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: 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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Review: Tiger’s Quest (The Tiger Saga #2) by Colleen Houck

Kelsey Hayes has just arrived home in Oregon from her adventure packed and emotional summer abroad in India.

Kelsey has been helping two brothers, Ren and Kishan, try and break an ancient curse.

She and Ren successfully fought off deadly monkeys to break the first part of the curse, but they still have to complete a series of challenges to break the entire curse.

While they have been tracking down the clues that will break the curse, Kelsey and Ren have also fallen in love.

Kelsey is scared to death that Ren will break her heart so she does what she thinks is best–she runs like hell back to Oregon leaving Ren alone in India.

She loves Ren but deep down she doesn’t feel like she deserves him, plus he’s been a tiger for hundreds of years how does he know that she is the one for him?

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Review: Dark Angel: A Gothic Fairy Tale by T.J. Bennett

Strong winds and storm surges batter the hull of a ship carrying the young widow Catherine Briton home to England.

Catherine spots land and tells the captain that they should abandon ship and try to make it to the island. To her dismay the captain refuses and denies that he even saw the land.

The ship eventually sinks and Catherine is left floating in the ocean waiting for death to overtake her. Instead of dying, she wakes up on the beach of the island she saw from the ship.

A stranger rescues her and takes her back to his castle. When she awakes she finds that the man, Gerard, not only saved her life but he is ridiculously good looking as well.

As she regains her strength she finds that things are a little strange on the island. She seems to be stuck in some weird time  lapse. There is also a feral beast that stalks the island.

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Review: Tiger’s Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck

For recent high school graduate, Kelsey Hayes, the summer is all about finding a job so she can start community college in the fall.

But in a sleepy Oregon town, there are not a lot of job opportunities for high school grads so when she is offered a job at a traveling circus she quickly accepts.

The jobs sounds pretty easy: selling tickets, helping clean up after shows, and she gets to live on sight….oh and she has to help care for the circus tiger.

She isn’t really sure what to do about the tiger, on one hand he scares her but she finds him oddly intriguing and comforting. Every night after the show she sneaks into the tiger tent to read to him and draw.

One night after the show, Kelsey finds a man outside the tiger’s cage. She learns that he has offered to purchase the tiger and take him back to India to a tiger refuge. But there is a catch–he wants Kelsey to accompany him and the tiger to India.

After talking to her foster parents, they agree to let her go as it would be a great for her to travel and possibly gain some job experience. When she arrives in India, it’s soon revealed that everything is not what it seems.

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