Charlotte's Library

Title: The Omen of Stones Author: Casey L. Bond Genre: YA Fantasy Editor: Stacy Sanford/ The Girl with the Red Pen Cover Designer: Melissa Stevens/ The Illustrated Author Design Services Publication Date: March 13 th , 2020 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR Blurb: Spirit and Stone. Song and Sky. Fate and Future all align. On my seventeenth birthday, I finally heard Fate’s voice. He whispered to me again and again, insisting I find the Omen of Stones. Having never heard of such lore, I thought I could ignore his pleas. The Summer Solstice proved otherwise. Being surrounded by fellow witches worked my magic up into a powerful swell that crashed and churned within me. As the energy crackled through my veins, I shunned my royal duties to follow the call of my heart. Venturing beyond the safety of the Kingdom’s borders, I felt Fate nudging me toward a destiny I was eager to claim. Confidence in my craft blinded me from the ominous clouds of danger that roiled on the horizon. Captured by purists de...

Awakening A.D. Starrling (Legion #3) Publication date: January 30th 2020 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy “If you’re a fan of Jim Butcher and his Harry Dresden series, you will more than likely LOVE this new series!” ★★★★★ Knowledge is power… Several months after discovering the real reason behind his mother’s confinement to a psychiatric hospital and her eventual death, Otis Boone is at a crossroads. With the Vatican’s experts still unable to translate her journals, he goes on a desperate search for someone who can help him decipher the hidden code in her writings. After hearing a rumor about a mysterious collector, Otis persuades Artemus Steele and his group of unearthly housemates to accompany him to Salem. But the arcane bookstore owner they meet is even more mystifying than they expected. Sebastian Lancaster has spent the last two centuries trying to forget the awful night a monster invaded his home and slaughtered his family. When Artemus and his allies break into his bookstore and ...

Lincoln Christina Bauer (Angelbound Origins #1.5) Publication date: May 28th 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult ***Experience the events of Angelbound from Lincoln’s perspective!!!*** When it comes to fighting demons, Prince Lincoln is the greatest warrior in the history of his people, the thrax. Now Lincoln faces his hardest fight yet…and it’s not on a traditional battlefield. Lincoln is falling in love. And the girl is part demon. Between a fated dance at the Ryder mansion…a life-changing walk through a hedgerow maze…and a massive battle with none other than the King of Hell…Lincoln realizes that he wants to share his life with Myla Lewis, the part-demon girl who has captured his heart. However, an evil thrax noble—the powerful Earl of Acca—is prepared to do anything to stop Lincoln and Myla from having a future. But Lincoln won’t give up on his Myla. Ever. To fight Aldred, Lincoln works to create a different kind of marriage—an Alliance of the lesser thrax houses against ...

To Seduce a Fae Mila Young (Winter’s Thorn #1) Publication date: January 28th 2020 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance Luther is the most beautiful of my captors. Still I hate him more than the others. I hate him so much that the darkness inside me comes alive. When I started university and moved out of my foster parents’ home, I hoped everything would change. That the nightmares, the visions, the voices would stop, but they got worse. Then three of the most dangerously stunning fae crashed into my life. Intoxicating eyes. Devilish lips. Dangerous intentions. They insist I belong with them in the Wandering Realm. A place where love is lost, where war is brewing between two realms, and where the once powerful royals are being hunted down and slaughtered. I’m their savior they say, but there are no saviors amid monsters. These princes who are tasked to keep me safe are keeping secrets of their own. Secrets that will kill me. So, how am I meant to rid the realm of evil when I feel...

Blood Bound: A Lowrance Vampires Novel R.J. Blain Publication date: January 28th 2020 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance After waking in a shallow grave and clawing her way to freedom, Penelope Francis hunts for the rogue who stole her life and transformed her into a vampire. Despite being corrupted into a feared preternatural, she clings to her humanity and refuses to prey on innocents, instead slaking her thirst on other miscreant vampires. In exchange for a chance at revenge, she joins forces with the charismatic master of the Lowrance brood, a choice that may spell the salvation—or destruction—of humanity as she knows it. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — EXCERPT: Another night, another vampire, another double-dead end. If I didn’t get lucky soon, I’d run out of miscreants to drain, stake, decapitate, and decorate with holy wafers. In reality, I only needed to stake the toothy bastards, but I figured if I was going to kill every damned unc...

