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[Book Review] Howler’s Night By Marie Hall & Kicking Horse Coffee Cliff Hanger Espresso
Just like the book before it, Howler’s Night, the third book in the Night Series, takes up right where the last book left off. At the end of All Hallows Night, Pandora has her Priest right where she wants him and the two are finally about to get in on – seconds later all hell breaks loose (this is where Howler’s Night begins) as agents of the Triad attack and capture Pandora. She’s taken to a secret facility where she’s imprisoned for months as they brainwash and perform horrifying experiments on her.
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[Book Review] Poison Promise By Jennifer Estep & Honeybird Coffee Velvet Assassin
The Elemental Assassin series is an Urban Fantasy set in the fictional town of Ashland where corruption runs rampant and vampires, dwarfs, giants, and elemental magic wielders are all common place. In Poison Promise, Gin Blanco, main character and certified badass elemental assassin wielding the powers of stone and ice, is trying to get things back to normal after her latest bout of assassinating (I don’t want to say straight up murder, because these people kind of had it comin’- but yeah, she kills a lot of people. Be warned) and struggling to get over the recent loss of a loved one. But there’s no rest for the wicked; even…
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[Book Review] Sin By Sharron Riddle & Coffee People Black Tiger Extra Bold Coffee
With an urban setting, fickle Fey politics, and a school/compound where young druids are raised in the ways of magic, Sin is kind of like Harry Potter meets Holly Black’s Modern Faerie Tale series.
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[Book Review] Cracked By Eliza Crewe & Baltimore Coffee Company Friendship Blend Coffee
Meda Melange eats people. Kind of. With her deceased mother as her conscience, she feasts on bad guys, tearing them apart with her bare hands and feeding her Hunger with their souls. She thinks she’s one of a kind, like her mother always told her, until she happens on three men with her same powers...
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[Book Review] First Bite by Dani Harper & Raven’s Brew Coffee Wicked Wolf
First Bite by Dani Harper is an urban fantasy/paranormal romance told through four distinct points of view. The first two POVs belong to the main characters: Neva, a stubborn woman willing to do whatever it takes to get away from her evil sire, Meredith, even going so far as to destroy herself, and Travis, a lone wolf who happens to stumble upon Neva at just the right time and becomes determined to help her for reasons he doesn't want to look too closely at. The other two POVs belong to the big bad herself, Meredith, and Baker, another of her innocent victims.
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[Book Review] Cold Blooded by Amanda Carlson & Community Coffee and Chicory New Orleans Blend
Jessica McClain, only female werewolf in existence and reincarnation of something important as foretold by ancient prophecy, is targeted by supernatural sects who all want a piece of her power – and they’re willing to go through her friends and family to get it. In this installment of the series, we spend a lot of time with the Vampire Sect and their queen Eudoxia, whom seek to entrap Jessica through trickery while she’s trying to save her father.
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