Flames of Truth

Written by:A.C. Pontone (Angela Camilla Pontone)


Adding the newest picture to this review since it has a new cover now as of 06-15-2021. Also while this review was because of an ARC I got, I have also bought this book as well.

Just a warning this has small spoilers, but not enough to ruin the great fun of reading this book.

I picked this book because I was curious how it would go, and I am glad to say that I loved this book and want to continue the series. Emma has a strange power of being able to see the future, she has a nightmare every night about how she will die. Drowning. She is terrified of water. She is bullied at school, by someone who used to be a friend until High school. She starts having feelings for multiple guys, but just figures its hormones. Emma's is very sick, and getting worse, she struggles to pay the bills and medical. Her mom was gone at an early age, so it was just her and her father.

There are some twists in this book that can shock you and some will even make you smile. I think many will enjoy this book, especially if you are into any kind of romance novels, that has an actual plot to it/

It took me a bit to start the book cause I haven't been feeling too well and have been studying, but once I started the book I didn't stop until I was finished (well small breaks for food and such).

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.



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Book Description:

Emma has a secret – one she never knew… until she met them.

I'm just trying to get by. Between keeping up with my studies, working two jobs, and caring for my ailing father, it’s all I can do to make it through a day.

It’d be a lot easier if the Drakon brothers hadn’t enrolled in my school and made it their mission to make my life miserable. But no matter what they do, I can’t shake the feeling there’s something different about them – something that will change everything.

What I don't now yet, is that their bad behavior has nothing to do with cruelty and everything to do with saving an unknown world from a threat that hit close to home for me.

Because the Drakon brothers are unlike anyone I’ve ever known, and I’m about to find out why.

Flames of Truth is the first book of The Lost Fae, a Paranormal Reverse Harem series.

Dark Blood

Written by:Nikki Hayes



This book follows Natasha, who is mostly known as "Tash". She does surveillance jobs for her "boss" Tobias. She lives in a town named Ridgeview. Usually the jobs are pretty easy and straight forward, but not always. The latest job she gets sent on is a doozy, though it wasn't supposed to be, it should have been easy.

This book world is being in he future in the year 2040.

A disease, nicknamed the Scourge, ravaged the country. The population has not yet recovered from those losses. Mentality, instability, and weird occurrences come into the light. These happenings are what made a Paranormal Crimes Unit to be formed.

I will say there are some parts of this story that are in dire need to have more details in them to explain what was going on and why.

I did enjoy reading this book over all though, but because of so much that was lost within the story where scenes should have been extended and not rushed as they were, there are quite a few blanks that I dislike.



I received a free copy of this e-book free and am giving it an honest review, of my thoughts.



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Book Description:

Friends call me Tash. The world calls me loser. No one knows I possess a deadly magic.

It was supposed to be a simple surveillance job, just like the zillion others I had run for my tough-guy benefactor, Tobias. An hour into it, I'm sitting with a dead body after barely surviving a warlock's rampage. I thought things couldn't get any worse, but what did I know? Running point for Tobias or being witness to a murder was the least of my worries.

Now I've been blackmailed into working with sexy paranormal cop Ian, and I must help him find what the warlock is up to before he destroys whatever is left of our world. A piece of cake, right? Sure, if you ignored the dark magic I was born with.

I just might save the world from a warlock's evil plans, but can I save it from the darkness that lies within me?

Unstable Orbit

Written by:R. Parr





This is a very cute and interesting read, when you begin this book what you read will have some twists and turns that you won't see coming. I loved this book from start to finish. It didn't linger in areas or make them go by too fast, they shows just enough. The few pictures in the book were intriguing and added a small surprise element while you read. This book would be a great read for all genders in my opinion cause it has a little of something for everyone in it.

I received a free copy of this e-book free and am giving it an honest review, of my thoughts.



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Book Description:

Silver Jennings is a paralegal who likes things to be organized, including her sock drawer. She finds herself out of her comfort zone when she appears on TV show Cupid in Control and wins a romantic holiday with Mark the woodworker.

Mark is a complete Neanderthal who looks terrible in a suit and refuses to put the cap back on the toothpaste properly, the jerk. He is not Silver’s type at all. Not that Silver wants a relationship, after her ex-boyfriend broke her heart. But perhaps Silver and Mark have more in common than at first glance. Could friendship at least be on the cards?

Of course, they have to survive the holiday first, which is being filmed by a camera crew eager to capture every embarrassing personal flaw.

Then there’s Silver’s secret past, which she’d really rather not discuss. Although some secrets just seem to get dragged out into the open…

Sorry I Ruined Your Childhood

Written by:Ben Zaehringer



Very cute and fast little comics. Some will leave you laughing with how funny they are, and some will leave you smiling cause of how cute it is. I wish there was more, it was great, all the illustrations were interesting with just enough details to say whats going on without over crowding it.

Each comic strip is one page long. So when you turn each page you will be wondering what will be in this new comic strip.

I received a free copy of this e comic book free and am giving it an honest review, of my thoughts.



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Book Description:

Berkeley Mews' appealing, accessible art style belies a cartoon world of dark humor, dry wit, and irreverent reimaginings of popular culture. In Berkeley Mews, bad things happen to good people, good things happen to bad people, and everything usually ends in disappointment or death. Satisfaction guaranteed!

A subversive, hilarious, dark-but-uplifting collection of comics skewering the commercial figures, Disney stories, and pop cultural touchstones that Millennials and Gen X-ers grew up with in the '80s and '90s. Ben Zaehringer's versatile art styles and wicked curveballs are sharp, clever and accessible, prompting many readers to comment that the author is "ruining their childhood" in the most delightful way possible.

