Friday, September 25, 2015

M J Scott - The Half-Light City Series

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M J Scott - The Half-Light City 1 - Shadow Kin

Welcome to the Half-Light City.

Imagine a city divided. On one side, the Night World, ruled by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages. A city held together by nothing more than a treaty-and even then, just barely...

I was born of a Fae mother, but I had no place amongst her kind. They called me "soulless." An abomination. Perhaps they're right...I'm a wraith, a shadow who slips between worlds. I was given into the service of a Blood Lord who raised me to be his most feared assassin. Still, I'm nothing more than a slave to my master, and to the need that only he can fulfill...

Then he orders me to kill Simon DuCaine, a powerful sunmage. In the blaze of his magic, my own disappears. Instead of seeking revenge, Simon shows me mercy. He wants to free me. But that's one thing my master and his kind will never allow.

And even if I thought I could trust Simon, stepping from the shadow into the light isn't as simple as it sounds.




Blood Kin: A Novel of the Half-Light City


M J Scott - The Half-Light City 2 - Blood Kin

Imagine a city divided. A city where human and Fae magic rests uneasily next to the vampire Blood and the shapeshifting Beasts. A city where a fragile peace is brokered by a treaty that set the laws for all four races…a treaty that is faltering day by day.

I didn’t plan on becoming a thief and a spy. But options are limited for the half-breed daughter of a Fae lord. My father abandoned me but at least I inherited some of his magic, and my skills with charms and glamours mean that few are as good at uncovering secrets others wish to hide. Right now the city has many secrets. And those who seek them pay so well…

I never expected to stumble across a Templar Knight in my part of the city. Guy DuCaine is sworn to duty and honor and loyalty—all the things I’m not. I may have aroused more than his suspicion...but he belongs to the Order and the human world. So when treachery and violence spill threaten both our worlds, learning to trust each other might be the only thing that saves us.

But even if a spy and a holy knight can work together, finding the key to peace is never going to be easy.


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M J Scott - The Half-Light City 3 - Iron Kin

Imagine a city divided. Fae and human mages on one side, vampire Blood Lords and shape-shifting Beast Kind on the other. Between these supernatural forces stands a peace treaty that threatens to shatter at the slightest provocation….

I was raised to do the right thing. But to my family that means staying safe behind the walls of human society. To be a respectable metalmage and never put myself at risk. But the treaty is faltering. And if it fails, nothing is safe. To help save the city and everyone I care about, I will use whatever means I can to ensure the negotiations to renew the treaty are successful—even if that means forging an alliance with a man who is the very opposite of the right thing….

Fen is trouble. Wild. He would rather bind himself in iron and drink himself into oblivion than learn to master the visions that come to him. Those visions might just hold the key to peace, and it seems that my power might hold the key to his control—if I can keep it around him.



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M J Scott - The Half-Light City 4 - Fire Kin

Imagine a city divided…a city readying itself for a war. The vampire Blood and the shape-shifting Beast Kind seek to seize control now that the treaty is broken. Only the humans stand in their way…but they stand without their Fae allies…and they desperately need help....

I chose to stay with the humans when the Fae withdrew from the City. I am a healer, and they need me. I know the odds are against them. I know they need reinforcements. But I never expected them to turn and seek aid from the depths of my past. Asharic is a powerful Fae, exiled by the Veiled Queen thirty years ago. Leaving me behind. But now the queen is dead and the throne is vacant, and Ash is returning to the City—my City—with his mercenary army.

It would be false to deny that there is still a spark between us, but I will not be taken in again. And I’m not the only one disturbed by his return. A Blood lord is poised to conquer the Half-Light City, and other enemies new and old are gathering to eliminate the threat Ash poses. To save the City, we will have to join forces. And pray we’re not the ones who burn.


Monday, September 21, 2015

Alexandra Ivy - Dragons of Eternity Series

Alexandra Ivy - Dragons of Eternity 1 - Burned by Darkness

The Dragons of Eternity were once creatures of myth and legend. Now they’ve returned to the world, prepared to claim what’s rightfully theirs…

Tayla is desperate for a place to call home. After years on the run, the young imp impulsively buys a teahouse and is determined to build a new life. Unfortunately, she’s barely opened the doors when she’s tracked down by the dragon who purchased her from troll slave-traders. He demands she pay off her debts…in his harem.

