Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. For as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember the village of Oakvale has been surrounding by the dark woods—a forest filled with … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
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Book Review: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to … Continue reading Book Review: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
Book Review: Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray #WyrdAndWonder
Summary: During a chance summer shower, an English country parson takes refuge in a country house. The house seems deserted, yet the table is laid with a sumptuous banquet such as the parson has not seen since before war rationing. Unnerved by the uncanny house, he flees, but stops to pluck a single perfect rose … Continue reading Book Review: Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray #WyrdAndWonder
Book Review: Vampire Darcy’s Desire by Regina Jeffers
Summary: Vampire Darcy’s Desire presents Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a heart-pounding vampire romance filled with passion and danger. Tormented by a 200-year-old curse and his fate as a half human/half vampire dhampir, Fitzwilliam Darcy vows to live a solitary life rather than inflict the horrors of his life upon an innocent wife and … Continue reading Book Review: Vampire Darcy’s Desire by Regina Jeffers
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Coral by Sara Ella
Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Coral has always been different, standing out from her mermaid sisters in a society where blending in is key. Worse yet, she … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Coral by Sara Ella
Book Review: Peter Darling by Austin Chant
Summary: Ten years ago, Peter Pan left Neverland to grow up, leaving behind his adolescent dreams of boyhood and resigning himself to life as Wendy Darling. Growing up, however, has only made him realize how inescapable his identity as a man is. But when he returns to Neverland, everything has changed: the Lost Boys … Continue reading Book Review: Peter Darling by Austin Chant
Book Review: The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Summary: I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both. I am the Beast. The day I was cursed to this wretched existence was the day I was saved—although it did not feel so at the time. My redemption sprung from contemptible roots; I am not proud of what I did the day her father … Continue reading Book Review: The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Audiobook Review: Beautiful by Juliet Marillier #20booksofsummer
I'm going to do something a little different with this review and put my summary and thoughts together since, being an audible original, this is a different kind of a book in a way. From what I gather, Beautiful is either an off-shoot of a previous story or an expansion of a previous story … Continue reading Audiobook Review: Beautiful by Juliet Marillier #20booksofsummer
Book Review: The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
Summary: Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: save her favorite character, Princess Amara, from being killed off from her favorite franchise, Starfield. The problem is, Jessica Stone—the actress who plays Princess Amara—wants nothing more than to leave the intense scrutiny of the fandom behind. If this year's ExcelsiCon isn't her last, … Continue reading Book Review: The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
Book Review: Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Summary: I’ve been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I’ve always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. Now I’m done hiding. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start. When … Continue reading Book Review: Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Way Too Fantasy 