Tag: Young Adult

Review: Fantasy of Fire by Kelly St. Clare

Fantasy of Fire (The Tainted Accords #3) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 4 stars Genre: Fantasy Blurb: An army is half way to Glacium. And not just any army – it belongs to my mother. Time is running out as I rush to prevent a war which will kill thousands; The Solati people, my brothers, and the many Bruma I’ve come to care for. Yet it appears preventing this interworld war is just one snowball in an avalanche of problems as the situation in Glacium becomes volatile and destructive. My various identities hover on the edge of discovery forcing me […]

Posted August 29, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Fantasy, Review / 12 Comments

Review: Cracked Open by Susan Kaye Quinn

Cracked Open (Mindjack #5) by Susan Kaye Quinn Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Blurb: Zeph always knew he was a weapon. He didn’t count on being a spy. But he made a dangerous bargain with the Director of the Jacker Technologies Division of DARPA—he’d let Wright test his mutant mindjack ability if she’d release his parents. Simple. Occasionally painful. And the screams of his victims fill his nightmares. But it will be worth it as long as she can’t crack open his head and find out his sister, with her super-surge jack-ability, is still alive. And if his parents […]

Posted August 15, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Review, Sci-Fi / 20 Comments

Review: Sanctuary by Melle Amade

Sanctuary (Shifter Chronicles #1) by Melle Amade Rating: 4 stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Blurb: It’s survival of the fittest, but first you have to fit in. Shae is sure the icy rage that eats away at her is driving away her friends and pulling her closer to the wrong boy. But, as her protected world unravels, she discovers the violent supernatural world that lurks in her quiet hometown and the ancient feuds that threaten to destroy both her friends and her family. To save those she loves, Shae must succumb to her own fury, but at what cost? My Review: […]

Posted August 8, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Fantasy, Review / 18 Comments

Review: Marked by Fate Origins

Marked by Fate: Origins (Marked By Fate #0.5) by Kristin D. Van Risseghem, Rhonda Sermon, Melissa A. Craven, Kelly St. Clare, Amalie Jahn, Melle Amade, Debra Kristi, Ingrid Seymour, Alisha Klapheke, Lena Mae Hill, Sarah K. L. Wilson, D. L. Armillei, Jamie Thornton, Hilary Thompson and Erin Hayes Rating: 4 stars Genre: YA Fantasy anthology Blurb: Beginnings. Secrets. Deleted Scenes. Transport yourself to other worlds with 15 Marked by Fate teen warriors… …encounter shadows, queens, witches, and wizards who battle against immortals, angels, vampires, demons, genetically engineered soldiers, robots and gods. Let yourself be swept away by adventures in magical […]

Posted August 2, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Fantasy, Review, Romance / 26 Comments

Review: The Return by Kelly St. Clare

The Return (The After Trilogy #2) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 4 stars Genre: Dystopian Blurb: Three months ago, Romy emerged from the cultivation tanks after a year floating inside. Body intact. Mind broken. Memory gone. Now she undergoes regular testing as doctors work to find out … well, she’s not exactly sure what. The tests must have something to do with the reason she can’t remember her knot—the single lucid memory the other insane soldiers on Orbito Four still possess. Whatever the researchers are searching for, if it aids the soldiers in the deathly war against the lethal alien […]

Posted July 20, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Dystopia, Review / 18 Comments

Review: Starflight by Melissa Landers

Starflight (Starflight #1) by Melissa Landers Rating: 4 stars Genre: Science Fiction Blurb: Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She’s so desperate to reach the realm that she’s willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. When […]

Posted July 10, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Review, Sci-Fi / 20 Comments

Review: The Retreat by Kelly St. Clare

The Retreat (The After Trilogy #1) by Kelly St. Clare Rating: 4 stars Genre: Dystopian/ sci-fi Blurb: Keepers of Earth. One hundred and fifty years ago, global warming brought humankind to the edge of extinction. In a desperate bid for survival, four thousand genetically enhanced soldiers–the last slice of humanity–were sent to eight space stations. To serve. To protect. Then the Critamal arrived, uninvited. Waves of aliens now work to break through the Orbitos’ defences, the black-shelled creatures seeking to colonise the vacated and barren world. War is their reality. All Romy can do is fight alongside her knot and […]

Posted July 5, 2017 by Lola in Coyer, Dystopia, Review, Sci-Fi / 18 Comments