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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Title: The Iron Traitor Series: The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #2 Author: Julie Kagawa Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release Date: October 29, 2013 Pages: 384, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.31 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG (Nothing more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: IN THE REAL WORLD, WHEN YOU VANISH INTO THIN AIR FOR A WEEK, PEOPLE TEND TO NOTICE After his unexpected journey into the lands of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to normal. Well, as “normal” […]
Tour Schedule I’m very excited to participate in the tour for Immortals! If you haven’t read Runes yet (which is book #1 in the series), make sure to skip right past the information about Immortals and read about Runes instead. I don’t want to spoil anything for you! Title: Immortals Series: Runes (Book #2) (See Below For Book #1) Author: Ednah Walters Release Date: August 5, 2013 Pages: 342, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.41 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: 16+ (Lots […]
I won a copy of You Are Mine in a giveaway and was really excited to read it! SO glad I did! This is an intense book that will make you want to scream in frustration and horror at some points (in a good way) and will delight you in others. I absolutely LOVED it! The story follows Serena, a 17-year-old girl who has just come of age – the age at which she can be sold […]
Title: Indelible Author: Dawn Metcalf Release Date: July 30, 2013 Pages: 384, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 3.79 stars My Rating: 5/5 stars Content Rating: PG-16? (Some pretty scary scenes and references to sex-though none is shown) Summary from Goodreads: Some things are permanent. Indelible. And they cannot be changed back. Joy Malone learns this the night she sees a stranger with all-black eyes across a crowded room—right before the mystery boy tries to cut out her eye. Instead, the wound accidentally marks her as […]
Title: Matt Archer: Monster Hunter (Matt Archer #1) Author: Kendra C. Highley Release Date: August 18, 2012 Pages: 299, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.35 stars My Rating (For all three books): 4/5 stars Content Rating (For all three books): PG -13 (some swearing; in book three the characters have sex, but it is not described in any way; relatively strong violence) Summary from Goodreads: Fourteen-year-old Matt Archer spends his days studying Algebra, hanging out with his best friend and crushing on the Goddess of […]
Poison is a delightfully cute and light fantasy novel. The book is published by Disney Hyperion, which makes complete sense because it fits right into their wheelhouse – I could easily see this as a Disney movie! The book was the perfect diversion from some of the darker fantasy and dystopian novels that I read and I loved it! The story centers around Kyra, a young potions master who is on the run after attempting […]