First Impressions (Auckland Med. #1)
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Michael: Two years ago, I made a mistake, a big one. Then I added a couple more just for good...
Contemporary MM Romance
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Entropy (Tessa Avery #3) in Books
Sep 3, 2021
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Entropy ( Tessa Avery book 3)
By Lucy Roy
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Just how much pain can someone experience before they break? How much more loss can they suffer when there's no end in sight?
In the wake of unimaginable tragedy, chaos reigns. Not only have the stakes gone higher with Cronus and his allies attacking from all sides, but there's a new player in the game. Someone I trusted and cared about, someone I called a friend. Not only has he betrayed me, but he's also responsible for taking my best friend prisoner.
As we tirelessly search for answers, Earth has become a battleground. Each day, it seems the moment we get close to solving one problem, another crops up greater than the last, leading us to something not even the Olympians could see coming.
This was just absolutely brilliant! I even felt a tear run down my cheek at the memorial! This trilogy has been such a pleasure to read with amazing characters! I love the idea behind it and love reading what people to with the legendary Greek gods and titans! Would thoroughly recommend!
Numb (Reflections #5)
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Adriana Paige didn't see her breakup with Alec Graves coming any more than he did, but at the time...
Young Adult Paranormal Romance Short Story
Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated Light My Pyre (Everwood Falls #1) in Books
Apr 18, 2023
Gwyn is on the run from her fiance-to-be and the pain he's caused her. Asher is part fae and a fire wielder of the highest calling. When serious fires keep happening there's only one person to blame isn't there?
This is the first in the series of the Everwood Falls tales and if they are all written like this I really cannot wait for future stories. The way Kat has written made me feel included in the story never far away from the action and if any questions did arise like I wonder what's happened with this bit, or who's involved why, etc they got answered pretty quickly in the story a little bit further on. I haven't found anything that's left me confused or trying to guess what's happened and once I was able to sit and read it I could have continued to read it for a bit longer even if it hadn't finished where it did
Recommended read.
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Emerge (Immortals of Indriell #1)
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Allie Carmichael has never fit in. People don’t like her. They don’t want to be near her. They...
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Plain Like Vanilla: An American Tale
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Plain Like Vanilla is a gripping tale of murder, betrayal, and awakening. Charlottesville,...
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In the Same Boat
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It's the eve of the Texas River Odyssey, and Sadie Scofield is finally ready for the 265-mile canoe...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Jinni's Wish (Kingdom, #4) in Books
Nov 20, 2021
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Jinni’s Wish ( Kingdome Chronicles book 4)
By Marie Hall
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A long, long time ago there lived a man. A Jinni, who had one wish. To know love. But the woman he thought he knew betrayed him and the love he thought they shared. Tortured for his crimes, he was cast out of Kingdom, stripped of all his powers, left to langour in pain and solitude, until eventually he becomes nothing but a ghost...
Paz Lopez is an artist with a dream. To buy a ridiculously large penthouse in the swankiest section of Chicago. But there's just one hitch, she has no man to share her dream with. A fateful visit to a carnival and Madam Pandora's tent sends Paz on a mission to find the love of her life before it's too late.
But the Madam forgot to tell Paz one very important detail... to meet him, Paz will have to die first.
I enjoyed it. It was sweet little story could have been longer got a bit of a rushed feel from it that I didn’t from the first 3 books. Definitely a spin on these fairly tales and finding love!
The Kraken's Queen (Grym Hollow #3)
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For the past five years, all Erin has known is pain. But no longer. With the help of Grym...
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Debbiereadsbook (1614 KP) rated Whispers and Wings (Brodyr Alarch #6) in Books
Dec 18, 2025 - 8:42 PM
Gimme a few, ok? Cos it's taken me two days to get to this point after finishing and for me to come down, so if this review runs away with itself, I'm-a sorry, ok??
THis is book 6, the FINAL book in the Brodyr Alarch series. Now, I will say all the other 5 books can be read as stand alone books, within the series, and reading the prequel novel, Sealed with A Curse would be helpful, but not strictly necessary. HOWEVER, for THIS book, I think it's necessary to read Sealed first. It will give you the full scope of Gerallt's cruelty to Selene, and how his wing came to be. Because you don't get a full recap here, just hints as to what he did.
And you need that, because this book is heavy!
You can feel Gerallt's guilt about what he did, right from the start and you can feel the pressure he puts himself under. You can feel that pain he feels, every time he looks at Selene and remembers what he did to her. She has long since forgiven him and all the brothers, but Gerallt was the eldest, the instigator, and he knows that he can never atone for his sins, even after he paid his dues via the curse and it was lifted.
What this book is, my dear peeps, is a masterclass in keeping your writing head on, while everything else goes to pot, and actually being able to do Gerallt justice, because Lord knows the man needs his happy ever after!
I found myself crying for Gerallt in places, and Aderyn too, but not as much as Gerallt. When you find out how he judges himself, and what he did, it's painful reading. Aderyn lost a lot when her friend betrayed her, and you feel her pain too, but not as keenly as Gerallt.
I think, I've been waiting for Gerallt for so very long, so very VERY long, now I've finished his story, I want to cry from him all over again. It's taken him 24 years to get to this point, and now he has to make a decision.
I'm not going to tell you his decision, but I will tell you this: when he says those words, you feel the weight lifting off him, almost seeing it coming off the page, it's THAT powerful a scene. Honestly? I had to keep putting this down and coming back to it, because Gerallt pain for nearly all of the book is palapable, you can taste it.
There's no smex in this book, I don't think Aderyn and Gerallt even kiss, but there is so much emotion! So very much emotion, I'm getting emotional writing this review!
This book is full of Ms Sheppard's skill at describing things: people, places, things. She manages to enable you to see, so very clearly, what she is talking about. Example: when talking about the glamour on the castle, you can see it shifting the light slightly, shifting what people see. It's quite a skill!
I don't add books lightly to my Masterpiece shelf, and this is the third book I have added to that shelf in 3 weeks! But I must. I cannot NOT add it, because I think, given the wait for this book, it had the opportunity to be a diappointment and it really is quite the opposite.
This book is OUTSTANDING!!
But Lord now I'm sad. Sad because all the brothers have their happy ever after, Selene and Conway are happy with their family, and the Gods are happy, that Their subjects are happy, but it breaks my heart because this is the last time I'll be reading about these people!
Anyway, I told you this might run away with itself, and it did, so I'm wrapping this up, before I go and spoiler alert you!
The other books in the series have all been 4 or 5 stars, but this one?? Far surpasses any of those books and by a long mile.
5 full and shiny, but very VERY sad stars
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