B- Reviews / Book Reviews1920s / colorism / historical paranormal / Jazz Age / Leslye Penelope / magical powers / POC / POC author / supernatural / Urban-Fantasy / Washington DC2 Comments
Dear Leslye Penelope, I saw that your new book, a fantasy novel called The Monsters We Defy, takes place in the milieu of the Black community in 1925 Washington, DC and I thought that sounded interesting and fresh, so when Orbit offered me an ARC, I went for it. It’s ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / historical paranormal / John Pickett mysteries series / London / novella / Regency / Retelling2 Comments
Having resigned his position at Bow Street, John Pickett waits in vain for someone—anyone!—to engage his services as a private inquiry agent. As weeks go by with no responses to his newspaper advertisement, he has taken to spending his days wandering idly about London rather than admit his failure to ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / Historical / Historical Fantasy / historical paranormal / military hero / mythology / road-romance / The Gods of EgyptComments Off on REVIEW: Dancer of the Nile (The Gods of Egypt) by Veronica Scott
Egypt, 1500 BCE: Nima’s beauty and skill as a dancer leads an infatuated enemy to kidnap her after destroying an Egyptian border town. However, she’s not the only hostage in the enemy camp: Kamin, an Egyptian soldier on a secret mission for Pharaoh, has been taken as well. Working together ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsContemporary / dual-timeline / England / Historical / historical paranormal / Time-Travel / Tudor-England / Womens-Fiction8 Comments
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / Historical / Historical Fantasy / historical paranormal / mythology / The Gods of EgyptComments Off on REVIEW: Warrior of the Nile (The Gods of Egypt Book 2) by Veronica Scott
Egypt, 1500 BC Lady Tiya is bound to the service of the goddess Nephthys, who plans to sacrifice Tiya’s body to protect Egypt from an ancient terror. She embarks to meet her grim fate alone but for the hardened warrior Khenet, who is fated to die at her side. Tiya’s ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / Ghost / Historical / historical paranormal / mythology / Paranormal / Soldier / The Gods of Egypt2 Comments
1550 BCE Betrayed, murdered, and buried without proper ceremony, Egyptian warrior Periseneb is doomed to roam the gray deserts of the dead as a ghost for all eternity. But then the goddess of truth offers him a bargain: return to the world of the living as her champion for 30 ... more >