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Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts

Sunday, June 21, 2020

PUMPKINS AND PROMS by Laura Greenwood


Title:  PUMPKINS AND PROMS
Series:  Grimm Academy #2
Author:  Laura Greenwood
Publisher:  Drowlgon Press
Publish Date:   05.14.2020
Category /Genre:  Paranormal Romance, YA
Recommended for:  16+ 
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from:  Laura Greenwood 
Goodreads link: Pumpkins and Proms
Date completed: 06.21.2020

Description from the publisher:

Ella is ready to put on her dancing shoes...

More interested in dresses and parties than her fairy tale, Ella's life is turned upside down when she discovers a pumpkin right before prom.

Welcome to Grimm Academy, where fairy tale characters go to escape their foretold fate.

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Pumpkins and Proms is the second book of the Grimm Academy series and is based on the fairy tale of Cinderella.

Please note: this is an m/f NON-bully academy series.
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PUMPKINS AND PROMS is the second book in the Grimm Academy series.  Though each book focuses on one couple, this is a continuing series and you will definitely want to read them all and in the order of release.

I devour fairy-tale retellings.  I envy any author who can take something so well known and add their own little twist.  Laura Greenwood has decided to take all of our favorite princesses and Prince Charmings and put them together in an English Academy (private high school for us Americans).  The ladies all know they have a prophecy, most with dire outcomes in their futures.

This is Ella’s story and her “prince” is Florian.  The story is sweet with a nice suspense element.  They can count on their friends and there are no “mean girl”(or boy) elements, though there is a villain.  The evil stepmother has her reasons and they make sense when they are revealed – the most human of reasons.

I like how the other characters lives and stories were interwoven into this one so that the reader is invested in the series.  I’m looking forward to reading more, more, more!

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Grimm Academy Series: 
1.      Spindles and Spells
2.      Pumpkins and Proms
3.      Huntsmen and Hoods
4.      Mirrors and Magic
5.      Lamps and Lies
6.      Frosts and Fears 
7.      Tower of Thorns 
8.      Lilies of Loss (releases 06.28.2020)
9.      Glints of Gold (releases 11.12.2020)
10.  The Almost Queen 
11.  The Rightful King 
Also from Laura Greenwood:
·         Assassin Princess (The Assassins Collective #2)
·         Below the Baubles (Seven Wardens #7.5)
·         Blood and Deceit
·         By Any Other Name
·         Catching His Ladybird
·         Clipped
·         Death’s Choice
·         From the Deeps (Seven Wardens #1)
·         Glass Heart
·         Goddess of Virtue
·         Hidden Smoke
·         His Lost Bear
·         The Humra
·         The Journalist
·         One Night
·         Pandora’s Pain (The Harem of Misery #1)
·         Permission to Breathe Denied
·         The Platypus and Her Wolves
·         Priestess of Truth
·         Reaper
·         Rise of the Leviathan (The Leviathan Hunt #1)
·         Sight of Change (Return of the Fae #4)
·         Spell Caster
·         Spellbound
·         Stoking the Embers (Dragon Duels #1)
·         A Touch of Necromancy
·         Under Her Spell
·         Witch’s Potion (Thornheart Coven #1)
·         Wolf Tears
Ashryn Barker Series: 
1.      Shattered Illusions
2.      Broken Illusions
3.      Tarnished Illusions
Beyond the Curse Series: 
1.      Awakening
2.      Betrayed
3.      Cloaked
4.      Accursed
Bite of the Past Series: 
0.5  First Bite
1.      Bite of the Past
Blessed Series: 
1.      Fall of Hope
2.      Rise of Night
3.      Dawn of Pain
City of Blood Series:
0.5  Blood Payment
1.      Drop of Blood
Consorts of the Goddess Series:
o    Quest of the Goddess
o    Trust of the Goddess
o    Heart of the Goddess 
Curtain Call Series: 
1.      What Lies Beneath the Mask
1.5 Recruiting Love
2.      You Know I Do
3.      Do Without You
Dragon Soul Series:
1.      Torn Soul
2.      Bound Soul
Fated Seasons Series: 
Frost’s Forfeit
1.      Saving Eira
2.      Chasing Aledwen
3.      Reigning Eira
The Firehouse Feline Series: 
1.      Feline the Heat 
2.      Feline the Flames 
3.      Feline the Burn 
4.      Feline the Pressure 
Forgotten Gods Series: 
1.      Protectors of Poison: Scorpio (Zodiac Shifters)
2.      Daughter of the Sun
3.      Servant of Chaos
Grimalkin Academy: Catacombs Series: 
1.      Catching a Vampire
2.      Catching a Wizard
3.      Catching a Warlock
Grimalkin Academy: Kittens Series: 
1.      First Time’s a Charm
2.      Second Time’s a Curse
3.      Third Time’s a Crime
4.      Fourth Time’s a Cure
5.      Fifth Time’s a Crisis
Grimalkin Academy: Stakes Series:
0.5  Punishment Fit for the Crime
1.      No Stakes Allowed
2.      Stakes Are Raised
3.      Highest of Stakes
Magic and Metaphysics Academy Series: 
1.      Magical Mischief
2.      Magical Mistake
3.      Magical Misfit
MatchMater Paranormal Dating App Series: 
1.      Reluctant Dragon Mate
2.      Bewitched Incubus Mate
3.      Forbidden Vampire Mate
ME Series: 
1.      Sweet About Me
2.      Kneel for Me
3.      Heard from Me
4.      Laid by Me
5.      Dance with Me
6.      Hustle with Me
Moonrise Series: 
1.      Moonflight
2.      Moonrise
Paranormal Council Series: 
1.      The Dryad’s Pawprint
2.      The Vixen’s Bark
3.      The Necromancer’s Prey
4.      The Vampire’s Bite
5.      The Witch’s Stripes
Rats: Tori Series: 
1.      Ruler of Rats
2.      Collector of Rats
3.      Yuletide of Rats
The Renegade Dragons Series: 
1.      Fifth Soul
2.      Fifth Round
3.      Fifth Flame
Sabre Woods Academy Series:
1.      Tiger Crown 
Untold Tales Series: 
1.      Balanced Scales
2.      Golden Wings
3.      Poisoned Fate
4.      Tainted Ashes
5.      Braids of Silver
Valentine Pride Series: 
1.      Unicorn Mates
2.      Unicorn Luck
3.      Unicorn Truth
The Vampire Detective Series: 
1.      Fangs for Nothing
2.      What the Fangs
3.      Fangs for All 














