Review: Belle Cora by Phillip Margulies

Arabella Goodwin has grown up in a life of privilege. In the sheltered streets of New York City 1838, she enjoys luxurious clothing, reading fancy books, and imported toys.

Her life is already planned out for her, she will be a lady who marries and has a husband and family of her own like any other society girl. That is until the death of her mother and soon after, her father.

With their deaths, her life changes forever. She and her other siblings are sent to live with their wealthy grandparents. She hopes her life will continue much how it was before. But that is not the case.

At that time, it was believe consumption was passed on genetically to children. Since her mother died of consumption, a doctor is called in and he identifies Arabella and her brother has having the “consumption gene”.

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Review: Tiger’s Destiny (The Tiger Saga #4) by Colleen Houck

Kelsey Hayes life has been one wild roller coaster ride over the last two years.

She has embarked on an impossible mission to break an ancient curse placed on the two brothers that she loves: Ren and Kishan.

She’s fought flying monkeys, krakens, sharks, dragons, and evil sorcerers but yet the brothers remain in tiger form!

She has one last task to complete but this task will come at a huge cost. The goddess Durga has one remaining gift The Rope of Fire, hidden on a volcanic island in the Bay of Bengal.

Once Kelsey and the brothers retrieve the rope, they will face an epic battle between good and evil but the battle will test not only their fighting abilities but also their loyalty, faith, love, and bonds of friendship.

When the battle is over, Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan will all face their destinies but they destiny might not be what they had in mind.

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Review: City of Lost Dreams (City of Dark Magic #2) by Magnus Flyte

Vienna and Prague are world renowned as cities full of music and the arts….and maybe even a little magic. It is here in the magical city of Vienna that we find musicologist Sarah Weston.

Sarah lives in a world where alchemy, science, and magic all exist together and create a wonderfully rich story….not to mention you throw in all the time travel through the beautiful streets of Prague and Vienna and you have a lyrical read!

Sarah is in Vienna looking for a cure for her friend Pollina who is on death’s door while her other friends, Max and Nico are also searching for a cure.

Nico is looking for an ancient alchemy cure in England when he finds that an old rival is one step ahead of him. Max is in Prague also searching for a cure but he is also trying to figure out the reappearance of  a long dead saint.

While the boys are off, Sarah becomes entangled in a deadly web of secrets, lies, stolen art, and a dangerously attractive horseman who’s more than a little bloodthirsty.

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Review: The Tenth Saint (The Sarah Weston Chronicles #1) by D.J. Niko

Sarah Weston is in the middle of the biggest dig of her career as an archaeologist in Ethiopia, when she is approached by a local claiming he has ‘rare artifacts’ to show her.

Sarah is skeptical, she knows that most locals are simply out to make a buck but the artifacts have all the authentic markers.

She asks the man to show her where he found the artifacts and what she discovers will change the direction of her exposition.

She finds a sealed tomb with inscriptions in an obscure dialect. When the director of the exposition hears that Sarah has basically gone on a wild goose chase, he sends in reinforcements–anthropologist Danial Madigan.

The tomb she discovered is rumored to be that of Tenth Saint of Coptic Christianity. Sarah and Daniel embark on a dangerous journey that will lead them through the dangerous caves of Ethiopia, through the deserts of the Near East, England, Paris, and Texas.

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Review: Tiger’s Voyage (The Tiger Saga #3) by Colleen Houck

Kelsey Hayes is once again heartbroken. Her beloved Ren doesn’t remember who she is….at all.

In fact her very presence repulses him and makes him physically ill.

Kelsey agrees to continue helping Ren and his brother Kishan try and break the tiger’s curse.

This time their journey takes them to the Indian Ocean and the dragons that inhabit a parallel world that Ren, Kishan, and Kelsey must navigate in order to break another part of the curse.

In the last novel, Tiger’s Quest, Kelsey begins to have stronger feelings for Kishan…stronger than she cares to admit. In this book, she learns that Ren has actually broken the bond that they shared and is actually blocking out all memory of Kelsey himself.

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