Saturday, March 31, 2018

What's on the Reading Radar? #WishList #TBR

What have I been doing this week? Well, I received feedback from the beta readers for Constant (The Valespian Pact, 3) and it needs a bit more work. I have timeline issues and I need to rewrite a couple of chapters as well as add several more scenes (like no one is going to argue over having more, LOL).  I have a couple more weeks of work to go on the book which, on one hand, is a bummer because I was completely ready to go forward. But on the other hand, better to catch the issues now than have them come to light after it's published and everything is set in stone. Constant is going to be my world for the next couple of weeks. I'm not sure that I will have time to write on Assassin's Retirement, but we'll see how things go.

I'm waiting for a lot of books to come out this time around.

Title: Queen Takes Rook
Series: Their Vampire Queen, 4
Author(s): Joely Sue Burkhart
Length: 
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Vampires / Poly / Mythology /

Notes: So this doesn't release until April 17th. Joely says she's not going to do a preorder this time. I happened to catch Joely's cover reveal on a reverse harem FB group yesterday. Give it to me know. I really can't wait.

Blurb: The epic showdown between the last Isador queen and House Skye begins.

Strengthened by her new queen sib, Shara Isador plans to return to her mansion-in-progress for some much needed rest. She especially wants to get to know her new twin Blood and fears she may have made a mistake in taking them. She does not love them. Yet.

However, the sun god and the queen of New York City have other plans.

The snares are set to capture the young but extremely powerful vampire queen. Someone inside Zaniyah's nest has betrayed them, and Shara's trusted butler calls to inform her that a large package has arrived--from Marne Ceresa, the queen of Rome. A trap, surely. Or could the unknown gift be an olive branch from the feared Triune queen?



Title: Blood Bathory: Like the Night
Series: The Guardians of Gaia, 1
Author(s): Ari McKay
Length: 348 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Vampires / Shifters /

Notes:

Blurb: Evan St. John, a young fashion photographer running from the pain caused by the death of his younger sister, is thrilled when he is offered a job with House of Nadasdy, a leading fashion house in Paris. What he doesn't know is that Elizabeth Nadasdy, the elegant and powerful owner, is a centuries-old vampire with a penchant for collecting beautiful people. To Evan's horror, he is turned into one of her "children." 

Unable to bear what he has become, Evan flees to New York and to his best friend, police officer Will Trask. For years, Evan has nursed an unrequited love for Will, but he also knows Will is the one person who might be able to help him. As Evan and Will try to deal with Evan's condition, they are drawn into the world of the theriomorphs: shape-shifters who are guardians of life and the sworn enemies of vampires. Caught in an ancient war between two powerful supernatural forces, Evan and Will find they must choose sides - because if they are to have any chance of a future together, they must destroy Elizabeth Nadasdy before she destroys them.



Title: Brandywine Investigations: Family Matters
Series: Vol. 2
Author(s): Angel Martinez
Length: 471 pages
Publisher: Mischief Corner Books, LLC; 1 edition (February 28, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Bisexual /

Notes:

Blurb: Brandywine Investigations
Preceded by: Open for Business

With his career firmly established and his reputation as a successful PI growing, Hades should have the perfect life with his human lover, his faithful ferryman, his dogs and the parts of his family still speaking to him. But murder and chaos are never far away for death lords as his nephew Dionysus and his oldest friend Charon are drawn into the maelstrom.

Includes:
Books, Bulls, & Bacchanals: Brandywine Investigations #4
Midwinter Dancing: Brandywine Investigations #4.5
Pack Up the Moon: Brandywine Investigations #5

Please note: Books, Bulls & Bacchanals has been re-edited with a few story adjustments for this edition.



Title: Kelpie
Series: Out of Underhill, 1
Author(s): Mell Eight
Length: 228 pages
Publisher: LT3 Press

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Fantasy / Gay /

Notes:

Blurb: Mama always said, don't go near the lake. Rin already knew the forest was filled with dark things, but aside from Mama no one had warned him about the lake. One day, Rin wanders off to the lake, where a beautiful blue horse asks him to go for a swim, and Rin learns too late it may not be a swim he survives.


