(Bryn Aven is Back!): Ice Kissed by Amanda Hocking

Bryn Aven’s goal of becoming an elite Kanin protector is still as strong as ever. But things keep getting more and more complicated for the half-Kanin half-Skojare tracker. She knows things she shouldn’t – specifically about a certain infamous Kanin traitor, Konstantine Black. When Bryn gets a message in a dream about the missing Skojare queen, …

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(The Arcana Strike Back): Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole

Evie used to be a typical teenage girl who enjoyed cheerleading and painting. Then the Flash happened. The earth’s surface ignited, turned to ash and all the rivers and lakes evaporated. Evie gained supernatural powers and against her will became a player in a paranormal game to the death with 21 other teenagers. Now, having …

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Book Review: Bound by Alan Baxter

Alex Caine makes his living as a very successful cage fighter. The people in his industry may be slightly shady but Alex is a man who knows how to handle himself. When the mysterious Patrick Welby approaches Alex and helps him out of a spot of bother, it starts a chain of events which turns Alex’s life upside down. …

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(Elemental Battlelines Have Been Drawn…): Sacrifice by Brigid Kemmerer

Since his parents deaths, Michael Merrick has been the rock holding his family together. Most young men would be going to college and indulging in carefree fun – but Michael fought the courts to get custody of his young brothers. Now, after five years of being their guardian, Michael feels like he may not be …

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(Fantastic Fantasy): Sabriel by Garth Nix

When Sabriel can’t contact her father, she knows something is wrong. Leaving the relative safety of Ancelstierre and venturing through the wall into the Old Kingdom is dangerous but Sabriel knows the risks. Not having been to the Old Kingdom since she was a young child, now a decade older and wiser, Sabriel has to magical …

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Blog Tour: Stone of Thieves by Diane J. Reed

Welcome to my stop on the Stone of Thieves blog tour! This book (the second in Diana J. Reed’s Robbin’ Hearts series) has all the charm and excitement of book one (Robin in the Hood) plus more. Gypsies, visions and an Italian adventure which needs to be read to be believed.   Much like in Robin in the Hood, …

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(Wyvern and Witches and Fae! Oh My!): Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

This review for Heir of Fire contains spoilers for the previous books in the series. IF you haven’t read Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) or Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) then I would recommend you skip my review for Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3). But before you do, I want to …

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Young Adult: The Dark World by Cara Lynn Schultz

Paige Kelly has the reputation for being crazy after being caught a number of times talking to herself in the girl’s bathroom. But Paige isn’t chatting to herself – she’s talking to her best friend Dottie, the ghost of a girl who passed away over fifty years ago. Since a near fatal accident a few …

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Where There is a Monster, There is a Miracle: a review of Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman

Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories compiled by Neil Gaiman. From werewolves to cockatoucans – there’s a lot of variety in this volume to interest readers. And whilst I found the stories entertaining, what I loved most about this book was the personal touches. Before each story, Gaiman gives a brief synopsis of …

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Down the Rabbithole: A Review of Splintered by AG Howard

The females in Alyssa Gardner’s family line are cursed. It’s been this way ever since Alyssa’s great-great-great-grandmother Alice Liddell went down the rabbit hole. Alice’s adventures may have inspired Lewis Carroll’s classic novel but it also caused strangeness and mental instability for every female born to Alice’s family line ever since. Alyssa knows about Alice and …

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