After her run-in with a jealous warlock, apprentice baker Anise Wise can’t wait to get back the kitchen where she belongs. But thanks to her brush with death, the land of the living isn’t all cupcakes and marshmallows. Sugar Spells is the second in the Spellwork Syndicate series and contains…
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I received an ebook copy of thisnovella from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “Those old diseases can’t have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn’t be here to talk about them. They don’t matter. They’re never coming back. How wrong we could be.” Exactly how wrong we…
Leave a CommentI received a digital copy of this anthology via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. I love witches – walking stereotypes with black hats, quiet ones that blend in, ones that keep secrets from their families, ones that keep secrets with their families. Witches are women who walk their…
Leave a CommentForging metal into weapons and armor is one thing, but when desire burns out of control and the media spotlight gets too hot to bear, can a commoner turned duke and his posh apprentice find lasting love? I adored this book – sitting in the parking lot because you don’t…
Leave a CommentAfter twenty-five years of single-minded determination, Marianne Gordon has finally achieved her ambition and been promoted to Principal of the Vesper School for Zero-Gravity Artistic Display. But her moment of triumph is cut short when she discovers that she must share her position with Josephine Knight, a celebrated zero-gravity performer…
Leave a CommentI received this novella from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “14-year old Darian was raised in an isolated village, resisting the King and his army. When his life takes a tragic turn, he ends up in the castle, closer to his former enemies than he…
Leave a Comment“The humans malfunctioned long before their habitat did.” The edges and boundaries of human experience and the possibilities beyond them are the things I like best in my science fiction. I found these in spades within The Collapsing Empire, along with humor alternately dry and caustic, characters I loved and…
2 Comments“Ivan is the perfect, deadly warrior, a man trained from childhood to be the ultimate protector to the Rios family. His focus on keeping her safe is intense–and a little intoxicating. When the threat of danger cracks his icy control, Maricela realizes she’s not the only one fighting against temptation.”…
Leave a CommentI am a novice reader of the romance genre. I’d say I read one romance novel, on average, every year. I’d just never been hooked. Since the beginning of 2018, I’ve read seventeen romance novels. “Hooked” is the grossest understatement – I have been drowning myself in a beautiful universe…
Leave a CommentIn author Dhonielle Clayton’s debut solo novel, the line between the beautiful and the grotesque is sometimes stark and bright, and sometimes blurry and muddied. The Belles is set in a fictional kingdom called Orléans. Its name and its map – an archipelago with a large, curved main island –…
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