Escape From Guinea Island by Dexter Conrad

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When creature-of-habit news editor Jenny McBeth is suddenly given a coveted promotion she is not qualified for, she finds herself thrust into a motley news crew and sent to an island off the coast of Australia. Her task: to hunt down the truth behind the British Royal family’s disappearance, whose plane lost contact over the uncharted territory. Shortly after arriving, the group realizes something is amiss, and soon it is they who become the hunted in a struggle of deception and survival.

Offshore, a group of thieves aboard a luxury cruise ship must escape to the island, unleashing unforeseen horrors; for what was once thought to be nothing more than fiction is very, very real as a well-intentioned medical experiment casts a novel virus upon the world, rapidly spreading among the island’s native tribe. A battle humankind has never known has begun, and a cure must be found before all succumb to the infected.

Spirit's Bane by Julie C. Gilbert @authorgilbert

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The Kindred Spirit Bond makes them powerful …

Lucifer has noticed.

As with all young angels on the Guardian path, Allister and Mina undertake a wide variety of missions to discover their Gifts.

Meanwhile, Satan and his top lieutenants have a new secret weapon to test, so they set a trap for the pair.

Now, the Guardian Angel candidates need protection. If Spirit’s Bane successfully destroys the angels of light, the last line of defense between humans and demons will disappear.

Adam's Reign by Jonathan Macnab @fictionreborn1

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In a time of myth, angels and demons wage war for the souls of mankind. When giants and dinosaurs roam the earth and all the world is clothed in perpetual springtime, man lives for hundreds of years, forever growing either in righteousness or in evil. In these days, there are few who remember where they have come from, few who keep hold of the one true God who wrought the world. For those who do, the blinders are ripped off and they see the truth: a world at war. Tucked just behind the veil of sense experience, wars rage and captives are taken as kingdoms collide and man is caught in the middle, a part of the struggle but unaware of his role.

One such man, Methuselah, the oldest man alive, finds his family caught up in the conflict of the age, the battle for the survival of the human race. In this fight against the forces of darkness and the deep wounds of their own souls, they will face great sacrifice and tragedy if they hope to reach the reward. Some of them will not make the journey, and those who do will never be the same. If they are to succeed they will need hope, which - in ancient earth - is a scarce commodity.

In the pages of this book, much like life, you will find truth amidst fabrication, silver covered in dross. You will find yourself caught up in an epic set in a very real time in human history, populated with real people who lived, loved, and lost. Yet, you will doubt the words even as you read them, because the truth, sometimes, is harder to believe than a lie.

Brightest Kind of Darkness by P. T. Michelle @PT_Michelle

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Nara Collins is an average girl with one exception; every night she dreams the events of the following day. Due to an incident in her past, Nara avoids using her special gift to change fate...until she dreams a future she can't ignore.

After Nara prevents a bombing at Blue Ridge High, her ability to see the future starts to fade, while people at school are suddenly being injured at an unusually high rate.

Grappling with her diminishing powers and the need to prevent another disaster, Nara meets Ethan Harris, a mysterious loner who seems to understand her better than anyone. Ethan and Nara forge an irresistible connection, but as their relationship heats up, so do her questions about his dark past.

Books in the BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS series are best suited for upper YA readers 16+ :

Night Creatures by Ebony Brightman

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An elite Hollywood soiree. A cheating husband. A carnal encounter in the woods… It’s been a hell of a Friday, and the weekend has only just started.

For years, Nisa has secretly improved her husband’s screenplays. So when powerful movie producers invite them to an exclusive weekend getaway, it could be his big break. Too bad even big breaks can’t curb his philandering.

Nisa races to catch him in the act, but when she stumbles upon a savage creature, it’s a race for her life instead. Her struggle to survive uncovers pleasure unimaginable, and the strength to no longer live in her husband’s shadow.

By Sunday she’ll have a choice to make. Stay with the devil she’s always known? Or follow her heart, possibly into disaster?

Review - 314 by A.R. Wise

Alma Harper has been trying to forget what happened in Widowsfield 16 years ago. She has a good life as a music teacher now, and might rekindle her relationship with her one true love. However, the number 314 haunts her, and threatens to bring her back to the day that her brother disappeared. When a reporter shows up, just days before March 14th, Alma realizes that her past is coming back to haunt her. What happened on March 14th, at 3:14, 16 years ago? No one but The Skeleton Man can remember.

