Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) By: Rebecca Yarros Published: January 21, 2025 by Red Tower Books 758 pages Genres/Themes: Romantasy, Fantasy, Romance, Dragons, Fae, Magic, Adult, New Adult Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him. Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can...

Midnight Sun (Twilight #5) By: Stephenie Meyer Published: August 4, 2020 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 675 pages Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Vampires Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary:  #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past...

After We Fell (After #3) By: Anna Todd Published: November 25, 2014 by Gallery Books 849 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Book 3 of the After series—newly revised and expanded, Anna Todd's After fanfiction racked up 1 billion reads online and captivated readers across the globe. Experience the internet's most talked-about book for yourself from the writer Cosmopolitan called “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” Tessa and Hardin’s love was complicated before. Now it’s more confusing than ever. AFTER WE FELL...Life will never be the same. #HESSA Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about first her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim. Tessa’s life begins to come unglued. Nothing is what she thought it was. Not her ...

After We Collided (After #2) By: Anna Todd Published: November 25, 2014 by Gallery Books 688 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Tessa has everything to lose. Hardin has nothing to lose...except her. AFTER WE COLLIDED...Life will never be the same. #HESSA After a tumultuous beginning to their relationship, Tessa and Hardin were on the path to making things work. Tessa knew Hardin could be cruel, but when a bombshell revelation is dropped about the origins of their relationship—and Hardin’s mysterious past—Tessa is beside herself. Hardin will always be...Hardin. But is he really the deep, thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with despite his angry exterior—or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could walk away. It’s just not that easy. Not with the memory of passionate nights spent in his arms. His electric touch. His hungry kisses. Still, Tessa’s not sure she can endure...

After #1 By: Anna Todd Published: October 21, 2014 by Gallery Books 593 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there’s everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos and lip ring, Hardin is cute and different from what she's used to. But he's also rude—to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does—until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she’s never known before. He'll call her beautiful, then ...

A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3.1) By: Sarah J. Maas Published: May 1, 2018 by Bloomsbury USA Childrens 272 pages Genre: Young Adult, New Adult, Fatnasy, Romance Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Months after the explosive events in  A Court of Wings and Ruin , Feyre, Rhys, and their companions are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated--scars that will have far-reaching impact on the future of their Court. MY REVIEW: I'm a HUGE fan of this series I love the characters. So when book #3.1 was scheduled to come out I was ready to purchase it, and that I did. Now, let me preface th...

A Different Blue By: Amy Harmon Published: March 29, 2016 by CreateSpace 322 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance Source: Freebie, Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school. With no mother, no father, no faith, and no future, Blue Echohawk is a difficult student, to say the least. Tough, hard and overtly sexy, she is the complete opposite of the young British teacher who decides he is up for the challenge, and takes the troublemaker under his wing.  This is the story of a nobody who becomes somebody. It is the story of an unlikely friendship, where hope fosters healing and redemption becomes love. But falling in love can be hard w...

Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass #6) By: Sarah J. Maas Published: September 5, 2017 by Bloomsbury USA Children's 668 pages Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed since the glass castle shattered, since his men were slaughtered, since the King of Adarlan spared him from a killing blow, but left his body broken. His only shot at recovery lies with the legendary healers of the Torre Cesme in Antica-the stronghold of the southern continent's mighty empire. And with war looming over Dorian and Aelin back home, their survival might lie with Chaol and Nesryn convincing its rulers to ally with them. But what they discover in Antica will change them both-and be more vital to saving Erilea than they could have imagined. MY REVIEW: After a dud of an end of 2...

A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3) By: Sarah J. Maas   Published: May 2, 2017 by Bloomsbury USA Children's 707 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1  New York Times  bestselling  A Court of Thorns and Roses  series. Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit-and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords-and hunt for allies in unexpected places.  In this thrilling third book in the #1  New York Times  bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple fo...

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) By: Sarah J. Maas   Published: May 3, 2016 by Bloomsbury USA Children's 626 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two. With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second bo...

A Court of Thorns and Roses #1 By: Sarah J. Maas Published: May 5, 2015 by Bloomsbury USA Children's 432 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: A thrilling, seductive new series from  New York Times  bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending  Beauty and the Beast  with faerie lore. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Taml...

Making Faces By: Amy Harmon Published: February 21, 2017 by Spencer Hill Press 405 pages Source:  ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore. Making Faces  is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale o...

A Thousand Boy Kisses By: Tille Cole Published: March 13, 2016 by Tillie Cole Ltd. 353 pages Source: Borrowed from a fellow CoHort, RichelleR ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind. Why did the girl who was one half of his soul, who promised to wait faithfully for his return, cut him off without a word of explanation? Rune’s heart was broken two years ago when Poppy fell silent. When he discovers the truth, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come.  Standalone Young Adult Tearjerker Romance.  For ...

Full Tilt #1 By: Emma Scott Published: June 28, 2016 by Trillian 292 pages Source: ebook, Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: "I would love you forever, if I only had the chance..."  Kacey Dawson has always lived life on the edge--impulsively, sometimes recklessly. And now, as lead guitarist for a hot up-and-coming band, she is poised at the brink of fame and fortune. But she is torn between wanting to be a serious musician, and the demons that lure her down the glittering, but alcohol-soaked path of rock stardom. A wrecked concert in Las Vegas threatens to ruin her career entirely. She wakes up with the hangover from hell and no memory of the night before, or how she ended up on her limo driver’s couch...  Jonah Fletcher is running out of time. He knows his situation is hopeless, and he's vowed to make the most of the handful of months he has left to him. His plans include seeing the opening of his glass installation at a pre...