Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

Review:  Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens

Review: Spell Bound by F.T. L..

Posted April 13, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments

Blurb: Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of In Deeper Waters and So This Is Ever After. Edison Rooker isn’t sure what to expect when he enters the office of Antonia Hex, the powerful sorceress who […]

ARC Review: Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

ARC Review: Blood Like Magic b..

Posted June 13, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 13 Comments

Synopsis: A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him. After years of waiting for her Calling—a trial every witch […]

Review:  Wayward Witch (Brooklyn Brujas #3) by Zoraida Cordova

Review: Wayward Witch (Brookl..

Posted August 29, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

Synopsis: Rose Mortiz has always been a fixer, but lately she’s been feeling lost. She has brand-new powers she doesn’t understand, and her family is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac father’s return home. Then, on the night of her Deathday party, Rose discovers her father’s memory […]

Three YA ARCs, One YA Audiobook, and One YA Finished Copy Mini-Reviews

Three YA ARCs, One YA Audioboo..

Posted September 17, 2018 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Finally, finally getting around to posting a review on a book I read clear back in April, because I was waiting until I finished its sequel, an ARC I had, so I could review them together.  Then another book that I just finished reading this past week, an ARC that was top of my list […]