Published: January 28, 2014 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Pages: 352 (Hardcover) My Rating: 2.5/5.0 Synopsis: Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to... Continue Reading →
Waiting on Wednesday: The Holver Alley Crew by Marshall Ryan Maresca
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where bloggers feature a book that we just can’t wait to get our hands on! The Holver Alley Crew is the beginning of Maresca's newest Maradaine series called The Streets of Maradaine. The synopsis describes another exciting set of characters and... Continue Reading →
Dark Intelligence by Neal Asher – Review
Published: February 3, 2015 Publisher: Night Shade Books Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 416 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 Synopsis: One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed... Thorvald Spear wakes in a hospital to find he's been brought back from the... Continue Reading →
Waiting on Wednesday: Game of Shadows by Erika Lewis
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where bloggers feature a book that we just can’t wait to get our hands on! For whatever reason I keep coming back to this particular book so I'm going to go ahead and feature it here as my WoW for the... Continue Reading →
Currently Reading: 12/19/16
The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks I've just begun listening to this (audio version is great, BTW) and it's already got me in a tizzy. Can't wait to see what happens to the characters after some serious craziness at the end of the previous book! This will probably keep me engrossed all week 😀 ... Continue Reading →
Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia – Review
Published: October 27, 2015 Publisher: Baen Genre: Fantasy Pages: 432 (Hardcover) My Rating: 4.0/5.0 Synopsis: After the War of the Gods, the demons were cast out and fell to the world. Mankind was nearly eradicated by the seemingly unstoppable beasts, until the gods sent the great hero, Ramrowan, to save them. He united the... Continue Reading →
The Alchemists of Loom by Elise Kova – Review
Published: January 10, 2017 Publisher: Keymaster Press Genre: Fantasy, Steampunk Pages: 380 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 Synopsis: Her vengeance. His vision. Ari lost everything she once loved when the Five Guilds’ resistance fell to the Dragon King. Now, she uses her unparalleled gift for clockwork machinery in tandem with notoriously unscrupulous morals to contribute to... Continue Reading →
Waiting on Wednesday: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where bloggers feature a book that we just can’t wait to get our hands on! The Collapsing Empire is the debut novel in John Scalzi's newest Sci-Fi series, which is scheduled for a March 2017 release. I don't know much about the... Continue Reading →
Currently Reading: 12/12/16
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks OHMYGOSH. Brent Weeks just can't write a bad book, can he? I am 1000% loving the Lightbringer series and simultaneously want to read the whole thing immediately and want it to last forever. It seems each book keeps getting better and better and Andross Guile keeps getting more cunningly... Continue Reading →
Cephrael’s Hand by Melissa McPhail – Review
Published: December 5, 2014 (This ed.) Publisher: Five Strands Publishing Genre: Fantasy Pages: 780 (Hardcover) My Rating: 3.5/5.0 Synopsis: “All things are composed of patterns...” And within the pattern of the realm of Alorin, three strands must cross: In Alorin...three hundred years after the genocidal Adept Wars, the realm is dying, and the blessed Adept... Continue Reading →
