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Featured Science Fiction: Lawless (Lawless Saga, #1) by Tarah Benner

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

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From the author of The Fringe comes an addictive new dystopian saga.

When Lark was sentenced to twenty-five years behind bars, she thought San Judas was her lucky break. The primitive 16,000-acre community in rural New Mexico isn’t like any other prison. There are no cells, there is no warden, and Mother Mercy is the law.

She didn’t realize she’d be fighting for survival on a daily basis — battling hunger, violent inmates, and Mother Mercy’s iron fist. Lark’s only friend is Bernie — an off-the-rails environmental activist doing time for arson — and a mysterious stranger who’s been sending her illicit messages from the men’s colony.

Lark never thought escaping San Judas was possible until a message in a bottle changes everything: The guards outside the walls are disappearing, and the world as they know it is coming to an end.

Featured Science Fiction: Small Beginnings (Hamgeean Misfit Book 1) M T McGuire

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Small Beginings (Hamgeean Misfit Book 1) M T McGuire

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What do you do when trouble comes knocking and everyone else is out?

When your very existence is treason, employment opportunities are thin on the ground. But when one of the biggest crime lords in the city makes The Pan of Hamgee a job offer he can’t refuse, it’s hard to tell what the dumbest move is: accepting the offer or saying no to Big Merv. Neither will do much for The Pan’s life expectancy.

Small Beginnings is written in British English and is the first in a series, although it can be read as a stand alone story.

This is a humorous science fiction fantasy story set in a parallel reality.

Featured Fantasy: Dowser Series (by Meghan Ciana Doidge)

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

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Three bestselling urban fantasies from award-winning author Meghan Ciana Doidge.

Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic …

If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth.

Featured Fantasy: Fae Hunted (Fae Bloodlines Book 3) by Rose Garcia

March 7, 2022 by Carolynn

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A human girl with fae blood. A broody fae protector with too many secrets. A devious witch thirsty for revenge.

Gabriela is the descendant of a fae princess and a human witch. But her life is earth-bound, and she knows little about her fae heritage. That all changes when she discovers someone from the fae realm wants to wipe out her bloodline—someone who’s wanted to destroy her name for a long time.

She soon learns firsthand of the perils of the fae realm when she’s attacked. And when she’s told of the deadly foe hunting her, she finds herself whisked to faerie with a broody fae protector at her side. He’s mysterious and quiet, and she senses he’s carrying his own secrets. Even so, she can’t deny the undeniable pull she feels toward him, and she’s sure he’s feeling it too.

With her life at risk, Gabriela must embrace who she is as a fae and a witch before it’s too late and she loses everyone she loves.

Fae Hunted is book three in the Fae Bloodlines Series featuring slow burn romance, enemies to lovers vibes, blood-thirsty revenge, and heartbreaking truths.

Don’t miss the other books in this epic saga!

Book One: Fae Away
Book Two: Fae Fractured
Book Three: Fae Hunted
Book Four: Fae Rising

Book Review: The Hanover Square Affair by Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley

March 6, 2022 by Carolynn

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If you really love flawed heroes and deep feels, the Hanover Square Affair is for you. Captain Lacey is a living on half-pay after leaving the British Cavalry after the Peninsular Wars. His exit from the military wasn’t completely by choice. Plagued by a war injury, melancholia, and boredom, blessed and cursed with a very strict moral code, when he stumbles into a riot led by a grieving father looking for his abducted daughter, he cannot let the matter rest. His quest to find the missing girl takes him from the gutter to the highest echelons of British society, and everywhere in between.

It’s not “light” reading I guess; but for some reason, when times are hard, I want to see people surviving hard times in my literature. Also, I want the characters to be believable. Every character in this book was well drawn with virtues and weaknesses. It is *not* a romance, but there is romance, and those relationships feel true. Everything physical is strictly fade to black.

I loved the picture of the times and society this book painted. The mystery and the conclusion were satisfying to me; though I have to admit, I am not generally a mystery reader. I do have a pre-med background from a long ago career as a medical illustrator, and I didn’t see any injuries or ailments that would be impossible to survive, something that has turned me off mysteries and thrillers in the past. I know, I know, how can a sci-fi and fantasy author not suspend their disbelief? But that is the thing, when my robots, cyborgs, or demigods get a bullet wounds that would kill a mortal they can survive with tech and magic. It’s logical!

As soon as I was done with this one, I bought the second, and then had to stash my Kindle somewhere far from my bed so I wouldn’t be tempted to stay up reading.

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Featured Fantasy: Earth Magic Rises the Complete Trilogy by A.L. Knorr

March 3, 2022 by Carolynn

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High in the hills of Scotland, an ancient evil has returned. One young woman struggling to master her magic is the only hope to stop it.

First it is drums only she can hear, then a shadow only she can see. But the discovery of a mummified body entombed in an ancient wall, and a young woman’s disappearance, create a mystery Georjie is uniquely equipped to answer.

Teaming up with a handsome amateur historian, she uses her earth-elemental gift to overturn secrets hidden deep in the soil. But never far from the trail of clues lurks a dark creature on the hunt for prey. As each clue is revealed she learns more about her heritage and her own family history, revealing an uncomfortable link between herself and the wickedly alluring entity.

Can Georjie unravel the mystery to save innocent lives…and her own?

Take a roller-coaster ride through time, across dimensions and across the Scottish countryside. If you like strong heroines, dark sorcery, and medieval Highland history, then you’ll love A.L. Knorr’s unforgettable teen fantasy adventure.

Praise for Earth Magic Rises:

“This book offered so much and then even more. I loved the historic stories and revelations as the current story unfolds. Everything from the scenery through to the magical and physical fights were beautifully and vividly described which made this a pure enjoyment to read. Expect a few surprises along the away and … I totally didn’t anticipate the ending!!! Wow!!”-Andrea, Amazon reviewer ★★★★★

“This book has everything that will take your emotions on a ride. You will laugh, you will cry, you will feel like you are right there. Georjie’s journey into who she is is indescribable and awesome. I wish I could spill my favorite parts on here but that would ruin it for everyone else lol. Go read this book.”-Rachel Palmer, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★

“This is the first book I have read by A L Knorr, and what a find. Ms. Knorr is a terrific writer; well developed, multi-dimensional characters, carefully thought out plot, and like the best fantasy writers she can make off-the-wall worlds come to life and have you believing them. I mean, witches, ghosts, Earth Elementals and so on. What a joy to read, and what a ride.”-Johnelv, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★

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