The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

The Montoya family is used to strange occurrences. Unexplained phenomena are simply how life is around their grandmother. But when Orquídea Divina sends them an invitation to her funeral before she's dead with the promise of an inheritance, they all return to the farm hoping to get answers. Instead, Orquídea leaves them with more questions [...]

Born At Dawn

Do you like: Stabby girls? Imaginative worlds? Lost prophecies? Then you'll love Born At Dawn. Neva is one of the best thieves in Glacier's Pass. She makes decent money to help her family survive and is finally about to solidify her reputation as The Lynx. All she has to do is steal a goblet. But [...]

Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix – Review

**This review was originally posted on http://www.teenreads.com - SEE IT HERE** "Every step they took, every hardship they witnessed, stoked the fires of her anger, but over the weeks, it had changed from a sharp, burning outrage into a steady, purposeful wrath." In the stunning follow up to her debut, Julie Dao returns us to [...]

Furyborn – Review

"We all have darkness inside us, Rielle," he said, his voice brought. "That is what it means to be human." A prophecy states that two Queens will appear. One of light and one of blood. When Rielle uses her powers to save the the crown prince, she exposes that she has the ability to perform [...]

Sleeping Beauties – Review

"The world didn't seem weird then; the world didn't seem like the world at all, but like another place that you had been flipped into." Out of nowhere, women who fall asleep are covered in a cocoon like substance. A gauze that sustains them, protects them, and if broken incites a violence from the sleeping [...]

#makeoutmarrymurdermonday

What if instead of wishes, you were granted three book worlds to enter?! Which worlds would you choose??? For today's stabnanigans, I wanted to take the magic of the djinn and cast some wishes. I found the lamp, but my genie made me murder one of these books, so, I suppose the old adage, careful [...]

Nine – Review

**This review was originally published at teenreads.com ** "This is what life should be like, he thought. Your heart beating, your skin tingling, your mind bright and alive as you run headlong toward a future. Towards answers. Not death, after death, after death..." In a clever twist on dystopian story telling, Zach Hines shows us [...]

#makeoutmarrymurdermonday

Well, it's sunny and miserable again. Does anyone else wake up and hiss at the sun? No? Just me? At least my misery is your gain as we start the week off right: with plenty of stabnanigans!!! This week I thought we'd go full stabby books mode. Epic fantasy with lots and lots of treachery, betrayal, [...]

#makeoutmarrymurdermonday

It's stabby Monday!!! Again! I have to admit, I look forward to Monday far more than I used to. I don't know what that says about me, except stabbing characters gets me through the week. Don't judge!!! This week marks the end of June, which feels insane! As June is Pride Month, I thought our [...]

And I Darken – Review

"Lada's eyes burned with a look the nurse had come to dread. That look meant injury, destruction, or fire. Often all three." Lada Dragwlya may have been born a princess, but she never had any intention of acting like one. She was born fierce and relentless, never willing to be demure and quiet. She fights [...]