School of Deaths by Christopher Mannino has a plot that is quite different from your typical YA novel. Suzie, a teenage girl, suddenly finds herself in the world of deaths where she is supposed to be trained to become a death herself. Deaths are the...

Sir Licksalot and The Bay Fools is a preteen and children’s fantasy book written by D.L. Carroll and illustrated by Teri Cuneo. Blaze and his friends have figured out a way to travel through a fountain in Blaze’s backyard. When they’re gone, time stops so...

Siren’s Call is a mythological fantasy written by Jessica Cage. Syrinada is just an ordinary young woman, as far as she’s concerned. She’s an orphan and was raised by her Aunt Noreen. Everything changes when she’s attacked on her way home by a van load...

Sannah is a storyteller. She tells stories to her people, stories sanctioned by the government to be acceptable propaganda. Her stories are meant to educate her people into subservience. Her people are brown skinned and live in the Brown Zone. The government, the powers that...

I love classic vampires (stay away sparklies!). And I love Japan even more. Yet when I read the description of Sword of the Undead by Steven Fujita, I was quite skeptical. A combination of the classic Bram Stoker Dracula story and Japanese history? Boy, I...

As spectacular as its cover art, Starflower begins with introducing the reader to an out-of-this-world situation that engages unique and never-seen-before characters in a battle of planets and alien races. Thom Fillinger’s science-fiction novel portrays the battle between Good and Evil through the eyes of...

Special Attraction (Book Three of The Coursodon Dimension Series) is a paranormal, contemporary fantasy written by M.L. Ryan. Hailey is a shape-shifter whose boyfriend, Alex, is a prince from the Coursodon Dimension and whose trainer, Sebastian Kess, had first inhabited her Kindle and then transferred...

Shades of Virtue by Jack Whitsel continues the Dragon Rising series started by Shadows of Kings. It is now two years later and forces of good and evil continue to battle for territories and the minds of humans. In the Hugue territory, a contest is...

Spanners aren’t entirely different from humans. Oh sure, they have special powers, but they’re also very human in other ways, such as their desire for more power, greater control and eternal youth. The difference is that spanners have powers to help them reach these goals....

Shadow of the Winter King (World of Ruin) is a gripping tale of hate, betrayal and vengeance set in a post-apocalyptic world where magic is a tool for bloodshed and supremacy. Regel Winter, known as the Oathbreaker and Lord of Tears, was a slayer for...