At Flame Rock Middle School, you show off your big biceps, post your dimples on InstaWitch, grow a cheetah tail, or use your fairy wings to fly down the hall. For Simon, wearing his peers’… Book Review of Freckles: The Dark Wizard, a middle grade fantasy by Jerry Harwood
For Zed and Tuesday, adjusting to life in modern-meets-medieval Falinnheim means normal is relative. Lots of kids deal with moving, starting new schools, and doing chores. But normally, those schools aren’t in underground bunkers full… Book Review of The Secret Benefits of Invisibility, a middle grade fantasy adventure by C. W. Allen
There are those who are born into loving families and then there are the less fortunate who must forge their own families through strong friendships. At a local small library in New York City, one… Book Review of Like a Lily Among the Thorns, a speculative fiction by Karen S. Bell
2021 Best Teen Book Award Finalist Indies Today High schooler Nicole Hallett has just about had it with her brother Jay, so when a mysterious man appears with an offer to replace him with a… Book Review of The Finest Lies, a young adult novel by David J. Naiman
Special Forces Soldier Alex Kellan has three problems. He’s on forced medical leave, he’s alone on Christmas, and two men are actively stalking his every step. Things get worse when Kellan wakes up in a… Book Review of The Nexus Game, a fantasy novel by Shami Stovall
A suspenseful incident in a forbidden preserve heightens the senses of five friends. But furious battles confront the boys as they try to understand their sensory super powers in a race to save mankind. With… Book Review of Discovery of the Five Senses, a YA urban fantasy by K.N. Smith
She’s destined to save the world . . . if she doesn’t destroy it first. Calandra’s destiny is also her doom. As the most powerful healer since the woman who sank Atlantis, she’s been raised… Book Review of The Undine’s Tear, a YA epic historical fantasy by Talena Winters
Small Town. Big Murder. The number one secret to my success as a bodyguard? Staying under the radar. But when a wildly public disaster and a dead client blew up my career and reputation, it… Book Review of Big Shot, a cozy mystery by Kirsten Weiss
Daphne’s a typical mermaid, and at least according to her, that’s a problem. She’s courageous and has a beautiful singing voice, but lacks the power of an elemental, the ability to command water with the… Book Review of The Mermaid and the Unicorns, a middle grade fantasy adventure by L.T. Getty
A compelling gothic fairytale by bruja and award-winning writer Maria DeBlassie. The women of Sueño, New Mexico don’t know how to live a life without sorrows. That’s La Llorona’s doing. She roams the waterways looking… Book Review of Weep, Woman, Weep, a gothic fantasy by Maria DeBlassie