The Book Whisperers

  ' Wolf Girl ' by Leia Stone has restored my enjoyment of shifter books. I procrastinated reading Wolf Girl  because, for me, shifter stories had become so predictable. The surprise and edge of your seat action just was not enough to combat the same old shifter story tropes. I didn’t expect anything different when I finally picked up Wolf Girl  and so I was delighted, overjoyed, and EXCITED! To be proven wrong! Wolf Girl  is a roller coaster ride of adventure, danger, humor, and most of all FUN! These characters are so engaging with witty dialogue interspersed with some extremely emotionally raw moments. Wolf Girl is Demi Calloway a banished wolf from Wolf City (the names of places in this book are as hilarious as the characters themselves!) for a crime her parents committed before she was born. Demi has spent entire life in magical handcuffs that prevent her from shifting. A tragic event in her teens has caused her to have some anger issues, which we all know is...

Rapture by C.N. Crawford My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews Beware the Mythos In book two of CN Crawford's new 'Hades Castle Trilogy' we get a new twist on the myth of Persephone. In the original mythos Persephone is a fertility goddess who is painted in a light, hopeful, innocent manner. In CN Crawford's tale she is far more dark. In Rapture Lila and Samael move through many up and downs. Lila begins the story in captivity after helping the Free Men plant a bomb in Samael's bedroom. The nature of her captivity is such that she can't leave the Iron Castle without being struck down by Samael's magic. While in this captivity Lila is being accosted by a vicious phantom whose identity is key to Lila's predicament. As Lila sets out to discover the identity of this murderous phantom she uncovers truths from the Dovren's past. Samael will face his own demons from the past and come face to face ...

Land of the Beautiful Dead is an epic horror tale of a post-apocalyptic Earth where the dead, don’t stay dead. Land of the Beautiful Dead is not just a zombie horror tale. The Eaters are given a new perspective to us readers by making us relate to their survivors. These are not just mindless, dead, eating machines, they are our beloved dead. They are our mothers, fathers, sons and daughters and that relationship is the true horror that runs through every element of R Lee Smith’s tale. What happens when our beloved dead, do not stay dead? How do we cope with death when our rituals are stripped from us? Lanachee, Lan for short, loses her mother to a violent death. Lan only knows this because people in her world don’t stay dead, they rise up again as mindless eaters. Losing her mother to murder was hard enough but having to break her back and burn her on a pyre brings Lan to new depths of horror. Lan decides then and there she will travel to Haven and ask the Lord of the Dead, Azrael, t...

 Thank you to Goodreads and St.Martin's Press. I won a copy of the ARC in a Goodreads Giveaway. Hailey has been warned for years about the Highway, and you can't miss the billboard on the way into town showing a First Nation woman that disappeared along this highway years ago. People believe several different killers have been hunting on the Highway of Tears since the 1970s. The number of women missing or found dead is larger then it should be. Hailey is trying to adjust to life after her Dad's death and she is living with her Aunt and her Aunt's husband a man named Vaughn that Hailey just tries to avoid in general.  She begins to wonder what all he is hiding as he tries to shut down her life and control her, especially after finding out that she is seeing Amber.Hailey decides that she can't stay with him anymore and makes plans to disappear.  Normally I would go because the second part is told mostly from Beth pov, Beth is Amber's sister and she comes to Cold C...

Of Shadows and Elves by Emma Hamm My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews I very much enjoyed this second installment Emma Hamm’s Goblin King series. There were lots of twists and turns and labyrinthine intrigues. In book one of Emma Hamm's new series, we see Freya enter the Fae realm to rescue her sister from the Goblins. Freya meets the Goblin King and through a set of challenges she defeats him to win back her sister Esther. In book two 'Of Shadows and Elves' Freya realizes that her actions have dire consequences for the Fae realm. Now Freya seeks to fix what she has unwittingly broken and her guide along this path is none other than Arrow, everyone's favorite goblin dog! Freya and Arrow must travel to the Winter Court to try and speak to the Winter Queen. There's bad blood and then there's Fae bad blood and Freya must walk a line between what is true and what is misleading to repair the damage sh...

  Thank you to Netgalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons for  a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Lyndsey Duncan is pretty sure when she receives the phone to call to report in early that her career is over. She knows it can't be good news, but she is stunned to find out that three Russian assets are dead or missing in the last couple of weeks, the most famous is the one they know for sure is dead. Popov made Lyndsey a star and she is truly upset when she finds that he was on his way to D.C. when he died on the flight.  He must have been burned, but Lyndsey thrown for another loop when she learns that these assets must have been burned by someone inside the agency.  Who would betray the agency and why? That is what Lyndsey is going to find out. Theresa Warner is known as the red Widow or the Widow because her husband was killed in Russia trying to protect an asset of his. When she makes a genuine connection with Lyndsey it is the friendship they both need, howev...