Welcome to book 1 in the Gods & Monsters series! Epic dark fantasy time. I’m in! Welcome to Onuna. So, we have Dianna. A thousand years ago, she called out to anyone who would listen, to save her dying sister. When the monster, Kaden, answered, Dianna gave up her life to serve him. But she …
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Rose, Jeanette & Callisto, Alice – Snow White
Snow White is book 1 of the Ever After series. From the blurb, we are promised a deep and dark look at the background of the soon-to-be evil queen. Azura needs the royal bloodline to gain magic she isn’t a natural vessel for. Forced to drain from supernatural creatures, Azura’s magic is never full, always …
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Empress Crowned in Red – Ciannon Smart
Saying this right at the start: this is book 2 of 2. So if you haven’t read book 1 then you should (and I reviewed that here). If you decide to read on, you will encounter spoilers from the first book. Right here is good if you need a memory refresh though, because I’m going …
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Witches Steeped in Gold – Ciannon Smart
Quick note: this is the first book in this series. Book 2 review is also coming, but I read this one so I could review it first and also have a clue what was going on! Iraya Adair has lived in a cell her whole life. Her dynasty of powerful witches overthrown, their magic stolen, …
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Witch 13 – Patrick Delaney
Sheriff Sterling March is not doing so great. Her life is a mess, and she’s to blame. Wanting nothing more than to spend a night with friends (once the paperwork is done), instead she gets a witch. Straight from a fairy tale, this witch. Tall, pointy hat, black flowing clothes, this person just screams “I …
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Equinox – David Towsey
Content Warning – some body horror In a world where two souls share a single body; one sibling by day, another by night; Christopher and Alexsander are brothers. The night-brother, Christophor, never seeing the light of day, works in the darkness as a special inspector of the supernatural. A witch-hunter, in fact, he has personally …
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The Manager – A. K. Wilson
Money, power, secrets…love? Katy grew up seeing how the first three could shatter everything–including the fourth. She wants no part of the games and the chase, but that seems to have left her with an empty life. After being suddenly thrown back into the job market, her new boss, Riley, seems to be a channel …
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The Dance Tree – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
It’s Strasbourg. 1518. A woman begins to dance. The Dancing Plague has begun, and will last throughout the summer. We know only a little about this, as not much in the way of records has survived and the main sources we have are not contemporary. Before this date, there are very scant rumours of other …
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Kaikeyi – Vaishnavi Patel
“I WAS BORN ON the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.” “Before this story was Rama’s, it was mine” These are the first and last lines of Kaiyeki. As opening and closing lines go, I’d quite like these to hit the occasional lists of bests and classics. …
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Where We Go From Here – Lucas Rocha
Ian is just finding out that he has HIV, from a lady who resists compassion like it speeds up the aging process. Two times, two guys, without protection, and one of them gave him the virus. And no, he can’t tell them to get tested; they didn’t exactly keep in touch with each other… Victor …
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