The Bright & the Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski — ARC Review

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the only survivors of the freeze, a dark magical hold Knnot Mountain unleashed over her village. Everyone, including her family, is trapped in an unbreakable sheet of ice. Ever since, she’s been on the run from the Czar, who is determined to imprison any who managed to escape. Valeria...

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan — ARC Review

Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan Summary: Seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke never thought she would wish she’d failed a test until she finds herself holding a thick piece of plastic in her hands and staring at two solid pink lines. Even the most consistent use of condoms won’t prevent pregnancy when your boyfriend secretly pokes...

Pricked by Scott Mooney – ARC Review

Summary: Briar Pryce has the power to change the emotions of others by handing them a rose. It is a talent that has done surprisingly little for her, besides landing her a dead-end enchantment delivery job and killing any chance she had with her childhood-crush-turned-roommate. Worst of all, her ability might be responsible for getting...

The Night Before by Wendy Walker – ARC Review

Summary: First dates can be murder. Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control. Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love. She falls too hard and...

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...

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...

Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford – Review

Summary: From the author of HOW TO SAY GOODBYE IN ROBOT, the story of a fractured family and three sisters' secrets The Sullivan sisters have a big problem. On Christmas Day their rich and imperious grandmother gathers the family and announces that she will soon die . . .and has cut the entire family out...

The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey – Review

Summary: Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from all but one human: Echo, a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market. The Avicen are the only...

New Caviar by Stephanie Brandt – Review

Summary: It's a delectable treat enjoyed only by the wealthiest in society, but no one knows what New Caviar is made of. Two people will follow different journeys to arrive at the same truth: Daryl lives in a secluded facility filled only with people under age twenty. He times his life to the bells that...

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...