Pixieland Diaries Christina Bauer Published by: Monster House Books Publication date: March 31st 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult WARNING If you don’t like pixies, don’t read this diary. If you don’t like loud-mouthed pixies who are really cool but sometimes get told they’re immature (for no reason), then definitely stop reading. Oh, and if you’re His Awfulness The Elf Prince ‘Dare’ Darius, then you can kiss my butt. My hatred for you burns with the fire of a thousand suns. Thanks for getting me kicked out of Pixieland and exiled to attend some rando human high school on Earth. You’re the worst, even if you have a cute smile. And nice eyes. Your hair looks okay sometimes, too. But you’re still a creep and I loathe you. And to everyone else: if you’ve read this far, then you better finish my entire diary. My story is supernatural, wacked-out, and overall awesome. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — ***Meet the sassy pixie, Calla, in ...

The Not-So Dead Isaiyan Morrison (The Dead Series, #1) Publication date: January 21st 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult All Faye wants is another chance at being normal: hanging out with friends, playing video games, reading the latest Manga… As a wraith, her craving for a normal existence seems forever out of reach. When she makes the move to the small town of Hueman, Texas with her not-so dead nomadic family, she prays this fresh start will be the one that sticks. Until… one of her kind is murdered by a mysterious man in a black mask. With only Carter, an unlucky human witness, by her side, Faye must find a way to prevent the body count from rising and protect her family’s secret identity. As the man in the black mask lurks in the shadows waiting to strike again, her choice becomes a matter of life and death. In the face of true evil, being normal is overrated. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: As far as Faye knew, explorers explored, but she didn’t tell Maddy that. She probably...

Title- Reap Author- Christina Channelle Genre - YA Paranormal Romance Publication Date - October 11, 2013 Synopsis: Foreign, or rather unfamiliar, would be the word I would use to describe how I felt. Faintly, I could hear the glimmer of voices surrounding me in this dark haze, caressing my ears like skin against silk. I felt like I was in a cocoon of sorts, protectively enveloped, quietly drifting in some far-off place. I wanted to stay that way forever. But we all know that what you want never really seems to happen in the real world. Something’s not right in Mia’s head. The first thing is that her name isn’t Mia. In fact, she has no clue what her name is—who she is. All that she knows is that she’s not like the ones who found her: Dante with his kind blue eyes, Amy with her child-like demeanor, James with his questioning gaze. And Briggs. The one she cannot decipher no matter how hard she tries. As Mia tries to fit in with these people, a strange occurrence is amidst outside. And a...

The Puppet Spell by E.L. Adams Source:  Received a copy from author in exchange for an honest review, no compensation. Release date:  January 2nd, 2013 Edition:  Ebook & Paperback Genre:  Young Adult/Fiction/Fantasy Rating: 4/5 Synopsis via Goodreads: Unlike her rebellious sister Lucinda, fifteen-year-old Lexa prefers to spend her free time playing video games, fighting the forces of evil with her partner-in-crime Marlon. But when Lucinda steals an invisibility potion from their uncle’s storeroom, she unleashes chaos into their lives. Lexa and Marlon find themselves catapulted into a world far more dangerous than any video game, full of misleading illusions, sinister Conjurors and deadly Fey, and threatened by a man with a grudge known as the Puppeteer. Accompanied only by Lexa’s uncle’s unreliable (and rather dangerous) Chimera, Lexa and Marlon must navigate this world to find Lucinda- before they too fall under the spell of the puppet master.... Review: *Discla...

Source:  Netgalley * I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Publisher:  Rhemalda Publishing Release date:  November 4th, 2011 Series:  The Sea Monster Memoirs #1 Edition:  Ebook, 314 pgs Genre:  Young Adult/ Fantasy Rating:  4/5 Purchase : Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Book Depository Yara Jones doesn’t believe in sea monsters—until she becomes one. When a hurricane hits her island home and she wakes up with fins, Yara finds herself tangled up in an underwater world of mysterious merfolk and secretive selkies. Both sides believe Yara can save them by fulfilling a broken promise and opening the sealed gateway to their realm, but they are battling over how it should be done. The selkies want to take her life. The merfolk want something far more precious. Treygan, the stormy-eyed merman who turned Yara mer, will stop at nothing and sacrifice everything to protect his people—until he falls fo...

Steel Lily by Megan Curd Source:  Received a copy from author in exchange for an honest review, no compensation. Release date:  August 12th, 2013 Edition:  Ebook Genre:  Young Adult/Fiction/Dystopia Rating:  Brittany: 5/5               Michelle: 4.5/5 Synopsis via Goodreads:  AVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs. She’s a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life. Or so she thinks. That is, until a mysterious man offers her a way out of having to donate steam. A way to escape the corrupt government of Dome Four. While the offer seems too good to be true, Avery is intrigued. But when she arrives to her new home, she realizes the grass isn’t any less dead on this side of the fence. ...