Justin Bowers
So this is it. The end of the saga of Gabriel de León and Dior Lachance. This series has had be utterly captivated for the past four years, and I just knew that the conclusion was going to smack me in the face. What I wasn’t expecting, however, was how damn hard it hit me in the feels. If...
Justin Bowers
It is the Summer of 1970, and, in St. Augustine, Florida, exists the Wellwood House, a home for wayward girls to be tucked away from public view so they can have their babies and then return to a “normal” life. Run by the very very stern Miss Wellwood, each girl is stripped of her identity and,...
Justin Bowers
Well, this was the one that broke the camel’s back. I’m done with this series taking up any more of my time, and I have no earthly idea why this series got popular. I was really hoping, by book three, that some sort of writing improvement might have started to develop. No dice. Ms. Peckham...
Justin Bowers
My god, why do I keep reading these books. I was really hoping for a bit of an improvement from the first book, but that just didn’t happen. If anything, the ridiculous extremes from the first book magnified here. The heirs are still dicks, only now they are just that much more dickish! The poor...
Justin Bowers
** This book was provided to me by St. Martin’s Press & NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review ** Lightfall is a book about vampires, werewolves and sorcerers. In fact, it might be the most innovative novel about vampires, werewolves and sorcerers that I’ve read in decades,...
Justin Bowers
I am reading this series because a very dear friend of mine suggested I check them out. She warned me that they would probably make me angry — she was correct — but I’m going to get through this drivel if it kills me. Darcy and Tory Vega are twins who were apparently swapped with human...
Justin Bowers
I really really don’t know what to think of this one. On one hand, the way this, highly anticipated, series-ender wraps up is annoying as all hell, but on the other hand, it is probably one of the most realistic resolutions to such a fantastic series of untenable situations I have read in a very...
Justin Bowers
Erin is haunted, and it is by choice. If that seems rather innocuous to you, then you have yet to dive into Clay McLeod Chapman’s latest gem: Ghost Eaters. Stripping the romanticism and fantastical glamour out of the concept of interactions with the supernatural, and, instead, diving right...
Justin Bowers
Apparently, I’ve been very drawn to witchy historical fiction over the past couple of years, and The Witch Haven has been an absolute treat to read. Set in 1911 New York City, this is the tale of Frances Hollowell; a young girl mourning the recent loss of her brother while trying to scrape by a...
Justin Bowers
** This book was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review ** I’ve been a big fan of Mr. Kristoff for quite some time, but this one really knocks it out of the park. Empire of the Vampire has received a ton of hype over the past year, and sometimes that can...
Justin Bowers
Holy crap, I really didn’t expect a read like this one. The premise was very intriguing and right up my alley, so I decided to take the dive. The Alexandrian Society, a secretive group tasked with maintaining the lost/forgotten knowledge of previous civilizations, and library to the most...
Justin Bowers
I’ve been hearing about this novella through various outlets for a few months, and it sat on my stack longer than I would have preferred for a “short” piece of fiction. Normally, I take breaks from “big” story undertakings to cleanse my palette with something easy to consume. Ring Shout is far...
Justin Bowers
** This book was provided to me by NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review ** One reading peeve of mine is being dropped into the middle of a multi-book series without having read the previous books. I tend to read a lot of series, so I approach each one with a “will this stand...