Elizabeth’s reviews

Review: Palace Ghosts by Becky Black

Feb 16, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel “All those sightings of the ship. It’s no ghost. It’s real, and it’s going to lead us to the Red Palace.” Twenty years ago, the Askensel and its crew vanished. With the ship taken by pirates...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Futuristic/Science Fiction
TAGGED: action, adventure, Becky Black, established relationship, JMS Books, military

Review: The Terrible by Tessa Crowley

Feb 14, 2024 | 1 comment

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Ness lives a delicate balance between pariah and courtier, serving on the Small Council of the Queen Regent as court sage and expert on all things magical. Ness is a lethfae, an inhuman...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: fae, gore, magic, NineStar Press, stalking, Tessa Crowley

Review: Trickster by Sam Burns and W.M. Fawkes

Feb 12, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.5 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novella Seven hundred years ago, Faust sold his soul to a demon, and now the witch spends his days making deals on the demon’s behalf, playing games with mortals. If they win — which they rarely do...

FILED UNDER: 3.5 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: demon, Sam Burns, self published, W.M. Fawkes, witch

Review: The Sceptre of Fire by Alex Stargazer

Feb 8, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: DNF Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel The Sceptre of Fire is an old school fantasy romp: it’s got elves, dwarves, orcs, necromancers, and a campy mage. But there’s a twist—a pretty big one. The orcs? They’re not really the bad guys....

FILED UNDER: Alternate World, DNF, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: Alex Stargazer, elf, necromancer, self published

Review: Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

Feb 5, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 4.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Tara is an Indian girl, the daughter of immigrants whose parents’ visas are currently in question, and — just to add sprinkles to the sundae — has recently changed schools from the...

FILED UNDER: 4.75 stars, Contemporary, Elizabeth's reviews, Young Adult
TAGGED: BIPOC, Harper Teen, high school, Naomi Kanakia, transgender, transphobia

Review: The Tengu and the Angel by Alina Capella

Feb 2, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.25 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Kunio is running away from — well, not home, exactly. It hasn’t been home since his grandfather died. His mother never wanted him, and now that Kunio is 18, he can give them both what they...

FILED UNDER: 3.25 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Paranormal
TAGGED: Alina Capella, anxiety, BIPOC, child abuse, friends to lovers, PTSD, roommates, self harm, self published

Review: Saving the Boxer by Neil S. Plakcy

Jan 31, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 3 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel In the late 1850s, London is home to a wide array of people from all walks of life. From poor widows to landed nobles, well-meaning schoolteachers to dangerous loan sharks, molly boys, judges,...

FILED UNDER: 3 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Historical
TAGGED: boxer, Jewish, Neil S. Plakcy, Ormond Yard Romantic Adventures series, self published

Review: Ocean’s Blood by Thelma Mantey

Jan 29, 2024 | 0 comments

Rating: 3.75 stars Buy Link: Amazon | iBooks | Amazon UK Length: Novel Vindt has lived ten years as a slave, bound to the Singer, Silhorveen. As part of his service, Vindt wears two bracelets: one to keep him from killing his master, the other to prevent him...

FILED UNDER: 3.75 stars, Elizabeth's reviews, Fantasy
TAGGED: age gap, drug addiction, magic, master/slave, rape, slavery, The Drowning series, Thelma Mantey

Review: Palace Ghosts by Becky Black

Review: The Terrible by Tessa Crowley

Review: Trickster by Sam Burns and W.M. Fawkes

Review: The Sceptre of Fire by Alex Stargazer

Review: Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

Review: The Tengu and the Angel by Alina Capella

Review: Saving the Boxer by Neil S. Plakcy

Review: Ocean’s Blood by Thelma Mantey

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