Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl — Review

Summary: There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin as a place where nothing ever changed. Then mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes revealed a secret world of curses and Supernaturals with terrifying abilities. Lena showed him...

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia — ARC Review

Summary: A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt in this irresistible novel by the author of Bellweather Rhapsody. Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old Twin Peaks and X-Files DVDs. But when...

Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer — Blog Tour and Giveaway

Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters #2) by Rebecca Schaeffer Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release Date: September 3rd 2019 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal Synopsis: After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her...

Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Berube – ARC Review

Summary: The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of codependent sisterhood, the struggle to claim one’s own space, and the power of secrets Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. Moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over. In...

Josie Griffin is Not a Vampire by Heather Swain – Review

Summary: A hilarious take on the paranormal trend--Twilight meets The Breakfast Club! When former good girl turned rebel Josie Griffin gets busted for what was in her mind perfectly acceptable revenge on her cheating dog of a boyfriend, she lands herself in anger management therapy. It could be worse: it could be juvvie, or she...

Hemlock and Hedge by Ruby Loren – Review

Summary: Only a witch would poison a cake. And only another witch would blackmail the poisoner. Hazel Salem is the family disappointment. She isn’t a witch. She doesn’t believe in magic. And she definitely doesn’t want a black cat for a pet. But when she discovers an unsolved mystery amongst her inheritance, she is forced...

Beastly Bones by William Ritter – Review

Summary: I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . . In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and...

On a Witch and a Spell by Misty Bane – Review

Summary: This is a Prequel Novelette to the Blackwood Bay Witches Cozy Mystery Series Drusilla “Granny” Rathmore is having the worst week of her life. First, her daughter died at the hands of witch hunter; then her son-in-law decided to hightail it out of town with her baby granddaughter in tow. Now, she's a woman...

Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins – Review

Summary: Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (a.k.a. witches, shape-shifters, and faeries). But then she discovered the family secret, and the fact that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent...

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins – Review

Summary: Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad...