Synopsis: Hi, I’m Caiden, I look nineteen, but I’m actually a two-hundred-year-old vampire… and I’ve just been kicked out of a plane and dropped into a walled-off prison city for the world’s fantasy creatures. Welcome to Vampire City! A sprawling metropolis of segregated boroughs, desperate poverty and tyrannical vampire overlords who feed upon their lowly […]
Urban Fantasy
Review: The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill
Synopsis: “You can never go home again,” the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that […]
Book Review: Chronos Warlock (Time-Marked Warlock #2) by Shami Stovall
TL;DR Review: Urban fantasy murder mystery, but with a cozy twist and lovely insights into the wonders of being human. Synopsis: Adair Finch, the most powerful warlock in the world, is back in business! But first he must complete his pact with a mischief spirit by finding her a human body. Seemingly no easy task, […]
Review: David Mogo Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Synopsis LAGOS WILL NOT BE DESTROYEDThe gods have fallen to earth in their thousands, and chaos reigns.Though broken and leaderless, the city endures.David Mogo, demigod and godhunter, has one task: capture two of the most powerful gods in the city and deliver them to the wizard gangster Lukmon Ajala. No problem, right? Review I came […]
Review: Scourge: Triskellion Book One (Triskellion Saga 1) by Rodney McWilliams
Synopsis Scourge is an action-packed, paranormal fantasy novel that will take you on an intense, emotional, and nail-biting rollercoaster ride from start to finish. Fear crawls the streets in New York as homeless are killed one by one. As police detectives Angela Benson and Joe Anderson begin to investigate the chain of murders, they soon realize […]
Review: The Judgment of Valene (The Eververse #2) by Darby Harn
Synopsis: Wealth. Privilege. Superpowers. Valene has it all… including a target on her back. Valene Blackwood hears everything, everywhere, always. Her superhuman sonic abilities cause her so much pain she flees to a space station to find peace. When her father dies, she must return and take over the family business – selling superhuman protection […]
Book Review: Silver Blood (Gilded Blood #0) by Rachel Rener
TL;DR Review: Spicy, steamy, dark and broody yet surprisingly colorful. An awesome prequel to the Gilded Blood series. Synopsis: Two years before Talia’s story ended, Zayn’s story began… “I could smell her attraction for me, so potent I could almost taste it; somehow, I knew that if I ever let myself steal a sip of […]
Review: Ever the Hero (The Eververse #1) by Darby Harn
Synopsis: What happens when you don’t pay your superhero bill? Kit Baldwin is just trying to get by. Rent is due. Food would be nice. A girlfriend, maybe. When she stumbles upon a crashed alien spaceship’s power source, she gets more than she ever bargained for. The alien artifact draws the attention of Valene, Kit’s […]
Review: The Devil Walks In Blood (Nick Holleran, Private Investigator #1 & 2) by David Green
Synopsis: Hell is real. We’re all living it. Nick Holleran learned that truth the hard way the day he took three bullets to the chest and bled out in an alleyway. Only death didn’t stick, and it’s been five long years working among the ghosts and monsters, demons and fallen angels, hoping that next time […]
Review: A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert
Synopsis: Althus is an anarchist, a Phantom Dragon. Vade is a Whisper–an Imperial agent. Their love was never meant to survive. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos is the story of Althus and Vade, assigned to spy on the other by opposing sides. But […]
Review: Into the Seventeen Towers by Jareth Z. Navratil
Synopsis Heroes stand! But Nathaniel is no hero… He is an all-around average, thirty-something, failed-to-launch, American do-nothing. However, one small fact rescues Nathaniel from wallowing in his mediocrity…He is a Page-Walker! Nathaniel can escape his humdrum existence by entering the pages of books, living vicariously through their characters’ adventures. Nathaniel’s comfortable existence is challenged when […]
Review: DFZ Changeling Trilogy by Rachel Aaron
By A Silver Thread (Book 1) Synopsis In the world’s most magical metropolis where spirits run noodle shops and cash-strapped dragons stage photo-ops for tourists, people still think fairies are nothing but stories, and that’s exactly how the fairies like it. It’s a lot easier to feast on humanity’s dreams when no one believes you […]