The next installment of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series is about a vampire named Rhage. Based on his name, we can already tell that he’s impulsive and has some anger issues. And he pissed off the Scribe Virgin, who is kind of like the vampires’ mentor/god figure, and she cursed him to carry a monsterRead more
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh is a young adult retelling of One Thousand and One Nights. Each night, Khalid, the mad Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride, who he has killed the next morning. Becoming Khalid’s bride is a death sentence, but a young woman named Shazi volunteers for the role. Her best friend had beenRead more
Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier is the second installment in Blackthorn & Grim, a fantasy series about a prickly young woman who is bent on vengeance against Malthuin, a powerful man who killed her family. She can’t execute her revenge because her very freedom from prison was purchased by a bargain with a faeRead more
The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray is a story of adventure and betrayal set in a medieval/fantasy world. The story begins with a capital city that’s about to be attacked. The king asks his best friend, a low-class man named Weaver, to help get his (secretly pregnant) wife Alwenna out of the city, because heRead more
Stolen Songbird was one of my favorite books of 2014, and so I was incredibly excited to be able to read the sequel, Hidden Huntress. Hidden Huntress resumes the story of Cecile, a young woman who was kidnapped by trolls in an attempt to break the curse that holds them under the mountain. This postRead more
There are three ways of bettering yourself in the Pirates’ Confederation, Mama told me once: murder, mutiny, and marriage. Ananna of the Tanarau grew up on a pirate ship. She’s about to be married off to a member of the Hariri clan, a rival pirate family, but she doesn’t like her fiance and runs awayRead more