The Corsairs: Matharis is the last book in the Corsair Brothers series following a group of privateering brothers who stumbled on a slaving operation and go out into space with their potential mates to get to the bottom of who is making clones and how to keep the women they found on the delivery ship […]
The third book in Brandon Sanderson’s hugely successful Kickstarter is Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. This has been my favorite of the three books as it is set in the Cosmere, has some manga and Asian cultural influences and has a great story told by Hoid who is currently stuck at a statue while his Criptid […]
Isn’t She Lovely is a prequel story to the Redemption series following two people through a summer semester in college. Both Stephanie and Ethan are avoiding things this summer. They are avoiding parents, recent breakups, future obligations and their pasts. Stephanie is a film student; she is excited to spend the summer semester with an […]
Where Ivy Dares to Grow is an interesting and meandering standalone featuring a unreliable narrator. Saoirse is stuck at a beautiful estate to be with her fiancé as his mother spends her last days on earth. The estate seems almost haunted and alive with history and Saoirse is swept away in a diary she found, […]
Drafted is a fluffy and mostly fun story. It is the first in the Para-Military Recruiter series featuring a human that accidentally ends up as a recruiter in the paranormal world. Julie might be human but soon finds out, after eating some magic mushrooms, she can see people of the paranormal community. Now she has […]
Mists of the Highlands is the first book of the Fae Highlanders series which describes itself as a cross between Outlander and Dark Fever, both books I loved. I have wanted to capture the magic I felt when reading Outlander and hoped this new series would scratch that itch. I love the concept of going […]
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge is the first book in the Chefs of the Five Gods series, told from the PoVs of a mother and her daughter. Both women have been touched by a god to be able to sense epicurea (magical ingredients) in different ways. This makes them god touched and very special to […]
I’m working my way through T. Kingfishers entire catalog and picked up Sumer in Orcas when it was a kindle deal. I’ve enjoyed every story by her that I have read so far and Summer In Orcas is continuing that trend. A portal fantasy in the same vein as Narnia but with a little extra […]
The Fury of Kings is a the first book in a new series The Erland Saga, a new debut fantasy set in a recognizable format of warring families and various PoVs that roll out the world around you. This is a staging book with a few epic battles and a question of what is happening in […]
The Nameless Restaurant is the first book in a in the Hidden Dishes series currently focused around a restaurant in Toronto that is so hidden by magic you basically have to stumble into, unless you are magical and just happen to know where it is. This reads half like a food blog and half like […]