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...

A Curse of Blood & Stone (Fate & Flame book 2) By: K.A. Tucker Published: July 12, 2022 464 pages Genre: Romantasy, Fantasy, New Adult Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: “I do not know how to love you and be a good king to my people.” Romeria has fled Cirilea as a traitor. Zander has sacrificed his crown to save her life but dreads what her existence means for the future of his realm. They both know that no immortal will ever welcome her as Islor's queen. Side-by-side as outcasts - yet with a growing distance between them - they watch as a new threat to the kingdom unfurls, one larger than they could have imagined. Guided by an uncertain prophecy and with their allies rapidly losing faith, their company journeys to the Venhorn Mountains in search of answers. Yet with Romeria struggling to wield her newfound abilities and the mortal rebellion growing in strength, it may already be too late. From internationally bestselling autho...

A Fate of Wrath & Flame (Fate & Flame book 1) By: K.A. Tucker Published: May 20, 2021 547 pages Genre: Romantasy, Fantasy Source: Personal Kindle library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Gifted thief Romeria has flourished from her days as a street kid pilfering wallets to survive. Now she thrives, stealing jewels from the rich under the involuntary employ of New York City’s most notorious crime boss. But when an enigmatic woman secures her services at swordpoint, Romeria is plunged into a startling realm of opposing thrones, warring elven, and elemental magic she cannot begin to fathom. Her quest is Steal a stone from Islor’s sacred garden without anyone discovering her true identity, which would earn her certain death. But the identity she has inexplicably assumed is that of the captured Ybarisan princess—an enemy to Islor after she poisoned their beloved king and queen on the day she was to marry the prince. Her betrothed, the newly crowned King Zander, det...

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 ...

Royal Bully (Mafia Royals #1) By: Rachel Van Dyken Published: May 19, 2020 by Van Dyken Enterprises INC 384 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Mafia Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: A mafia romance about best friends turned enemies by Rachel Van Dyken, the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Eagle Elite series. The enemy of my enemy is my friend… I never thought my father would ask this of me, to become the second generation at Eagle Elite University, to rule with an iron fist, and to take care of anyone who gets in our way. But ever since the incident. Ever since Him. There’s been a war in our little clique. After all, a house divided cannot stand. He’s the problem, not me. He used to kiss me like I was his oxygen. Now he looks at me like I’m his poison. But we both drank it, again and again, never believing there would be a day when our love would start a war. And our friendship would shatter into a millio...

Royal Bully (Mafia Royals #0.5) By: Rachel Van Dyken Published: March 31, 2020 91 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Mafia, Novella Source: Freebie, personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Something dark this way comes. He's gorgeous, mean, and mine. He catches me dreaming about him, and then just like my dream, he decides to make me his. I should have said no when he asked me to swear fealty to him. The knife clued me in first. The blood second. And third, it was the blessing of the most famous mafia bosses in the known world as they sat around the dinner table and told me that I had no choice but to join. Because they knew my secrets. And running meant I was nothing more than target practice. I said yes because of my bully. And he told me he'd keep me safe. But who keeps me safe from him? The prequel to the much anticipated Mafia Royals series. MY REVIEW: It's no secret that I LOVE the Eagle Elite series by Rachel Van Dyken...

All Your Perfects By: Colleen Hoover Published: July 17, 2018 by Atria Books 320 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  It Ends with Us —delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair. All Your Perfects  is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people? MY REVIEW: The s...

Eulogy (Eagle Elite #9)  By: Rachel Van Dyken Published: February 20, 2018 by Van Dyken Enterprises INC 448 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The next book in the internationally bestselling mafia series… All is lost. All. I don't recognize myself in the mirror anymore. My thoughts are filled with hatred and dripping with rage. I've lost my soul. She took it to the depths of Hell with her and haunts me with images of what could have been. Sixty lives are mine to take. Sixty lives stand in the way of my vengeance. Sixty lives plus one more. Mine. When the last drop of blood falls — mine will be spilled. Only one person stands in the way. She doesn't realize I'll kill her too. I don't own a heart. And even if I did — I wouldn't fall prey to its lies again. I am Chase Abandonato. Heir to a legacy of betrayal. And I will kill them all. Even if it means pointing the ...

The First Girl Child By: Amy Harmon Published: August 20, 2019 by 47North 391 pages Genre: Young Adult, New Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Science Fiction Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From ​the  New York Times  bestselling author comes a breathtaking fantasy of a cursed kingdom, warring clans, and unexpected salvation. Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words:  From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok. Raised among the Keepers at Temple Hill, Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba, the first girl child born in nearly two decades and the salvation for a country at risk. Now the fate of Saylok lies with Alba and Bayr, whose bond grows deeper with every wh...

Say You Still Love Me By: K.A. Tucker Published: August 6, 2019 by Atria Books 384 pages Genre: Contemporary Romance Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus, she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day. Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group Industries, and coincidentally the first love of her life. The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The g...

The Simple Wild By: K. A. Tucker Published: August 7, 2018 by Atria Books 400 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance Source: ARC from Netgalley ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: City girl Calla Fletcher attempts to reconnect with her estranged father, and unwittingly finds herself torn between her desire to return to the bustle of Toronto and a budding relationship with a rugged Alaskan pilot in this masterful new romance from acclaimed author K.A. Tucker. Calla Fletcher was two when her mother took her and fled the Alaskan wild, unable to handle the isolation of the extreme, rural lifestyle, leaving behind Calla’s father, Wren Fletcher, in the process. Calla never looked back, and at twenty-six, a busy life in Toronto is all she knows. But when her father reaches out to inform her that his days are numbered, Calla knows that it’s time to make the long trip back to the remote frontier town where she was born. She braves the roaming wildlife, the odd dayligh...

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...

As She Fades By: Abbi Glines Published: April 3, 2018 by Feiwell & Friends 272 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From the #1  New York Times-  and  USA Today -bestselling author of the  Rosemary Beach  and  The Vincent Boys  series, Abbi Glines delivers another smoldering, compulsively readable YA romance with  As She Fades. On the night of her high school graduation, Vale McKinley and her boyfriend Crawford are in a terrible car accident that leaves Crawford in a coma. They were supposed to spend the summer planning for college, for a bright future full of possibility. Together. Instead, Vale spends long days in the hospital, hoping Crawford will awaken. Slate Allen, a college friend of Vale’s brother, has been visiting his dying uncle at the same hospital. When he and Vale meet, she can’t deny the flutter of an illicit attraction. She tr...