Category: Review

Review: The Storm Behind Your Eyes by Alicia Kat Vancil

The Storm behind Your Eyes (The Marked Ones Trilogy #2) by Alicia Kat Vancil Blurb: No matter how far you run you can never escape your past. We all make sacrifices. Some we make without thinking. And others that cut our hearts to pieces with every breath we take. For Travis Centrina, this is one of those sacrifices. Because when he was given back the one thing he thought he could never have again—the little brother he thought was dead—he didn’t realize his wish would come at a such heavy price. Travis has been in love with his best friend […]

Posted September 8, 2015 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 12 Comments

Review: The Duality Bridge by Susan Kaye Quin

The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2) by Susan Kaye Quinn Blurb: What does it mean to be human? Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He’s the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders—the human/machine hybrids who run the world—in solidarity with the legacy humans who will never get a chance to live forever. Too bad it’s all a complicated web of lies. Worse, Eli’s not even entirely human. Few know about the ascenders’ genetic experiments that left him… different. Fewer know about the unearthly fugue state that creates his transcendent art—as well as […]

Posted September 7, 2015 by Lola in Review, Sci-Fi / 8 Comments

Review: Daemons in the Mist by Alicia Kat Vancil

Daemons in the Mist (The Marked Ones Trilogy #1) by Alicia Kat Vancil Blurb: Accidentally marrying a beautiful stranger—what’s the worst that could happen? We all have that one thing—that one thing we wish for on every first star of the night. Wealth. Fame. Love. For geeky artist Patrick Connolly, it is the attention of his beautiful and seemingly unattainable classmate Nualla Galathea. However, when he accepts her invitation for a spur-of-the-moment weekend trip to Vegas, the last thing he expects is to wake up married to her. Or to find out she’s not even human. Patrick may think his […]

Posted September 2, 2015 by Lola in Fantasy, Review, Romance / 10 Comments

Review: Destiny Rising by Siobhan Davis

Destiny Rising (True Calling #3) By Siobhan Davis Blurb: Every choice has a consequence. Once again, the world is on the brink of momentous change. As revolutionary organization Saoirse prepares to battle the government for control of Earth and Novo, Ariana and those she loves must join humanity’s fight for justice and freedom. As haunted memories resurface, old discoveries and new realities conspire to shatter her world forever. Torn in one direction by her unique connection to childhood sweetheart Zane, and pulled in the other by a relentless passion for her fiery fiancé Cal, she must make the hardest decision […]

Posted August 31, 2015 by Lola in Dystopia, Review, Romance, Sci-Fi / 16 Comments

Review: Thor’s Serpents by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr

My To-Be Read List is a meme hosted by Because Reading is Better Than Real Life where at the beginning of the month visitors can choose which book I’ll be reading this month. On the first saturday of a month the poll will be up, then on the second saturday of the month I’ll announce the book that won and on the last saturday of the month I’ll post my review of the book. Thor’s Serpents (The Blackwell Pages #3) by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr Blurb: Thirteen-year-olds Matt, Laurie, and Fen have beaten near-impossible odds to assemble their fellow […]

Posted August 29, 2015 by Lola in My To-Be Read List, Mythology, Review / 12 Comments

Review: Torn Sky by Tracy Banghart

Torn Sky (Rebel Wing #3) by Tracy Banghart Blurb: The end is near . . . When Aris Haan brought down Safara’s biggest war criminal, she’d thought it was a turning point in the war. Victory was on the horizon, as was a peaceful future with her Promised, Milek. But a deadly new threat has emerged: a Safaran bomb that could wipe out all of Atalanta in one catastrophic blast. Aris is tasked with finding the weapon before it is completed, a mission made more difficult when she starts to suspect that there is a Safaran spy in her unit. […]

Posted August 24, 2015 by Lola in Dystopia, Review / 16 Comments

Review: Delinquent by Emma L Adams

Delinquent: An Alliance Novella (Alliance #0.5) by Emma L. Adams Blurb: Nineteen-year-old Kay Walker seems to have it all, including an assured future with the Alliance after he graduates from the prestigious Academy. But when he and his friends discover the lure of the Passages, the place between the worlds where monsters hide, they’re caught up in a contest with rival student Aric – which soon escalates into a deadly game. A perfect life hides lies, and Kay becomes a target for alluring yet deadly magic he has no way of understanding. Magic is a force on its own, and […]

Posted August 22, 2015 by Lola in Contemporary, Coyer, Fantasy, Review, Sci-Fi / 4 Comments