After reading 14 books they all start to read the same and are pretty predictable. Somehow Stephanie always ends up in a position to catch the bad guy at the end without Morelli or Ranger to help/save her.

As for the love triangle, I would really just like it if Stephanie had sex with Ranger once more and then finally gets engaged to Morelli. This story line was good for the first several books, but things need to move along now.

I still enjoy reading these books, though, and I love the characters, but the similarities in the plots and the fact that nothing changes with Stephanie's love life lowers the rating for me.

To me, this one was a bummer. It was boring compared to the others. I even skipped whole paragraphs. I may have to let time pass before I pick up another one.

Aleksei, a soldier turned vampire, is running from a fallen Russia with the threat of an eternity alone after his beloved is killed. All of this we find out in the first couple of pages, and because of that I was intrigued. Things get interesting when he makes it to Alaska, in an area known as Turnagain Arm, and searches for a man named Vasyl Dzubenko.

Julie Flanders is a talented writer. The dialogue of the characters and the sentences that make up each perspective easily planted me into 1917. Her well-crafted descriptions of cold Alaska made me shiver...in Florida.

I love how Flanders blended the rail road and the history of that with the supernatural (vampires and witches). I’ve been a fan of the show Hell on Wheels so this new take on the subject was fun. She created a fascinating vampire that I liked, even when he was killing. Vasyl was also a well thought-out character with a past and secret of his own.

There are pleasant surprises that twist the plot, and the end was unexpected. Overall, this is an enjoyable read and a great prequel.

From the first few sentences I knew this story was unique. The characters are goblins, elves, pixies and ogres, and they go to Gingko High where they learn many subjects including Human Civilizations. Humans are extinct and the species in this book don’t even believe humans were real!

Tara Tyler does an amazing job immersing us into this world and describing the characters. Although so many species are packed together in Broken Branch Falls and Gingko High, segregation is forced. That doesn’t stop Gabe, a goblin, from developing a crush on a new ogress, though, and from his friends creating a prank to get the attention they deserve, but things don’t go according to plan. Matters only get worse, their home is put in danger of being destroyed, and an adventure ensues.

Children and young adults will have fun reading Broken Branch Falls and getting to know all of the different characters. I know I enjoyed it! The illustrations were a treat, too.

The first thing I noticed was the wonderful illustrations which complimented the story, giving readers great visuals of the characters and scenes.

I found it intriguing that Kenneth Hautala created characters for Nature, Death and Time. Their personalities and appearances are clever.

When a necromancer named Bruab plans to create an undead army to annihilate the world, Nature, Death and Time appoint a newborn baby as champion to defeat Bruab. The baby is not expected to live until the Aspects each give him a blessing that makes him stronger and more agile than others. There are exciting fight scenes because of this that are quite gory, but that's what makes them exciting in my opinion. Haruffa also has an interest power where music constantly plays in his head and alters him to danger by picking up tempo. It was neat to read about the different types of situations that made the music Haruffa hears change. I don't want to give away the plot too much, but after Haruffa goes through a tragedy, he becomes a professional killer.

"Haruffa Tales" is very much a collection of tales chronically Haruffa's childhood and adulthood as he seeks revenge, becomes an assassin, and faces off with Bruab and several other enemies. There's many twists, a sprinkling of humor, and even a bit of light romance.

Overall, it was a unique story that pulp fiction fans will enjoy.

The Attic of Sand and Secrets starts with Lily’s mother missing, and there’s no better way to start a book than with a mystery. Hoping to find secrets to her mother’s Egyptian past and her disappearance, Lily opens a closed cabinet door in her closet. She finds a staircase coated in sand. Following the stairs to what she thinks is the attic she comes out into a desert. The next morning, she believes it a dream even though sand is still piled in front of her door from her night journey.

Lily is described as a learning disabled girl. I would have liked to know the exact name of the learning disability. I believe she was dyslexic, but that’s not actually stated. I liked that we were able to see Lily at school and in her LD classes, though, because it gave insight into her character and life. Plus, it felt real which is a plus for fiction. Witnessing her growth as she acts as a detective was neat. I also liked how we were able to follow the disappearance of Lily’s mother as we would if someone we knew was missing, by watching the news and hearing updates.

I’ve always been enchanted by Egypt so this story was a treat. I figured out who the kidnapper was in the very beginning, but other readers will have fun unraveling the mystery with Lily.

A Cat’s Tale is quite an erotic read, just from the first page. There are innuendos and kink sprinkled throughout. If you’re not a fan of erotic reading, this won’t be the story for you, but if you enjoy it then READ ON! This story takes the dominant-submissive relationship to all new heights.

A Cat’s Tale starts with Jared, a werewolf, encountering a werecat at a bar. Sound like the beginning of a joke? Maybe, but not this time. Jared goes to the werecat’s mansion, hoping to get laid and instead lands himself in a trap where he and the werecat, Josephine, are prisoners.

Werewolves, werecats, and vampires make up this fascinating story. I loved how Melissa Snark brought the characters to life, especially the werecat. I’m a cat lover and the descriptions were flawless. I could envision everything; how her fur rose, how she crouched, and hissed. It was a lot of fun to read!

This is a sexy, exciting, and even bloody story. I highly recommend it.