Baine has devoted a quarter of a century to tracking down his beautiful concubine. And now that he has her in his grasp, he’s not about to let her go. But it’s soon apparent that he isn’t the only demon hunting her. He must uncover her secrets or risk losing her forever. 

E J King - Soul Hunters Series


E J King - Soul Hunters 1 - Dark Souls

Monsters lurk in the shadows. Evil comes out to play at night. Your worst nightmares are real. All of the ghost stories and supernatural tales you read to yourself as a child are true. You have every reason to be scared, you just don't know it because you can't see it. You don't have the gift. I do. Forces of darkness are at work, doing their very best to destroy all that is good in the world. I should know- they nearly destroyed me. My family was slaughtered, killed by the creatures we spent our lives hunting. I would have been killed, too, if it wasn't for a mysterious man that appeared out of nowhere and saved me, then vanished just as quickly. I owe him my life. I also blame him for it. It's been two years since that night, but it feels like yesterday. I can still hear their screams and see the blood pooled beneath their bodies. And I can still see the piercing blue eyes of the man that saved me and feel his warm, strong arms wrapped around me as he carried me to safety. I don't expect to ever see him again. But then again, life has a way of surprising you, of kicking you in the ass right when you least expect it.


E J King - Soul Hunters 2 - Broken Souls

Kaylie Hart has been running from her past for two years. After her family was viciously murdered in a Soul attack, she swore that she would leave that life behind. But then James Rafferty and Ethan Night move in upstairs. 

Now, Kaylie is surrounded by the life she tried to leave. When two girls go missing on campus, it’s time for Kaylie to stop running and start fighting. Just when she begins to think that she might be able to live in both worlds, her best friend, Hope, becomes a target of the Soul attacks. If Kaylie wants to save her friend, she needs to embrace her destiny once and for all. 

With the help of Rafe and Ethan, Kaylie faces the demons of her past and begins to accept her uncertain future. 


E J King - Soul Hunters 3 - Empty Souls

Kaylie Hart has finally accepted that she can’t run from her past any longer. The monsters in her life aren’t the kind that vanish when you turn on the light. But she’s had a harder time accepting that the brother she thought had been killed two years ago might still be alive. 

When she receives a mysterious text from that brother, she makes it her mission to find out the truth. An impromptu road trip with her best friend, Hope, and fellow Hunters, Rafe and Ethan, leads them down a dark road. Not only that, but Kaylie finds herself being drawn even closer to the mysterious, alluring James Rafferty. 

Kaylie must decide if she can find a way to believe in people again- to believe that her brother is still alive and to believe that Rafe might be just the person she needs to learn how to love again. 


E J King - Soul Hunters 4 - Lost Souls

The supernatural monsters of Kaylie Hart’s past are back for good. Now that she has decided to stop running, she struggles to keep her normal and paranormal lives balanced. 

After returning to town from an unsuccessful road trip to find her missing brother, Kaylie and her friends discover that men are going missing in Jackson. She quickly determine that they are hunting a Siren- a mythological creature that targets men by manipulating and eventually killing them. It’s all in a night’s work for Kaylie and the other Hunters. 

In addition to hunting again, Kaylie has also decided to open her heart to a fellow Hunter, Rafe. But when Rafe becomes the Siren’s latest victim, Kaylie’s two worlds collide and she is forced to face both of her deepest fears- love and loss. 


E J King - Soul Hunters 5 - Dead Souls

For two years, Kaylie Hart has mourned the death of her entire family. She buried them, grieved them, and started her life over without them. But then her brother, Lincoln, comes back from the dead. 

He faked his death to protect her, to keep their family secret buried. But Kaylie quickly learns that he has been keeping even more secrets. Not only that, but her friends have been lying to her, too. As Kaylie learns the truth about her family, she also faces the painful truth that she is madly in love with fellow Hunter, Rafe. But their time together is running out. 

Just when she starts to accept their situation, her friend, Hope, is pulled into the deadly Hunter world and Kaylie helplessly faces the possibility that she may have to kill her best friend.


E J King - Soul Hunters 6 - Bound Souls

Kaylie Hart’s worst nightmare has come true. Her best friend has been turned into one of the monsters that she has spent her life hunting. Now she is faced with a terrible decision- kill Hope or wait for Hope to kill someone else? 

Then Olivia Silver, Lincoln’s old friend, shows up on Kaylie’s doorstep. In addition to being a sultry, sassy woman and a Hunter, she also knows of a cure for vampirism- the blood of the Alpha. Too bad Hope was turned by one of the biggest and baddest Souls in town- Kaylie’s father, Benton Hart. 

