Warning: If you haven’t read Don’t Date the Haunted or Don’t Marry the Cursed, please be aware that there are spoilers in this review. C. Rae D’Arc’s third novel in her Haunted Romance series comes full circle. In the land of Novel established in the first book, the characters all […]
Have we lost the art of writing friendships in our modern literature? In English, “love” is such an overloaded term that when we write “X loves Y,” we tend to think romantically. But this isn’t always true. Whatever happened to an enduring and abiding friendship? Take this true / false […]
Vision by Hope Bolinger is the third novel in her trilogy starting with Blaze and continuing with Den. Both books had similar stories of a young-adult group of friends trying to stay true to their beliefs and ideals. Vision wraps up the trilogy. Reviewing a trilogy with an ongoing main […]
Party is the sixth in the Arca series by Karen Diem in which a number of coma patients emerged from their condition with superhero powers way back in book one. Arca refers to Zita Garcia, a shapeshifting, teleporting, capoeira-fighting superhero. She’s joined by Muse (real name: Wyn) and Wingspan (Andy) […]
Kristiana’s Sfirlea’s second novel in The Stormwatch Diaries series, Legend of the Rainbow Eater, is like a dream. In fact, dreams pervade the story from the first chapter onward. But this isn’t what I mean. The book itself takes on the aspects of a dream. While reading it, the narrative […]
When Havok publishes an anthology, my son and I read them, approximately one a night, and then compare notes. We give a 1 to 10 rating after finishing each tale. We finished Havok’s latest, Sensational, where the usual blend of mystery, science fiction/fantasy, humor, and thriller offerings are centered on […]
Mystery and thriller often go hand-in-hand, but some stories are excellent mysteries but not solid thrillers and vice-versa. And then there’s Ruth Ware’s One By One: a mystery, a thriller, and a great book. Snoop, a company built on a music app, decides to hold its business retreat in the […]
Continuing the world started in Reformed, H. L. Burke offers this sequel in her superhero series. In the BCU (Burke’s Connected Universe), superheroes (called sables) are organized as law enforcers with all of the advantages and disadvantages bureaucracy brings with it. Some of these sables have a rehabilitation goal. What […]
Don’t Marry The Cursed is a sequel to Don’t Date the Haunted, a wonderful series by C. Rae D’Arc. In the Haunted Romance series, the world is divided into regions of literary genres and subgenres. Lands exist for Horror, Fantasy, Romance (both contemporary and regency), Mystery, etc. Cursed is primarily […]
The second books in trilogies must serve the function of advancing the story without the benefit of starting or finishing it. The Raventree Society Season Two bears this burden. Season 1 introduced the winning idea of a five-story novel of faux ghost hunters looking for a lost member of their […]