Title: You to Me
Series: Tails x Horns, 1
Author(s): Lyn Forester
Length: 338 pages
Publisher: Stacks Publishing; 1 edition (October 11, 2016)

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / New Adult / Gay /

Notes: I found this one because book two came out on the 30th.

Blurb: Tails or horns. Fate decides.

Childhood friends Sota and Masa have always been together. But when they turn eighteen, all of their expectations shatter. Attention from a persistent bully escalates and childhood visions of a perfect future begin to unravel.

Sota quickly realizes that the transition into adulthood is not as fun as he envisioned. Unexpected feelings emerge and hidden secrets come to light. Sota and Masa’s lives have become more confusing than ever.

Can they accept fate’s design, embracing who they were meant to be? Or will reality tear them apart?



Title: Witchbane
Series: 
Author(s): Morgan Brice
Length: 275 page
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Magic / Paranormal / Witches / 

Notes:

Blurb: Seth Tanner and his brother Jesse's fun evening debunking local urban legends ends with Jesse's gruesome murder. Seth vows revenge on Jesse's killer - too bad the murderer has been dead for a hundred years. Seth uncovers a cycle of ritual killings that feed the power of a dark warlock's immortal witch-disciples, and he's hell bent on stopping Jackson Malone from becoming the next victim. He's used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart.

Title: A Study of Honor
Series: 
Author(s): Claire O'Dell
Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Harper Voyager (July 31, 2018)

Genre: Non-Romanctic / Mystery / Suspense / Thriller / Lesbian / Sherlock Holmes / 

Notes: Releases July 31st

Blurb: Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting Civil War veterans.

Dr. Janet Watson knows firsthand the horrifying cost of a divided nation. While treating broken soldiers on the battlefields of the New Civil War, a sniper’s bullet shattered her arm and ended her career. Honorably discharged and struggling with the semi-functional mechanical arm that replaced the limb she lost, she returns to the nation’s capital, a bleak, edgy city in the throes of a fraught presidential election. Homeless and jobless, Watson is uncertain of the future when she meets another black and queer woman, Sara Holmes, a mysterious yet playfully challenging covert agent who offers the doctor a place to stay.

Watson’s readjustment to civilian life is complicated by the infuriating antics of her strange new roommate. But the tensions between them dissolve when Watson discovers that soldiers from the New Civil War have begun dying one by one—and that the deaths may be the tip of something far more dangerous, involving the pharmaceutical industry and even the looming election. Joining forces, Watson and Holmes embark on a thrilling investigation to solve the mystery—and secure justice for these fallen soldiers.



Title: Blood of the Wolf
Series: Forged in Blood
Author(s): Holly Evans
Length: 173 pages
Publisher: Chaos Fox (March 22, 2018)

Genre: Romance? / Urban Fantasy / Paranormal / Witches / Werewolves / Shifters /

Notes:

Blurb: Eight years ago, my world changed. Little did I know the rest of the world had changed with me.

My name’s Niko, and I’m a made wolf shifter. Eight years ago, I endured a blood ritual that took me from a pretty normal guy and turned me into what I am today. Ever since then, I’ve been looking for ways to make the world a better place. I want to save people, to make sure they never suffer like I did.

Someone has been murdering born wolf shifters and using them in brutal rituals. I was given the opportunity to stop them and save lives. I leapt at the chance to make a real difference, but of course it came with a catch. I have to work with a Guardian, one of the goddess’s chosen wolves. On one hand, he’s everything I look for in a man. On the other, if he finds out who and what I am, then death will be a sweet release from the torture I’ll endure.

I have no choice but to hope the goddess is on my side as I rush to save the lives of the born wolf shifters, all the while praying I don’t lose my own life in the process.



