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Another Ilona Andrews book I absolutely loved. Are you surprised? (double bingo)

Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

October 4, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars #CBR12 Bingo: Green   Spoiler warning! This is the fifth book total in the Hidden Legacy series, and the second book about Catalina Baylor. This review may spoil details from previous books in the series. If you want to start at the very beginning, the book you want is Burn for Me. If you want to start with Catalina’s books, the first book is Sapphire Flames.    It’s been about six months since the end of the last book, where Catalina Baylor made a very unfortunate, iron-clad deal with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Emerald Blaze, Green, Hidden Legacy, ilona andrews, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, Romance

Malin's CBR12 Review No:69 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Emerald Blaze, Green, Hidden Legacy, ilona andrews, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, Romance ·
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Harry’s back, and this is only the first of the books we get this year

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

September 28, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

No rating until I’ve read the second part of the story. Spoiler warning! This is book 16 in a long, ongoing series. This really isn’t the place to start. Normally, I’d recommend that you start with book 1, but the first three books of The Dresden Files are pretty bad, so you’d be better off starting with book 4, Summer Knight. I highly recommend the audio books, narrated by James Marsters. They’re what finally sold me on the series. Official book description: When the Supernatural nations of the world meet […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr12, faeries, Jim Butcher, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, peace talks, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, shapeshifters, Suspense, the Dresden Files, vampires, wizards

Malin's CBR12 Review No:64 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr12, faeries, Jim Butcher, magic, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, peace talks, Peace Talks/Battle Ground, shapeshifters, Suspense, the Dresden Files, vampires, wizards ·
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Enemies to lovers in a dark, pre-historic world

A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Milla Vane

September 25, 2020 by Malin 3 Comments

Official book description: A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is all that stands against the return of an ancient evil – until the barbarian king and queen are slain in an act of bloody betrayal.   Though forbidden by the alliance council to kill the corrupt king responsible for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: A Gathering of Dragons, A Heart of Blood and Ashes, barbarians, cbr12, dinosaurs, emmalita, historical ficton, magic, Malin, Meljean Brook, Milla Vane, paranormal fantasy, pre-historic

Malin's CBR12 Review No:61 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: A Gathering of Dragons, A Heart of Blood and Ashes, barbarians, cbr12, dinosaurs, emmalita, historical ficton, magic, Malin, Meljean Brook, Milla Vane, paranormal fantasy, pre-historic ·
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A dream is a wish your heart makes (Cannonball!)

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

July 31, 2020 by Malin 6 Comments

#CBR12 Bingo: Orange (would also work for Fresh Start) This is the start of a new series, so it stands alone. You don’t have to have read Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle series, starting with The Raven Boys, but it gives a lot of useful background to Ronan and the other Lynch brothers.   Official book description: The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Call Down the Hawk, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Dreams, forgery, Fresh Start, Maggie Stiefvater, Malin, mystery, orange, paranormal fantasy, the Dreamer Trilogy, Young Adult

Malin's CBR12 Review No:52 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Call Down the Hawk, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Dreams, forgery, Fresh Start, Maggie Stiefvater, Malin, mystery, orange, paranormal fantasy, the Dreamer Trilogy, Young Adult ·
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Sarah J. Maas – now with a whole lot of supernatural creatures and more swearing

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

July 8, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR12 Bingo: Red Official book description: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion—otherwise known as Crescent City— has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city—and Bryce’s world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: angels, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Crescent City, demons, elves, House of Earth and Blood, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, Red, romantic, sarah j maas, shapeshifters, vampires, werewolves

Malin's CBR12 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: angels, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Crescent City, demons, elves, House of Earth and Blood, Malin, mystery, paranormal fantasy, Red, romantic, sarah j maas, shapeshifters, vampires, werewolves ·
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Hoping the series picks up in the sequels

The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston

July 3, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo: Cannonballer Says (previously reviewed by alwaysanswerb, yesknopemaybe and teresaelectro) Official book description: Kera Watson never expected to face death behind a Los Angeles coffee shop. Not after surviving two tours lugging an M16 around the Middle East. If it wasn’t for her hot Viking customer showing up too late to help, nobody would even see her die. In uncountable years of service to the Allfather Odin, Ludvig “Vig” Rundstrom has never seen anyone kick ass with quite as much style as Kera. He knows one […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Call of Crows, Cannonballer Says!, cbr12, cbr12bingo, fighters, magic, Malin, norse mythology, paranormal fantasy, romantic, Shelly Laurenston, the unleashing

Malin's CBR12 Review No:33 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Call of Crows, Cannonballer Says!, cbr12, cbr12bingo, fighters, magic, Malin, norse mythology, paranormal fantasy, romantic, Shelly Laurenston, the unleashing ·
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