JB's Bookworms with Brandy Mulder

Posse: Legends T. Hammond (Posse, #1) Publication date: October 26th 2017 Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult It should have been an easy job. Track the jackal. Locate the girl. Rescue said girl. Return bad puppy to the Council for questioning. As leader of the Posse, a paranormal alliance, shapeshifter Lexa O’Clare thought she’d seen everything over the past millennia. Neither she, nor her vampire partner, Etienne, expected this case to be different. A fugitive werejackal leads them to a secret lab where supernaturals are unwilling subjects in genetic experimentation. The Posse uncovers a conspiracy implicating high-ranking members of the Inter-species Council. Can anyone’s motives be trusted? Lexa: a shapeshifter sheriff who also proxies for humans killed before their destinies are fulfilled. Etienne: a Knight Templar, turned master vampire. Yasmin: a dragon who walked among the gods. Jade: an historian & Fox-familiar to a cranky dragon. Sentinel: a gargoyle who mourns th...

The Girl Who Saved Ghosts by K.C. Tansley Publication date: October 17th 2017 Genres: Mystery, Time-Travel, Young Adult She tried to ignore them. Now she might risk everything to save them. After a summer spent in a haunted castle—a summer in which she traveled through time to solve a murder mystery—Kat is looking forward to a totally normal senior year at McTernan Academy. Then the ghost of a little girl appears and begs Kat for help, and more unquiet apparitions follow. All of them are terrified by the Dark One, and it soon becomes clear that that this evil force wants Kat dead. Searching for help, Kat leaves school for the ancestral home she’s only just discovered. Her friend Evan, whose family is joined to her own by an arcane history, accompanies her. With the assistance of her eccentric great aunts and a loyal family ghost, Kat soon learns that she and Evan can only fix the present by traveling into the past. As Kat and Evan make their way through nineteenth-centur...

The Night Realm by Annette Marie (Spell Weaver #1) Published by: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc. Publication date: October 20th 2017 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy Clio would love nothing more than to go home. But as the illegitimate daughter of the nymph king, she’s stuck in the human world, exiled until she can earn a place in the royal family. Then her half-bother offers her a chance to prove herself. All she has to do is acquire some magic … by stealing it from the most dangerous spell weavers in the Underworld. Lyre prefers to go unnoticed, which is a tricky objective for an incubus. He can’t hide his looks or his coveted spell weaving skills, but he’s learned to mask his true intentions. As an unwilling pawn of the tyrannical Hades family, he stays alive by keeping one step ahead of his masters. Now he’s been assigned to watch over a visitor from the Overworld—one who’s definitely hiding something. And with her unholy talent for triggering chaos and catastrophe, his job just ke...

StoneKing Gemeta Stone Book 3 Donna Migliaccio Fiery Seas Publishing February 6, 2018 Genre: Fantasy They call him StoneKing: the lord of four countries, the vanquisher of the Wichelord Daazna, the man who will restore his people to prosperity and peace. But there is no peace for Kristan Gemeta. Already weighed down by the cares of his new realm, Kristan carries a secret burden – the knowledge that Daazna is not dead. He isolates himself in his ruined castle in Fandrall, where he struggles to control the destructive Tabi’a power that may be his only hope of defeating the Wichelord once and for all. And there’s trouble elsewhere in his realm. His Reaches are squabbling in Dyer, Melissa and Nigel are experiencing heartache in Norwinn, and Heather’s command in Hogia is in jeopardy. Unaware of this turmoil, Kristan receives an unexpected gift – one that forces him, his knights, an inexperienced squire and a crafty young shape-shifter into a hazardous winter journey. ...

Wicked Fallout by Kelly Charron (Pretty Wicked #2) Publication date: July 17th 2017 Genres: Adult , Thriller “Wicked Fallout is a twisty cat and mouse psychological thriller that will keep you turning pages right up to the unexpected end. A creepy mix of horror and psychological insight, Charron takes you into the mind of a killer and doesn’t let go.” ~Eileen Cook, Author of WITH MALICE Convicted of six murders when she was just fifteen, the notorious Ryann Wilkanson hasn’t been able to act on her darkest, deadliest urges for twelve years. She’s exhausted her appeals and has little hope of ever getting out of prison and back to hunting. Until a media-hungry legal team mounts a campaign to do the impossible—get her immediately released with a commuted sentence. Forensic psychiatrist Nancy Clafin has mere weeks to evaluate Ryann’s current mental state against her grisly past to determine if she’s changed. But under the shadow of her own questionable history, it’s not e...

Today, we’re interviewing Ember, the protagonist of The Exiled Otherkin, a steampunk adventure fantasy romance, by D. Lieber . How are you Ember? I’m all right. I was just exiled from Faerie into the human realm. It seems I haven’t been here in a few centuries, and everything has changed. On the other hand, I was able to find a job on an airship, so at least I can feed myself. A few centuries? Why were you here before? I was born here. My mother was human. I probably would’ve lived here my entire life, but she was murdered and my father took me to Faerie. I'm so sorry to hear that. How are you adjusting to life in the human realm? Charlie (a Fae refugee who also works on the airship) is helping me out, I guess. I don’t really care one way or the other as long as Helena doesn’t find me. If Reilley would just stop pestering me, I’d be fine. So, you’ve made some friends? I wouldn’t call them friends. I can’t afford those kinds of attachments. …Is there anything yo...

The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz Published by: Swoon Reads Publication date: October 17th 2017 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult When the music stops, the dance begins. Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by the mysterious and handsome young Master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate – and in the only life Penny has never known. But when flashes of memories, memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she’s been leading, start to appear, Penny begins to question the Grand Teatro and the motivations of the Master. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules that dictate every step she takes. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to esca...