Review - I liked this story. It caught my interest. I am not very invested in the characters but the story line has me. At times it feels like a cross between a Scooby Doo mystey and Blair Witch. There were intense moments of monologue that got me to giggle. The very end, it felt to me like a game show decision that must be made by the contestant. It didn't feel life threatening, it was comical.

May be it's my own sensibility not trust a demonic enity as far as I can throw them, but, dumb characters do. Why in the world would anyone believe what a demon told them anyway. There is no demonic honor system.

Despite these problems, I genuinely liked the story. Will I continue with the series? No. The first one was enough. I enjoyed it and time to move on.

Innocence Lost by Altany Craik @stutteringpen

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Father Andrew Steel, Mystic, Priest returns to his hometown on business. A New Town in the middle of Scotland has a Priest lying dead in the church carpark. Why would it need Father Steel's special talents? At three in the morning he is about to find out. All is definitely not as it would seem.

Falling by J Bennett

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Maya knew something was wrong... The stranger’s glowing hands were a big tipoff.

When the stranger murders Maya’s boyfriend with a single touch, drags the college sophomore to an abandoned storage unit, and injects her with a DNA-altering serum, Maya prays for a savior. Instead, she gets a double helping of knight-in-not-so-shining-armor when two young men claiming to be her half-brothers pull off a belated rescue.

Now Maya is swiftly transforming into an “angel”, one of the scientifically-enhanced, energy-sucking creatures her brothers have spent their whole lives trying to destroy. Maya’s senses sharpen, her body becomes strong and agile, and she develops the ability to visually see the emotions of those around her as colorful auras…beautiful auras…tempting auras.

Struggling to control the murderous appetite that fuels her new abilities, this budding paranormal warrior must find a way to accept her new condition and learn to trust her angel-hunting brothers as she joins them in their fight against the powerful and destructive creatures.

On the up side, at least Maya’s eldest brother has stopped trying to kill her!

Review - Dark Ride by P.G. Kassel @PGKassel

Some criminals have all the luck, but Marty’s is about to run out…
Marty Wedlow needs one last score before he can skip town. It’s only a matter of time before two thugs he swindled point a finger… and their guns in his direction. But even when Marty is brought to the police station for his latest crime, he’s not worried. Marty is incredibly lucky.

After dodging the long arm of the law yet again, Marty looks for another illicit payday at a local amusement park. What he finds instead is a mysterious stranger who prophesies that his lucky days are running out. He ignores the warnings as he pursues a vicious conquest. But good fortune is a wheel, and Marty is about to find out what happens when it spins in the other direction.

Dark Ride is a supernatural thriller in the vein of The Twilight Zone. If you like eerie amusement parks, pulse-pounding page-turners, and a touch of the paranormal, then you’ll love P.G. Kassel’s electrifying story.

Review - A short novella that could easily have been fleshed out more. The police character were one dimensional and not very bright. They've been after Marty Wedlow for a while but he always outsmarted them.

What was interesting, to be introduced to Marty as some kind of anti-hero and slowly revealed to be a real scum bag. The police are definitely incapable of bringing him to justice but Marty finally meets justice in a horrific manner. My favorite line from the book is this, "He ignored God and God's ways his entire life, and now it was not God reaching for him but Satan." It sums up Marty in one sentence.

It's a quick fun read with not a lot of meat on it's bone but yet still a tasty literary snack.

Hidden Blade by Pippa DaCosta @PippaDaCosta

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Kicked out of the underworld and cursed to walk this earth for all eternity, Ace Dante finds solace in helping others avoid the wrath of the gods.

But when warrior-bitch, Queen of Cats, and Ace's ex-wife, Bastet, hires him to stop whoever is slaughtering her blessed women, Ace is caught between two of the most powerful deities to have ever existed: Isis and Osiris.

The once-revered gods aren’t dead.

They’re back.

And Ace is in their way.

Graveyard Shift by Angela Roquet @AngelaRoquet

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The Inferno has Evolved…

Lana Harvey is a reaper, and a lousy one at that. She resides in Limbo City, the modern capital of the collective afterlives, where she likes to stick it to the man (the legendary Grim Reaper himself) by harvesting the bare minimum of souls required of her. She’d much rather be hanging out with Gabriel, her favorite archangel, at Purgatory Lounge. But when a shocking promotion falls in Lana's lap, she learns something that could unravel the very fabric of Eternity. If the job isn’t completed, there could be some real hell to pay.

