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Book Review: Prince of the Sorrows
by: Kellen Graves Recommend Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles In a world of fey, being human doesn’t get you very far. Saffron’s time in the fey world is coming to an end much sooner than he’d like. He doesn’t want to live in the human world. Saffron hopes he can find someone to give him an academic endorsement, so he can remain in the fey realm. But, getting an endorsement is not easy. What can he possibly do to secure one? Kellen Grave’s Prince of the Sorrows is about a human named Saffron who works as a servant at Morigan Academy. He is about to be sent to…
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Book Review: A Sea of Pearls and Leaves
by: Rosalyn Brair Not Recommend Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles Indigo Books Princess Ingrid is being forced to marry. Her father tells her she must marry and produce an heir, Ingrid doesn’t know what to do, but her girlfriend has a few ideas. If they make the terms of her marriage awful enough, maybe all the suitors will just go away. The only problem will be if they don’t… A Sea of Pearls and Leaves by Rosalyn Briar is about the princess of Norella Isle, Ingrid, trying to escape having to marry a man, so she can keep her relationship with her girlfriend, Lilura. After devising a list…
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Six Simple Ways to Find Time to Read
Finding time to read when you have a busy schedule can be really hard. Even if you love to read and want to find time to do it, books are not usually a priority unless it is required for work or school. There have been plenty of times where I find it hard to find time to read with everything else I wish to do. Plus, everyone needs time to relax and do nothing, even reading. However, if you want to read more, making it a higher priority on the list of things to do is important. Below I have compiled a list of some simple ways you can try…
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Top 5 Fantasy Books of 2022
This is a list of my favorite five books that were released in 2022. I’d love to hear what your favorites were. 1. Legends & Lattes by: Travis Baldree Legends & Lattes was my favorite book from last year. It is truly an amazingly written feel good fantasy story. It is a fun read with great characters and yummy descriptions of food. This book is a one novel story. It is a relaxing enjoyable read. And, if you’re like me, you’ll hope to see all these characters again in a future novel. Plus, the fantasy elements really just fit well with the world Baldree created. Check out my written review…
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Book Review: Dual Fires
by J.L. Anderson Recommend (lightly) Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles In a world with two separate peoples, lightbreathers and darkbreathers. Both sides war against each other with hate in their hearts. Life is lived around the ebb and flow between attack and retreat. Only legend talks of a world without war. Only the dual breather can change fate. Gyver Lightbreather hopes the dualbreather will show in his lifetime. He fights for the light in the name of the destiny he hopes will come. Dual Fires by J. L. Anderson is a novel about Gyver Lightbreather and his friend Hessen Airbreather who end up working together to make destiny…
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Book Review: Mutant Pride
By: SJ Whitby Not Recommended Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles Indigo Books Dylan Taylor has always loved the X-Men. She dreams about what it would be like to have super powers and fight evil. Her dream becomes reality when a girl kisses her at a party. The next day she wakes up with powers of her own. In fact, everyone who kissed Emma Hall at the party got super powers. Maybe if they can join together, they can become a team of heroes just like in her comic books. Just one problem… how does one weaponize communicating with household items? Cute Mutants by S.J Whitby is an interesting ride…
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Stories Steeped in Mythology
1. The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec Angrboda is a witch in hiding. She survived being burned not once, not twice, but three times. Now she spends her time living in a cave at the edge of Jotunheim. Only a precious few know where she currently resides, another giantess who helps her market her potions for supplies and the giant who brought her lost heart back to her. Loki, the most mischievous god of them all, visits Angrboda now and again. Maybe, something happened for both of them the day he brought her back her heart. Mythology Type: Norse This book is great for anyone who is less familiar with…
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Book Review: Why Odin Drinks
by: Bjørn Larssen Highly Recommend Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles Odin and his brothers Vili and Vé suddenly woke up at the beginning of the world. It’s hard making a world when the only three people in existence don’t know anything more than their own names. How does one make a world? Odin feels he is the least qualified of the three to know. It’s not his fault all the imagination genes went to his brothers. However, he does have a smart sense of how things should work. Really, that’s the only important skill needed for a God. In fact, he should be the All-Father that knows everything…
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Book Review: Beckoning of the Gate
by: Benjamin J. Ryan Recommend (lightly) Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles Indigo Books Santha Lathagin is a simple girl from a small village. She tends to her goats and wishes for all the whispers behind her back to go away. One day she stumbles upon a key, and her simple life becomes much more complicated. Santha must leave her village and adventure into the unknown for a quest she doesn’t fully understand. Will she make it past the dangers haunting her, or will she fail and doom the world along with her? Beckoning of the Gate by Benjamin J Ryan is a tale of faeries and adventure. As…
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Book Review: Soul Taken
by: Patricia Briggs Highly Recommend Where to find: Amazon Barnes & Nobles Indigo Books SPOILER ALERT: Please be aware that this is book 13 of this series. If you have not read the previous books, this review might spoil events in those books. Mercy Thompson never seems to get a break. New problems arrive one after another, and this time is no exception. Wulfe has gone missing, an old murderer known as the Harvester has showed up in the area again, and public opinion of the pack is not so great. Mercy, Adam, and the pack must find a crazy vampire and figure out how to keep the people of…
