Review: The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies #1) by KJ Charles (2013)
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Mystery Categories: M/M, Wizards/Witches, Nobility Content Warnings: Highlight to read: Magically-induced attempted suicide, offscreen/pre-novel suicides, reference to previous rapes by now-deceased characters. Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: When Lord Crane, Lucien Vaudrey, is being forced through dark magic to attempt to take his own life, he […]
Review: Once Upon a Haunted Moor (Tyack & Frayne Mysteries #1) by Harper Fox (2013)
Rating: ★★★★ Genre: Mystery, Paranormal, Romance Categories: M/M, Ghosts/Spirits, Psychics Content Warnings: N/A Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Gideon Frayne, a policeman in the little town of Dark in Cornwall, has spent nearly two weeks looking for a missing child with no leads and no suspects. When his higher-ups send in […]
Review: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain #1) by Margaret Killjoy (2017)
Rating: ★★★★ Genre: Urban Fantasy, Horror, Eldritch, Paranormal Categories: F/F, Queer, Ghosts/Spirits, Demons Content Warnings: (Highlight to read) References to a character’s previous suicide (off-screen). Buy it at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Itinerant traveler Danielle Cain arrives at the “ghost town” of Freedom, Iowa, a haven for squatters and anarchists living off the […]
Review: Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin #1) by Jordan L. Hawk (2012)
Rating: ★★★¾ Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Romance Categories: M/M, ghosts/spirits, mystery, eldritch Content Warnings: N/A Buy It At: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Description: Repressed scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne prefers to hide away in his museum office with books in dead languages to avoid any and all attention—and so, when attractive ex-Pinkerton private detective Griffin Flaherty […]
Review: The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (2016)
“Strange he hadn’t had a premonition of what this place would become to him all those months ago. But maybe not. So much of magic—of power, in general—required belief as a prerequisite.” – The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater Rating: ★★★★ Genre: Urban fantasy, YA Categories: M/M, M/F, YA, multiple narrators, wizards/magicians, mythology, ghosts Content Warnings […]