REVIEW: The Holders by Julianna Scott

The Holders by Julianna Scott My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Holders was an easy, speedy read. Good things first, there was no unnecessary drama, no mean girls, no love triangle. The heroine was competent and her love interest was the definition of nice. Now for the bad things, starting with the small issues working up to the big ones. The Cons + the world building I expected the world building...

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REVIEW: The New Kid by Temple Mathews

The New Kid by Temple Mathews My rating: 2 of 5 stars The New Kid is so over the top with cliches that it is up in space, orbiting the moon. I knew coming in, after reading my friend’s review, that the book would be full of cliches. However, knowing it is one thing, reading it — experiencing it — was another. It was a head-tilting-back, eyes-popping-out type of experience. + the Gary Stu hero The...

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REVIEW: Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep

Deadly Sting by Jennifer Estep My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book was exciting as promised. + Gin She was badass as ever. I definitely liked this book better than the previous volume because Gin was all tough in spite of a personal setback that occurred in the previous volume, i.e. Owen. In Deadly Sting, Gin was on the offensive and ready to take down bad guys. However, to say I’m irked by Gin’s...

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REVIEW: Balthazar Starblitz by A.J. Llewellyn

Balthazar Starblitz by A.J. Llewellyn My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book wasn't steampunk. It was magical relaism. The plot didn’t answer everything, but I was okay with it. To my surprise, I enjoyed the book. It also helped the book had a few things I did like, e.g. a likable protagonist, a yaoi-ish bent, and a satisfactory HEA. Issues that were not an issue for me +the steampunk The main setting...

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REVIEW: Pawn Takes Rook by Lex Chase

Pawn Takes Rook by Lex Chase My rating: 3 of 5 stars This story would have been a solid read were it not for some editing issues. + pacing The story has a pacing issue. Usually, I criticize books for progressing too slowly for my liking, but not today. Instead, this is one of those once-in-a-blue-moon times where the story progressed too fast. It progressed like a Gatling gun, barely giving the...

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REVIEW: Blessed by a Demon’s Mark by E.S. Moore

Blessed by a Demon’s Mark by E.S. Moore My rating: 2 of 5 stars The series went downhill for me in book 2. Book 3, Blessed by a Demon’s Mark, stopped the decline but it didn’t do anything to bring the series back up to being enjoyable for me. + on the stupidity of the heroine In the last book, someone important to Kat died. In the grip of grief, Kat ran away from her friends and life as a vampire...

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REVIEW: Strange Fates by Marlene Perez

Strange Fates by Marlene Perez My rating: 2 of 5 stars I wanted to like this book because of the premise, revenge. I love me some revenge stories, but unfortunately this one, Strange Fates, book 1 of the Nyx Fortuna series, was blah. It was not bad, but it was not really good, it was somewhere in between, and thus the blah. + Nyx, the hero The story was told in exclusive first person POV from...

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REVIEW: The Burning Bush by Kenya Wright

The Burning Bush by Kenya Wright My rating: 3 of 5 stars Even though I rated book 2, The Burning Bush, the same as book 1, book 2 is hella better than book 1. The surge in the quality amazed me, and that’s not a compliment I give lightly or frequently, if ever. Whether it’s better editing or better writing or both, it’s working~! Not to mention it’s another book written by an author-friend that...

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REVIEW: Crimson Frost by Jennifer Estep

Crimson Frost by Jennifer Estep My rating: 3 of 5 stars In my review of book 3, I declared that the series officially sucked. Crimson Frost is book 4, and I expected that suckiness to continue. And it did for the first half of the book, and then OMG... it actually turned — sssh, careful I don’t want to scare away this feeling — *whisper* it actually turned things around and got GOOD! You read that...

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REVIEW: The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen My rating: 3 of 5 stars After the awesomeness that was book 1 — read my review for book here, I held high expectation for book 2. Woah did I regret doing that. Book 2 exercised my suspension of disbelief hard. Immediately, there were signs portending disappointment. Towards the ending, they bloomed like prickly weeds, and I was left with a rather bitter taste...

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