Synopsis: THERE BE DRAGON is an adult epic fantasy with slow-burn romance in a sprawling world of magic, greedy demigods, and dark prophesies. When the people of magical Kalador prayed for a savior, they summoned Kwe—a battle-scarred soldier from a futuristic Earth who is plagued by memories of his violent past. He’s told that an […]
Eidolon: From the Case Files of the OHR by C.L. Stiles I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: When a man vanishes from a Kansas City diner — pulled through reality by forces no one can explain — Nathan Quipp knows it’s only the beginning. […]
Some books announce their intentions in the first line. The Lovers, the Liars, and Me by DeAndra Davis opens with its narrator shuffling her absent mother’s tarot deck and asking the ancestors for guidance, and in that single image you already have the whole novel: a girl clinging to borrowed wisdom because she has not […]
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas on January 30, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Romance / General Pages: 816 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now […]
Some thrillers open with a body. Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard opens with a property viewing, which, in the middle of an Irish housing crisis, might be the more frightening scene. A woman drifts through a crowded open house, hiding in the shuffle of desperate buyers, and wonders which of them will be the […]
Synopsis: Sekya has spent her life making herself small. Raised in an orphanage alongside Khala, Riva, and Lio, she has done whatever it takes to keep her found family together — even if it means surviving in Silk House, a pleasure house in the fire dominion of Eratari. On the world of Thyra, power belongs […]
A trio of childhood friends navigate the cut-and-thrust of adolescence during the Napoleonic Wars in this richly fulfilling Regency-era Shakespeare adaptation. Three childhood chums and their friends in 1814 England try to find their path in life during a tumultuous time of war against both Napoleon and America in Road to Glory by J.E. Brady. […]
A coastal tale about how healing is not a destination but like the tide itself—a continual return to love, community, and wonder Kellye Abernathy returns readers to the windswept shores of Dipitous Beach in Indigo, the Deep, the third installment in her Yellow Cottage Stories. Blending magical realism with environmental adventure, the novel follows a […]
What happens to Cinderella after midnight, after the wedding, after the story stops caring about her? Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim asks that question across three generations of women, and answers it with a novel that is part historical saga, part magical realism, and part aching mother-daughter love story. This is Lim’s first book written […]
The fate of an abandoned baby ignites a chain reaction of rage, vengeance, and redemption in a Virginia coal mining community on the edge of extinction. In Stacy Dean Campbell’s mesmerizing novel, Where the Heathens Rage, the cry of a newborn infant shatters the stillness of Little Black Mountain as long-held secrets threaten to crack […]