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Hollow Kingdom by Kira Buxton

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This review will be about Hollow Kingdom by Kira Buxton. This was published on August 6, 2019, and is the first book, out of two, of the Hollow Kingdom Series. It’s listed as an Adult, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Dystopian, Horror.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ About the Book: One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author. S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies--from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis--fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world w...

Giving The Dragon Ice By Victoria Jayne

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  This review will be about Giving the Dragon Ice by Victoria Jayne . It was published on November 5, 2024. It's the second book of the Elemental Dragons Series . This series genre is listed as Adult, Romance, Fantasy/Paranormal.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ About The Book: “It could be fate or a bitter witch. Either way, someone is against them. Alisa Roberts went to Manhattan expecting to meet the father she never knew. Finding her mate, though, that was one hell of an inconvenience . Especially when their bond cemented her curse. Destroying the witches responsible is the only way to end their spell. When Declan Quinn answered the call of a golden dragon shifter, he rutted his way into a disaster . His new mate had a vendetta against witches. Unfortunately, his best friend happened to be quite magical. When her fire and his ice clashed, they realize fate has a cynical sense of humor. Can the sins of the mother ever wash away? Or will Alisa and Declan pay the ultimate price?” Review: First, I wou...

Death Is My BFF By Katarina Tonks

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  This review will be about Death is My BFF by Katarina Tonks. It was published on September 5, 2023 but the unedited/edited original was published on Wattpad on July 6, 2011. It's the first book in The Death Chronicles with the second book, Death is My Ride or Die published on September 17, 2024. This series is listed as a Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance.  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: “When Faith Williams almost loses her life during a robbery, Death is there. While he spares her soul, he makes a promise to return when she’s eighteen and collect it. Now it’s the eve of that special birthday, and Faith has no recollection of that fateful day. But echoes of Death appear in her art―his intense eyes, his intriguing demeanor―and she can’t get him out of her head. When he arrives in person, Faith is drawn into an epic supernatural battle where her very existence is questioned at every turn. To add angst to agony, she meets the infamous David Star at a Halloween party, an...

Divine Rivals

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  This review will be about Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross . This book was published on April 4 , 2023. The second book to this series is Ruthless Vow, published on December 26, 2023. Both are listed as a Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ About the book: “When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish―into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all th...

Venco by Cherie Dimaline

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  This review will be about Venco by Cherie Dimaline. It’s classified as a novel and was published on February 7, 2023, listed as an Adult Fantasy Novel.  ⭐⭐⭐ About The Book: “Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. Burrowing through a wall, she finds a silver spoon etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM, humming with otherworldly energy. Hundreds of miles away in Salem, Myrna Good has been looking for Lucky. Myrna works for VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money. Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon links her to VenCo’s network of witches throughout North America. Generations of witches have been waiting for centuries for the seven spoons to come together, ignit...

What We Sacrifice For Magic

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  This review will be about What We Sacrifice For Magic by Andrea Jo DeWerd. It was published on September 24, 2024. It’s listed as an Adult Historical Fantasy.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ About the book:  The Watry-Ridder family’s charms and spells have been passed down through the generation of witches, serving the small town of Friedrich, Minnesota in 1968. They are feared but also respected,  farmers need water charms, teenagers need love spells, or a quick harmless curse. Just graduating high school, eldest daughter Elisabeth has high expectations set on her shoulders as she is expected to master her magical abilities and take over the family business for her grandmother, the infamous Magda. Along with the expectations of mastering her magic, she’s also supposed to marry her high school boyfriend and then live the rest of her life in the small town of Friedrich. All Elisabeth can think about though is, why her? Why is the path ahead of her set in stone and what else could possibly b...

HALE The Rise of the Griffins by J.K. Noble

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  This review will be about HALE The Rise of the Griffins by J.K. Noble. It was published on November 2, 2021 with 3 so far after. The second book, HALE The Prophets Journal was published November 21, 2023 and the third book, HALE The Staff of Time does not have a listed release date. This series is listed as a Children’s Fantasy.  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ About the book: Hale, a sixteen-year-old, makes a daring escape from his kidnapper only to find himself in a brutal world full of magic that his sister, Carly, had tried to protect him from.  Hale finds himself in the violent Land of Griffins where he learns he’s not a normal kid. In fact, he’s actually a griffin and has extraordinary talents. As he learns how to be a griffin, he becomes close with Bayo, the Griffin Leader, and Hale can’t deny that there is a connection between them. Bayo has secrets though, he has dark plans in store for Hale as well as who they really are to each other.  Review: I received this book through a giveaw...