Penguin Random House Length: 367 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: Clever, unique, charming and action-packed, I was hooked on this book from beginning to end and would recommend it without reservation to anyone who loves Urban Fantasy. Reviewed…
Review: The Omega Objection by G.L. Carriger
Title: The Omega Objection Series: San Andreas Pack: Book Two Author: G.L. Carriger Publisher: Self-Published Length: 317 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: G.L. Carriger’s San Andreas Shifters series has taken the concept of pack and chosen family and, most especially, the roles of Alpha, Beta, and Omega, and made them into something just…
Guest Post: Calculated Magic by SJD Peterson
Welcome to author SJD Peterson, who’s dropping in today to chat with us about her novel Calculated Magic, a brand new addition to Dreamspinner Press’s Dreamspun Beyond house line! Don’t Dismiss Magic Recently someone asked me what I wanted the reader to take away from my new book. The first thing to pop in my…
Review: A Ferry of Bones & Gold by Hailey Turner
Title: A Ferry of Bones & Gold Series: Soulbound: Book One Author: Hailey Turner Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited Length: 390 Pages Category: Urban Fantasy At a Glance: A Ferry of Bones & Gold is filled with the kind of fertile and clever magic that makes it a magical must-read experience. A book with this much dedication…
