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Book Review: Warriors (Hell Divers Book 7) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith [Audiobook]

Between infections, coups, cannibals, and robots, the Metal Islands and all the people living on them are far from safe. It will be once again up to the Hell Divers and their new allies to brave the wastelands, fight the enemies, and keep everyone...

Book Review: White Trash Warlock (Adam Binder Book 1) by David R. Slayton [Audiobook]

Adam can see the spirit realm, but his brother and mother can't, so they sent him to a psychiatric facility as a teen, and it has nearly ruined his relationship with them. But when his brother contacts him for help, Adam goes. He ends up in over his head trying to take down a nasty spirit, but he also finds romance with someone he meets and maybe even a new connection with his...

Book Review: The Dragon Squisher (Nigel Chronicles Book 1) by Scott McCormick [Audiobook]

Nigel, a trouble-making 14-year-old, gets sent off to military school, along with his kinda rival Lance, and ultimately sent on a quest to retrieve a magical relic. Along the way, they cement their friendship, befriend a supposed enemy gork, learn some hard realities about their side of the war, adopt a useless messenger bird, and try to save the...

Book Review: Catch and Release by Isabel Murray

Joe and his friend Jerry find a merman washed up on the beach, but he turns out to be very much alive and interested in Joe, though not so fond of Jerry, judging from the way he tries to kill him. After a seduction involving lots of frustration and dead sea creatures, Joe finds himself falling for the man, but their communication barrier and differing survival needs complicate...

Book Review: A Walrus & A Gentleman by Emmaline Strange

Ragnar is a walrus shifter who lives alone in a lighthouse and secretly moonlights as the town's local legend, the Selkie King, and he's not happy when he has to host an art student for the summer. But as they're kind of stuck together, Ragnar starts warming up to Kel, and Kel realizes there's more to the lighthouse keeper than his gruff...

Book Review: Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Book 2) by Tamsyn Muir [Audiobook]

Harrow, brilliant necromancer and bone mage, has agreed to help the Emperor and is now living on his space station along with him and four others. But something has gone wrong, she's being guided by letters she wrote to herself but doesn't remember writing, one of her teachers wants to kill her, and none of it will even matter if the revenant of a dead planet kills...

Book Review: Three Left Turns to Nowhere by Jeffrey Ricker, J. Marshall Freeman, & ‘Nathan Burgoine [Anthology]

In this anthology, three teens on their way to a convention all end up temporarily stuck in a small town with a bit of magic. Ed chases after a ghost with a cute boy, Rome goes on a mysterious scavenger hunt, and Fielding uses his ability to see echoes of the past to do something good with the help of two new...

Book Review: The Temperature of Me and You by Brian Zepka [Audiobook]

Dylan is living a normal teen life until a cute boy shows up at his job and explodes a cup of ice cream. Intrigued, Dylan wants to get to know him, but when he develops the same heat and fire powers as Jordan, they might both be in...

Book Review: Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson [Audiobook]

Andre receives a liver transplant only to discover the boy he received it from could time travel, and now he can too. He finds himself repeatedly returning to an intriguing young man in 1969, but as he spends time with his donor's brother in the present, his feelings become torn between the two...

Book Review: The ABCs of Spellcraft Collection Volume 2 (Books 5-7) by Jordan Castillo Price [Audiobook]

When Yuri gets evicted, the attic Dixon lives in gets awfully crowded, what with his cousin Sabina and Uncle Fonzo living there too, so they go apartment hunting, but Yuri wasn't the only one evicted. Developers have come to town, there may be spellcrafting afoot, and Dixon and Yuri are determined to save the town that means so much to...