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    Amy Tordoff: All We Have Is Time Review

    by Jefferz October 24, 2025
    October 24, 2025

    All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff Genres: Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fae, Time Travel Published by Atria Books on February 24, 2026 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 320 Source: Netgalley In this fresh and entrancing debut novel that is perfect for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Ministry of Time, a jaded immortal woman and a time traveler fall in love across the centuries, learning what it means to really live and love before their time together runs out.  1605, London. Beatrix lives a solitary life in the shadows, wandering the city streets looking for ways to forget. Forget that everyone she has ever loved has been dead for nearly a century. Forget that, for her, love can only ever mean loss. Because Beatrix has a secret: a lifetime ago her deathbed wish was granted, making her immortal.  Until one day, while picking pockets amid the raucous crowds of Shakespeare’s Globe, she meets Oliver. They spend a single, perfect day together before he tells her that he has to leave. She’s not surprised; eternity is a lonely place.  When Beatrix and Oliver meet again by chance a century later, recognition hits her like a bolt …

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    Isabel Ibañez: Graceless Heart Review

    by Jefferz October 3, 2025
    October 3, 2025

    Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Fae, Low Fantasy, Romantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical Fantasy Published by Saturday Books on January 12, 2026 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 488 Source: Netgalley As a sculptress, Ravenna Maffei has always shaped beauty from stone but she has a terrible secret. Desperate to save her brother, she enters a competition hosted by Florence’s most feared immortal family, revealing a dark power in a city where magic is forbidden.  Now a captive in the cutthroat city of Florence, Ravenna is forced into a dangerous task where failure meets certain death at the hands of Saturnino dei Luni, the immortal family’s mesmerizing but merciless heir. But as he draws her closer, Ravenna realizes the true threat lies beyond Florence’s walls.  The Pope’s war against magic is closing in, and Ravenna is no longer just a prisoner but a prize to be claimed. As trusting the wrong person becomes lethal, Ravenna must survive the treacherous line between a pope’s obsession and the seductive immortal who might be the end of her — or surrender her power to a city on the brink of war. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age …

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    V. L. Bovalino: The Second Death of Locke Review

    by Jefferz August 16, 2025
    August 16, 2025

    The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino Series: The Hand and the Heart #1 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, High Fantasy, Magic, Romantasy Published by Orbit on September 22, 2025 Format: ARC, eBook, Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 480 Source: Illumicrate, Netgalley Love. Loyalty. Sacrifice.  Grey Flynn has dedicated her life to her mage, Kier. She will be his blade on the battlefield, his healer and protector. The deep well of raw power inside her is Kier’s to wield. They are bound together by blood and magic, but there is one truth Grey dare not reveal . . . not even to Kier.  When a quest to protect the child of an enemy kingdom pulls them into a dangerous mission, Grey will need to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect her secret.  For Grey is no ordinary magical well, and if she dies, all magic dies with her. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. The following review is based on a complimentary ARC provided by Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. A powerful female knight and …

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    Dylan James: Cedar Mills Review

    by Jefferz July 21, 2025
    July 21, 2025

    Cedar Mills by Dylan James Genres: Adult, Horror, Thriller, Suspense Published by Savage Realms Press on August 1, 2025 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 320 Source: Publisher Provided Seeking to understand the recent deaths and disappearances in their town, a disgraced homicide detective and a group of grieving high schoolers unwittingly join forces. But what this ragtag bunch of answer-seekers find will not only force them into a fight to save themselves and their town, but all of humanity as we know it… Welcome to Cedar Mills. The following review is based on a complimentary ARC provided by the author and Savage Realms Press in exchange for an honest review. A derelict grist mill off the beaten path, a string of grisly deaths with no known perpetrator, and an earth-shattering roar in the night. High school senior Jake and his fellow school newspaper club friends find themselves caught in the middle of a dangerous predicament following a local tragedy that has eerie similarities to a familiar scene of mass carnage twenty-five years ago. When their paths cross with a disheveled personal investigator, the tension and mystery of what’s out in the forest only grows as suspicious outside agents soon show up …

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    Hayley Gelfuso: The Book of Lost Hours Review

    by Jefferz July 14, 2025
    July 14, 2025

    The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso Genres: Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel Published by Atria Books on August 25, 2025 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 400 Source: Netgalley For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.  Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American …

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