REVIEW: The Silkworm (#2) - Robert Galbraith

Title: The Silkworm (#2)
Author: Robert Galbraith
Series: Cormoron Strike
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Format: Audiobook
Time: 17Hrs 16Mins
Narrator: Robert Glenister
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises.

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before...

REVIEW: Whiteout - Gabriel Dylan*

Title: Whiteout*
Author: Gabriel Dylan
Series: Red Eye
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Format: E-Book
Pages: 384 Pages
Release Date: 25th December 2018 (EBOOK)
                       10th January 2019 (PAPERBACK)
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

*RECEIVED FROM NETGALLEY FOR AN HONEST REVIEW*

Goodreads Blurb

‘She sat us all down and told us a story. About things that lived in the woods. Things that only came out at night.’

For Charlie, a school ski trip is a perfect escape from his unhappy home life. Until a storm blows in and the resort town is cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped on the mountain, the students wait for the blizzards to pass, along with mysterious ski guide Hanna. 

But as night falls and the town’s long-buried secrets begin to surface, the storm is the least of their problems….

REVIEW: Jackaby (#1) - William Ritter

Title: Jackaby (#1)
Author: William Ritter
Series: Jackaby
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Paperback
Pages: 299 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.

REVIEW: Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel - A. W. Jantha

Title: Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel
Author: A. W. Jantha
Publisher: Freeform Books
Format: Hardback
Pages: 521 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.

Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest death-defying scheme.

REVIEW: Legion (#4) - Julie Kagawa

Title: Legion (#4)
Author: Julie Kagawa
Series: Talon Series
Publisher: MIRA Ink
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Dragon hatchling Ember Hill was never prepared to find love at all--dragons do not suffer human emotions--let alone the love of a human and a former dragonslayer, at that. With ex-soldier Garret dying at her feet after sacrificing his freedom and his life to expose the deepest of betrayals, Ember knows only that nothing she was taught by dragon organization Talon is true. About humans, about rogue dragons, about herself and what she's capable of doing and feeling.

In the face of great loss, Ember vows to stand with rogue dragon Riley against the dragon-slaying Order of St. George and her own twin brother Dante--the heir apparent to all of Talon, and the boy who will soon unleash the greatest threat and terror dragonkind has ever known.

Talon is poised to take over the world, and the abominations they have created will soon take to the skies, darkening the world with the promise of blood and death to those who refuse to yield.

REVIEW: The Game of Love and Death - Martha Brockenbrough

Title: The Game of Love and Death
Author: Martha Brockenbrough
Publisher: Scholastic
Format: Paperback
Pages: 329 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Love is more than a game. 

Love and Death choose their players in an eternal game. Death has never lost and Love will do anything to win. 

Henry and Flora find each other, not knowing they are the players. Can their love be enough to keep them both alive?

REVIEW: Endurance (#4) - Georgia Cates

Title: Endurance (#4)
Author: Georgia Cates
Series: Sin Series
Publisher: Georgia Cates Books LLC
Format: E-Book
Pages: 228 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

I'm a doctor. Mobster. Killer.
My hands are covered in filth. I don't have the right to touch anything as clean and pure as Ellison MacAllister.

I distance myself ... always remaining obscure, composed, restrained.
Careful to never allow my eyes to linger too long.
Careful to hide my interest.
Careful to keep my burning desire buried beneath the surface.

I do it for her--suffer in silence--because it's what is best for the woman I love.
And she has no idea.

She'll be initiated as a Fellowship member soon. One of my mafia brothers will go through endurance so he'll earn the right to claim her.
Make her his wife.
Kill. Me. Slowly.

I'm running out of time. Only a month remains before she's beyond my reach forever.
I want to taste her. Share sleepless nights. Ride out her storm.
I want to give her the kind of nights she will still feel between her legs the next morning.
I want us to share the kind of passion that forms on our skin and drips down to saturate the sheets.
Between the sweat and the moans and the messy hair, I want her to know how hard she's been loved.

To have her is to taint her.
I should stay away. But I won't. I can't.
I'm a selfish bastard.
A selfish bastard in love.