Category: Reviews

Review – Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

Review – Endless Knight by Kresley Cole

Title: Endless Knight Series: The Arcana Chronicles #2 Author: Kresley Cole Release Date: October 1, 2013 Pages: 336, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.47 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16 (Some violence and sexual content) Summary from Goodreads: In this seductive follow-up to Poison Princess, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole takes us deeper into the dark world of the Arcana Chronicles. Shocking Secrets Evie has fully come into her powers as the Tarot Empress, and Jack was there to see […]

Posted December 7, 2013 in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review – My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Review – My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Title: My Life Next Door Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick Release Date: 2012 Pages: 394, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.07 stars My Rating: 5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16 (Sexual content, but it’s handled tastefully and is not at all graphic) Summary from Goodreads: “One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed […]

Posted December 1, 2013 in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review, Interview & Giveaway – The Guardians by T.M. Franklin

Review, Interview & Giveaway – The Guardians by T.M. Franklin

The Guardians is an exciting sequel to MORE – I loved this book even more than the first book in the series!!  We get to learn more about the Race and see our favorite characters put in all sorts of perilous situations – what else can you ask for? The negatives: Could have used more Caleb and Ava?  This is honestly getting very nitpicky.  While thinking about this book, this is the only negative I […]

Posted November 24, 2013 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 3 Comments
Review – Prodigal by Rektok Ross

Review – Prodigal by Rektok Ross

Title: Prodigal Author: Rektok Ross Release Date: January 13, 2013 Pages: 329, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.36 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG (No more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: It was supposed to be Lexy Quinn’s year.  The hard-working wallflower has finally landed the coveted spot as Editor of her school’s newspaper. Then the rug is ripped out from under her when she finds out her mom is sick, and the family is moving half-way across the country to Preston […]

Posted November 18, 2013 in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review & Giveaway – Lichgates by S.M. Boyce

Review & Giveaway – Lichgates by S.M. Boyce

Buy Links: Amazon I Barnes & Noble Lichgates is an incredibly inventive fantasy adventure, full of danger, magic and mythical creatures! When Kara finds and opens a mysterious book, she doesn’t realize that she has just become the Vagabond – fated to bring peace to the strange land of Ourea (or die trying).  She suddenly finds herself thrown into a war between Ourean races that has been brewing for centuries – and not everyone wants her […]

Posted November 12, 2013 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 1 Comment
Review – Magic Study (Study #2) by Maria V. Snyder

Review – Magic Study (Study #2) by Maria V. Snyder

Title: Magic Study Series: Study #2 Author: Maria V. Snyder Release Date: 2005 Pages: 392, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.08 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16+?? (Sex (including sexual assault) is mentioned but not explicit) Summary from Goodreads: YOU KNOW YOUR LIFE IS BAD WHEN YOU MISS YOUR DAYS AS A POISON TASTER… With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she’d been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has […]

Posted November 11, 2013 in Reviews / 2 Comments
Review – Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Review – Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Title: Poison Study Series: Study #1 Author: Maria V. Snyder Release Date: 2005 Pages: 361, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.2 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: Adult or very mature YA (Sex is not explicit, but includes sexual assault) Summary from Goodreads: Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison… About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so […]

Posted November 8, 2013 in Reviews / 0 Comments
ARC Review – Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

ARC Review – Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Title: Cruel Beauty Author: Rosamund Hodge Release Date: January 28, 2014 Publisher: Balzer & Bray Pages: 352, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.05 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: Adult or Mature YA (Lots of references to sex, though it is not directly shown) Summary from Goodreads: Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl’s journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart. Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty […]

Posted November 7, 2013 in Reviews / 3 Comments
Release Day Review – North Pole Reform School by Jaimie Admans

Release Day Review – North Pole Reform School by Jaimie Admans

Title: North Pole Reform School Author: Jaimie Admans Release Date: November 6, 2013 Pages: 232, ebook Goodreads Rating: 4.00 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16?? (Nothing more than kissing, but some violence and bad language) Summary from Goodreads: Mistletoe Bell hates Christmas. So would you if you had a name like hers. Her Christmas-mad parents make the festive season last all year, and with another Christmas looming, Mis doesn’t think she can take any more. After her carelessness causes […]

Posted November 6, 2013 in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review – Replica by Jenna Black

Review – Replica by Jenna Black

Title: Replica Series: Replica #1 Author: Jenna Black Release Date: July 16, 2013 Pages: 368, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 3.53 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16? (References to sex-though it’s not shown, some violence) Summary from Goodreads: Sixteen-year-old Nadia Lake comes from a high-class Executive family in the Corporate States. Her marriage has been arranged with the most powerful family in her state, which means she lives a life of privilege but also of public scrutiny, followed everywhere by photographers, every detail […]

Posted November 2, 2013 in Reviews / 0 Comments