Bastial Energy, by B. T. Narro, is the story of four roommates (aged seventeen) who have begun their training as warriors, magicians, chemists, and psychics at the Academy. Their land has a specific form of energy, bastial energy, which can be used to enhance a...

Be Still My Soul is an excellent start to Joanne Bischof's The Cadence of Grace Series as it dives right into the story and holds the reader's attention all the way to the end of the book. Lonnie is shy and is shocked when Gid...

In the third book of the Merlin's Immortals series, Sigmund Brouwer gives the reader Martyr's Fire. Thomas is forced to escape Magnus and pose as a beggar as the city falls to the Priests of the Holy Grail. As Thomas wanders to find the truth...

Passage at Delphi: A Novel of Spartan Valor by A. K. Patch takes us to ancient times via a modern events. When a terrorist attacks modern Greece, Apollo the god of the sun and prophecy foresees the collapse of the western world as we know...

Unexpected Metamorphosis: Book One in the Alissia Roswell Series by Tianna Holley is a mix of fantasy and romance which tends to be more romance in this part of the series. The main character is a normal girl in our world - Alissia - but...

In Play It Again, Kam, Kamryn Cade is a Hollywood actress on the wrong side of her 15 minutes of fame – most notably as a TV Private Investigator. When her friend tells her to ‘do what she’s good at,’ Kamryn decides to pursue her...

With the frontier in Pennsylvania undefended, the lives of the settlers there are at risk as parties of the Delaware tribe take advantage of an opportunity to regain what they had lost to the English settlers. Forest Sentinels by S. Thomas Bailey is an exciting...

Netherworld, Book One of the Chronicles of Diana Furnaval by Lisa Morton is an excellent, well researched and written book that will remove you from your living room and take you on an epic journey around the world and beyond. Netherworld will appeal to adults...

Oceanswept, the first in the Oceanswept trilogy, by Lara Hays follows 17-year-old Tessa, daughter of a newly appointed admiral in the British Navy. Because of this promotion, Tessa and her father must relocate. As they are traveling by sea, they run into a hurricane, which...

Nicholas has moved at the end of summer every year that he has lived with his aunt since his parents' death. It's just part of his life - not that he likes it - but that is the way his aunt says it has to...

We originally met Nicholas in the first book of this series, Secrets, and this book continues the story. The secrets are now out in the open, or at least some of them are, and now it is a matter of who to trust and what...

Blades of Valor: Book Four in the Merlin’s Immortals series was written by Sigmund Brouwer. Blades of Valor wraps up this series. The end of book three left Thomas and Katherine searching for answers in the Holy Land. Book four picks up right where book...

Desecrated, the second book in The Saga of Ukumog, captured my interest instantly as author Louis Puster III focused on the immediate goal of the main characters within the first words. The tension that resonated at the end of book 1 between Wracked and Brin...

Summer camp is for losers and nerds. Matt considers this a fact. That’s why he is none too pleased when his father decides to send him to Camp Friendship as a punishment for a prank gone terribly wrong. Resigning himself to a stultifying few weeks...

Resurrection by Regina M. Joesph is the third book in the Alterran Legacy Series. On Earth, En.Lil's body has been recovered from the river. His brother, En.Ki has managed to build a small power supply that not only transports Anu and the Elders back to...

Life has settled down more at Orchard Bend Farms after Samuel and Rhoda finally confessed their feelings for each other. Jacob has left the Old Order Amish settlement and is not likely to return. Leah and her Englischer friend Landon are in love, and Leah...

The Akasha Chronicles, Book 1, Emily's House by Natalie Wright is an epic coming-of-age novel that throws fourteen-year-old Emily into the Sacred Grove, a world she never knew existed. She initially wants no part of it, but she exits from it as a very different...

Primary Fault is the first book in a series called The Schattenreich, which is a realm or another place in the book. The story is set in Germany, where Augustus and his father have always lived. Caitlin, who lived in America with their mother, has...

Protected (Spirian Saga Book #1) by Rowena Portch is an entertaining fantasy adventure depicting a world battling between good and evil. The fictional story begins with Skye waking from a car accident and receiving a strange hospital visitor who leaves behind a mysterious gift. A...

Living in the small home of a healer woman who took her in after the brutal slaying of her parents, Maia is destined for more than just a life picking herbs. When she has a chance encounter with some soldiers, she finds out more about...