I had a couple of new to me authors this week that I am really excited to read more from.
This weeks genre theme is: Sirens/Mermaids
Here are the books I want to share with you.
The Sea Queen by Jovee Winters - 4 Stars ****
Calypso, Queen of the Seas, is mad. Spitting mad. Ghosts of the dead are fouling her waters. She wants this problem fixed, and she wants it fixed now. Rushing off in search of Hades, Lord of the Underworld, to demand answers, she’s soon shocked to discover him bound and standing trial before a jury of his peers—for nothing less than murder.
Calypso normally despises the beastly gods, all of them,
but there’s something about seeing Hades bound as he is that gives her an
evilly clever idea. Tired of being a virgin queen, she wishes to shed that
boring image once and for all, and no one seems quite as fit for the task as
the gorgeous and brooding Hades. Of course, there is the minor problem of
murder to deal with, but Calypso is bound and determined to have her way.
And when a dark queen gets an idea, nothing and no one
can stand in her way…
Immersed by Katie Hayoz - 4 Stars ****
WHAT IF LOVE TURNED YOU INTO A MONSTER?
Forget petticoats and demure female behavior. Melusine Doré
prefers armored corsets and knives and slays evil creatures for a living. The
grim and gruesome don’t frighten her; she’ll take on a cyclops or a dragon and
not even break a sweat. But when her rival, the charismatic Levi Cannon, comes
to town, all her buried fears begin to surface. Melusine realizes she is in
danger of something much more horrifying than facing blood-thirsty beasts –
she’s in danger of falling in love. Because love alone has the power to reveal
a secret terrible enough to completely shatter her world.
Set in the muddy streets of 1850s steampunk Chicago,
Immersed by Katie Hayoz is a dark yet romantic fantastical romp. It is a
stand-alone novella, the first in a series of adventures that follow Melusine
on her quest to rid the world of monsters…and her struggle to come to terms
with every monstrous facet of herself.
Mermaid Trouble by Andy Mulberry - 4 Stars ****
My name is Lana Ingram, and I can tell when people are
lying.
It got me kicked out of high-school, go figure.
My mom's kinda weird, my
sister social-media famous and my boyfriend is the best.
Then Kellen shows
up—tall, dark, way too handsome, carries weapons—and my life takes a fairy
tales turn...
The Mermaid's Escape by Kellie McAllen - 3 Stars ***
Destined to marry the gorgeous, high-ranking Kai and inherit
the throne from her grandfather, Princess Coral is the envy of every mermaid in
the shoal. But all she really wants is the freedom to decide her own fate.
When Coral runs away from her own wedding and escapes to the
land, she knows the clock is ticking. She has five days before her human body
will succumb to the curse that binds all mermaids to the sea. Overwhelmed by
the harshness of a deserted island, Coral is ready to accept her fate and
return to the shoal, but with the arrival of four shipwrecked divers, Coral
starts to understand why her mother was lured away by the human world.
When Coral is given the choice she always wanted, will she
make peace with her destiny, or risk everything to forge her own path in a
whole new world?
Breakwater by Catherine Jones Payne - 3 Stars ***
Mermaids. Murder. Mayhem.
A red tide is rising.
Seventeen-year-old Jade is recently engaged to a handsome
soldier and about to choose her own career. But she didn't expect to witness a
murder.
When her fiancé kills a naiad, plunging the underwater city
of Thessalonike into uproar, tensions surge between the mer and the naiads.
Jade learns too late that the choices she makes ripple further than she'd ever
imagined. And as she fights against the tide of anger in a city that lives for
scandal, she discovers danger lurking in every canal, imperiling her family and
shattering the ocean's fragile peace.
Can the city's divisions be mended before the upwelling of
hate rips apart everything Jade loves?
That wraps up this weeks reads. I hope you see something you like.
As always, thanks for stopping by.
~Michelle
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