Category: Adventure
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By Kiersten White, adapted by Scott Peterson Illustrated by Veronica & Andy Fish, Pub date 9/12/23 4*s. Best enjoyed when you need a technicolor nightmare scape. Publisher’s Synopsis: “What would you do for $50,000? For Mack, the prize money would be life changing. She knows her time at the women’s shelter is already up. And she’s…
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by Kathryn Purdie. Pub Date 9/19/23 4.5*s. Best enjoyed when you want a dark fantasy with a slightly flawed heroine and a very mysterious narrative. Publisher’s Synopsis: “”Tell me again, Grandmère, the story of how I die.” The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the…
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by Beth Overmyer, Pub Date 8/15/23 3.5*s. Best Enjoyed when you need a break from reality. Publisher’s Synopsis: “After the murder of her father – which no one but her believes happened – Verve just wants to hold her family together and take on the role of provider. Unfortunately, a cruel fae lord believes she…
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Blood of a Fae #1 By Briar Boleyn, Pub date 4/15/23 5*s. Best enjoyed when you need an adventure with some enemies to lovers slow burn. Publisher’s Synopsis: “A doomed love, a dangerous mission, and a kingdom on the brink of war…A cast-off princess… Born into a life of duty and sacrifice, Morgan Pendragon’s destiny…
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By Frederic Brremaud 4*. Best enjoyed when you need to dive into some beautiful art! Brindille is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel about a girl who suddenly finds herself in a small forest village with strange creatures and no idea how she got there or anything about her past. However, it seems that some very…
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By KD Van Brunt, Pub Date April 8, 2021 3.5* Best Enjoyed when you’re in the need for a story about a city girl surviving the wilderness Allysa Baylor, the daughter of a world-famous director, wants to go as far away from her family as possible this summer, hopefully to France with her boyfriend. Ever since…
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BY Rebecca McLaughlin. Pub Date 01/17/2020 3 Stars. Best enjoyed when craving a somewhat predictable but enjoyable underdog story. I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. In The Names Queen, the magic of the land is bound to the person who rules it. When the sovereign dies, they…
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By Margaret Rogerson 4 Stars. Best enjoyed surrounded by books. Sorcery of Thorns is a fantastic and surprising adventure from start to finish. So surprising and delightful, in fact, that I have struggled to come up with a synopsis that wouldn’t give away half the book! The world that Rogerson has built around this story…
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By Roshani Chokshi. 3 Stars. Best Enjoyed in a room of luxurious appointment. The Gilded Wolves is set in the late nineteenth century in the lush and luxurious streets of Paris beating with an undercurrent of ancient magic harnessed by some of the people who walk amongst its denizens. Severin Montagnet-Alarie is one of them.…
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By Makiia Lucier, Pub Date August 27, 2019. 3.5 Stars. Best enjoyed on a beach or on a boat and with a sense of adventure. I’d like to preface this review by stating that although this book is a sequel t0 the Tower of Winds, it is not necessary to read the first book prior…
