Spells, Salt, & Steel is a collection of four novellas. Each follows Mark Wojcik (Voy-chick, not Whoa, chick!), mechanic and monster hunter extraordinaire on his nightly escapades tracking down and sometimes not-so-quietly ridding the world of things that go bump in the night. Sure the monster hunter thing has been done before, but never so well as this. I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself at the end of the first novella. Why? Because I had forgotten that it was a novella!

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Spells, Salt, & Steel is a collection of four novellas. Each follows Mark Wojcik (Voy-chick, not Whoa, chick!), mechanic and monster hunter extraordinaire on his nightly escapades tracking down and sometimes not-so-quietly ridding the world of things that go bump in the night. Sure the monster hunter thing has been done before, but never so well as this. I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself at the end of the first novella. Why? Because I had forgotten that it was a novella!

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DNF.

I've been on a run with anthologies lately, which is great because I usually LOVE anthologies. When the opportunity arose to review The Unicorn Anthology, I was excited! I guess I expected you know, shiny, white, magical, unicorns. Instead, this was quite the dark anthology with rape, suicide, and death. A lot of death. Which is typically fine when I'm expecting a lot of death like a horror anthology, but this just smacked me upside the head.

Most of the stories fell under three major themes: the way outdated and overdone, "unicorns only like virgins", a transformation of some sort, and innocence or righteousness. I tended to like the last category, feel meh about the middle, and LOATHE the first. The stories also vary in how the unicorn is interpreted and how in the forefront it is, which means just barely in some of these interpretations.

There are spoilers involved so read on at your own peril.

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One would think that a book about werecats would be unique simply because, well, it's cats, instead of the usual wolfen lycanthropy. However, that's not what makes Always Gray in Winter shine. Family is ultimately at the heart of this narrative.

I expected that the story would most closely follow Pawlina, featured on the cover. Instead, the book introduced a variety of characters. However, you can tell that the author has crafted each with every trait in mind.

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Wrecked is the second book in the Willow Creek series, but can be read as a standalone. Wrecked begins with small-town sweethearts Kenzie and Brett caught in a moment that will change their lives forever. We catch up with them 12 years later, as Kenzie is running from her present and runs smack dab into her past! A broken down vehicle lands her right back into Willow Creek, and face to face with Brett Carter.

I’m a sucker for charming small towns and an even bigger sucker for poignant second chance romances, and if that romance is a slow-burn, turn on the coffee because we are going to be here awhile! This page-turning romance is perfect to curl up with on a dreary, rainy day as the author meticulously weaves modern day with the wreckage of Kenzie and Brett’s past. There’s so much anger, sadness, and vulnerability between these two, but underneath all that, a tiny ember that is just waiting to catch fire again.

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Amae is not Disney’s mermaid. While she lives among the humans after being exiled from Salacia by her father, there is no denying that she is something alien and other. Her true form is sharp and dangerous, all shark teeth and razor-sharp fins and claws. Terrifyingly beautiful, she’s otherworldly and predatory. Even the way she thinks is cold and calculating, yet that isn’t even close to the soldier her father wants her to be.

However, as she discovers, she is not the scariest predator in the ocean right now. Something is decimating killer whales and leaving their bodies for humans to find. When she is contacted by a field biologist conducting research on orcas in the Puget Sound, she realizes that she needs to uncover the truth of these killings. Working together with a selkie, albeit grudgingly, they need to stop whatever is merciless killing before it draws even more attention from the humans and possibly reveals their secret as well.

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Descended from Shadows brings us a new world of witches and magic. Phoebe and her sisters have been tasked with protecting the world from the magic inscribed within the Book of Sindal, but when her sister Celeste and the book go missing, the worst is feared. When her high school crush turned mage is assigned to protect the sisters and help them find the book, another kind of spell happens!

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