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Review: Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O’Neill
Ireland has got to be the absolute perfect setting for this book! I can’t think of a better location for a book about fairies and magic, not to mention I literally want to runaway to Ireland now and live there forever! Kate McDaid has made a New Year’s resolution….she plans on revitalizing her career and love life. Kate’s life is pretty normal….she lives in Dublin and works as a copywriter at an advertising agency and rides her bike to work…..all pretty normal, until one day her life is about to change in a big way! On her 26th birthday, she is summonsed to a lawyers office where a solicitor informs her…
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Review: Frostfire (Kanin Chronicles #1) by Amanda Hocking
I am in cover lust over this novel, that’s why I picked it up….plus I heard some good reviews about this book so I downloaded it before going on vacation. It sounded like an interesting premise and an easy read so why not? Bryn Aven is a tracker. Her job is to take and bring back changelings to Kanin. She has always wanted to be a Hogdragen, an elite trained group of trackers and guards who serve the royals. Her father is the Chancellor of the Kanin people, who serves the King. One night after her first duty as a tracker, Bryn and her father run into Konstantin Black, the…
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Review: Changing Nature (The Immortal Descendants #3) by April White
The Immortal Descendants has been one of my most favorite new series over the last year or so. I absolutely love the world that the author has created. Each book moves the story forward and the world and the premise of the story, characters, and plot are all unique but yet work so well together. In this third book, we find ‘Clocker’ Saira and Archer enjoying a summer of romance when suddenly Immortals start being kidnapped. The ‘Mongers’ will do anything to gain power and control over the other descendant families, especially after they target a powerful shifter. Saira and Archers (along with the rest of her crew) must travel back in…
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Review: King’s Folly (Legends of Fyrsta #2) by Sabrina Flynn
Here we are….back in Fyrsta and back with some of our favorite characters from the first novel! Isiilde is growing up and as always, she’s a bit feisty! Isiilde and her friends Marsais and Oenghus risked going through a portal fleeing a madman, but what they find in this portal is anything but good, in fact the discover how truly inhospitable the realms are! Isiilde and Oenghus grown closer as they endure unimaginable horrors. Rather than focus too much on what the novel is about and give away any story lines, I want to talk about what was good and what was bad…that’s why you are reading this blog right? OK…
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Review: Moth and Spark by Anne Leonard
I have some serious cover lust happening with this one. I would have read this book for the cover alone, but then when I read that it was about dragons, love, and a prince with a quest….how could I resist! Prince Corin has been picked by the dragons to free them from their bondage to the empire….the only problem is he doesn’t quite know how he’s supposed to do that. The dragons charge him with this seemingly impossible deed and gift him powers but he has no idea what to do about this quest. So he returns to the palace to continue on with his daily life. On his way home,…
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Review: The Dress Shop of Dreams by Menna van Praag
That would look beautiful on you. Why don’t you try it on? How often do you hear that when you are shopping for the perfect dress? Is it just fluff that the sales clerk is trying to make us believe or would it truly look beautiful on us? What if that statement was more like a promise? Etta Sparks owns a dress shop where dreams actually do come true. A place where one dress could change your life. Etta has the ability to make your dreams come true with the perfect dress and a little stitching to give you some courage. Her granddaughter Cora has been grieving her parents death for…
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Review: City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic #1) by Magnus Flyte
Sarah Weston has spent her life studying Beethoven. So naturally her dream job would be cataloging his manuscripts. Well that dream is about to come true. She has just received word that her mentor and master’s supervisor committed suicide in Prague. He was working at Prague Castle on some Beethoven manuscripts for the newly developed Lobkowicz Palace Museum. The Lobkowicz family contacts Sarah to take up where her professor left off. A paid summer at Prague Castle handling Beethoven’s letters? SOLD! Sarah departs for Prague immediately, and almost as soon as she lands, strange things start to happen. First she hears strange rumors about her mentor being addicted to drugs and acting erratically before he committed…
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Review: Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay
I am excited to see all the fairy tale retellings out there, especially for Sleeping Beauty as Aurora is one of my favorite princesses. Princess of Thorns is a different kind of fairy tale retelling. Princess Aurora AKA Ror is actually a warrior princess and Sleeping Beauty’s daughter who must fight to regain her throne. ‘ As a briar born child, Ror and her twin brother Jor have been gifted special powers. Jor has been kidnapped by the evil ogre queen and is being tortured. Ror is the heiress to the fairy lands and she must not only save her brother, but she must regain her kingdom by any means necessary.…
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Review: The Night Garden by Lisa Van Allen
In upstate New York there is a small farm that appears to be just another farm in the country. Normal. Ordinary. However the Pennywort farm is anything but ordinary and normal….it’s magical. At the heart of the farm there is a magical garden full of imagination and color. The locals have long said that entering the garden can gain insight to life’s most difficult issues by just walking through the gates, ironically the garden’s caretaker has never experienced any kind of revelation by entering the garden. Olivia Pennyworth has been caring for the garden and has spent her entire life on the farm while harboring a dark secret which forces…
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Review: The Firebird (Slains #2) by Susanna Kearsley
Nicola Marter is a seemingly normal women, with an extraordinary gift. She can touch an object and see it’s past history. But she doesn’t like using her gift. She is afraid of being called a ‘freak’ and that people won’t accept her. So she hides her gift. While working in an art gallery specializing in Russian art, an old woman arrives with a wood carving of a firebird, claiming it belonged to Catherine the Great. Nicola’s boss doesn’t have any way of authenticating it and thus, it has no value to an art dealer. But when she touches it she sees that it was in fact given to a girl named Anna…