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    Sara Raasch: The Nightmare Before Kissmas Review

    by Jefferz March 28, 2025
    March 28, 2025

    The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch Series: Royals and Romance #1 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Holiday, LGBTQ+, Romance Published by Bramble on October 7, 2024 Format: eBook Pages: 304 Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky rom-com where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween.  Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.  But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.  Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar Hex, the Prince of Halloween.  It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And …

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    Rebecca Yarros: Fourth Wing Review

    by Jefferz February 28, 2025
    February 28, 2025

    Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Series: The Empyrean #1 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Dragon, Magic, Romantasy, Fiction Published by Entangled Publishing on May 1, 2023 Format: eBook Pages: 663 Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.  But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.  With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.  She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.  Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom’s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.  Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War …

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    Callie Hart: Quicksilver Review

    by Jefferz February 22, 2025
    February 22, 2025

    Quicksilver by Callie Hart Series: Fae & Alchemy #1 Genres: Adult, Dark Academia, Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Romance, Romantasy Published by Grand Central Publishing on June 3, 2024 Format: eBook Pages: 615 Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.  Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can remember. In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone.  When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Fae have always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares…but it turns out they’re real, and Saeris has landed right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed.  The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, Saeris mistakenly …

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    Lana Ferguson: Under Loch and Key

    by Jefferz January 14, 2025
    January 14, 2025

    Under Loche and Key by Lana Ferguson Genres: Adult, Chick Lit, Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy, Romantasy, Fiction, Folklore, Magical Realism, Romance, Contemporary Romance Published by Berkley on December 3, 2024 Format: eBook Pages: 416 A woman discovers that not all monsters are her enemy—the opposite, in fact—in this new paranormal romance by Lana Ferguson, author of The Fake Mate.  Keyanna “Key” MacKay is used to secrets. Raised by a single father who never divulged his past, it’s only after his death that she finds herself thrust into the world he’d always refused to speak of. With just a childhood bedtime story about a monster that saved her father’s life and the name of her estranged grandmother to go off of, Key has no idea what she’ll find in Scotland. But repeating her father’s mistakes and being rescued by a gorgeous, angry Scotsman—who thinks she’s an idiot—is definitely the last thing she expects.  Lachlan Greer has his own secrets to keep, especially from the bonnie lass he pulls to safety from the slippery shore—a lass with captivating eyes and the last name he’s been taught not to trust. He’s looking for answers as well, and Key’s presence on the grounds they both …

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    S.T. Gibson: Evocation

    by Jefferz June 27, 2024
    June 27, 2024

    Evocation by S.T. Gibson Series: The Summoner’s Circle #1 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Magic, Romantasy, Fiction, Gothic, LGBTQ+, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Paranormal Published by Angry Robot on May 28, 2024 Format: eBook Pages: 400 From The Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N’s best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series.  The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov.  As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he’s curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society.  But with power comes a price, and the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. David’s days are numbered, and death looms at his door.  Reluctantly, he reaches out to the only person he’s ever trusted, his ex-boyfriend and secret Society rival Rhys, for help. However, the only way to get to Rhys is through his wife, Moira. Thrust into each other’s care, emotions once buried deep resurface, and the trio race to figure out their feelings for one another before the Devil …

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