Review: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker

Nora Fischer wants a new life.  Any will do really. She just wants things to be different and she doesn’t really care how…just different. Well you know what they say….be careful what you wish for because you just may get it.

Nora is crashing and burning on her English thesis and post graduate work, her serious boyfriend just broke it off with her to marry someone else and suddenly this plain Jane finds herself at her friends wedding forced into an awkward social situation with her ex.

She just needs to take a little breather before the wedding. She wakes up one morning to go for a brisk walk in the countryside to regroup and maybe do a little reading. Grabbing a beat up copy of Pride and Prejudice, she sets off in the morning mist and disappears.

She happens to stumble upon a little graveyard in the hills and somehow ends up in a parallel world where she meets Ilissa, a beautiful fairy who is practically royalty. Ilissa’s world is full of beauty, extravagant parties, and love. She introduces Nora to her son Raclin who is the perfect prince charming.

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Review: Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare

The Infernal Devices are without pity.

The Infernal Devices are without regret.

The Infernal Devices are without number

The Infernal Devices will never stop coming.

Tessa Grey is preparing for what should be the most joyous day of her life…..her wedding to Jem. Tessa loves Jem without question but there is still part of her that loves Will.

Though she tries to shut out her feelings for Will, it is hard to section off a part of your soul that only one other person can touch but somehow Tessa does it.

All the Shadowhunters at the London Institute are preparing for the wedding to take place when Gabriel Lightwood shows up begging to see his brother Gideon. Their father has turned into a giant man eating worm and he needs their help to stop him.

The London Institute agrees to help Gabriel and they all descend on the Lightwood home but soon discover something more disturbing than a giant worm….a warning scribbled on the walls of what was once Benedict Lightwoods study:  

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Review: A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) by George R. R. Martin

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons…but Daenerys Targaryen can!In the fifth book of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, we find ourselves across the Narrow Sea waiting to see if Daenerys Targaryen will ever make it back to Westeros and reclaim her birthright!

In A Feast for Crows, we met a lot of new characters along with a few familiar favorites. Since AFFC and ADWD were supposed to be one long book, I expected to see some overlap in the timeline and more of our fav characters in this book….and I was right, many of my fav characters were back!

I will try to make this review as spoiler free as possible, but it is difficult not to include references from the previous three books but I will do my best but consider yourself warned.

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Review: Bittersweet Seraphim (Seraphim #2) by Debra Anastasia

Hell can’t seem to keep Satan Jack in….so now it’s earth’s turn to try. What could possibly be worse than being the keeper of Hell?

How about being stuck on earth as a human without the angel he loves?

Satan Jack had been the keeper of Hell for years and he’s good at what he does.

He keeps things running in an orderly fashion….eternity as he knows it is good. He likes Hell. But that was before he met Emma, an angel trying to save the kidnapped God.

When Jack meets Emma, all bets are off…Hell doesn’t stand a chance at keeping Jack so long as Emma is part of his life.

But when Satan Jack’s one true love ends up trapped in Hell because of him, he is cast out back to earth as a human.

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Review: The Book of the Forsaken (The Game #1) by Yannis Karatsioris

What do three “puppets”, one magical book, and a twisted narrator have in common? At first glance, nothing. But look again.

Three men find themselves being used as pawns in a much larger game controlled by one devious narrator in this innovative urban fantasy novel.

These three men couldn’t be more different, each are flawed in their own ways. But the one thing that binds them together is their supernatural abilities.

The first puppet we meet is the tough, brawny Irishman Robert Cassidy. The second puppet is the quiet bookworm, Daniel Maladie from Paris. And finally we meet Igor Rubinstein, the psychotic magician turned assassin from Russia.

The narrator assigns each of the “puppets” a task, Daniel’s task is the one the brings them all together. He is instructed to steal a books. But not just any book, The Book of the Forsaken. This magical book has great and limitless power….power that some are willing to kill over.

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