Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews Series: Kate Daniel, #8 Urban Fantasy/Romance August 4, 2015 ACE Joint reviewed by Mandi and Tori SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T READ BOOK SEVEN!! Book seven left readers shocked when Kate and Curran abdicated their thrones as pack Alphas and Kate was forced to magically claim Atlanta in order to save them all from her father. Now they are trying to get on with their lives in as normal a way as possible for these two. Even with their inability to enter the Continue Reading
Review: Spider’s Trap by Jennifer Estep
Spider’s Trap by Jennifer Estep (Elemental Assassin #13) Released: July 28, 2015 Urban Fantasy Pocket Reviewed by May Gin Blanco aka the Spider is not just a famous assassin – due to her taking down so many crime lords she’s the unofficial head of the underworld. A job she doesn’t want full of people she doesn’t want to spend time with. But with so many assassination attempts she figures it is better to take on the roll and do what she can to have some semblance of a normal Continue Reading
Review: Flight From Death by Yasmine Galenorn
Flight From Death by Yasmine Galenorn Series: Fly by Night, #1 Urban Fantasy July 7, 2015 Berkley Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I didn’t survive this long by opening my mouth at the wrong time, dude.” I’m Shimmer, a blue dragon shifter. Thanks to a mistake, I was exiled from the Dragon Reaches and sentenced to work for Alex Radcliffe, a vampire who owns the Fly by Night Magical Investigations Agency. Now, not only do I have to adapt to Earthside culture, but every time I turn Continue Reading
Review: Cold Burn of Magic by Jennifer Estep
Cold Burn Magic by Jennifer Estep Series: Black Blade, #1 Urban Fantasy/YA April 28, 2015 K-Teen Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Bad things really did come in threes.” Lila Merriweather lives in the most magical place in America - Loudburst Falls, WV - and it sucks. In a town ruled by group of powerful families, Lila keeps her head down and supports herself by making certain “acquisitions." An orphan whose mother was murdered, Lila wants nothing to do with the town, it’s Continue Reading
Review: Sealed in Sin (The Vessel Trilogy # 2) by Juliette Cross
Sealed in Sin (The Vessel Trilogy # 2) by Juliette Cross Urban Fantasy Released April 21, 2015 Samhain Publishing Reviewed by Sheena In my excitement, the following is mildly spoilery. Book 2 in the Vessel trilogy is wrapped in unpredictability. Though an HEA is expected, the road traveled in this installment is anything but predictable. Sealed in Sin picks up shortly after events in Forged in Fire cemented Genevieve as the most powerful Vessel of Light , the being of which a Continue Reading
Review: Dark Heir by Faith Hunter
Dark Heir by Faith Hunter Series: Jane Yellowrock, #9 Urban Fantasy April 7, 2015 ROC Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “It’s always blood with you people.” “To Mithrans. You are my people now.” The European vampire witch council has always been a deadly threat to Jane and her boss, Leo Pellister, Head Vampire of the Southern Region, but when one of their strongest is let loose on New Orleans, the threat becomes a reality. Now Jane is tasked with bringing them in, alive, or risk an Continue Reading
Review: Binding Ties by Shannon K. Butcher
Binding Ties by Shannon K. Butcher Sentinel Wars, #9 Paranormal Romance March 3, 2015 Signet Reviewed by Tori Blurb: Lyka Phelan is a Slayer, sent to live among her enemy to guarantee lasting peace with the Theronai. Yet she has a secret—and it could make her a slave to their power. But when a pack of Synestryn destroys her home and captures her packmates, Lyka realizes her freedom is a small price to pay for the safety of her people. So she strikes a bargain with the leader of the Continue Reading
Review: Dark Debt by Chloe Neill
Dark Debt (Chicagoland Vampires, # 11) by Chloe Neill Urban Fantasy March 3, 2015 NAL Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: The stars are always shining even if we can’t see them. Merit and Ethan are back and their drama is as intense as ever. The past comes back to haunt Ethan when his maker, Balthazar, shows up in Chicago. As Merit and Ethan race to discover exactly what Balthazar wants, the Navarre house is experiencing its own troubles. Morgan, the master of Navarre, is shocked to Continue Reading
Review: Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega #4) Released: March 3, 2015 Urban Fantasy Ace Reviewed by Mandi Another outstanding addition to this fabulous urban fantasy series. Well done Patricia Briggs. Set in the same world as her Mercy Thompson series, the Alpha & Omega series follows Charles (son of the alpha Bran) and Anna (an Omega wolf). I'm not going to recap who Charles and Anna are and how they came to be - I highly recommend this series and reading them in order. I Continue Reading
Review: Vision In Silver by Anne Bishop
Vision in Silver (The Others, #3) by Anne Bishop Urban Fantasy March 3, 2015 ROC Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: What do you want us to do? Write a Dimwit’s Guide to Blood Prophets? Simon, Meg, and the collaborated efforts of the Others and sympathetic humans have broken the chains of benevolent ownership over the Cassandra Sangue, not realizing the potential harm in releasing the fragile seers into an unknown and frightening world. Meg tries to help her fellow seers adapt though Continue Reading