Title: Looking for You
Series: Lifesworn, 3
Author(s): Megan Derr
Length: 
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Fantasy / MMF / Bisexual / Poly /

Notes: releases May 7th

Blurb: It is the duty of the lifesworn to devote their lives to protecting, serving, and guiding those to whom they're sworn. The best of them serve one master for their entire lives. Though Omar has only ever wanted to be listed amongst those greats, he instead loses his first master to illness, his second to age, and is rejected by subsequent potentials.

When a foreign woman, Lady Astira, arrives unexpectedly in Morentia in the dead of night, she brings dire news: her betrothed, Lord Symaia, has been kidnapped. Without him and the soldiers who follow him, Princess Shanna will be missing a significant part of her army in the coming war against her stepfather.

Symaia is also an old friend of Omar's, and so he is assigned the task of finding, rescuing, and protecting Symaia. If Omar fails in his mission, lives and kingdoms will be lost. If he succeeds, he must watch as the man he's always loved marries the woman he's quickly falling in love with.



Title: Posing for the Alpha
Series: For the Alpha, 1
Author(s): Sydnee B.
Length: 249 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Shifters / Alpha & Omega / 

Notes: This one caught my eye because I found book 2, Posing of the Omega, while cruising for books. It looks like a fun series. Book 2 releases April 1st.

Blurb: Ira was born in a middle form, stuck between a human body and a wolf his entire life. After coming of age he decides to leave his birth pack and find a pack where he can find more than tolerance, but love and acceptance. What he finds is a pack that doesn’t know what to make of him, and the perfect alpha who takes a chance on him. Ira finds for the first time in his life that he wants another wolf to see him as a potential mate and he’s willing to do anything to catch his new alphas attention.


Title: Oliris
Series: 
Author(s): S. Neff
Length: 226 pages
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing (March 1, 2018)

Genre: Romance / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Alien / 

Notes: Confession: the first time I saw the cover I thought this was one of those time travel dino romances that I've read so many funny reviews for. When I read the reviews, one of them said dragon shifter and you know me and dragons. I bought it. LOL!

Blurb: Senana Saz Rays has been sentenced to four years of slave labor on prison planet Indiku after assaulting his state appointed psychiatrist. Leaving his lover Rhyan behind on earth, Sena spends his time on the planet Indiku working with the coveted medicinal leeri flowers. Although a slave, he can’t help but find peace in the mundane life he’s lived on the alien planet and the wondrous sightings of the indigenous Zanzi that look so much like mythical earth dragons. Senana is just one year shy of going home and being with Rhyan again when all thoughts of freedom are swiped away as a massive Zanzi takes him from the leeri fields and back to the mountains it calls home.

La’el is a proud Zanzi. His only wish was to find a life mate and experience the bond his parents share. When he finally finds him in the leeri fields he doesn’t hesitate to take Sena— even their vast physical differences won’t dissuade the young Zanzi. La’el will do anything to prove to Sena that they are meant to be together, even if he’s unsure how to convince his human mate.

Both La’el and Sena are about to find out that there is more between them than either of them could ever imagine. Their bond affects more than just their fate, but also reveals a true evil buried in the heart of Indiku, and all the way back to Earth.



Title: Rended Hearts
Series: 
Author(s): Riza Curtis
Length: 150 pages
Publisher:

Genre: Romantic Elements / Paranormal / Fantasy / Witches / Shifters / 

Notes: I read this yesterday. The reason I said this has romantic elements is because this was more about Gabriel's journey as a witch running from the covens than about his relationship with Simon. There was a little bit of romance but that had little to do with the plot. 

Blurb: After a life on the run, witch Gabriel just wants to enjoy having a home. He’s perfectly happy pottering around his garden and using magic to quietly help people. Then the Alpha of the local wolf pack is attacked by a member of the local coven, and everything changes. There’s no love lost between the witch and the wolves, but Gabriel saves the life of the Alpha in an attempt to keep the peace. 

Simon finds his mate in the witch that saves his life, but the coven is coming for Gabriel, and they don’t care who gets in their way...

This novel is intended for adult audiences only, and contains violence, swearing, and graphic sex scenes. There are also mentions of off-page past suicide.


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