Queen B’s Decree: I am still so sucked into this series. A Pact of Blood had was more political intrigue than I am used to in romance novels, but it totally works here. Aurelia (the twist ending at book one!) is married to the evil prince after falling in love with the three spare princes. […]
Queen B’s Decree: If you ever wondered how the son of Santa finds his own Mrs. Claus, look no further than Elfemies to Lovers. The enemies-to-lovers trope is pretty mild—the man buys the last of her favorite muffin and that’s all the “hate” there is—but there is a lot of cutesy-ness. Filled with holiday puns, […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Strings of Fate started immediately after the ending The Rebel in Violet, so you definitely need to read the first before diving into this one. With the same narrator as the first, I loved the accent. Again, I felt transported to Rhethos. The story line continues on, with more magic, more […]
Queen B’s Decree: Oh man, I devoured this one. A grumpy old orc who gets paired with a sunshiny young witch? Say less. This series just makes my heart happy. I love the protective Orc men, who will do anything to make their brides happy. And the human/witch women are so capable and just jump […]
Queen B’s Decree: There were a lot of moving parts in The Cavalier with multiple points-of-view. I really enjoyed seeing both sides of the “war,” with Velamir and Natassa slowly understanding there is more happening behind the scenes than they knew about. Velamir was a strong main character; I loved his sense of self and […]
Queen B’s Decree: This story focuses mostly on Deaf of Hard of Hearing boy, Ludik. He’s an orphan after the mountain “ran away” and destroyed his village. On his way to fight the mountain as a young boy, he’s saved and adopted by Heimee, a whisky distiller. Heimee was my favorite character. He was snarky […]
Queen B’s Decree: I felt like this one flew by in a rush, I couldn’t stop reading. Saoirse is the “useless” eldest daughter of the king and queen, a witch without light magic, relegated to working at a bakery in town. Long story short, she meets up with Vane, a darkwing—a being she had been […]
Queen B’s Decree: Whisper of Weapons was an interesting concept. Teenagers create their own weapons of which they use to call upon or “cast” an animal. Kind of like a familiar, but they have to learn to fight together to be the best…in case of war. There are a lot of points-of-view here, so it […]
Queen B’s Decree: A decade or so back, I read and was obsessed with a YA series called The Selection Series. A Game of Veils is basically a bit like that…except with murder? So OF COURSE I read it in one day. Aurelia is the second-born daughter of a distant kingdom, traveling to Dariu with […]
Queen B’s Decree: The Dark Mountain is the second in the Rise of Penumbra series, but follows new characters that we haven’t met yet. We get to meet Kadmiel, the general of the dark lord, Hosheh’s, army. So in book one we meet a fallen star who hasn’t turned dark, and in this one we get […]