Tag: Indie Books
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Book Review: The Electrical Menagerie
by Mollie E. Reeder publisher’s synopsis The Electrical Menagerie, one-of-a-kind robotic roadshow, is bankrupt. Sylvester Carthage, illusionist and engineer, has the eccentric imagination the Menagerie needs to succeed creatively — but none of the people skills. Fast-talking Arbrook Huxley, meanwhile, has all the savvy the Menagerie needs to succeed commercially — but none of the…
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Book Review: Yours, Constance
by Emily Hayse publisher’s synopsis “The folk of Faerie are not all kind….” In the days of yore, it is said, Faerie-beasts walked in the world of men, waiting to carry away the innocent and unprotected. And no one is more innocent than Ella Whittington, sixteen years old and suddenly possessed of a dazzling fortune.…
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Book Review: The Herbwitch’s Apprentice
by Ireen Chau publisher’s synopsis In the kingdom of Olderea, dabbling in witchcraft is a sure way to the guillotine. When sixteen-year-old debutante Amarante Flora finds out she’s half witch, all she wants is to get rid of her magic. After all, zapping Prince Ash in the midst of high society’s Season certainly won’t help…
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Book Review: A Dragon By Any Other Name
by S.D. Grimm publisher’s synopsis This time, beauty is the beast. And she wants prince charming dead. At eighteen, Keira is a formidable dragon hunter bent on finding her parents’ killer—a forest dragon she once helped escape her mother’s laboratory. Biggest mistake of her life. Now, Keira pours her thirst for revenge into her mother’s…
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Book Review: Fire Dancer
by Catherine Jones Payne publisher’s synopsis: So You Think You Can Dance meets Storm Siren Fire is a dangerous magic. Sixteen-year-old Kyla is preparing for the test of her life: a high-stakes dance competition to win the role of principal dancer in the fire festival’s elite troupe. When she’s not sneaking off into the woods to practice…
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Book Review: Magic Hunters: The Journey Begins
by Jill and Brad Williamson Publisher’s Synopsis: Hunter, the son of the huntsman who nearly killed Snow White, is tired of the shame that labels his family. Tricked into making a wish upon a magic mirror, he accidentally unleashes a curse that banishes magic from the Story Realms. In order to right this wrong, Hunter…
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Book Review: The Last Atlantean
by Emily Hayse Publisher’s Synopsis “Watch, ye sons of the sea, your doom is at hand. With soundless storm rises the fate of Atlantis.” As a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, Hattie has always been able to handle anything the Atlantic throws at her. But when a stranger washes ashore in a storm, she finds herself unraveling…
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Book Review: The Beautiful Ones
by Emily Hayse “It’s not until you tame the wild places that the monsters come out.” New hope brings new challenges and new blood from the East. With Archer and Rosamund Scott presiding over the land they love and Raymond Lacey serving as marshal, Glory Mesa is poised to enter a new golden age. But…
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Book Review: Between Two Worlds
by Cheyenne van Langevelde publisher’s synopsis Enid hates the Romans who enslaved her. Broken-hearted over the life she lost in Britain, she vows to bury her name and her past where the Redcrests can never reach it. As years of servitude pass, bitter resignation replaces her longing to return home. Then an unlikely friendship with…
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