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Category: Book List 2017

  • Review: “Warcross” by Marie Lu

    Title: Warcross Author: Marie Lu Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy Summary: For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make…

  • Review: “A Cowboy to Keep” by Barbara Ankrum

    Title: A Cowboy to Keep Author: Barbara Ankrum Genre: Romance Summary: On the run from her past, photographer Ali Thibeaux arrives undercover in Marietta to find her biological half-sister. Plan A: Meet Olivia, photograph her wedding, and disappear before endangering anyone. Plan B: All hell breaks loose. Reclusive rancher Adam Wolfe’s only plan when he hires Ali to…

  • Review: “DJ Dangerfield” by Anyta Sunday

    Title: DJ Dangerfield Author: Anyta Sunday Genre: LGBTQIA+, Romance Summary: “. . . and you’re listening to 91.3 FM.” Justin knows three things for sure about DJ Dangerfield: He has some questionable taste in music. He always provokes Justin into ringing in. And he might just be his favorite weekly distraction. But who is this DJ Dangerfield in…

  • Review: “Scorpio Hates Virgo” by Anyta Sunday

    Title: Scorpio Hates Virgo Author: Anyta Sunday Genre: LGBTQIA+ Romance Summary: This year is all about healing the heart, Scorpio. It’s time to leave negative attitudes and stoic facades at the door and let others see the real, more vulnerable you. Percy Freedman is not grieving. Absolutely not, take that back at once. No, he’s entirely sure that selling his…

  • Review: “Rituals” by Kelley Armstrong

    Title: Rituals Author: Kelley Armstrong Genre: Defying genres and taking names. Summary: Olivia Jones must make a choice. Caught between two rival supernatural forces, Liv was granted a brief period in which to make her decision. Now that time has run out. Whichever side she chooses, someone she loves will pay. Her lover, Ricky. Gabriel Walsh, the man…

  • Review: “Lost Souls” by Kelley Armstrong

    Title: Lost Souls Author: Kelley Armstrong Genre: Ghost story Summary:  The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When author of books on the supernatural Patrick brings Gabriel a case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished…

  • Review: “Betrayals” by Kelley Armstrong

    Title: Betrayals Author: Kelley Armstrong Genre: Magic, Mystery, Fantasy and defying genres Summary: When Olivia’s life exploded–after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers–she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a…

  • Review: “The Orange Cat and Other Cainsville Tales” by Kelley Armstrong

    Title: The Orange Cat and other Cainsville Tales Author: Kelley Armstrong Genre: Mystery and Magic (Though really, defies all genre) Review: The Orange Cat This may have been one of my favourite of the tales in this book. It gives us more insight into Gabriel as a professional before the beginning of the Cainsville series. It is…

  • Review: “Deceptions” by Kelley Armstrong

    Title: Deceptions Author: Kelley Armstrong Genre: Defies genres but magic and fae ahead In the exciting new novel in bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s compelling Cainsville series, Olivia realizes that she is at the heart of a tug-of-war between ancient forces–and that everyone around her risks becoming collateral damage.  When Olivia’s life exploded–after she found out…

  • Review: “Visions” by Kelley Armstrong

    Title: Visions Author: Kelley Armstrong Genre: Defies all genre Summary: In the second book in bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s exciting new Cainsville series, Olivia’s newly discovered power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her hometown. Omens, the first installment in Kelley Armstrong’s Cainsville series, introduced Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of…