DDBook Reviews

Addie is an Alchemist, trying to find out what happened when the Alchemica was destroyed.  She has amnesia and therefore the Hunter brothers who now employ her call her the Addled Alchemist.  In her effort to uncover what happened she discovers that her best friend is not truly human, that the arrogant Flame Lord is nice to look at and that what she may uncover would change everything as she now knew it. Follow Addie, James, and the four Elements in their struggle against necromancers and lichs. This is one paranormal series you will not want to put down until you have read them all. click in the images to go to amazon  or click  here  to go to smashwords

I received this book as an ARC and will give my honest opinion. I have read Hazed by the same author so I had an idea of the type of relationship issues that could be touched upon in the book. The author has a unique way of writing about real people with real problems. How many people do we know that run away when things become tough. They just pick up and leave without communicating their fears and reasons for panic. Natalie starts by lies by omission and as far as she goes she tends to continue this pattern. What I do notice is that the characters have trouble communicating, which leads to breaks in their relationships. I am not a big fan of these kinds of books as they tend to affect me negatively, I find it sad that there may be people out there who live their lives like this. However, it is a realistic book and I would recommend it for those who do not wish to travel too far into fiction when they read and who wants to read about other people's mistakes.                  

Asher Curbain is the Perfect Duke. He places duty before himself and wants to see everyone content but locks himself away behind walls as thick as his country estate's. Lady Wycliff just wants to be independent and have nobody decide her life for her. Ms. Wilson delivers in the third book of the Valiant love series. She produces real characters with depth and pulls you into the story that you cannot put the book down. She writes good clean stories with virtue and honour that is rare in today's literature. Sometimes you just want to read a story with good energy and chemistry without the sex thrown in. I would recommend this and the previous books with pleasure and I cannot wait for Valiant's story next. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Lady Brinley has resigned herself to be a spinster and has a secret that will enable her to live by her own means. With a house party held by her sister's in-laws, she meets Lore. He has a history that he wishes to avoid. With her Father's interference, Brinley and Lore are pushed together and become unlikely allies. But both of them are in for a huge surprise as they learn that love and friendship can come at most inconvenient times.  Deborah Wilson has delivered another tasteful and lovely story of life for the ton and the conventions women were forced to endure. A lovely read with no swearing or characters acting in poor taste. This is a good clean read that reads easily and offers an engaging and humorous storyline. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves regency novels . I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

“Billions of universes run slightly parallel to our own universe; worlds full of infinite possibilities”                                                                                                                                                                                                 Varun Sayal – Foreword: Time Crawlers                                                                      click on the image to go to amazon In a literary world where it seems that shifter-, paranormal- and regency romance has taken over, is it still possible to find pure science fiction?  Varun Sayal has written six sci-fi short stories that remind of Asimov and his great science fiction feats.  Sayal writes technical and the emphasis of these stories is clearly on the science part of the fiction.  He explains the science behind the stories in highly technical language and through this provides a sense of truth to what he conveys.  The stories vary in structure and theme and

Wolves did not hope. They accepted life as it came and learned to flow with the path of their padding paws. One could not change the past nor predict the future, so to worry or mourn with regret the way things happened was foreign to animals of the wild. Cheree Alsop. Keeper of the Wolves (Kindle Locations 107-109). Kindle Edition.                                                                      click on the image to go to amazon The Keeper of the Wolves is one of the best shifter books I have read.  It is written from the point of view of Victus, a wolf forced to change into a man in the moonlight.  We meet him where he is captive a cruel man who whips him and places him on display as he changes.  Raised by wolves, Victus knows only how to be a wolf. Koya sees him in his cage and buys him from the Cruel One.  Joven her twin brother is not too happy with her but concedes that she may heal him.  Koya befriends Victus and through the crises surrounding their kingdom, Victus

"Magic.  Bright and brilliant and blue, it glowed in her eyes and shimmered beneath her skin.  It rushed through her blood, flickering visibly in her veins.  The same magic that existed in the elements."  In a world where magic has been declared illegal, magic users have gone underground to survive.  Ridley Kayne lost her mother in the magical catastrophe that caused the banning of magic and her father lost his business and now they live above her grandfather's old antique shop. Ridley desperately wants to have a good education so she works hard for a scholarship, but in her spare time, she is a thief who uses her magic to gain entrance and go about unseen.  When she steals a figurine from Archer Davenport's family she unwittingly becomes part of a world she had not known existed.  Together, Ridley and Archer travel to the magical underworld, discover the secrets her father kept from her.  Realise that she does not know everything about her best friend