Just Like Home by Sarah GaileyHorrorJuly 19, 2022, by TorAudio ARC Review by Melinda This book begins with Vera coming home to take care of her dying mother. And everything is just…off. Her mother is hostile towards her, there’s something living under her bed, and her father was a serial killer who may be haunting the house, so things are complicated! We get bits and pieces of their backstory revealed, combined with pieces of what’s currently going on; but there are still so many Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher and A Shattered Silver Crown by Kai Butler
What Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherHorror/FantasyJuly 12, 2022 by Tor NightfireARC T. Kingfisher is known for fantasy and more recently, romantic fantasy, but I believe her horror novels and novellas to be some of her best work. This retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher is creepy and chilling and well done. Our narrator for this story is retired Lieutenant Alex Easton, who is summoned to the Usher estate by their childhood friend Roderick, on behalf of his dying sister Continue Reading
Review: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Nettle & Bone by T. KingfisherFantasy/HorrorApril 26, 2022, by Tor BooksARC Review by Angela As much as I adore this author's romantic fantasies, and I absolutely do, sometimes I actually prefer her horror novels. If you haven't read The Hollow Places and The Twisted Ones, you should definitely get on that. This is very much a novel in two parts. The beginning introduces our main protagonist and tells the story of how she came to be on the perilous mission she is currently Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- Love at First Spite by Anna E. Collins and Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
Love at First Spite by Anna E CollinsContemporary Romance1/4/2022 by Graydon HouseARC Look, I'm always here for a good revenge, spite book so when I saw Love at First Spite offered up for review I jumped at the chance to read. There were things about this book I really loved and a few things that I didn't. Dani is our heroine and she realizes just a few weeks before her wedding that her fiance is cheating on her. After a spectacular time paintballing in her wedding dress with her cousin, Continue Reading
Review: Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-GarciaDark Fantasy9/7/2021 by Tor NightfireARC Review by Angela I really like this author, especially the fact that I never quite know what I'm going to get when I open one of her books. She jumps around genres, going from gothic suspense to fantasy to paranormal historical romance and I get a little excited with each new release. Certain Dark Things is labeled as dark fantasy horror and the version I'm reading is actually a rerelease with a new Continue Reading
Review: Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Under the Whispering Door by TJ KluneLGBT Contemporary FantasySeptember 21, 2021, by Tor BooksARCReview by Angela Last year's The House in the Cerulean Sea was a warm, wonderful, gentle embrace with the softest romance and I positively adored it. My anticipation for Under the Whispering Door couldn't have been higher, I'm writing this review in May if that tells you anything. And I have to say I enjoyed it just as much, for different reasons, but still had that feeling of comfort when I read Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha and Breaking Badger by Shelly Laurenston
The Devil You Know by Kit RochaMercenary Librarians #2Fantasy/DystopiaAugust 31, 2021, by Tor BooksARC Being a Kit Rocha fangirl, I'm super excited for pretty much any new release by this author duo. The Devil You Know is the second book in the Mercenary Librarians series, and focuses on Maya and Gray. Maya's brain is a weapon, she was trained to carry data, and anything she has seen, heard, read, and experienced is stored in her memory and she literally can not forget. She is also Continue Reading
Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker- ChanThe Radiant Emperor #1Historial FantasyJuly 20, 2021, by Tor BooksARCReview by Angela This is going to be an incredibly hard book review to write because I'm not sure I'm up to the task of reducing this sweeping, incredibly complex, yet all-consuming tale into a mere thousand words. But I'll try my best. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… This quote Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Scoundrel of My Heart by Lorraine Heath
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno- GarciaHistorical Romance/FantasyRepub- 04/27/2021 by Tor I'm pretty sure every book I've picked up by this author has been completely different. A mix of genres, a mix of tropes, you just never know what you'll get. The Beautiful Ones is what I would describe as a historical romance with a dash of fantasy. This is at its heart a love story. Hector Auvray has come to the city after a decade to win back the heart of the women he desperately loves. Only Continue Reading
Angela’s Minis- Reviews for The Ippos King by Grace Draven and Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker
The Ippos King by Grace DravenWraith Kings #3Fantasy RomanceOctober 6, 2020, Self-PublishedARC "We live for those we love," she told him in bast-Kai. "We die for those we love. This is a privilege, Serovek, not a sacrifice." I've never made a secret of the fact that I am a Grace Draven fangirl and she continues to wow me with each new release. The Ippos King was originally serialized on her website, and then edited and released in ebook form in its entirety. I decided to forgo reading the Continue Reading