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Featured Fantasy: Stormwalker Series Volume 1 (Books 1 – 3) by Allyson James and Jennifer Ashley

April 3, 2024 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Stormwalker Series Volume 1 (Books 1 - 3) by Allyson James and Jennifer Ashley

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I’m a Stormwalker—which means I can use the power of storms to work some wild and wicked magic. I’ve opened a hotel in a little town in the desert, where powerful vortexes house dangerous and evil beings that I need to make sure stay put.

Stormalker:
When I’m attacked one night on the open road, an innocent bystander is killed—cousin of the local sheriff, who’s not too happy with me. I try to warn him of the continuing danger, but he’s curiously oblivious—for reasons I find out later.

The attack also alerts my on-again, off-again boyfriend, Mick, the man I made myself walk away from years ago. Now he’s back, and I have to decide whether to give into my intense cravings for him or continue to fight alone.

Firewalker:
My day bursts into chaos when a Changer charges into my hotel, attacking me with a message spell. I have to obey the message, whether I like it or not. But that’s okay, because it’s from Mick, my dragon boyfriend, guiding me to Death Valley where he’s been imprisoned by the Dragon Council.

Rescuing him takes all my strength, not to mention the wild magics I inherited from my evil-goddess mom, plus Nash, the sheriff who’s impervious to magic. But once Mick is free, he tells me he’s bound to the Dragon Council to appear at a trial for breaking dragon law. He’s already been found guilty, and now they’ll sentence him, and maybe, just maybe, they’ll let him live.

Forget that. I’ll do anything in my power to keep Mick safe from the sticks-up-their-dragon-tails Council, even if it means letting forth my goddess power, and challenging the likes of Coyote, all my new friends, and even Mick himself.

Shadow Walker:
The world falls from beneath me—literally—one winter night when I’m racing down the road on my beloved motorcycle. I tumble into a huge sinkhole, followed by the sheriff, who’s doggedly chasing me. I find myself in a cavern covered with evil petroglyphs that are intent on killing me …

From that harrowing situation I go to another even more dire: A hotel inspector who seems bent on putting me out of business. Add to this, my evil little sister has surfaced to tangle with me, and now Mick, my dragon boyfriend, is acting mysterious and scary.

Only the magic mirror, my interfering grandmother, and my new cook seem to know what’s going on, all of them telling me that Mick has been touched by shadows.

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

March 6, 2022 by Carolynn

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

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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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