The characters are great, and there is some good disability rep. I love how the love story unfolds and the badass heroine who nonetheless has a vulnerable side and thus is very human and relatable.
Born to be a sorceress. Cursed to be an assassin. Chosen to be his empress.Magic has two immutable rules-every spell requires a sacrifice and every curse can be broken.Amira Brindonu is a sorceress turned assassin, bound in a curse that forces her to obey her father, even to the point of high treason. When he orders her to kill the future emperor, she fails, but discovers a secret that could bring the whole of the empire to its knees.The archduke is stricken by a curse that could sentence him and his people to damnation, but Amira could be the only…
The characters are great! Aki is so funny, still my favorite since book 1! I love the bar scene and also the relationship development between the main character and her boyfriend.
Just when she thought she was done with ancient Egyptian magic...Theodora Speer and her art team are sent to New York City to help with a new exhibit. There, she meets Dr. Alan Armstrong, who shows her his collection of forgeries. The moment she’s left alone with them, however, mist fills the room and ghostly hands reach out to her, whispers pleading for her help.Unwilling to let the haunted forgeries suffer any longer, Theo and her boyfriend, Seth, begin to investigate. They soon find evidence of murder...and a murderer who’ll do anything to avoid capture.
It was so interesting to see the world of humans from the POV of someone who had only ever lived in the ocean. Not just "What's a fire and how does it burn?" kind of thing but so much more. (No spoilers!) And some of it was super funny! Just a really sweet story that made me swoon and root for their romance all the way!
A voiceless prince. A desperate princess. A sham romance that turns heart-breakingly real.When cocky Mer prince Kaerius impulsively saves the human princess from drowning, he doesn’t expect to fall in love with her. Yet her human fragility is so unexpectedly sweet that he is soon head over tails. So he bargains his voice to the Lord of the Deep for a chance to court her on land. He's confident that he can win her affection--he's irresistible, after all.But he is a fish out of water in the human world. He didn’t expect it to be so difficult to make Marin…
One bite on her hand, and Mel has a million problems slipping through her fingers.
After a wild animal attack, Melanie Caldwell ends up sick and disoriented. She and her friends think she just needs to go to the doctor. Then she’s kidnapped on the day of the next full moon, and discovers in the worst way that monsters are real . . . and that she has become one of them.
All Melanie wanted was to get a boyfriend and graduate college. Now she has to somehow deal with agonizing monthly transformations, a secret organization stalking her, friends and enemies trying to discover her secret, and hunters looming on the horizon.
