Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra VastiHistorical RomanceJuly 24, 2024- St. Martin's Griffin Review by Angela I fell in love with this author after reading the Halifax Hellions series as free reads on her website. I've been saving this book as kind of a "break glass in case of emergency" read, which after the last couple of months and my resulting book slump seemed to be a good plan from past me. Peter Kent, the new Duke of Stanhope, recently arrived from Louisiana, desperately wants Continue Reading
Review: Servant of Earth by Sarah Hawley
Servant of Earth by Sarah HawleyThe Shards of Magic #1Fantasy RomanceNovember 12, 2024- Ace Review by Angela Kenna Heron is an ordinary woman, living on the fringes of her village, finding treasures in the bog, which she sells in order to put food on the table. When the time comes for sacrifices to be chosen to travel across the bog to the Fae, Kenna is distressed to find her best friend is picked. So, in desperation, she follows her and ends up in a cruel Fae kingdom where she is Continue Reading
Retro Review: White Knight by Kelly Meade
Review originally posted in January of 2015 at Fiction Vixen by Angela. White Knight by Kelly MeadeCornerstone Run Trilogy #3PNRPublished January 20, 2015 by Intermix I’ve been eagerly anticipating the final installment of the Cornerstone Run trilogy. While each book tells the story of a different brother, Knight is at the center of the main plot and the one who has been victimized the most. This urban fantasy trilogy revolves around the McQueen brothers and their run’s battle Continue Reading
Review: Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
Ghost Station by S.A. BarnesScience Fiction/HorrorApril 9, 2024- Tor NightfireARC Review by Angela I'm not sure why I waited so long to read this book, maybe when I first picked it up I wasn't in the mood for dark, atmospheric, grim science fiction? Not quite sure. I do know that once I finally opened it for a second time the other day, I read it straight through to the end in one sitting. Ghost Station is told from the POV of Dr. Ophelia Bray, a psychologist with a complicated Continue Reading
Retro Review: Gray Bishop by Kelly Meade
Review originally posted in October of 2014 at Fiction Vixen by Angela. Gray Bishop by Kelly MeadeCornerstone Run Trilogy #2PNRPublished October 21, 2014 by Intermix Gray Bishop is the second book in the Cornerstone Run Trilogy, and while I had some problems with the romance in Black Rook, the world-building and premise of this series had me looking forward to the next two releases. Bishop and Jillian, our main characters, feature prominently in the first book and I was very much Continue Reading
Review: The Horde King of Shadow by Zoey Draven
The Horde King of Shadow by Zoey DravenHordes of the Elthika #1Science Fiction/Fantasy RomanceNovember 26, 2024- Self Published Review by Angela When Zoey Draven announced that her new series would take place in the same world as her Horde Kings of Dakkar series, yet set several centuries in the future, I wondered how it would all fit together with the original world-building. And the answer is, perfectly. This new series features a woman, Klara, who also happens to be a princess Continue Reading
Retro Review: Black Rook by Kelly Meade
Review originally posted in July of 2014 at Fiction Vixen by Angela. Black Rook by Kelly MeadeCornerstone Run Trilogy #1PNRPublished July 15, 2015 by Intermix Black Rook is the first book in the new Cornerstone trilogy by Kelly Meade (aka Kelly Meding). This new series centers around a Loup Garou run and the three sons of the Alpha. The McQueen brothers are all vastly different and each story will focus on one brother and give them their own HEA, but will have a story arc that Continue Reading
Retro Review: For the Love of Magic by Janet Chapman
Original review post in August of 2013 at Fiction Vixen by Angela. For the Love of Magic by Janet ChapmanContemporary Fantasy/PNRAugust 27, 2013- Berkley I’ve been a big fan of Janet Chapman from the very beginning of her career. She’s just one of those authors that I find easy to read, I like her voice and adore how she manages to combine magical, historical and contemporary settings. There is just so much romance and charm in every one of her stories. So it pains me to say this Continue Reading
Review: Only Cold Depths by Jennifer Estep
Only Cold Depths by Jennifer EstepGalactic Bonds #4Science Fiction/Fantasy RomanceOctober 29, 2024- Self-Published Review by Angela The fourth book in the Galactic Bonds series picks up shortly after the second and third books in the series. Vesper and Kyrion are on the run from pretty much everyone- the Imperium, the Techwave, a pair of bounty hunters, and Zane, Vesper's brother and now head of the Arrows. They plan on accepting an invitation to hide out on a non-Imperium planet, Continue Reading
Review: The Beast Takes a Bride by Julie Anne Long
The Beast Takes a Bride by Julie Anne LongThe Palace of Rogues #8Historical RomanceOctober 22, 2024 by Avon Review by Angela I really love this series, but I have to say as soon as I heard this installment was a second chance, marriage in trouble romance I was all in and excited to read. The Beast Takes a Bride is the eighth installment of The Palace of Rogues series and follows a different couple in each book, but the two main couples, who own the establishment, remain an integral Continue Reading