Books by Gena Showalter
I absolutely adored Gena Showalter's Everlife series. It's a young adult fantasy trilogy that takes a unique look at the possibility of the afterlife, and it's a story I won't soon forget. So, when I learned that Ms. Showalter was starting a new urban fantasy series (Gods of War) for adults, I was e ...
There’s a balance to contemporaries that I look for, that perfect mesh of sweet romance and actual plot movement. I’ve been staying away from this particular subgenre for a while because I have such a hard time finding it. I was hopeful with The Harder You Fall, and it almost worked. The first 3 ...
What happens when a not-quite-fallen angel held captive by a group of Phoenix falls for the Phoenix-human hybrid who helps him escape? Sparks fly and worlds collide as they attempt to come to terms with their feelings for one another in this fun paranormal romance.
Thane is a ruthless angel curre ...
Sometimes writers change their voices. They are human. They go through change and of course it can affect their writing. In the case of Beauty Awakened I am going to give Showalter the benefit of the doubt that her voice isn’t changing, but that she just experimented here with a whole different ty ...
Generally, I don’t like SciFi books, but since I am a huge Showalter fan, I thought I would give this one a try. Though it had just about everything I hate – circus story, aliens, alternate earth reality – I still devoured this book because Showalter is a master story teller! ...
As I was reading this book, a line from The Magnificent Seven kept popping into my head. The bandit king asks the cowboys why they defended the Mexican village and Steve McQueen says he asked the same thing of a guy who jumped out of a rolling train into a cactus. “And?” asks the bandit king, ...
The heroine of Gena Showalter’s The Darkest Kiss will probably win my nomination as the most annoying of the year. She’s not TSTL (actually she’s quite shrewd), but her actions and dialogue and the fact that I couldn’t identify with her at all made this otherwise good story and interesting h ...
Catch A Mate is as close to a perfect book as you can get, featuring non-stop laughter, intense love scenes, and vibrantly true-to-life characters. I finished reading with a huge smile on my face. This is the ultimate feel-good book, particularly for those skeptical about love. Showalter's story wil ...
I enjoyed the novel setting, interesting characters, and fresh twist on urban fantasy in Gena Showalter’s The Nymph King, but found the feelings a bit shallow for this underwater tale. Valerian is King of the Nymphs, and lives in a castle in Atlantis, the underwater kingdom. A leader committed ...
Belle Jamison is having a bad day. Arriving at her coffee shop job late again, she maneuvers out of being fired only to be slipped a drug in her grande mocha latte by a strange doctor being chased by men “trying to kill him.” Belle doesn’t realize she’s been drugged and falls deathly ill for ...