Review: "Children of the Morning" by Shanna Lauffey

Synopsis: The Time Shifters are in danger. Someone wants what they have and are willing to kill if necessary to get it. Akalya couldn’t hide in the past forever. The time has come to untangle the threads of a conspiracy so sinister that her very life hangs in the balance, as well as the lives of all of her kind. Compelled by her promise to help Marcus, the half-breed, to learn to control his...

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Review: "Time Shifters" by Shanna Lauffey

Synopsis:  An ancient people who can move through time or space... A secret that never should have been revealed... One day in a Los Angeles restaurant, Akalya of the Harekaiian witnesses the capture of several of her people and is the only one to get away. Now it is up to her to rescue the captives and learn how... and why... they are being apprehended. The key lies in discovering who is...

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Review: "The Querulous Effect" by Arkay Jones

Synopsis: WANTED: Enthusiastic young assistant to help with top secret experiments Must like animals – and insects Must be fast worker and team player ENQUIRE WITHIN When Jay, on holiday in 'boring' Frimpton, sees an advertisement seeking a young assistant to help with 'top secret experiments', he could never have guessed that it will lead him on a quest that will take him from rural England...

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Review: "The Crow: Pestilence" by Drew Moss

Synopsis: Juarez, Mexico. A young boxer, Salvador, refuses to take a fall, but has no problem taking a vicious drug gang's pay-off. When they take their lethal revenge on Salvador and his family, he returns as THE CROW, in search of vengeance... and forgiveness.*(summary courtesy of Goodreads)  My Review:I was wondering if this graphic novel was in relation to the late Brandon Lee's movie...

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Review: "Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer" by Van Jensen & Dusty Higgins

Synopsis: This puppet may not be a real boy... but he just might be a real hero! When bloodthirsty monsters invade Pinocchio's hometown and kill his father, Geppetto, Pinocchio discovers a new benefit to his magical nose: telling lies produces a never-ending supply of wooden stakes to combat the vampire hordes! Will Pinocchio be able to defeat these horrors, avenge his father, and save his friends?...

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Review: "Darkness" by Erin Eveland

Synopsis: One Girl. One Boy. And the Masters of Darkness. See the Shadow Creatures. They are everywhere. But you can't run from the shadows or the Masters who control them. Catherine has been born with a supernatural power called Darkness. The Masters of Darkness have found her and it's just a matter of time before someone claims her.An Interactive Novel A QR Code starts the beginning of each...

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Review: "The Unforgivable Fix: A Justice Novel" by T.E. Woods

Synopsis: The killer won’t come for you, you fool. He’ll come for me. Detective Mort Grant of the Seattle PD has finally decided to sell. The home where he and his late wife raised two kids feels too large and too full of old memories. His son is married and raising a family of his own, and despite desperate efforts to find her, Mort has lost touch with his wayward daughter. That is, until...

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Review: "Blightborn" (The Heartland Trilogy #2) by Chuck Wendig

Synopsis: Cael McAvoy is on the run. He’s heading toward the Empyrean to rescue his sister, Merelda, and to find Gwennie before she’s lost to Cael forever. With his pals, Lane and Rigo, Cael journeys across the Heartland to catch a ride into the sky. But with Boyland and others after them, Cael and his friends won’t make it through unchanged. Gwennie’s living the life of a Lottery winner, but...

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Review: "The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter" (The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #1) by Rod Duncan

Synopsis: Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life—as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history...

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Review: "Facing the Music" by Andrea Laurence

Synopsis: In this sizzling and hilarious contemporary e-book romance, pop sensation Ivy Hudson returns to her small town to face her ex. Only trouble is, she made her Taylor-Swift-like career with the hit song “Size Matters”—and the football hero has had to live it down ever since. Five years ago, high school sweethearts Ivy and Blake’s relationship imploded and both their lives were changed...

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Review: "The Girl from the Well" by Rin Chupeco

Synopsis: You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago. And when a strange boy...

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Review: "Evidence of Things Not Seen" by Lindsey Lane

Synopsis: When high school junior Tommy Smythe goes missing, everyone has a theory about what happened to him. Tommy was adopted, so maybe he ran away to find his birth parents. He was an odd kid, often deeply involved in his own thoughts about particle physics, so maybe he just got distracted and wandered off. He was last seen at a pull-out off the highway, so maybe someone drove up and snatched...

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Review: "Queen of Hearts" (Queen of Hearts Saga #1) by Colleen Oakes

Synopsis:Not every fairytale has a happy ending. This is the story of a princess who became a villain. *** A Father’s Betrayal. A Kingdom with a Black Secret. A Princess Slowly Unraveling. As Princess of Wonderland Palace and the future Queen of Hearts, Dinah’s days are an endless monotony of tea, tarts, and a stream of vicious humiliations at the hands of her father, the King of Hearts. The only...

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Review: "The Fire Wish" (The Jinni Wars #1) by Amber Lough

Synopsis:A jinni. A princess. And the wish that changes everything. . . . Najwa is a jinni, training to be a spy in the war against the humans. Zayele is a human on her way to marry a prince of Baghdad—which she’ll do anything to avoid. So she captures Najwa and makes a wish. With a rush of smoke and fire, they fall apart and re-form—as each other. A jinni and a human, trading lives. Both girls...

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Review: "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

Synopsis:Galileo. Newton. Salk. Oppenheimer. Science can change the world . . . but can it go too far? Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who’s...

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Review: "Unwept" (The Nightbirds #1) by Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman

Synopsis: Gamin, Maine, is a remote seaside town where everyone seems to know Ellis Harkington better than she knows herself—but she doesn’t remember any of them. Unknown events have robbed Ellis of her memory. Concerned individuals, who purport to be her friends and loved ones, insist that she simply needs to recuperate, that her memories may return in time, but refuse to divulge what has brought...

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