Book Review: The Man in the Long Black Coat (Dale Bruyer Book 1) by J.L. Aarne

Book Review: The Man in the Long Black Coat (Dale Bruyer Book 1) by J.L. Aarne

Dale has spent the past year drinking himself into a stupor and avoiding people, unable to move on from James's death, but, when he wakes one day to find that James appears to have crawled right out of his grave, Dale takes that as his cue to sober up. Between the neighbor who insists he look into some recent murders and the angel, werewolf, and god now staying in his house, Dale's self-imposed...
 
Book Review: Black Snow by EAB

Book Review: Black Snow by EAB

At the age of 19, Prince Brier gets sent to the land of Aire to train under the huntsman Roland and his guild for a year, but Brier doesn't just learn about skills while he's there, he learns what it means to love when he falls for Roland. Roland thinks himself to broken from his past to give Brier the love that he wants, and he knows they can never be together because of the laws and prejudices...
 
Cover Characteristics: Book Covers featuring Birds

Cover Characteristics: Book Covers featuring Birds

I don't really have any sort of special affinity for birds, but I've noticed they seem to be on A LOT of book covers. So here we are! I've got birds that are featured prominently, birds in the background, single birds, flocks of birds, detailed birds, silhouetted birds... ok now this just sounds like a sales pitch. Anyway, here are the...
 
Bookish Musings: Why Are We So Attracted to Pretty Book Covers?

Bookish Musings: Why Are We So Attracted to Pretty Book Covers?

This isn't a discussion about if we're drawn to pretty covers because, let's face it, we are. And for the most part, we bookworms don't deny it. That's not to say we never read books that don't have pretty covers, at least I know I do sometimes, but we still love to obsess over and read the books with pretty ones. But the cover has absolutely zero bearing on the writing inside, so why do we...
 
Cover Characteristics: Book Covers featuring Haunted Houses

Cover Characteristics: Book Covers featuring Haunted Houses

In honor of Halloween, I thought it would be fun to do a cover post about haunted houses! I've never been to a legitimate haunted house before (unless you count my parent's house since there's a ghost in the shower). I've also never been to Halloween Horror Nights or any similar event. But I have been to a few of those random, rinky-dink, fog-machine, people-in-costumes, fake-blood kinds. I'm not...
 
Book Review: Murmuration by TJ Klune

Book Review: Murmuration by TJ Klune

It's 1954, and Mike has a good life in the small town of Amorea---he never has to worry about crime, he runs his own bookstore, he plays poker with his friends in the evenings, and he's very nearly got his own fella, if only he'd gather up the courage to take the next step forward and ask him out already (something the entire town is rooting for). But then strange things start happening to Mike,...
 
Book Review: Life as a Teenage Vampire by Amanda Meuwissen

Book Review: Life as a Teenage Vampire by Amanda Meuwissen

Emery gets involuntarily turned into a vampire one day just before his maker is murdered, and suddenly he's got a quirky vampire mentor appearing in his bedroom, a group of hunters trying to kill him, and an appetite for blood, which his best friend, Connor, is willingly offering---all on top of his already hectic life of high school and theatre. But then Emery encounters an even bigger problem:...
 
Book Review: The Immortal Coil (The Immortal Coil Book 1) by J. Armand

Book Review: The Immortal Coil (The Immortal Coil Book 1) by J. Armand

Dorian, having recently left college to move to NY, isn't really sure where his life was headed, but being attacked by people infected and turned into vampire-like monsters and then being kidnapped by actual vampires wasn't what he had in mind. Now that Dorian is learning about the supernatural world as well as where his own telekinesis came from and how to use it, he'll have to figure out who to...
 
Cover Characteristics: Book Covers featuring Vampires

Cover Characteristics: Book Covers featuring Vampires

Vampires!!! I know I've mentioned this numerous times on my blog, but they are my favorite---my favorite paranormal creature, and one of my favorite things to read about period. I'm not going to go into a whole speech about how much I love them. Instead, I'll just get straight to the covers! :-)> (That's my one-fanged vampire smiley. I've named him Eduardo. It was the best I could do since...
 
Book Review: The Fray Theory: Resonance (The Fray Theory Book 1) by Nelou Keramati

Book Review: The Fray Theory: Resonance (The Fray Theory Book 1) by Nelou Keramati

Neve is struggling with premonitions but otherwise living a fairly normal life as a college student until one day Dylan, her ex who disappeared without a word three years ago, shows back up. Both Dylan and his ex-best friend Romer have secrets of their own, but when Neve has no one else to turn to for help, all three of them become tangled in the supernatural and must work...