Night is a memoir about Elie Wiesel’s experiences during the holocaust. It chronicles his journey from Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald as he and his father try to survive the horrors of these concentration camps. This is a heartbreaking and very emotional memoir. Night is not a book that you read for enjoyment but because … More Review: Night by Elie Wiesel
“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories.” Clint Smith … More Review: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
It’s been five years since Charley and Reyes sacrificed themselves for their daughter. Garret Swopes is determined to keep their daughter safe but when she vanishes, he turns to the one woman who might be able to help him, Marika Dubois. This was a wonderful jump back into the Charley Davidson world. We finally got … More Review: The Graveyard Shift by Darynda Jones
The GEOX team is heading to find the Pangea Colony. The colony isn’t what they expected and Prado and Alix find themselves going against the aliens. This book picks up shortly after the previous books ends. Like the previous two books, there was a lot of action and suspense in this book. The fight against … More Review: Prado’s Choice by J. R. Pace
With this series we jump back in time to Hellboy’s early cases working with the B.P.R.D. These cases take place between 1952 and 1954 and are all little mini stories with Hellboy and the first group of agents he worked with. This was a great collection. I really enjoyed seeing a young and inexperienced Hellboy … More Review: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952-1954 by Mike Mignola
Jake Sawyer, the GEOX team’s second-in-command, is determined to ignore his attraction to Saoirse. But when they fall into a dangerous situation, Sawyer realizes he can no long hide his feelings. This book picks up shortly after the previous book. The team is on their way to find the Pangea group but run into a … More Review: Sawyer’s Mistake by J. R. Pace
Trigger Warnings: Forced outing and initial prejudice and non-acceptance. Prince Sebastian is trying to hide his secret life as the fabulous Lady Crystallia, who is known as Paris’s hottest fashion icon. His secret weapon is his best friend and brilliant dressmaker Frances. This was an incredibly sweet and wholesome comic! Prince Sebastian struggles with the … More Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
It’s been fourteen months since aliens invaded and started stealing women. Gabriel Storme and his GEOX team are determined to fight back and defeat the aliens, but first he has to rescue a group of women who were taken. When I saw a fellow review discuss this post-apocalypse story I knew I needed to add … More Review: Storme’s Match by J. R. Pace
After her marriage crumbles, Charlotte de Nay flees to the Edge to start a new life. But when Richard Mar shows up injured, her life quickly gets turned upside down. Now they are working together to destroy the slavers’ operation that has been decimating lives for too long. This was so good! Charlotte has the … More Review: Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews
It’s been a year since Ginseng’s was entrusted to Greta and she is still mourning. While struggling to help Ginseng, Greta is also struggling to create something spectacular to impress a master blacksmith. This was another wonderful addition to this series and continues Greta and Minette’s story. I really adore these two. Since the previous … More Review: The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill
Trigger Warnings: suicide, slavery, animal torture and death, Nazi experimentation and torture, experimental misconduct, miscarriages, forced impregnation and abortion, murder, torture, grave robbing, lobotomization, mental health, intentional infection of diseases, psychological experiments, electric chair deaths, “But when we sacrifice morals for scientific progress, we often end up with neither.” The Icepick Surgeon exposes the crimes … More Review: The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds by Sam Kean
Kaldar Mar is a gambler, thief, and Mirror spy. His newest assignment is to track down a stolen item but finds himself attracted to the little thief who stole it. This was another good Edge book. I liked Kaldar in the previous book so I was happy to see him find his HEA. Kalder is … More Review: Fate’s Edge by Ilona Andrews
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