Posts Categorized: Fantasy

Review: The Carnelian Fox by Kay MacLeod

The Carnelian Fox (Maiyamon #1) by Kay MacLeod My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy/ Gamelit Age Category: Young Adult/ New Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Monsters don’t exist. At least, they didn’t until we created them. Maiyamon was once merely a game. Now it’s a global reality. After dozens of hit monster collecting games raked in billions of credits per year, it was inevitable someone would create real ones. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so obvious how many people would dump them in the wild… Sam Wentworth grew up with nothing. She’s worked tirelessly just to get through college and earn… Read more »

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Review: Grimoires, Spas and Chocolate Straws by Erin Johnson

Grimoires, Spas & Chocolate Straws (Spells & Caramels #8) by Erin Johnson My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Sandy slaughter. An enchanting suspect. Can a magical baker protect her friends from a dangerous paradise? Stranded on Badlands Island, Imogen Banks is driving herself crazy looking for her brother. So when the spell-casting baker’s friends suggest they escape for a luxurious dragon spa treatment, she doesn’t need a second invitation. But her hopes for coastal romance with Hank fall flat when a resort guest turns up roasted in the sand. Suspecting… Read more »

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Review: Wolf’s Bane by Kelley Armstrong

Wolf’s Bane (Otherworld: Kate & Logan Book 1) by Kelley Armstrong My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: Young Adult Type of romance: MF and maybe some MM, not clear yet who Logan’s love interest will be Blurb: Summer camp is a traditional teenage rite of passage, but when you add supernatural powers to the typically high dosage of adolescent hormones – you get an even more combustible mix. Sixteen-year-old werewolf twins Kate and Logan Danvers are none too thrilled at being shipped off to a supernatural youth leadership conference in West Virginia. From the moment they arrive… Read more »

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Review: Cabin Boy by Drake LaMarque

Cabin Boy (His Piratical Harem #1) by Drake LaMarque My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance Age Category: New adult/ Adult Type of romance: MM/ Polyamory Blurb: I’ve never been what I was supposed to be. Wealthy sons of Port Governors aren’t supposed to be ejected from the British Navy after less than a year, they’re not supposed to like pulp romances or daydream about the handsome heroes of the stories instead of the heroines. When my Father issued me an order to marry a woman, I knew I had no choice but to make my own way in… Read more »

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Review: Graveyard Shift by Jenn Burke

Graveyard Shift (Not Dead Yet #3) by Jenn Burke My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspsne Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: Shifting Into High Fear Ghost/god Wes Cooper and his not-life partner, vampire Hudson Rojas, have settled into cohabitation in an upscale part of Toronto. So what if their hoity-toity new neighbors haven’t exactly rolled out the welcome mat for the paranormal pair? Their PI business is booming, and when a suspect they’ve been tailing winds up in the morgue, it’s alongside a rash of other shifters in apparent drug-related fatalities. Now Wes and Hudson must… Read more »

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Review: Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie

Slaying Monsters for the Feeble (The Guild Codex: Demonized #2) by Annette Marie My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: I’m bound to a demon. For my entire life, I avoided magic at all costs. Now, I’m responsible for a demon who wields magic more powerful than the toughest mage or sorcerer. Demons are evil. That’s what my textbooks say. That’s what I see. He’s ruthless, he’s temperamental, he’s cold. But he protects me without fail. I wonder if he’s hiding a heart behind his hostility. My demon is a monster. Whether… Read more »

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Review: Valiant Heart by Eliza Sinclair

Valiant Heart (Tanahr Tales #1) by Eliza Sinclair My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Steampunk Fantasy Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: In the Commonwealth of Tanahr, every heart can find a home. Niamh Starsong may be a soldier to her core, but she is also a dreamer who believes in the magic of love. When she encounters Jeron Wright, a kind and gentle priest—at least that is what she assumes—Niamh is torn, struggling to hide from her feelings for a man so wholly out of her reach. Jeron, a talented mechmage and healer, seeks out Niamh’s solemn… Read more »