Catwoman: Soulstealer (DC Icons #3) By Sarah J. Maas [Review]

RELEASE DATE: August 09th, 2018
AUTHORS: Sarah J. Maas
GENRE:   Young-Adult, Comic Fiction, Fantasy.
PUBLISHER: Penguin
SUMMARY:

When the Bat’s away, the Cat will play. It’s time to see how many lives this cat really has. . . .

Two years after escaping Gotham City’s slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Batwing is left to hold back the tide of notorious criminals. Gotham City is ripe for the taking.

Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove he has what it takes to help people in his role as Batwing. He targets a new thief on the prowl who seems cleverer than most. 

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Phoenix Unbound (Fallen Empire #1) By Grace Draven [Review]

RELEASE DATE: September 25th, 2018
AUTHORS: Grace Draven
GENRE:   Adult, Fantasy, Romance.
PUBLISHER: Ace Books
SUMMARY:

Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire’s capital–her fate to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village’s tithe has been the same woman. Gilene’s sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret to staying alive lies with the magic only she possesses. 

But this year is different. 

Azarion, the Empire’s most famous gladiator, has somehow seen through her illusion–and is set on blackmailing Gilene into using her abilities to help him escape his life of slavery. And unknown to Gilene, he also wants to reclaim the birthright of his clan.

Ebba-Viva Fairisles: Immortal Plunder(Pirates of Felicity #1) By Kelly St. Clare [Review]

RELEASE DATE: September 19th, 2018
AUTHOR: Kelly St. Clare
GENRE:  Young-Adult, Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Pirates
SUMMARY:

There are three types of people in the Exosian Realm—males, females, and pirates. 

I’m a pirate. One with six overprotective fathers for a crew. And if I’m telling the honest truth, not just the pirate truth, having so many fathers is working pretty well for me so far. 

When I’m caught eavesdropping on the pirates of Malice, they retaliate with violence, and my fathers become set on revenge. But simple payback cascades into shattering misfortune. 

Unexplainable magical happenings and impossible creatures propel me toward a fate much darker than stealing plunder. 

LIFEL1K3(Lifelike #1) By Jay Kristoff [Revew]

RELEASE DATE: July 26th, 2018
AUTHORS: Jay Kristoff
GENRE:  Young-Adult, Sci-fi Fantasy, Dystopia.
PUBLISHER:  Harper Voyager
SUMMARY:

It’s just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built…

When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins, and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she loves…and learn the dark secrets of her past.

Evenfall (Shadowfire, #1) By Gaja J. Kos, Boris Kos [Review]

RELEASE DATE: October 30th, 2018
AUTHORS: Gaja J. Kos, Boris Kos
GENRE:  Young-Adult, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Magic.
PUBLISHER:   Boris Kos
SUMMARY:

A monster does not deserve the intimacy of a name

As if waking up in an unfamiliar world isn’t enough of a surprise, Ember gains a new title to her name. Savior.

Hunted by the Crescent Prince and his lethal shadows, she accepts a young Mage’s help to navigate the land of blood magic and its many illusions. But where Ada sees the good in her power, Ember discovers something else.

An icy darkness, designed to take lives, not save them.

Keeper of the Bees(Black Birds of the Gallows) By Meg Kassel [Review]

RELEASE DATE: September 4th, 2018
AUTHOR: Meg Kassel
GENRE:  Young-Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance.
PUBLISHER:   Entangled: Teen
SUMMARY:

KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways.

Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people.

He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie doesn’t see a monster when she looks at Dresden.

A Touch of Gold By Annie Sullivan [Review]

RELEASE DATE: August 14th 2018
AUTHORS: Annie Sullivan
GENRE:  Young-Adult,  fantasy, Retelling, Adventure, Magic, romance.
PUBLISHER:  Blink
SUMMARY:

Gold is wealth. Wealth is power. Power is a curse.

King Midas once had the ability to turn all he touched into gold. But after his gift—or curse—almost killed his daughter, Midas relinquished The Touch forever. Ten years later, Princess Kora still bears the consequences of her father’s wish: her skin shines golden, rumors follow her everywhere she goes, and she harbors secret powers that are getting harder to hide.

Kora spends her days locked in the palace, concealed behind gloves and veils, trying to ignore the stares and gossip of courtiers. It isn’t until a charming young duke arrives that Kora realizes there may be someone out there who doesn’t fear her or her curse.

The Nightshade’s Touch(The Messenger Chronicles #3) By Pippa DaCosta [Review]

RELEASE DATE: September 01st 2018
AUTHORS: Pippa DaCosta
GENRE:  Adult, Sci-fi, fantasy, Adventure, Reverse-Harem, Magic, Fae, Romance.
PUBLISHER:  Crazy Ace Publishing
SUMMARY:

Be careful which star you wish upon… 

The unseelie—banished by Oberon long ago—are stirring awake, and there’s one name on their poisoned lips: Nightshade. 

Kesh is beginning to settle into her role as Halow’s messenger, saving people from the fae with the help of Kellee, Talen, Arran and Sota, but if she has any hope of making her wrongs right, she must trust those around her. Without them, there is no Messenger. Friends, lovers, more. But one has a secret. A secret so dark it threatens to change everything Kesh believes in. A secret that could change the fate of Faerie, Halow, and all of humanity. 

When the fae abandoned the stars long-ago, they left behind more than fairytales. 

They left behind their monsters. 

Seventh Born (The Witchling Academy#1) By Monica Sanz [ARC Review]

RELEASE DATE: September 04th 2018
AUTHORS: Monica Sanz
GENRE: Young-Adult,  fantasy, Magic.
PUBLISHER:  Entangled Teen
SUMMARY:

Abomination. Curse. Murderer. All names hurled at eighteen-year-old Seraphina Dovetail. As the seventh-born daughter to a witch, she’s the cause of her mother losing her powers and, in turn, her life.
 
Abandoned as a child, Sera dreams of becoming an inspector and finding her family. To do that, she must be referred into the Advanced Studies Program at the Aetherium’s Witchling Academy. Her birth order, quick temper, and tendency to set things on fire, however, have left her an outcast with failing marks…and just what Professor Nikolai Barrington is looking for.
 
The tall, brooding, yet exceedingly handsome young professor makes her a proposition: become his assistant and he’ll give her the referral she needs.

Nightblood (Frostblood Saga #3) By Elly Blake [Review]

RELEASE DATE: August 21st 2018
AUTHORS: Elly Blake
GENRE: Young-Adult,  fantasy, Magic, Romance.
PUBLISHER:  Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
SUMMARY:

Ruby’s world has changed more than she ever could have imagined. She’s in love with a powerful Frost King. She’s the heir to the Fire Throne. And she may be a Nightblood–the spawn of a vengeful deity hellbent on releasing his wraithlike Minax from their prison. Once freed, these beasts will roam the earth, devouring every last person until he or she is nothing but an empty husk. But Ruby is able to control the Minax to a degree, and now she, her beloved Arcus, and her friend Kai must find a way to bring Frostbloods and Firebloods–sworn enemies–together to make a stand against a foe more deadly than any they’ve faced.