Kaylie learns that she must kill her father to save her friend and in the end, she vows to risk everything to save the people she loves. 


E J King - Soul Hunters 7 - Evil Souls

Kaylie Hart swore that she would find a way to save James Rafferty. Not just because she loves him, but because she owes him. Two years ago, he saved her life. Now, it is her turn to return the favor. 

But to save him, she has to get him to drain her blood. When it’s over, Rafe is saved but she hovers at the brink of death, fighting to find her way back to him. When she finally opens her eyes, it’s like she can see for the first time, and she can finally see a future for herself. 

But as she prepares to send her brother and best friend on a necessary trip to save Hope, things take a drastic turn for the worse. The only solution is to leave the place that Kaylie calls home and search for answers on the road. In a race against evil, Kaylie is determined to win. 


E J King - Soul Hunters 8 - All Souls

Kaylie Hart made a home for herself. She started a normal life, one devoid of hunting and supernatural beings. But that normal life didn’t last long, and now she’s been forced to leave her home. 

On the road with Rafe and Ethan, she crosses paths with an old friend and learns secrets about her family’s past. She decides that she has to learn more, but that she can’t tell the people she loves most in the world. 

After leaving Rafe and Ethan, she comes across a Were nest and faces a side of the supernatural world that she never knew existed. When she meets the charming Alpha of a nearby pack, everything she ever believed about the monsters she spent her life hunting is questioned. Slade forces her to face the ultimate question- are all monsters evil?

Friday, September 18, 2015

Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy Series

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 1 - Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

After living as a Mundane and a Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy.

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 2 - The Lost Herondale

Simon learns the worst crime a Shadowhunter can commit: desertion of their comrades. In the early nineteenth century, Tobias Herondale abandoned his fellow Shadowhunters in the heat of battle and left them to die. His life was forfeit, but Tobias never returned, and the Clave claimed his wife’s life in exchange for Tobias’s. Simon and his fellow students are shocked to learn of this brutality, especially when it is revealed the woman was pregnant. But what if the child survived…could there be a lost Herondale line out in the world today?

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 3 - The Whitechapel Fiend

Simon learns the truth behind the Jack the Ripper murders—“Jack” was stopped by Will Herondale, his former parabatai, and his institute of Victorian Shadowhunters.

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 4 - Nothing But Shadows

 Simon challenges the setup of the Shadowhunter Academy and in doing so learns the story of James Herondale and Matthew Fairchild and the unusual way that they became friends and parabatai.    

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 5 - The Evil We Love

 All evil starts somewhere, and Simon Lewis learns how The Circle—led by Valentine Morgenstern—began. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

The Shadowhunter Academy has only just reopened following the disastrous rise of the Circle. Now the faculty can finally admit to what happened when Valentine was a student.

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 6 - Pale Kings and Princes

 Simon has an encounter with Downworlders and is reprimanded for not following the rules for Academy students interacting with Downworlders. A story within a story: Andrew Blackthorn, while a student at the Academy, becomes enthralled by a faerie and has two children with her: Mark and Helen.    


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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 7 - Bitter of Tongue

 When Simon is kidnapped by the fey, he’s amazed to find a friend in former Shadowhunter Mark Blackthorn. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After Simon is kidnapped by faeries (why is he always kidnapped?), he uncovers rumors of a secret weapon Sebastian left behind for the faerie queen. He must escape the Fey, relying on his only ally, former Shadowhunter and Dark Artifices character Mark Blackthorn.

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 8 - The Fiery Trial

 Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn become parabatai. Simon and Clary both act as their witnesses, so they can see what a parabatai bond forming looks like as they want to become parabatai as soon as Simon graduates — and because Emma asked Clary. The ritual goes unexpectedly …    


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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 9 - Born to Endless Night

 What happens when Magnus Bane brings a baby home to his boyfriend Alec Lightwood? One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

After a warlock baby is abandoned on the steps of the Academy, Magnus Bane rescues the child—and brings him home to his boyfriend, Alec.

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Cassandra Clare - Tales From Shadowhunter Academy 10 - Angels Twice Descending

 Simon’s journey to become a Shadowhunter nears its end as his Ascension ceremony draws closer. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

Simon’s Ascension ceremony draws near in this brilliant conclusion to Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.