I was so interested in this second installment in Gloria Duke’s Slaying It series, Vampires Never Say Die, because the blurb sounded like a rousing good time. I’m sad to say the blurb was the best part of the book. Crowdsourcing decisions is not my jam, and often I skip through sections of books where…
This second book in H.L. Day’s Paranormal Problems series is a fantastic mixture of paranormal mystery, police procedural and angsty second-chance romance that had me glued to it from start to finish. Like the previous book (Deader Than Dead), Dropping Like Flies features a central couple who are fated mates; unlike that book, while the…
I knew I was in trouble when I checked how far along I was at the 5% mark in Winter Lost, the fourteenth instalment in the Mercy Thompson series. It’s never good when you’re worried about page count at the beginning of a book. Fortunately, things pick up after the thirty percent point, but if…
Magic Escaping is the sequel to 2023’s Magic Burning, Kaje Harper’s entry in the first set of Carnival of Mysteries stories. In that book we met elementary school teacher Alan Hiranchai – who is also an unregistered sorcerer – and his familiar, a snarky, opinionated and talkative conure named Sunny – and watched Alan fall…
The Carnival of Magic multi-author series of paranormal/fantasy romances is back for a second run with some authors returning with all new stories or sequels, and some authors joining in for the first time. Liv Rancourt’s The Villain Who Wasn’t is actually a sequel to The Accidental Necromancer (her entry in the Subparheroes series), taking…
Since the last few Nora Roberts books I read were set in the mid-twenty-first century and written under her pseudonym JD Robb, it’s been a minute since I read anything of hers set in our current timeline. So it was a nice switch to delve into her new paranormal romantic suspense, Mind Games. It’s got…
When KJ Charles recommends a book, I sit up and take notice, so when Megaera C. Lorenz posted on social media offering review copies of The Shabti I was quick to grab one! This, the author’s début novel, is an atmospheric and eminently readable mixture of historical romance and paranormal mystery set in the US…
The first book in H.L. Day’s new series of paranormal romances, Paranormal Problems: Necromancers, Deader Than Dead is a reworked/extended version of a story that originally appeared in a charity Fated Mates anthology in 2023. (The anthology is no longer available so I imagine the authors involved will eventually be republishing their stories, as well.)…
If you’re finding life stressful these days and you’re looking for a low angst, low stakes, funny, sexy, paranormal romance, look no further than April Asher’s Not Your Crush’s Cauldron. It’s the third book in the author’s Supernatural Singles series and the first one I’ve read. (The author also writes romantic suspense under the pen…
Ali Hazelwood has written a spicy paranormal romance with a vampire (vampyre) bride and a werewolf (were) groom. It’s much darker and steamier than her STEM books but still has her epic banter and humor and I devoured it. The first few chapters have a lot of world building and measured pace as we learn…
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