Magic is dangerous. Magic must be controlled. When the fever comes, you will die. When Elspeth catches the fever, her father, the head of the dysentery, he doesn’t turn her in. Instead, he hides her away with her aunt and uncle in the woods. There she sweats out the fever hoping to pass unnoticed. But those who catch the fever have access to the magic that all others must use cards for. And most that have unnatural access degenerate from the magic. Elspeth thinks she’s come out unscathed until she touches a card and a voice begins to speak in her head. A voice that goes stronger the longer she calls on it. She keeps the voice hidden until running into a strange highwayman who turns out to turn her life upside down. The highwayman turns out to be the kind nephews and he has plans of his own to free their city from its dark magic.
Read MoreOnly a few space stations are left after the war. The people inside live in the wards and entertain themselves with the jousting tournaments. Synali’s life doesn’t get to stay so simple after her mother is assassinated. She spends six months trying to learn who did it until she finally finds a way in and puts a dagger in her noble father’s back. But killing him isn’t enough. His house still stands. His accomplishments are still alive. If she fades away now, no one will know that he tried to kill his bastard daughter. Luckily another noble has just the right plan to see her history set right. By joining him in winning a jousting tournament, the man not only offers her revenge on everyone involved with her mother’s murder but also relief at the end. All she has to do is survive all seven rounds of the tournament. But as she spends more time in her stead, she’s not entirely sure if she’s the only one controlling the machine.
Read MoreOn the hunt for their forever home, newlyweds Tricia and Ethan head out of town to tour a secluded home in the country — the former home of a psychiatrist who went missing a year ago. Tricia and Ethan aren’t prepared for the snowstorm that leaves them stranded and Tricia keeps finding evidence that someone else is in the house with them. A weeping glass. A sleeping bag. Ethan tries his best to calm her down, telling her that they’ll love living in the house, but nothing helps. Especially when Tricia stumbles onto a secret room filled with tapes of the psychiatrist’s recorded sessions with her patients. Tricia can’t help herself. She steals a few of the tapes and begins to listen. The more she listens, the more the pieces of the psychiatrist’s disappearance fall into place, until Tricia can’t ignore the evidence anymore.
Read MoreThe Sins on Their Bones is about two lovers. One is a former ruler in hiding. The other is a ruler who stole the throne. And though there’s an entire fantasy world with heaven and hell, the real story is the love the two characters have for each other. It shapes their decisions and sets the stage. It’s the wants and the drive. And it’s probably the reason that you got sucked in, in the first place.
Read MoreIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommissioning, or worse, reprogramming. - Goodreads
Read MoreValentine’s Day is almost upon us. It’s time to pull out the spicy books and warm up the bed. To help you find the right romance books this season, I’ve put together a list of books I’ve loved over the years. But be warned… some of these books aren’t for the faint of heart. I love the darker romances. I love a lot of steam. Viewer discretion is advised.
Read MoreA lot of kids have imaginary friends, but not all of them call them the Boy Under the Floor or come home from school reciting a rhyme about death. Tom can only hope that his son, Jake, will forget about his imaginary friends once they move into their new house. The house Jake became obsessed with when he saw the picture. What they don’t expect is the junk left in the garage or the town consumed with a missing boy. The last boy to go missing in town was twenty years ago. The killer was caught. Yet it’s happening again. As the case speeds up, Tom and Jake find themselves in the middle of it all when their house becomes the center of the activity. But can they figure out who the copycat killer is before Jake becomes the next victim on the list?
Read MoreWith the ratings dropping and no guarantee for a second season, Matt and his team of ghost hunters decide to attempt the most haunted house in America to round out their tv show. The kind of house that no one else has ever recorded after the scientist running their sydo-science experiments went missing in the 70s. And they might have hit the jackpot after their first night. Problem is, their tech guy decided to play a hoax to help save the show. Now Matt’s wife is talking about quitting and his dreams are beginning to slip through his fingers. But are they… What’s that sound coming from upstairs? Why did the temperature just drop? And who broke the ouaji board?
Read MoreIf you’re looking for books to start 2024 reading challenge, then this is the list for you. I’ve compiled my favorite books from 2023, including some honorable mentions that are still taking up space in my brain.
Read MoreAfter a near-death experience, Cassidy Blake has a new talent and a new best friend who happens to be a ghost. Well… the new talent is more of a distraction. Whenever there’s a ghost nearby, she feels a tap tap tap that won’t go away until she crosses the veil to witness what happened. Now her parents are telling her that instead of a quiet summer at the beach – where she can barely hear the ghosts – they’re going to be traveling to the most haunted places in the world to film their new television series. Begrudgingly, Cassidy packs her suitcase and tries to make the most out of the constant pull from the viel. At least her new best friend gets to come along. The ghost that saved her from dying. The ghost that makes sure she doesn’t spend too long in the veil. But the longer Cassidy is in these haunted locations, the stronger the pull becomes, leading Cassidy to discover that her gift is for more than playing the observer. She’s meant to help the souls cross over. This also means that she needs to right the unbalance she created when her best friend saved her.
