I've got a couple of pretty good reads to share with you this week. I was super excited to find them and look forward to more from each series. :)
Here's what I want to share with you today:
Maggie Get Your Gun by Kate Danley - 4 Stars ****
Now that Maggie saved the world, life is returning to normal
at MacKay & MacKay Magical Tracking. That is until a stranger shows up
looking for some ancient jewelry to die for. In fact, lots of folks are dying
for it.
Maggie, Killian, and your favorite cast of characters are
back for a rootin’ tootin’ urban fantasy adventure through the wilds of the Old
West.
The bad guys don’t stand a ghost of a chance.
Black Spark by Al K Line - 4 Stars ****
I watched in horror as dark magic sprang from my hand faster
than an imp after your socks. I didn’t know my name, let alone that I had such
power. The man was dead. I panicked. I ran.
How was I to know I was a dark magic enforcer, tasked with
keeping magic hidden from the world? Yeah, total noob move, I know.
But my memory is returning, and the Hidden have given me
twenty-four hours to make amends. Cover it up. Finish the job I was given, or
else. Failure isn’t an option. Well, it is, but I like me, and I like being
alive.
The clock is ticking as I battle to make things right and
exact revenge on those that took so much from me. Easier said than done as I
deal with angry mages, bitey zombies, oversexed imps, creepy necromancers, and
grumpy trolls—and those are just my friends!—all while trying to stop myself falling
in love with my best friend, Kate, who just so happens to be a hot vampire.
I’m Faz Pound, a.k.a. Black Spark, Dark Magic Enforcer, and
time is running out.
At least I have my looks. For now.
Vampz Macabre by N R Larry - 4 Stars ****
No vamp is crazy enough to hunt in The Heights. After all,
it’s under the protection of Malcolm Hex, known for taking down not only
vampires, but every other supernatural creature that threatens the
neighborhood.
So, when a blood-drinker goes after one of her foster kids
in their own home, Mal knows there must be something new about these vamps.
Something dangerous. She’s right. They are jiangshi, Chinese vampires, and they
just might be powerful enough to take Mal out for good.
Not only that, Bao, the vampire child in her care, starts
changing with these new attacks, and it’s no coincidence—Mal learns that these
new vamps will stop at nothing until Bao goes with them.
Mal isn’t having that. No one messes with her kids.
And no one messes with Malcolm Hex.
The Harbinger by Candace Wondrak - 3 Stars ***
The rules of the Second, a list by Faith Blackwell.
One: technology doesn’t work. The Second doesn’t need
electricity when it has magic. Two: don’t trust anyone. The Second’s races—the
Elven, the Malus, the Ulen and the Dracon—are way too pretty to trust. Three:
when someone tells you you’re the new Harbinger, believe them. Bad things
happen if you don’t.
Back in the sixties, the last Harbinger permanently opened
the gateways between Earth and the Second. Humanity grew accordingly. Faith is
in her fifth year at the Academy, with her sight set on joining the Division,
the branch of government that enforces what most law enforcement can’t, like
smuggling goods between worlds. Following her mother’s footsteps has always
been the plan.
Of course, she doesn’t want to follow them to a T. Her
mother had awful luck with men, as did her grandma. Faith wouldn’t mind finding
out what’s so special about a man that it has her quirky grandma swearing at
them constantly. A field trip to the Second is just what she needs.
Being the first female Harbinger in the Second’s history and
having to face down the realm’s most dangerous Dracon, also known as the
ridiculously-named Dread King? Not what she needs.
Faith isn’t a hero. That sort of responsibility is not what
she wants. The perks that come with it—like a sexy but infuriating Elf, a
flirty Malus, and a quiet and pensive Ulen—well, maybe for them she’ll make an
exception to her grandma’s no-man rule.
Maybe she’ll have them all.
Spell on Earth by Leighann Dobbs - 3 Stars ***
Finding a body facedown in a chocolate fountain isn’t
exactly the way earth witch Zola Meadows wanted to start her day. Even worse,
her sweet old lady neighbor, Lilly Martinelli, is arrested for the crime. The
evidence against Lilly is flimsy at best, and Zola vows to clear her name. Not
only to make sure justice is served, but also to get rid of the trouble making
cat that Lilly has entrusted to her care while she’s in jail.
Luck is on her side. Lilly’s hotter-than-heck pie-making
nephew wants to help. Then again, maybe that’s not such a good idea. Not just
because Zola has a romantic past with him, but also because he soon bubbles up
to the top of her suspect list.
Zola finds herself wading through a maze of clues and
suspects: cheating husbands, purse-grabbing friends, shopping-obsessed
daughters, not to mention a little creature running around town tormenting
tourists with bad breath and sticky brown goo. With pressure from the coven
elders and a sheriff itching to close the case, Zola must put her magical
skills to the test in order to discover the true identity of the killer before
Lilly’s time runs out.
That's it. :) I hope you see something you'd like to try.
Thanks for stopping by,
~Michelle
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