★★★★★ Once upon a time, there was a human girl stolen away by faeries, and because of that, she swore to destroy them. This was everything I hoped it could be, and more.  Jude, a human raised in Faerieland, spent her entire life undermined and controlled by the often cruel whims of the Faeries. She's hated and feared the… Continue reading The Wicked King – Holly Black

★ IT WAS A COMPLETE DISASTER. Whelp...that was horribly disappointing... I cannot begin to explain how utterly...blah this one was. SO many people recommended it, and I honestly feel a bit awful with the low rating - but ehhh, what's the point of goodreads if I can't rant?  How to Write a Hit YA Novel 101  (In… Continue reading Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo

★★★★ The air was still, not a sound to break the velvet darkness of the night. He pointed the flashlight into the well and peered down..he stopped. There was something in the well. Paul Russo and his family are hurting - he just lost his wife to a brief but terrifying fight against cancer -… Continue reading Stillwell – Michael Phillip Cash

★★★ ½ Brad held up a lantern, letting the light pool around them. It was quiet here....Shadows stretched on the whitewashed stone... Brad and Julie, power couple, love to flip houses - the older the better! Well, Julie loves it and Brad doesn't mind it. Well...he used to not mind it. This had to be the worst flip they'd ever… Continue reading The Flip – Michael Phillip Cash

★★★★ ½ "I'm one of the best witch-hunters out there, if I don't stop her, who will?" Hunter Astley, witch-hunter extraordinaire, is about to experience hisgreatest challenge yet. Hunter is a seventh-generation witch-hunter, which in and of itself is an extremely rare thing. There are so few of us....there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of first gens. Only about… Continue reading The Shadow Rises – K.S. Marsden

★★★★ ½ "I didn't choose to start this, but I'm choosing to finish it." Keriya Nameless lives in a world where she constantly feels boxed in - there's so much she wants to do, but very little that she is able allowed to do. The village elders state she cannot ever become a full member of their village because… Continue reading Dragon Speaker – Elana A. Mugdan

★★★★ On a lush, green land lived a kingdom of deer....Among the herd was a handsome prince with the most stunning and powerful antlers. This handsome deer prince, Stag, was to inherit the kingdom...but little does he know, being king is a lot of work. And by a lot, I mean a lot . He was selfish and… Continue reading The Stag’s Crown – Errol Fern

★★★★★ "How well do you know Cassie Stevens?" "...Pretty well, I guess." He shrugged. "Why?" "Just be careful. There's something really wrong with her." Cassie, aged 16, has not had an easy time since her father died. She's almost inexplicably drawn to darkness and the macabre. And what began as gentle curiosity has evolved into something much,… Continue reading Hell – Tom Lewis

★★★★★ She's never been good to me. She's always been different with me. The Butler family - Althea, Viola, Lillian and Joe - had a rough childhood. They've each managed to escape but not without scars.  Althea, powerful and dominating, pulled her younger siblings up and out from squalor and raised them herself. She finds herself in the… Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls – Anissa Gray

★★★★ "That's where I'm going. That's where it ends. That's where I will find answers." In a world where every disease is cured, the human population skyrocketed and they are forced to colonize a new planet (Pearl). But what appeared as a promising start for the next era of human civilization, devolves into something...rather unexpected. They ran… Continue reading Our Dried Voices – Greg Hickey