Saturday, May 16, 2020

WICKED BETRAYAL by Marty Mayberry

Title:  WICKED BETRAYAL
Series:  Darkwater Reformatory #1
Author:  Marty Mayberry
Publisher:  Marty Mayberry
Publish Date:   05.02.2020
Category /Genre:  YA, Paranormal Suspense
Recommended for:  12 - 18
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused
Received from:  Marty Mayberry 
Goodreads link: Wicked Betrayal
Date completed: 05.15.2020

Description from the publisher:

The Hunger Games meets Shadowspell Academy

Nothing beats being locked up in supernatural juvie. If only committing murder wasn't my only way out.

Framed by the head of the Seeker's Guild and sent to Darkwater to serve a life sentence, I'm doomed. The prison is located in the fae world, on an island in the middle of a forbidding sea. Wizards sent there never return.

The moment I arrive, I’m forced to take a series of initiation tests with a snarky, too-hot fellow inmate. If the creatures trying to kill us don’t do him in, I just might. Yet my birth father's at Darkwater, and while he could be the warden, a guard, or a fellow inmate, I’m determined to track him down. He stole something from me when I was a baby, and I want it back.

Once I get what I came for, there are two ways out. Survive the Challenge—another series of trials that take place in the ever-changing, magical catacombs beneath the prison, and they’ll send me to pre-release at Darkwater Reformatory. Or I can fulfill the secret blood bond I made with the Master Seeker. Eliminate a fellow inmate and the Master Seeker will transport me home.

…Except the inmate I must kill is the wizard I'm falling for.
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WICKED BETRAYAL is the first book in the Darkwater Reformatory series.  This is a spin-off of the Crystal Wing Academy series, but you do not need to have read the previous series.

This story is full of magic, adventure, and romance.  There are mean girls and cliques, but no bullying or sex.

Great characters move the story along with beautifully described scenes and action.  I love Tria, Brodin, and Jacey.  It is obvious that Tria and Brodin have romantic chemistry, but the three of them quickly develop the bonds of friendship that make survival in this Dark Prison possible.

Marty Mayberry is Level Five StoryWeaver.  I’ll be counting the days (four months!!) until the next release in the series.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Darkwater Reformatory Series:
1.      Wicked Betrayal 
2.      Wicked Challenge (releases 09.24.2020) 
3.      Wicked Rebellion (releases 12.31.2020) 
Also from Marty Mayberry:
The Crystal Wing Academy Series:
1.      Outling
2.      Dragonsworn
3.      Unraveler
The Janie Davis Mystery Series:
1.      Dead Girls Don’t Lie 
2.      Beware the Ruins (coming soon)