Cover Reveal: The Soul Thief by Majanka Verstraete

The Soul Thief by Majanka Verstraete Expected Release: November 11, 2014 Publisher: Booktrope Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal When Riley is injured in a car crash and sees a girl stealing a boy’s soul, she’s convinced she’s hallucinating. But when she sees the same girl at the hospital later, she knows she wasn’t dreaming. That’s when […]

Arc Book Review: Strange Sweet Song by Adi Rule

Title: Strange Sweet Song Author: Adi Rule Publisher: St Martin’s Griffith Release Date:  11th March 2014 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal Format: ebook Page Count: 336 (paperback) Source: Netgalley Rating: Strange Sweet song is the beautiful story of a young soprano coming to terms with her opera star mother’s death, her famous conductor father’s plans for […]

ARC Book Review: The Dark World by Cara Lynn Shultz

Title: The Dark World (Dark World #1) Author: Cara Lynn Shultz Publisher: HarlequinTeen Release Date:  1st June 2014 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal Format: Paperback Page Count: 368 Source: Publisher Rating: Everyone thinks Paige Kelly is crazy, but the truth is that she can speak to ghosts, and when she’s attacked by a demon she […]

Book Review: The Athena Effect by Derrolyn Anderson

Title: The Athena Effect (The Athena Effect #1) Author: Derrolyn Anderson Publisher: Derrolyn Anderson Release Date:  29th August 2012 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Paranormal Format: ebook Page Count: 227 (paperback) Source: Author Rating: Just because I consider Derrolyn Anderson a friend of mine, does not mean I have not approached the reading of this book impartially. I am quite relieved […]

Book Review: Playing with Fire (Book 2 of the 1st Freak House Trilogy) by CJ Archer

Title: Playing with Fire (Book 2 of the The 1st Freak House Trilogy) Author: C.J. Archer Publisher: Self Release Date: 2nd September 2013 Genre: Young Adult, Gothic, Victorian, paranormal Format: e-ARC Page Count: 201 (paperback) Source: Author (thank you!) Rating: Hannah is living at Frakingham House, training her supernatural fire-starter power with Jack, resisting all temptation to touch her beloved […]

ARC Book Review: Banish by Nicola Marsh

Title: Banish Author: Nicola Marsh Publisher: HarlequinTeen Australia Release Date:  1st August 2013 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Romance, Thriller Format: e-ARC Page Count: 272 (paperback) Source: Netgalley Rating: Alyssa Woods ran away from a small town, an alcoholic mother, and a town favourite ex-boyfriend who commit suicide because she dumped him. Joining her high priestess aunt in New York […]

ARC Book Review: The Wrong Girl (1st Freak House Series #1) by CJ Archer

Title: The Wrong Girl (The 1st Freak House Series, #1) Author: C.J. Archer Publisher: Self (on Netgalley under indie author co-op ‘Patchwork Press’) Release Date:  25 May 2013 Genre: Young Adult, Gothic, Victorian, paranormal Format: e-ARC Page Count: 218 (paperback) Source: Netgalley Rating: Orphan Hannah Smith is kidnapped from her attic prison and bundled off to a strange house […]

ARC Book Review: The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3) by Richelle Mead

Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Publishing Date:  February 12 2013 Genre: YA, Paranormal, Romance Format: e-ARC Page count: 432 (paperback) My rating: Sydney is torn between two major duties in this novel: using her developing magic powers to save young covenless witches from being hunted by a life-sucking witch stealing youth and power, and her need to uncover an Alchemist […]

ARC Book Review: Fractured Soul (Fractured Light #2) by Rachel McClellan

Publisher: Sweetwater Books Publishing Date:  April 12 2013 Genre: YA, Paranormal Format: e-ARC Page count: 336 (paperback) My rating: Fractured Soul (an adept name, too!) is the sequel to Fractured Light, and finds our resident Aura Llona Reese (an Aura is someone who is basically a descendent of Light itself, and they are good people and their purpose in […]