Category: Fantasy

Review: Succulents and Spells by Andi C. Buchanan

Succulents and Spells (Windflower #1) Andi C. Buchanan My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: FF Blurb: Laurel Windflower is a witch from a family of magic workers – but her own life is going nowhere. Living in the damp, sunless side of Aro Valley, she works in a café, unable to produce anything more powerful than the most basic herbal potions. Until, one winter morning, Marigold Nightfield knocks on her door. Marigold is a scientist, but she knows plenty about magic. There are strange things happening in her house, and her future […]

Posted September 23, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Party Hats For Sweet Minotaurs by Laura Greenwood

Party Hats For Sweet Minotaurs (Obscure Academy) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Paranormal Romance Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: True feelings come to light when a minotaur plans a birthday party. When Sage’s birthday plans fall through, she’s disappointed, but at least the handsome minotaur who lives in her flat is willing to lend her a supportive ear. If only she could stop thinking about if they could be more. Castor’s feelings for Sage have been growing with every passing moment, so when he has the chance to throw the witch a birthday […]

Posted September 21, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 1 Comment

Review: Once a Rogue by Allie Therin

Once a Rogue (Roaring Twenties Magic #2) Allie Therin My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MM Blurb: Two reformed scoundrels have renounced the battlefields and scandals for one another, but their troubled pasts could destroy everything they hold dear… New York, 1925 Cranky and jaded Lord Fine—Wesley, now, to the kindhearted lover he cynically doubts life will let him keep—arrives in Manhattan with one goal: find the American paranormals and get their help with the relic burdening Sebastian. His plans are upended when the other paranormals seem to have vanished, and a […]

Posted September 19, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The Falcon and the Bluestocking by Laura Greenwood

The Falcon and the Bluestocking (The Shifter Season #6) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Historical Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: A falcon shifter who prefers to look at the stars than dance at the ball, and the secret Duke falling for her must navigate the Shifter Season. Miss Mary Falnor much prefers intellectual discussions to formal balls, especially as the last thing she expects to find at them is a husband. When the Duke of Clawdon encounters a young lady willing to get to know him as Stephen instead of His Grace, […]

Posted September 11, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: A Wreck of Witches by Nia Quinn

A Wreck of Witches (Teeming Dark: Witches #1) by Nia Quinn narrated by Amy Hall My Rating: 5 stars Genre: Cosy Fantasy/ Urban Fantasy Age Category: Adult Blurb: Magic and mayhem and ghost dogs, oh my… I’m the plus-size witch who just wants to putter around my magical-plant nursery in peace, but nooo. The universe is conspiring against me, I swear. The newbie witch down the street just went missing—five minutes before she was gonna give me a ride to our book club. Something magical is stalking through my mundane neighborhood, attacking my neighbors, and I’ve got everybody and their […]

Posted September 7, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Review / 4 Comments

Review: The Sphinx Pride by Arizona Tape

The Sphinx Pride (The Griffin Sanctuary #5) Arizona Tape My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Contemporary Fantasy Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: FF Blurb: What’s a sphinx pride to do without their leader? New arrivals have apprentice veterinarian Charlotte revisit an old friend, the long distance in her relationship helps her make up her mind about how she really feels about Felicity, and a pride of royal sphinxes put her abilities and heart to the test as Charlotte works out if she’s right for the job as a veterinarian at the Griffin Sanctuary. **** The Sphinx Pride is book […]

Posted August 23, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Shadow Beasts by Nellie H. Steele

Shadow Beasts (Shelving Magic #1) Nellie H. Steele My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: If Paige isn’t careful, her new job could land her in an early grave. Paige Turner’s zero-balance bank account demands she take on a new job, but she never expected it would be as Shadow Harbor’s newest librarian. Now the unlucky orphan is learning it’s not books she’ll be shelving…but magic. Dark, dangerous, deadly magic. Her new position requires she keep the supernatural subworld at bay while retrieving and archiving magical artifacts from around the globe. If […]

Posted August 15, 2023 by Lola in Contemporary, Fantasy, Review / 2 Comments