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Book Review: The Gatekeeper’s Apprentice by Catherine McCarthy
A young girl discovers her family’s secret in this charming middle grade fantasy. 12 year old Maddie lives with her mother and her younger brother, Tom, who has Cystic Fibrosis. Maddie is mature beyond her years; she has to be, after the sudden disappearance of her father four years earlier. Could the mysterious box hidden…
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2 Book Review: The Clockwork Dagger Novels by Beth Cato
The Clockwork Dagger A healer heroine, a detailed magic/spiritual world and endearing animals – it’s like Beth Cato wrote this book just for me! Octavia Leander is a medician – a mixture between a doctor, nurse and a faith healer. Deeply spiritual, Octavia combines her knowledge of herbal law with her ability to hear infection…
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Book Review: Crowman by David Rae
Stylistic, symbolic and absorbing, Crowman takes you to a dark fantasy world where the sun is held captive in a box. Utas, a textile trader, is fleeing from the city of the sun with his near comatose daughter, Alaba. The dark lord, Vatu, who holds the sun in a box and only lets it shine…
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Book Review: Widow by Rob Bliss
A literary retelling of the three little pigs, “Widow” is not your childhood fairy-tale. Joan, and her little boy, Joseph, move to the city after the death of her pig farmer husband. However, after a monstrous force destroys her house of bricks, the mother and son find themselves in the woods looking for a new…
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Book Review: Over a God’s Dead Body by Joel Spriggs
Joel Spriggs’ debut novel contains a detailed magic system to rival his Hemlock & Burns books, as well as a mixed pantheon of gods and an obsession with genitalia. Starting as it means to go on, “Over a God’s Dead Body” opens with an intimate moment between a professor and a Sasquatch, before introducing us…
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3 Book Review: Heartstone Series by Elle Katharine White
Heartstone You’ve heard of “Pride and Prejudice” with zombies, prepare to meet “Pride and Prejudice” with dragons! Aliza Bentaine is still reeling from the loss of her sister, who was killed by a gryphon, and is relieved that the elite riders are coming to Merybourne Manor to eradicate the murderous monsters from the vicinity. However,…
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Book Review: Little Drummer Boy by Joel Spriggs
Preternatural detective, Hemlock Connal and her intern, Morgan Burns, return in another tale of magic and murder. Hemlock and Burns are busy researching a case when they hear a strange drumming sound on the street. Turns out the only way to control zombies is with a drumbeat, so Hemlock and Burns follow the little drummer…
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Book Review: Ruth and John Getting to Know You by David Rae
Pregnant, and freshly dismissed from her job, Ruth’s chance encounter with a lucky stranger on a train leads to the beginning of a great adventure. Ruth is looking for a husband, and John always wanted a first class wife, so it seems a mutually beneficial arrangement for them to get married. Thus begins their life…
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Book Review: Another Dead Intern by Joel Spriggs
Do you love urban fantasy, private detectives and mismatched duos? If so, you won’t want to miss out on “Another Dead Intern” by Joel Spriggs. Hemlock Connal, daughter to the fae Fand, queen of the Shadow Court, has been stripped of her sidhe powers and banished to the human realm, where she inherited her father’s…
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Book Review: F is for Fairy edited by Rhonda Parrish
This is the 6th book in the alphabet anthology series, edited by Rhonda Parrish. This anthology contains 26 stories that explore everything fairy – every form of fairy imaginable is contained within this volume, from fairy tale reimaginings to urban fantasy to Norse elfs to some that were totally unexpected. I found all the stories…