West of Sin (Big Time)

West of Sin by Wesley S. Lewis has got to be one of the best books I have read from a male author this year. The main female did not have bouncing boobs or a giant ass and she felt like a real person like I have known people that look and act like that character.

The love interest was spot on and I loved every moment of the book and I was so sad when it ended because I wanted to keep reading it.

This is a definite reread.

5 out of 5 stars (13 out of 5)

Beyond the Longcase Clock

Beyond the Longcase Clock by Hayley Patton is not the worst time-traveling book I have ever read, but it was not the best either. 

It was interesting the places they went to and it felt like the author did some research on it, but there were a lot of slow parts in it. It made me wish I was reading the Ruby Red trilogies because that is the best time-traveling story I have ever read.

There is something about the novel Beyond the Longcase Clock that bugged me, but I cannot put my finger on it.

2.5 out of 5 stars.

An Interesting Siren Story

Thank you Simon & Schuster Canada for allowing me to read an arc of Songs from the Deep by Kelly Powell.

This book is incredible with the characters, and I loved the chemistry between Jude and Moira. However, I would have liked more worldbuilding in the story as I had no clue if this was supposed to be on Earth or a made-up world. Why are the tourists coming to this island to see sirens? Why are the sirens on that island? Has it always been like that, or did something happen to make the relationship between mermaids and humans? How did the sirens come to be?

I always am probably going to sound like a horrible person for this, but I wish it did not start with the death of a little kid because I would much rather be torn about by a kid being killed after I know about him. It began to feel like the author did it because it was a shock factor and a kid, how could someone kill a kid?

I totally forgot I had preordered a copy of the book, but I'm glad I did because now I don't have to repurchase it.

If you like mythical stories, I will recommend reading this book.

4.5 out of 5 stars.

Cold Falling White

First off I would like to thank Simon & Schuster Canada for sending me a copy of this on NetGalley.

Cold Falling White by G.S. Pendergast is one of those books where you need to have read the first book in order to understand what is going on.

The writing is interesting, but I have not read the first book so had no clue what was going on, so I had to stop after the first chapter.

If you have read the first book you will most likely like this book.

3 out of 5 stars.

Blood Magic

All Bleeds Through by Bartholomew Lander is an exciting ten-story collection on hemomancy and is a kind of alternative reality with a look at what the world would be shaped like if people could do blood magic. What I love is that some of the characters overlap in the stories. What I don't like is that some of the stories like the first ones were a little hard to follow along with as I am entirely new to this world and do not understand the importance of anything.
3.5 out of 5 stars.

A mystery of mysteries

On The Edge Of Darkness by C.L. Avery is a unique story because I have not read many books that involve the LGBTQ community, especially having the victims were all gay. However, it kind of got redundant with the whole daughter being gay and Ransom not being able to accept it (although spoiler, he does at the end of the book), and I was like okay we get it can we move on, please.
The mystery was well done because even I could not figure out who it was because I had an inkling that it was not male, but I still kept trying to guess who was the killer. Congrats to the author for doing that because, typically, it is easy to figure out who is the killer within the last half of the book, but this I did not know until near the end.
If you are looking for a good mystery and a diverse book, then this is a book I would highly recommend.
My only complaint about this book is that I thought the daughter would get kidnapped earlier because that's was the impression I got from the blurb.
4 out of 5 stars.

The Best Book I have Read this Fall

Blaize and the Maven by Ellen Bard is OMG! First off, thank you, NetGalley for letting me read this book and the publishing company for auto approving me for this book because this book is beyond words. Secondly, thank you to the author for not having Canada being steadily snowing like so many authors do because it always bugs me being in BC (and yes a massive thank you for doing it close to my home town) and people seem to forget that my country is like every other country and has this miraculous thing called weather.
I was hooked from the first page and devoured it in one day. This novel got in my head, and I was so annoyed whenever I got interrupted from reading it because I needed to know what was happening.

The characters and worldbuilding are incredible. I have no complaints about this book except that it ended. I love that the author had Blaize try to say Cuinn's name because I was saying it wrong up until that point (and it's pronounced Quinn, not how I was saying it. I was calling him Coo-inn don't ask why). I could gush on and on about this book because there is no end of praise for this book. It has a gorgeous cover, the blurb is precisely what happens, and the characters are someone I can see as being real (in fact, I want them to be real). I need to read the second book ASAP.

Okay, I will stop gushing about this book, and you go read this book. Deal.

13 out of 5 stars.