Blood Bound Box Set by JL Myers @BloodBoundJLM

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All four novels in the Blood Bound Series: What Lies Inside, Made By Design, Web of Lies, and Born to Die.

Some things are only meant to exist in nightmares, but now I know the truth. Vampires are real. And I'm one of them…

When Amelia is trapped in a nightmare and killed at the hungry fangs of a monster, she doesn’t expect to survive. But then she wakes up and everything has changed. Her whole life has been a lie. What she thought he was—human—is nothing more than a disguise she never even knew she was wearing.

Sixteen going-on-forever, Amelia’s violent hunger could quiet a classroom in seconds. It could expose her family and lead to her death. Again. But then she meets Ty, a guy who is strangely familiar and hides a dark and dangerous secret of his own, and everything changes.

But Amelia’s not the only one keeping secrets as her telling dreams turn into warnings. Her destiny has already been decided, and in it, her untimely death is set in stone—along with that of all vampires and shifters. Her survival will come down to help from her best friend, her twin brother, the guy she’s falling for, and the raw and untapped magic that resonates deep inside of her if she can learn to harness the power.

Vampires, shifters, ghosts, and the undead…can Amelia save them from an enemy that is more powerful than all of them combined, or will supernatural life as they know it cease to exist forever?

If you love heroines that kick butt, heartthrob heroes with a bad streak, and villains with motives, then you’ll love the Blood Bound Series. Immerse yourself in a world where Twilight meets Underworld.

No Good Deed by M.P. McDonald

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Seeing the future comes at a price. What price would you be willing to pay to save thousands of lives?
Mark Taylor knows his actions scream guilty—but he was only trying to stop the horrible terrorist attack. Instead of a thank you, the government labels him an enemy combatant and throws him in the brig with no rights, no trial, and no way to prove his innocence. He learns first hand that the CIA can do anything they want to him—anything at all.

Mark's just a regular guy—a photographer—who finds himself in an extraordinary situation when an antique camera he buys at a dusty Afghanistan bazaar produces photographs of future tragedies. Tragedies he's driven to prevent.

His frantic warnings about September 11th are ignored but put him in the government cross-hairs where he learns what being labeled an 'enemy combatant' really means...

Howls of Love by Jack S.L. Florence

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Kate has grown to hate her life. Dangers that are a given in her line of work, unstable pay and no time to relax. Besides that, her lovelife has dried up and her job gets in the way of socializing with anyone whom she would even consider dating. So, it’s time for a complete change. She intends to do one last job and then leave the city for ever. Did I mention that she was a professional burglar?
Her last job turns out to be a lot more dangerous than she thought as she gets the hunch that something out of a fairytale is chasing her - a shifter. She returns to her hometown for a new start, but soon enough discovers that nothing is the way she remembered.
What's even more troubling, and delightful at the same time, is that someone from her past makes a reappearance and makes her heart beat even faster than it did the first time around. But nothing is ever that simple, especially with the past always trying to catch up.

The Girl In Between by Laekan Kemp @LaekanZeaKemp

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Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes of prolonged sleep that steal weeks, and sometimes even months, from her life. But unlike most KLS patients, she doesn’t spend each episode in a catatonic state or wake up with no recollection of the time she’s missed. Instead, Bryn spends half her life in an alternate reality made up of her memories. For Bryn, the past is a place, until one day a boy she’s never met before washes up on the illusory beach of her dreams with no memory of who he is.

But the appearance of this strange boy isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Bryn’s symptoms are worsening, her body weakening as she’s plagued by hallucinations even while awake. Her only hope of finding a cure is to undergo experimental treatment created by a German specialist. But when Dr. Banz reveals that he knows more about her strange symptoms than he originally let on, Bryn learns that the boy in her head might actually be the key to understanding what’s happening to her, and worse, that if she doesn’t find out his identity before it’s too late, they both may not survive.

The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3 by Robert J. Crane @RobertJCrane

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This is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)

Alone

Sienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure of who to turn to and discovering she possesses mysterious powers, Sienna finds herself pursued by a shadowy agency known as the Directorate and hunted by a vicious, bloodthirsty psychopath named Wolfe, each of which is determined to capture her for their own purposes...

