I remember when I was in my twenties, I thought fifty was old and I imagined grey hair and Wilford Brimley as the posterchild of what that looked like. Now that I’m much closer to fifty all of those notions seem silly. I’m close to being in the best shape of my life, in a […]
I saw the cover on The Spellshop awhile ago and was intrigued but I’ve had very hit and miss experiences with Cozy Fantasy. I was pleasantly surprised that this first book in the Spellshop series had a cute premise, a cool world and a group of characters that were cute and quirky. Keila has lived […]
Imagine a deep voice proclaiming “In a world where forty-eight aliens fell to earth Superman style, emerging from pods as children, a balance of heroes and villains has been organized. Team hero has hired a little known PR team to rebrand one of the forty-eight from terrorizing Pyro into a new Hero, The Wyvern. But […]
A company lab tech knows something she shouldn’t about the crash of the company’s new prototype ship and this lands her a one-way ticket into a war zone between the Regals and Tech-wavers and a conspiracy that leads straight to the throne. Jennifer Estep is a long-time established author of urban fantasy, fantasy, and sci-fi […]
I read the trilogy which started the Kingmaker Chronicles series. Cat and Griffin were the main characters there. Now we are getting stories from the rest of Team Alpha. I enjoyed the mythology, gods and creatures. I wanted to see what happened with the characters. In the novella, Of Fate & Fire, we learn about […]
A story set in a world where some live in a land floating through the sky, others live on the mortal plane and then some live in darkness, in the underworld. All these worlds collide in The Floating World when, Ren, girl in hiding from those who would kill her in the Float City, uses […]
The Shadowlands series will be more than a duology it seems. There are many aspects which are popular these dayse days – time / portal travel, Scotland, fae, dragons, etc. I’m going to try not to redo First Light here and not do spoilers. This is a series best read in order. Carys lives in […]
Aleski is the living embodiment of the God of Love and enjoys playing matchmaker. How can he resist finding the perfect love interest for the Kraken, the Ocean’s protector and an entity thought to have lost his heart millennia ago. Naia is a new godling born from the dreams of men, goddess of the sea, […]
The Dangerous Damsels series began this world with its witty, hilarious antics. The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love continues the tradition in a new series in the same world, Love’s Academic. It isn’t necessary to have read the previous books as they are not mentioned at all. Those books are so fun I wouldn’t miss […]
What if those running the Roman Empire were dragon shifters? That is the loose premise of Firebird the first book in of the new series, The Fire that Binds. Juliette Cross has built a new world on the bones of Roman history and their gods. It is a re-imagining where Minerva, goddess of wisdom, justice, […]