I have to say last week was exciting. Not just because I read some pretty good books - but also because we found out we are going to be grandparents for the first time. :) We are thrilled!
Here are the books I enjoyed last week:
The Big Ass Witch by Gary Jonas - 4 Stars****
Life sucks. My old man makes me work for a big-ass witch
named Lakesha so I can learn magic and help people. My first gig turns out to
be an abduction, which sounds like a job for law enforcement, not a half-assed
wizard like yours truly. Just my luck though – it’s a ghost that’s been
snatched, which is right in my wheelhouse.
Why would anyone want to kidnap a ghost? And why should I
care one way or the other? I prefer power napping to kidnapping.
But when the abductors use the ghost to kill a man in a
robbery gone wrong, it's up to me to save the day. As long as I don't have to
get up before noon...
Banished Fairie by M J Crane - 4 Stars****
As Destiny chases down a spirit monster, danger mounts and
evil swirls around them.
She tries to protect Wade and Task, but is derailed when the
truth of her past rips away the lie she’s living. Too late she discovers the
key to their survival lies in Task’s hands, but it may cost her Wade and her
true destiny!
To Tame A Wild Heart by Gwen Mitchell - 3 Stars***
Street hustler Audrey Taylor has carved a living out of
society’s fringe using her supernatural abilities. Sleeping beneath the open
skies and under the radar is all she’s ever needed. But when an ancient council
of witches discovers her powers, Audrey is forced to submit to their control or
end up stripped of her gifts and her memories. She knows better than to rely on
or trust anyone and she’s never worked well with others, so it’s just her luck
to be assigned the withdrawn and irritable falconer as her mentor. Even more
disturbing is her desire to penetrate his brooding façade and uncover the
passion brewing just under the surface.
Corvin Wright values the solace of his duties and finds
peace alone among the birds trusted to his keeping, but the council no longer
sees a use for his gifts. His sanctuary is in danger, unless he can earn his
place by babysitting one of the fledgling witches brought to the Arcanum to
train in the magical arts. That proves more daunting than expected when his
novice turns out to be wilder and more broken than any creature he’s ever cared
for. Her stubborn spirit and dangerous beauty challenge every ideal of the life
he thought he wanted, and while Audrey wrestles against her captivity, Corvin
searches for a way to tame her heart before she breaks his.
Double Sided Magic by McKenzie Hunter - 3 Stars***
I am Levy Michaels. Once my kind were the hunters—now we are
the hunted.
Supernaturals are out of the closet but I have to stay
hidden because of the type of magic I possess. I’m a Legacy. It sounds like the
title should come with reverence, a trust fund, or at the very least a cool
backstory—instead it comes with a death sentence.
I have to hide in plain sight and pretend to be just human.
I’m pretty good at it. I live a simple and somewhat normal life, and I work in
antique acquisitions. Everything’s going fine until a dangerous and enchanted
dagger that was once in my possession is stolen. I didn’t think things could
get any worse until I woke up next to a dead shifter, fae, and mage, without
any memory of the past twenty-four hours.
Considered guilty of murder by most of the magical community
and humans, I must work with Gareth, the sexy and dangerous leader of the
Supernatural Guild. If he’s as good as rumored, it’s only a matter of time
until he discovers the truth about me—then being found guilty of murder is the
least of my worries.
A Court for Fairies by S Lynn - 3 Stars***
Marissa has always lived in her mother’s shadow—and that
needs to change…
Paralegal Marissa Salgado is a quiet woman, an only child who
has grown up in Adriana’s long shadow. When she meets and falls in love with
Esteban, a fellow employee at the law firm, Marissa finally starts to break
free from her shell. While Marissa’s mother is overjoyed to see her daughter
happy and fulfilled, both Adriana and Marissa have a blood legacy that ties
them to creatures of old—and love is indeed transformative when it comes to
their kind.
Esteban never knew his father, nor was he aware of his
half-human, half-fae heritage… Esteban O’Reilly had no idea he was descended
from the feared Alexander clan, a vicious faction of the Unseelie Court that
demanded their payment in blood and sacrifice. When Esteban dies in a car
accident, the women in his life are shattered, and his mother and grandmother
are frantic to bring him back—no matter what it takes. Magic has a price, and
one life has to be exchanged for another…
Answering a request from Esteban's
mother, Marissa agrees to spend a weekend at Innisfree, the family's country
home. During her stay, she learns the fairies who haunted the O’Reillys for
generations have now set their eyes on her. When the extent of Esteban’s
sacrifice becomes clear, Marissa must make a choice—the truth, or the man she
loves. With her life in danger, will Marissa finally acknowledge those who once
swore to protect her? Will her own secrets step out of the shadows, or will she
be destroyed by the Court for Fairies?
Odium by Claire C Riley - 3 Stars***
It's better to die by the gun than die by the dead.
Nina’s life was irrevocably changed when humanity’s dead
began to rise.
Now, she lives behind the walls.
The barricaded cities, erected by the government to protect
the remnants of civilization, have become a brutal dictatorship- causing the
inhabitants within to starve, steal and claw for survival. Life behind the
walls has become as terrifying as roaming the zombie-ridden landscape beyond.
Citizens trade what they can to gain food, water, and
shelter. Nina has only one currency—her body and she is tired of submitting
herself to the greedy hands of the self-proclaimed leaders.
An opportunity to escape presents itself in the fate of a
young girl named Emily-Rose. For the price of a stale piece of bread, she is
set for banishment from the city, and most likely a horrific death at the hands
of the deaders. Nina tells herself that it is sympathy and not
self-preservation that makes her follow the young girl out of the walled
metropolis, and into the overgrown world beyond.
Unused to fighting the deaders, Nina tries to scrounge for
her survival and against her better judgment, begins to care for Emily-Rose.
However, when you have a bread-stealing liability providing your only back up,
survival seems even tougher. Nina is forced to fight for their lives, and with
every zombie slain, she becomes fiercer, faster – a grim reaper with her
not-so-sharp butcher’s knife.
Along the path to a safe-haven that might not exist, Nina
and Emily-Rose meet Mikey who introduces them to a new life they could not
imagine, a life above the ground. However, this new world brings new dangers,
and darker shadows than she knew.
Nina finds out that the deaders aren’t the only thing to
fear beyond the wall.
And that fear will not be ignored, or Forgotten.
That's it for my reading week. I hope you found some wonderful reads. :)
Thanks for stopping by,
Michelle
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