Dead Leaves: 9 Tales of the Witching Season by Kealan Patrick Burke is a trick and a treat. The anthology contains nine short stories set in autumn closer to a night of ghouls and ghosts than of evenings of blessing food. Nothing juvenile about these stories, though. They are literate, […]
I reviewed the first book in the Havok series, Havok: Reborn, when it was published and immensely enjoyed it. Genre flash fiction that mostly hit the mark, the first offering was an entertaining read and has a place prominently on my bookshelf. I was excited to learn the second book […]
Pumpkin Spice Pie-Jinks by Selina J. Eckert is a delightful retelling of a famous short story I’ll leave for the reader to discover. The story introduces Reese, a baker, who lives in a small New England town co-inhabited by the fae. In fact, some special fairies are visiting from the […]
Hope Bolinger’s Den, a sequel to her first novel Blaze, is a contemporary take of the Bible’s Book of Daniel. Danny Belte enjoys fun times with girlfriend Rayah, hangs around with best friends Michelle and Hannah, and goes to a premier school: King’s Academy. The academy should be his ticket […]
H. L. Burke’s Reformed, the first in a superhero series, imagines a world of super enabled people, called sables, mixing with normal people, named normies, where superheroes are monitored by the government agency called the Department of Super-Abled (DOSA). In the first installment, sable Prism is revitalizing the supervillain reformation […]
The Bells Pass Christmas series by Kattie Mettner has a formula it follows closely. Take two people who are secretly in love, start at the beginning of the holiday season, have one character be a person with disabilities, and mix them together with a Christmas conclusion. So if you’ve read […]
H. L. Burke’s Heart of the Curiosity is a steampunk fantasy adventure of exceptional quality and entertainment. Heart starts with two sisters, Leodora (Leo) and Musette (Muse), who make their way to a legendary theater called the Curiosity. Leo is there to help Muse obtain a position among the ballet […]
Jo Macgregor’s The First Time I Fell is the second of the Garnet McGee series of a psychology student who has a knack for landing in the middle of a mystery. In the first novel, Garnet gained certain abilities after dying and coming back to life, leaving her with not […]
Abundance is an adult, cowboy romance with a serious, contemporary plot, or as author Shanna Swenson says “Romance with a touch of reality.” It’s the first in a series of romances set in a fictional town of Abundance, Texas where each book centers on two different main characters. The premier […]
The Devouring Gray, a YA supernatural thriller, was a highly anticipated novel published in 2019 by debut author Christine Lynn Herman. As summarized from the back cover, three teenagers in the town of Four Paths, Upstate NY are conflicted over changes in their lives. Violet is moving to Four Paths, […]