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Book Review 4 out of 5 stars! Happy New Year's! "When children come into my shop, I watch them like a hawk, and quickly bring out the bleach wipes after they've left to clean off any books they touched." - Barnaby Barnaby is the very definition of prickly, but I mean can you blame him?! Sorry, but children have no sense of the word "boundary" and when the parents don't supervise them, they're all over everything. Like most retail workers Barnaby cringes internally and outwardly but being alive for as long as he has, I imagine he's literally seen it all! Barnaby would rather live his simple mundane life in peace without having to deal with people. Socializing being for extroverts and the devil. Yet when his longtime, vacant, apartment gets booked by a beautiful human for an entire month he may just have to rethink that peaceful, quiet existence. Something about her calls to him in more ways than one. Only will she run in terror like so many before...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! First and foremost, this series goes in order and ends on cliffhangers! This is the final installment of HONEYBLOODS! Spoilers ahead if you haven't read the first two books! * * * * ". . .looking at Honey always brought her back to herself." - Sadie One more road trip. Just one more road trip needed to catch Honey's sire and end the vampirism! But what does this mean for Sadie? Since Honey was the one who changed her. The HUNGER has not calmed down like it did for Honey! Sadie's trying not to just eat her entire senior class, even if some individuals would deserve it. Honey has future plans, and Sadie fears she may not be able to stand next to her girlfriend. The two will have to make some compromises and have serious talks. All while trying to have a fun spring-break-murder-road-trip, find Honey's sire and end him, and deal with an unwanted tag along! "“This is the most important week of your lives, and you want to go see ga...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! First and foremost! This series goes in order and ends on cliffhangers! Spoilers ahead if you haven't read book one yet! * * * * "Sadie Greer woke up dead." The bassist, the one who could potentially be Honey's sire got away! But our girls have to pause their murderous road trip to return to High School for Senior year. Bleh! If they don't return and act like everything is normal than it could confirm they were involved with the bands untimely demise. Plus, they're girlfriends now and undead! Only when a true crime video blows up in popularity amongst their peers everything changes. They need to lie in more ways than one to prove they weren't anywhere near the band! Things get really dicey when a Vampire Hunter shows up! Will the two be able to make it to the end of their senior year? Or will bloodlust take over and they won't have a class to graduate with?! Honey groaned. “Don’t be a baby! God. I was not this bad in my fi...

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars! First and foremost! This book can be read as a standalone, but I think it's better to read in order. Sara still being a very beloved character for me! So, for a better reading experience, go in order but if you want to skip to the vampire romance you do you and have fun! * * * "I loved my brother, but sometimes love isn't enough to save a lost soul." - Nina Family is a very challenging thing. Whether you remain in touch with said family or you find your own people to call family. No matter which direction you go there are times and moments when you just want to end them! Nina feels she made the wrong choice when she turned her brother away. Especially when he seems to have just vanished into thin air, his friends brutally killed, and a man with intense mind control abilities showing up. To place that beautiful cherry on top the one person who could possibly find her brother and help her is an ex. Adam's a cocky, arrogant, sarcastic va...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! "A hairpin pricking their fingers. A pinkie promise: To death and beyond, I vow to thee. Kill or die or bury a body." Sadie Greer had the world in her hands and an exciting future to look forward to but all of that changed when her best friend turned popular. Leaving her nerdiness in the dust and turning into the Queen Bee of their school. Washed out and tired of life Sadie doesn't wish for anything more ensuring to keep her distance from anyone and everyone. She may have gotten away with it to if it hadn't been for Honey showing up randomly at her doorstep asking if Sadie would help to bury a body?! Not only does Honey call upon the ancient blood vow but the girls are about to embark on a "murder road trip"! Honey's a newly turned vamp and she wants to make those who turned her pay, an indie band that she will track across the states to stop! Can Sadie get through this ordeal without thinking about or bringing up the past? ...

Book Review 4.5 out of 5 stars! "My creation was a weapon, not a cure." - Char Vampires are the root cause of two major events in Char's life. Only now she has to put her trust in the hands of a vampire! How did things come to this?! Things go south the moment Char's lab is broken into! Her cure for vampirism is stolen along with something else very precious to her. When the serum resurfaces it's being used for evil instead of good. To get it back and get to the bottom of things she has to pair up with a vampire!? But as she gets closer to Julian, she finds herself questioning everything she knows about vampires. Has she been wrong all this time?  "I find that sometimes the dark holds more wonders than the light allows us to see." - Julian I really enjoyed this short read with action, comedy, and intrigue. Lizzy did a wonderful job bringing the characters to life and adding fun science into the paranormal world! Char has a thing against vampires, a major...

Book Review 4.5 out of 5 stars! First and foremost, this series goes in order and ends on cliffhangers! Read the first book otherwise this review will contain spoilers and be confusing! * * * * "The Devils and their siren were going to bring the entire force of their power down onto The Wishmaker and their followers." - Lexi The Wishmaker is making their moves and it's hitting extremely close to home, not that their previous acts weren't already accomplishing just that. Lexi is forced to make hard decisions and understand the gravity of what it means to be a coven leader! But the more the Wishmaker pushes the stronger Lexi and her Devils will become! The clock is ticking down and lives are on the line! Lexi refuses to sit back and not do anything as she tries to navigate through the secrets. Her Devils helping her with her investigation and hunt but being stopped at almost every turn. Who is the Wishmaker and what do they want with her? Lexi's trying to keep it al...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! "Come tomorrow, 'Ezra' wouldn't exist anymore." - Ezra Being on the run keeps one constantly on the move and going through identities like Band-Aids. Only that way of "living" is getting old and tiresome. Ezra wants to be able to finally just settle down somewhere and be safe. Wishing to actually make possible lifelong connections and more, but he knows he cannot have such a fairytale. Not when his family is the way it is. . . Everything changes during a fighting match within a bar. Meeting the mysterious and very attractive Killian sets off a series of events that Ezra could have never imagined! The supernatural world really does exist, and Ezra just so happens to be caught up in the middle of it all after Killian saves him. But their time together may be cut short as Ezra's family continues to hunt him down! There's also something sinister haunting Ezra and his bloodline that's growing tired of waiting. . . ...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! "You underestimated me. . .you just turned this princess into a villain." - Lexi Ten years ago, they destroyed her life and smiled. . . Fate wasn't done with Lexi that eventful night because her parents were taken from her as well. Finally emerging from being a recluse and walking on eggshells she must face a new evil threatening her and her coven. There's something going around that's about to bleed into the rest of the world if not stopped. Lexi can do this right? Or will she need to recruit more help? The Three Devils have returned and have noticed Lexi is stepping into the light as well. Can she trust them? Will they lead her down a path to get revenge and much needed justice or one where she's alone and holding the shattered pieces?   "Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart." - Daniels I absolutely loved this read! I was a little worried at first with a flashback pr...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! "This was the path I had chosen. Not the one that had been given to me." - Blair Blair's running toward freedom and away from a spider's web. Finding papers that sealed his new future he didn't look back. . . Only when he arrives in the small town of Elmwood something seems off. Maybe it's just the fact he's a newcomer in a tight knit community? Whatever, he refuses to leave this town until his business is accomplished! He has a goal and a future in mind. Can Blair fully be free from his past chains? Will he find what he's looking for? Richard's growing bored of the mundane hamster wheel he's been placed into. But when a certain newcomer stumbles into town Richard has a new mission. The Council has given him the task of keeping an eye on Blair. Can Richard keep things professional? There's just something about the five-foot-vegan-gothic-fireball that has Richard wanting to break out of his tight-laced shell. An...