Book Nook Reviews
"Its a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place"
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- Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Adult Fantasy Book Review
1/20/2024
Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
The perfect book to pick you out of your reading slump. Violet, a smart, strong minded women stuck in a fragile body is thrown into a whirlwind of danger, dragons and romance. She must learn to defend herself in a world that is against her, and a body that is threatening to destroy her. She will find steamy love, adventure, and excitement in her new world.
YA Fantasy Book Review
2/15/2024
A Winters Promise
by Christelle Dabos
Ophelia, a women who has a special ability to connect and read the memory of objects, has always felt set apart from everyone, including her family. When she is thrown into an arranged marriage where she must be sent off to a strange place, she must face her fears while discovering the dark secrets that exist in her new world.
YA Fantasy Book Review
12/11/2023
Dance of Thieves
by Mary E. Pearson
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Kazi, a talented street thief has always had to make it on her own to survive, until she earns a place in the queens inner circle. Jase, a prince in a turbulent kingdom on the cusp of war, finds himself the new leader. When Kazi is assigned a mission in the kingdom, she must travel outside of her homes bounds. After unforeseen circumstances force Jase and Kazi to learn how to survive together, there bond might be the only thing that can save the kingdom.
YA Fantasy Book Review
3/2/2024
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Divine Rivals
by Rebecca Ross
In a world where Gods roam the Earth and rage war, Iris works as a columnist at the Oath Gazette. With her brother missing and her mother suffering from addiction, she does not know her place in the world but to hold her family together. When she starts writing letters on her magic type writer, they unknowingly land in the hands of Roman, her rival at the Gazette. As there connection grows, so does the war, and it might throw them both into more danger than they could ever imagine.
YA Fantasy Book Review
12/26/2023
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Scarlett has always dreamed of leaving her small island, and seeing Caraval, a magical and mystical performance across the land. When she is forced into an arranged marriage, she decides to make her dreams come true. However, when her sister Tella is kidnapped by the head game maker Legand, she must solve the mysteries of Caraval before it is too late. In a tale of love and family, Tella must learn to trust her instincts and see through the performance.
Romance Book Review
11/5/2023
Hunting Adeline
by H.D Carlton
The second book in the Haunting Adeline duology, Hunting Adeline continues Adeline and Zades dark and sexual story. Adeline is taken, and Zade needs to do everything in his power to get her back. Covering dark and disturbing themes, we see Adeline deal with the frightening realities of human trafficking and struggles with PTSD. Zade reveals his past and secrets. Together they will fight to get back to each other, and struggle with there severe traumas along the way.
Romance Book Review
1/4/2024
Icebreaker
by Hannah Grace
An adorable love story. Anastasia, a competitive, head strong figure skater wants nothing more than for her olympic dreams to come true.
Nathan Hawkins, the captain of their colleges ice hockey team battles with his own troubles that might threaten his hockey career. When an unforeseen miscommunication thrusts both their lives together, they must learn to work together and confront their emotions.
YA Fantasy Book Review
11/5/2023
Spells For Forgetting
by Adrienne Young
Full of mystery and murder, spells for forgetting feels like a cozy, foggy night in a wooden cottage. Full of mystery, murder and love. When a mysterious fire and death occurs on the small mystical island, Emery's childhood best friend is accused of the crime. Years later, Emery must confront her past when August, the accused, comes to the island again. She must solve the mystery from so many years ago, and discover that everything is not always as it seems
Romance Book Review
2/5/2024
God of Malice
by Rina Kent
A dark and steamy romance, God of Malice is another in a line of Rina Kents expansive universe. Killian, a brooding, neurotypical college student, develops an obsession with Glyndon, a perfectly polished college student with demons in the closet. When Killian and Glyndon have a unexpected encounter in the woods, Killian brings out Glyndons dark sexual desires, and Glyndon shows Killian what it means to feel.
Adult Fantasy Book Review
3/6/2024
Manacled
by SenLinYu
A fan fiction stemming off of the Harry Potter universe, Manacled explores what could have happened if the Order of the Phoenix lost the war. Hermonie wakes up with severe memory loss, forced into doing the Death Eaters wishes. And when Draco is tasked to handle her, she must recover her memories of who she was before her capture. Everything and everyone is not as they seem, and Draco might be more to Hermonie than she thinks. Written in the past and present, I was thoroughly shocked with how well written and paced this story was. The love, action and darkness will touch you to your core.
Romance Book Review
2/7/2024
God of Fury
by Rina Kent
A gay love story, Brandon is the picture perfect golden boy with a dark past that he thought he had buried. He had never confronted his sexuality before. However, when Nikolai unexpectedly enters his life, a self assured mafia leader, he must confront his past and his emotions. But will it prove too much to bear?
YA Fantasy Book Review
3/27/2024
From Blood and Ash
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Poppy has never had a life of her own. She is the chosed, the maiden, destined to be given to the Gods from the moment of her birth. To everyone else, this seems like the highest honor, but to Poppy, all she ever wanted was to live by her own rules. Separated from the world in her room, she has never been able to experience anything. With her secret abilities and her adventurous spirit, Poppy is presented with challenges that change her views on the world, and discover what it truly means to love and explore. With danger in the distance and a looming threat that has made its way into her own world, she must decide between duty and survival.