Review of The Fox (Sherwood Smith) / Inda Series 2

 Review of The Fox (Sherwood Smith)  :
5Stars

Prince, pirates, banishment, covert identity, false accusation, marine life, politics, naval battles, marine life..

Opinion: He lets itself be read, it's worse in my opinion than the first book.


Attending the King's Military Academy had been Inda's greatest dream. But Academy reality is far from what he'd imagined for by defending the second son of the king, Inda becomes embroiled in a vicious political struggle among the nobility that he has no hope of winning. But these petty squabbles are only a faint shadow of what is to come. His future holds betrayals he cannot even imagine, and before growing to manhood, his fate will sever him from all he holds dear, thrusting him away from friends, family, and the life he thought he'd been meant to live, onto the perilous decks of pirate ships and beyond...





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Review of Death's Mistress (Karen Chance) / Dorina Basarab 2

 Review of Death's Mistress (Karen Chance) :
8Stars

Dhampir, vampires, rage problems, family problems, mages, trolls, fay, room mate missing, fey court, vampire politics, murder vampires, murder attempts, heir fey..

Opinion: Very second book of serie, heir fey, in the same line as the first. A great book to buy, give and lend.


Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane Uncle Dracula, Dory's hoping her life is about to calm down. But soon Dory realizes someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if she can't stop the murderer, her friends may be next...





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Review of Something Secret This Way Comes (Sierra Dean) / Secret McQueen Series 1

 Review of Something Secret This Way Comes (Sierra Dean) :
8Stars

Vampire hunter, vampires, vampire council, werewolves, hybrid, vampire rogues, double bounding, love triangle, millionaire werewolf..

Opinion: Phenomenal book, the beginning of a series that looks great. A great book to buy, give and lend.


Some secrets are dangerous. This Secret is deadly. For Secret McQueen, her life feels like the punch line for a terrible joke. Abandoned at birth by her werewolf mother, hired as a teen by the vampire council of New York City to kill rogues, Secret is a part of both worlds, but belongs to neither. At twenty-two, she has carved out as close to a normal life as a bounty hunter can. When an enemy from her past returns with her death on his mind, she is forced to call on every ounce of her mixed heritage to save herself and everyone else in the city she calls home. As if the fate of the world wasn’t enough to deal with, there’s Lucas Rain, King of the East Coast werewolves, who seems to believe he and Secret are fated to be together. Too bad Secret also feels a connection with Desmond, Lucas’s second in command… Warning: This book contains a sarcastic, kick-ass bounty hunter; a metaphysical love triangle with two sexy werewolves; a demanding vampire council; and a spicy seasoning of sex and violence.





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Review of The Last Descendant (Megan Haskell) / Sanyare Chronicles 1

Review of The Last Descendant (Megan Haskell) :
8Stars

Romance, faes, courts fae, assasins, kingdoms, pixies, bastard prince, court messenger, gremlins, red capes, prove innocence, pixies, intrigues, discovering powers, unknown origins, false accusation..

Opinion: Very good book of adventures and intrigues in the courts fae. For those who like fantasy, fights and romance. A great book to buy, give and lend.


A woman torn between honor and survival… Raised in a realm where humans are no better than slaves, Rie Lhethannien has struggled for decades to earn a meager post in the High Court messenger service. Even training as an elite fighter isn’t enough to earn the respect she craves. Scorned by the high elves who rely on her loyalty, Rie’s closest allies are the fierce carnivorous pixies who travel by her side. When she’s attacked on a routine delivery by assassins from the enemy Shadow Realm, Rie’s martial prowess keeps her alive…and frames her as a traitor. Facing execution at the hand of an unmerciful king, Rie must forsake her oaths and flee into enemy lands to prove her innocence. With surprising help from a bastard prince and an ambitious blood sidhe, Rie searches for the truth behind the attack. The secrets she uncovers may threaten more than her honor or even her life…for war is looming in the nine faerie realms.






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Review of Rogue Starship: The Benevolency Universe (David Alastair Hayden) / Outworld Ranger 1

Review of Rogue Starship: The Benevolency Universe (David Alastair Hayden) :
8Stars

Thief, father murder, archeologist, alien starship, stasis, alien race, neural interfacing, AI, criminal guild, robots, space messiah, rescue, technology, mobster, drug addition..

Opinion: Very good book of a thief with an almost human AI trying to survive in a corrupt world, a book with enough action. A great book to buy, give and lend.


When renowned archeologist Gav Gendin finds an Ancient starship, and a stasis chamber with a living member of the extinct alien race inside, he knows something strange is going on. Visions and dreams aren't the normal way archeologists uncover artifacts, but that's what guided him to the Ancient ship. The discovery should be the greatest triumph of his career. Instead, it ends in disaster and leads to his son, Siv, being placed in cryogenic sleep. A century later, Siv wakes to a world in decline, a world where you do what you must to survive. With the help of Silky, his father's old neural interfacing AI companion, Siv becomes the best procurement specialist on the planet. But his services belong to the criminal Shadowslip Guild who owns him. After a job goes sideways in the worst way possible, the last thing Siv expects is to be offered his freedom. But there's a catch. His target is so hot that rival criminal guilds, foreign governments, and religious extremists will risk war to get it. The Outworld Ranger series packs all the action and sci-fi fun of the stories that inspired it: Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Guardians of the Galaxy. It has sentient AI's, alien mysteries, starship battles, quirky robots, and a space messiah.

The Benevolency Universe
For over three thousand years a superintelligence called the Benevolence guided humanity through an age of unprecedented peace, prosperity, and technological advancement. Now, a century after its collapse, our enemies multiply as we struggle to maintain our starfaring civilization and recover technology we once took for granted. But the Benevolence kept many secrets to itself, secrets that could shape the future of humanity.






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Review of Earthrise (M.C.A. Hogarth) / Her Instruments Series 1

Review of Earthrise (M.C.A. Hogarth):
8Stars

Space merchant vessel, money problems, psychic powers, space pirates, space slavers, rescue mission..

Opinion: Good book of space adventures in a space ship with a crew of different species. A great book to buy, give and lend.


Reese Eddings has enough to do just keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS

Earthrise, profitable enough to pay food for herself and her micro-crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to say "NO!" And then to remember that she sort of promised to repay the loan. But she doesn't remember signing up to tangle with pirates and slavers over a space elf prince... Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking space operatic adventure set in the Pelted Paradox universe.

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