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Title  - Doc W. and the Cursed Undersea Author  - Lou Rusty Genre(s)   -  YA Fantasy Overall Ratings  - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |Goodreads|   |Amazon| ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ SYNOPSIS One world, divided. Two worlds destined for disaster. An enslaved orphan might hold the key to saving two worlds from unspeakable evil… Doc, an orphan child, has been enslaved to work in the mines. On his twelfth birthday, a book from a local Witch Doctor changes his life forever. Inside, Doc reads of strange creatures that live hidden beneath the Asperatus Cloud. Curious and desperate to learn more, Doc digs deeper. What he uncovers will change everything. Thrust into a new world, Doc must learn the ways of the Witch Doctor before it's too late. But this new world contains secrets about Doc. Mysterious secrets that'll alter the course of his life ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦ MY REVIEW Firstly, I want to thank the author for providing me with an e-copy of the book. The entire review is spoiler-free.  I always love to come ba

Title  - Red, White and Royal Blue Author - Casey McQuiston Genre(s)   - Romance, LGBTQ+ Trope(s)   - Enemies to Lovers, Fake Relationship (Friendship), Forbidden Romance Trigger Warnings - None as such Overall Ratings  -  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ | Goodreads |   | Barnes and Nobles |   ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦  SYNOPSIS First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, they're the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry

Publishing Date  - 7th June 2022 Author  - Lindsay MacMillan Genre  -  Romance Trigger Warning  -  Depression, Toxic Relationship  Ratings  -  ⭐️⭐️ | Goodreads | Barnes and Nobles |  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦    SYNOPSIS The young investment banker is tired of being single in New York City. Deep into a quarter-life crisis, she's overwhelmed by all the external pressure to rise the corporate and romantic ladders at the same time. Feeling the biological clock ticking, she vows to close the deal on locking in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market and leaves Rae exhausted from late nights formatting spreadsheets at the office, followed by even later nights reciting her resume to strangers at over-crowded bars. She considers throwing in the towel, but her friends come to the rescue, continually boosting her up with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up. Rae soldiers on until she meets Dust

Author  - Kerri Maniscalco Genre - Fantasy, Romance Trigger Warning - Death, Gore, Violence Ratings - Kingdom of the Wicked - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️                   Kingdom of the Cursed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦   SYNOPSIS Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself… And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on th

In September, I finished the Off-Campus and Briar U series to wait for the arrival of The Legacy. The sister series have booked with a variety of tropes, so if you don't like a book, it's okay because you are likely to find at least one book that you end up loving.

  Publishing Date - 1 November 2021  Author - M.L Blackbird  Genres - Urban Fantasy   Potential Trigger Warnings - Violence, Death.

There's nothing wrong with being a Lizard either, unless you were born to be a Hawk.  AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo SYNOPSIS:   Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold, and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of he

Flirting with evil will be the ruination of her soul. Goodness is much easier to corrupt than it is to hold on to. And for Natasha, a woman reeling from the pain of losing a loved one, evil is all the more tempting. Luck or misfortune spirits Natasha away to the foreign Court of Velaris in a quest for a suitor but instead secures her a place among Velarian royalty. Craving revenge, Natasha makes use of this opportunity to enact her plans as she navigates the lush court where aristocracy is a double-edged blade. But when she befriends her soon-to-be husband Mikhail, the Beloved Prince, Natasha makes a deadly mistake. She captures the attention of debonair Darkling Prince, a villainous man meant to ascend the Velarian throne. Enamored, the Darkling Prince charms Natasha, and soon the two feel a forbidden emotion captivate their stoic, scabrous hearts. But with the existence of a violent rebel group capable of cataclysmic damage, there is little time for love. With war brewing amidst the

  Ever since young Milly Bythaway can remember, she’s had to hide who she really is – dumbing down an extraordinary genius in order to blend into the background. 14-year-old Tai Jones has been abandoned by his mother and forced to live as a homeless wanderer, but the appearance of a stray cat helps him realise he has a special gift: he can see the thoughts and emotions of others in stunningly beautiful colours. A gift that is both wonderful and awful. When they are brought together for their own safety, they hear of the disappearance of a third child, which begins a journey of discovery as their strange and unusual abilities develop. Abilities that they struggle to control. But they must do so; their own fate depends on it. The Ingenious and the Colour of Life  is J.Y. Sam’s beautiful and heart-rending debut – a story that explores the fragility of human nature, with a dash of science, culture, and the natural world, engaging both mind and heart in an eclectic blend of genres. The Inge

“ That which you understand you call science . That which you don’t, you call magic .”   When President Orains gets re-elected for a third term in 2025, the nation plunges into a second Civil War. Doomed for the Brazos camp, Brum Hesles, her two siblings, and her mother flee their home in the Houston archipelago overnight, leaving her father behind. Assisted by the Unity Forces, a resistance group fighting the new Great Republic’s regime, Brum reaches the safety of her mother’s ancestral home in the Oaxacan town of El Nidal. There, in the relative safety of her mysterious great-aunt’s house, she discovers a library brimming with strange manuscripts, artifacts, and the “musical” key to a world she thinks is safer than her own.  Who is the heiress of Mitla? And what in Beydo’s name is the Flow? The fate of the Realms and the entire world might unexpectedly rest on the shoulders of an olive-skinned, teenage girl: Brum Hesles, the Keeper of Resonance.  Quetzalli's Last Song is an upco

Do not think that I wouldn't become a monster to keep them protected.   SYNOPSIS: Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator, and killing something so precious comes at a price ... Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jeweled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever. This fantastic, enthralling book series by Sarah J Mass has so many incredible action scenes and such a well

AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare SYNOPSIS:  Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie Herondale and James’s charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade. But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia’s marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia’s reputation. James is in love with the mysterious Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. Cortana burns Cordelia’s hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial murderer is targeting the Shadowhunters of London, killing under cover of darkness, then vanishing without a trace. Together with the Merry Thieves, Cordelia, James, and Lucie must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city’s most dangerous