Read MoreWhat could a war with the gods, a magical typewriter, and a rival journalist have in common? Well, Iris… When her brother, Forest, is compelled to fight in the war the god, Dacre, started, Iris is left to fend for herself and her mother. She even dropped out of school, going to work in the city’s newspaper. But when there’s only one slot for a full-time columnist available, Iris is pitted against a rival employee, Roman. Iris copes with her brother's leaving by writing letters to him and slipping them under her closet door. Every time she opens the door they’re always missing and she doesn’t question the small wink of magic, hoping they could be getting to her brother, until someone responds. This isn’t Forest. Iris’s world begins to fall apart, taking her to the front in search of her brother. But the magic continues and Iris soon learns what the war really means and who might be her mysterious correspondent.
Read MoreIn a world where the monsters are real, Dr. Henry Jekyll is trying to bring the arcane science back to life. That is… if he can get the funding to keep his community of scientists alive. He hopes the community’s outlook will change with his upcoming exhibition, but after bringing a new scientist into the fold, things go very wrong. First, Mr. Hyde wants to take a spin in the real world. Then Dr. Frankenstein turns out to be very much alive, bringing with her a very real Mad scientist that might just happen to set the city on fire… with a little help from Mr. Hyde. Now Jekyll is left trying to right what’s been wronged while keeping his dark secret to himself.
Read MoreViolet was never supposed to be a dragon rider. Her future was meant for the words, to live in the archives as a scribe. But then her father dies and she’s left to the will of her mother — the Commanding General – who sends her to the dragon riding academy instead. The problem is, you either graduate or you die. Violet isn’t ready for the first challenge just to enter the school, the boy that calls her Violence, or the physical strain put on her already fragile body. Violet takes it one day at a time, surprising herself until the dreaded moment when the dragons get to pick their riders. Will they see her as the weak person she is, or give her a chance?
Read MoreThey say parents shouldn’t have to say goodbye to their kids, but best friends shouldn’t have to say goodbye either. Bailey can’t stop blaming herself. It was her house that her best friend left in the middle of a snowstorm. She was the one who didn’t ask Vanessa about the text message that made her frown. Now Vanessa is dead and Bailey wants to know why she was driving through the mountain pass instead of heading for home. Stealing her mother’s chatbot, Bailey compiles every piece of information she has about Vanessa, asking the bot questions in hopes that it can explain everything to her. But sometimes the truth is worse than your imagination.
Read MoreAre you ready to get in the spirit of Halloween? Then dive into the books that I’ve picked to read in October. Join in on Instagram for live thoughts and read-alongs.
Read MoreSometimes taking your DNA test doesn’t always produce the results you thought you’d get. Cordelia had hoped to take her gene test for her senior project and blow through her last year of high school before early acceptance to college. But when the test comes back listing someone else as her dad, her life flips on its head. Everything that she’s known was a lie. Her dad isn’t her dad and her mom won’t talk about what happened. All she has to go on is an Instagram profile and an email address. While Cordelia searches for answers, her senior year takes a turn and everything she had planned comes crashing to the ground.
Read MoreSam Porter might just be looking at his nemesis. The serial killer was said to have jumped in front of a bus that very morning. But why did he commit suicide after alluding Porter’s team for so long? Porter does know that they’re short on time. The man was carrying one of his signature white boxes meaning that he took another victim. Down to the wire, Porter and his team rush to find the missing girl while also piecing together the killer’s allusive past from the journal found in the dead man’s pocket. Can Porter finally put to rest the man that’s been haunting his life for five years, or will there be more questions left unanswered?
Read MoreHell Bent continues the story of Alex Stern. But this time, she’s trying to find her way into hell. Returning to Yale after a summer of relaxing and becoming the muscle for her former drug dealer, Alex has one thing on her mind – finding a way to save Darrington. It’s not going to be easy, though. She’s got a new head of Lethe to contend with, her job as a Dante, and a new set of murders to help solve. And let’s not forget that there’s a new monster in town.
Read MoreIt’s time to review my entire journey of Arc of a Scythe. But first, make sure you’ve listened to my review of Scythe.
Read MoreFML is the story of two brothers in search of getting their original bodies back. From losing an arm and a leg for one brother to the full body of the other one, the pair had to pay an equivalent exchange when attempting to resurrect their mother. Edward uses his connections as a State Alchemist to search for the mysterious Philosopher’s Stone, a magic-enhancing device that could just give them the power they need for the task. But they’re not the only ones on the hunt and the people supposedly wielding the stones aren’t really human. Their search has them stumbling into the middle of a conspiracy that’s been going on for decades, leading them to the real source of the Philosopher’s Stones.
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