B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readscommunity / friendship / magical powers / Nigeria / POC / POC author / YA fantasy6 Comments
Dear Ms. Okorafor, Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue is fascinated by candles. In Nigeria, where Sunny lives, the electrical company turns off the lights at night, and Sunny keeps candles in her bedroom in case she needs light. One night, she lights such a candle and it shows her something—a vision of ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsfamilies / magical powers / Romance / texas / UF / Urban-Fantasy16 Comments
Dear Ilona Andrews, Picking up where the first book in your Hidden Legacy series, Burn for Me, left off, book two, White Hot, begins with a scene in which Nevada Baylor costumes herself as “the Lady in Green” to hide her identity and use her truthseeking ability to interrogate a ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsmagical powers / opposites attract / paranormal mystery / SFF / Urban-Fantasy13 Comments
Dear Sonya Clark: I picked up your self-published contemporary romance on a whim and it turned out to be one of the best and most satisfying books I read this year. The rest of your backlist looked to me like paranormal normance, which I don’t read much of, but I ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbarbarian / changeling / magical powers / paranormal romance / POC author / UF17 Comments
Dear Readers, Recently I finished Night Shift, an anthology by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Lisa Shearin and Milla Vane (aka Meljean Brook). Here are mini-reviews of all four novellas: Secrets at Midnight by Nalini Singh The Psy/Changeling series has been going on so long that it sometimes treads what is ... more >
B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsmagical powers / Paranormal / texas / UF96 Comments
Readers please note: A reader told me her ebook opened to the first chapter, skipping the prologue, and so she didn’t even know it was there. The prologue is important to the story, so if you get the ebook and this happens to you, I recommend backtracking to read it. ... more >
B- Reviews / C+ ReviewsFantasy Romance / magical powers / mystery/suspense2 Comments
Dear Ms. Raby, I admit, the beautiful cover was one of the things that attracted me to your new, self-published fantasy-romance-mystery, The Fire Seer. The book is the first in a new series of novels featuring the same two sleuths, Taya and Mandir, whose relationship very gradually shifts from a ... more >