Untouched

Still haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges – Aleksandr Gavrikov, a metahuman so powerful, he could destroy entire cities – and he's focused on bringing the Directorate to its knees.

Soulless

After six months of intense training with the Directorate, Sienna Nealon finds herself on her first assignment - tracking a dangerous meta across the upper midwest. With Scott Byerly and Kat Forrest at her side, she'll face new enemies and receive help from unlikely allies as she stumbles across the truth behind the shadowy organization known only as Omega.

Review: The Awakening (The Elders Trilogy Book 1) by TL Travis @tltravis1

Synopsis: In The Awakening, book 1 of The Elders Trilogy, Jessica Cartright has come of age. On top of being new to adulthood and all it encompasses; her nightly dreams are haunted by a faceless man guiding her deeper into the darkness. Fight or flight mode ensues, but she’s trapped. When she’s finally reunited with her first love, her dreams start becoming a reality. Is this a coincidence or are they somehow linked? When these two worlds collide, she fears for her life but finds there’s nowhere left to run.

 Review: I was genuinely interested in the second half of this story. It's an interesting story arc. The second half is really where the action is. It then runs out of gas by the ending. The ending of Book 1 falls into a easy methodical tying of loose ends. The latter half is still well written. I feel it could have been even better. If we learned anything from Game of Thrones, the people closest to you are last people you should trust.

My biggest hurtle was Travis' decision to trust a supporting character that betrays a main character. No matter what promises are made or how the character is written to redeem themselves. I, the reader, will not forgive as easily as literary characters.

Finally, I was surprised coming from an author known for erotica, that this story is as tame as it was, not that the author shies away from descriptions or sex acts. What Travis does do is rush through the sex acts and straight to the after glow. I would classify this story as mature romance. This is novella is low on the arousal meter but high on the story line meter. A good story for a quick read.

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Dark Ride by P.G. Kassel @PGKassel

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4.5 Stars

Some criminals have all the luck, but Marty’s is about to run out…
Marty Wedlow needs one last score before he can skip town. It’s only a matter of time before two thugs he swindled point a finger… and their guns in his direction. But even when Marty is brought to the police station for his latest crime, he’s not worried. Marty is incredibly lucky.

After dodging the long arm of the law yet again, Marty looks for another illicit payday at a local amusement park. What he finds instead is a mysterious stranger who prophesies that his lucky days are running out. He ignores the warnings as he pursues a vicious conquest. But good fortune is a wheel, and Marty is about to find out what happens when it spins in the other direction.

Dark Ride is a supernatural thriller in the vein of The Twilight Zone. If you like eerie amusement parks, pulse-pounding page-turners, and a touch of the paranormal, then you’ll love P.G. Kassel’s electrifying story.

Prelude by Chariss K. Walker @chariss_walker

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4.8 Stars

Prelude is a prequel to Crescent City (An Alec Winters Series, Book 2). Meet sixteen-year-old Alec Winters before his spiritual and physical transformation. Prelude looks at Alec's life as a normal high school student. Find out how he met Sabrina. Discover what he was like before that fateful night when he magically transformed into angel-demon, in this dark supernatural thriller.Then, follow his story as angel/redeemer and demon/destroyer on the gritty streets of New Orleans in Crescent City, to Mobile Alabama in Port City, and finally to Melbourne Florida in Harbor City, the last installment in this series.
Author's Note: Many emotional triggers in this series. Due to explicit violence, language and mature content, this book is not recommended for those under the age of 17.

A Dark Faerie Tale Series Omnibus Edition by Alexia Purdy @AlexiaPurdy

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4.6 Stars

Shade is thrown into the treacherous Land of Faerie when she meets a mysterious Teleen warrior made of fire and electricity. Sent on a journey to obtain a rare magic only she can wield, she must race against time to save her new friends from the wrath of the Unseelie armies. Discovering her own unique magic and heritage while maneuvering the challenges of Faerie, Shade must fight for everyone she loves to keep her frail world intact.

The adamant Unseelie Queen, Aveta, is never one to be trifled with, and she will do anything to keep Shade from succeeding. Along with the darkest creatures of Faerie, the Unseeliehunt Shade to the ends of the earth to use her magic for their own nefarious devices and destroy everything Shade holds dear.