Ice Crown (The Elements of Kamdaria 1)

Written by:Kay L Moody



This book is a very fast read. It doesn't linger in areas, and in fact there is more that I would have liked to see, like training updates instead of just "10 years later". It follows Talise who is from the poorest area called the Storm and whom has never has seen one that can bend elements, especially like she can.

Talise can leave the Storm forever, is after the 10 years of training her element manipulations she wins the final competition to work for the emperor. She has Marmie who is her loved one that pushed her forward to this training and to try to win her own way out of the storm, but there will be no way out for Marmie herself. In the final year (year 10) all the schools gather their last class and puts them together, that is where Talise meets Aaden. One who might just beat her out of the competition if she is not careful. She sees a trick that Aaden has up his sleeve which is very impressive, so she has to think of way to out do that trick or else she won't have a hope of winning in her mind. Does she risk it to try and win, or does she just give up and go home to Marmie.

There is one twist that I won't say much about, but it's big and could impact what happens.

I loved this book from start to end, I wish there was more in the area where she was training, maybe show some struggles she had to overcome to get to the point she is at after the 10 years, but other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Can't wait for the second book in the series.



I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.



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Book Description:

The competition could save her life... but only if she wins.

Talise can manipulate the elements with ease; water, air, earth, and fire all bend to her will. As a citizen of the Storm—a crime-laden land where death is the only constant—her only chance for a better life is to become Master Shaper.

A competition for the position takes place at the end of her training years. If she wins, she would live in the palace, work for the emperor, and escape her inevitable death in the Storm. But she’s not the only one with a chance to win.

Aaden is another talented student. As a citizen of the Crown, he was born with unlimited privilege and resources. When someone from the Crown wants to win, they do. End of story. And his shaping is unlike anything Talise has ever seen.

Complicating matters, Talise’s loved one in the Storm gives her reason to abandon the competition altogether, forcing her to make an impossible choice.

Torn between duty and freedom, she must learn that clinging to the past, might destroy her future.

For fans of Red Queen, the Grishaverse, and Avatar the Last Airbender, this desperate fantasy world has elemental magic and tension you could cut with a knife.

A Roman Death

Written by:Joan O'Hagan



Honestly speaking, I didn't pick this book cause of the Roman aspect. In fact it kind of off-put me wanting to check it out, but as I read what the book was going to be about, I slowly got more interested in giving the book a chance.

Gives lots of info at the start, like what things you might read and not know what they are as you read them. Example: Carnifex is an executioner / hangman.

This book is very well written, and doesn't drag scenes out too far that you get bored of reading it. It is definitely not a book I would normally read, but that has nothing to do with how the book was written. I don't mind the book, but with so many new words that I had to keep going back to the first few pages to figure out who or what was being discussed was too annoying (most especially in e-book format). I don't regret reading the book, it was a great read even with having to figure out some of the words, would be best in paperback so you can just flip quicker to the page.

For those that enjoy this kind of book, (a murder mystery with lots of history thrown in) I think it is a great edition that will keep you reading. It has lots of suspense that will have you reading well into a time when you should be doing other things.

I received a free copy of this e-book free and am giving it an honest review, of my thoughts.



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Book Description:

Historical thriller set in Ancient Rome. In 45 BC, Julius Caesar is at the height of his power. Lucius Scaurus, the young, good-looking fiance of a high-society girl is poisoned at the couple's own pre-wedding banquet. In the trial that follows, Roman society is shocked when the girl's mother, Helvia, is accused of not only of murder, but of incest. Cicero comes to Helvia's defence, but the killer's identity remains a mystery until the final twist - or two.

'Poison, poetry (both high-minded and salacious), marriage for money, marriage for love, gang-rape, cowardice in battle, scheming slaves, conniving aristocrats, malicious matrons casting magical curses, and (as if all this were not enough) a previously unknown oration by Cicero — there’s so much going on, so expertly conveyed ... ' (Steven Saylor)

Alien Pets (Xeno Relations Book 1)

Written by:Patricia McNary



Some of this will have small spoilers (nothing to ruin the reading of it, or spoil anything in a major way, mostly some bits of info that are kind of intriguing to me.

So let me start off with a very tiny spoiler, which is in the first chapter, and can be read within. So we all know how a cat will choose the human that it wants as its owner. You will buy a cat, bring it home but no matter if you love it to bits, it just might choose another in the household to be with over you. In this book it is a similar concept in which the cat actually chooses what alien (called Verdantes) they want for their human to be a pet to, at least in the case of the human girl named Antaska and her cat Potat.

Potat chooses (and allows) the Verdante named M.Hoyvil be her new pet and the owner of her other pet Antaska. You will get to read her point of view at times, and M.Hoyvil as well as Antaska.

Everything about this book drew me in, the great cover art, the interesting title, and the blurb that was written. There are different perspectives that you get to read about from the different character, each one separated by an alien head so you know that the focus is shifting.

Humans can live to be an average of 200 years old and if you are 50 you are classed as a young adult. Verdantes live to the age of 5,000 or more and if your 650 or so you are allowed to choose your first pet and are an adolescence. (Antaska is just over 50 and M.Hoyvil is 650).



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I received a free copy of this e-book free and am giving it an honest review, of my thoughts.



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Book Description:

Life gets weird when you’re adopted by an alien.

One million years in the future, young human Antaska and her psychic cat are adopted as pets by a gigantic alien. Traveling in outer space, she becomes telepathic in a world where that’s dangerous. Then she gets into a love triangle that’s even more dangerous. Her cat tries to tell Antaska what she’s doing wrong, but will she listen?