Author: Jolie

I love to read. My favorite genres are women's fiction, romance, psychological thrillers, fantasy, young adult, steampunk, dystopian, LGBTQIA, and paranormal.

Catalyst Moon: Breach by Lauren L. Garcia

Catalyst Moon: Breach

Title: Catalyst Moon: Breach

Author: Lauren L. Garcia

Publisher: Inkitt

Date of publication: August 16th, 2017

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Number of pages: 413

POV: 3rd person

Series: Catalyst Moon

Incursion – Book 1 (review here)

Breach – Book 2

Where you can find Catalyst Moon: Breach: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

In an uncertain world on the brink of chaos, can love and destiny prevail?

When Kalinda parts ways with Stonewall at Whitewater City, she has no idea if she will ever see him again. But when their paths cross once more, they find themselves in the middle of impending turmoil.

Fear is consuming the land as the body-snatching thralls are multiplying and destroying everything in their path. Meanwhile, rebellion is brewing between the mages and sentinels and threatening to rock the very foundations of their co-existence.

Trigger Warning: None

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Aaru (The Aaru Cycle: Book 1) by David Meredith

Aaru (The Aaru Cycle Book 1) by [Meredith, David]

Title: Aaru

Author: David Meredith

Publisher: Unknown

Date of publication: July 9th, 2017

Genre: New Adult, Science Fiction

Number of pages: 295

POV: 3rd person

Series: The Aaru Cycle

Aaru – Book 1

Where you can find Aaru: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

“…Death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future…” 
-Friedrich Nietzsche 

Rose is dying. Her body is wasted and skeletal. She is too sick and weak to move. Every day is agony and her only hope is that death will find her swiftly before the pain grows too great to bear. 

She is sixteen years old. 

Rose has made peace with her fate, but her younger sister, Koren, certainly has not. Though all hope appears lost Koren convinces Rose to make one final attempt at saving her life after a mysterious man in a white lab coat approaches their family about an unorthodox and experimental procedure. A copy of Rose’s radiant mind is uploaded to a massive supercomputer called Aaru – a virtual paradise where the great and the righteous might live forever in an arcadian world free from pain, illness, and death. Elysian Industries is set to begin offering the service to those who can afford it and hires Koren to be their spokesmodel. 

Within a matter of weeks, the sisters’ faces are nationally ubiquitous, but they soon discover that neither celebrity nor immortality is as utopian as they think. Not everyone is pleased with the idea of life everlasting for sale. 
What unfolds is a whirlwind of controversy, sabotage, obsession, and danger. Rose and Koren must struggle to find meaning in their chaotic new lives and at the same time hold true to each other as Aaru challenges all they ever knew about life, love, and death and everything they thought they really believed. 

Trigger Warning: None

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Holding by Graham Norton

Holding

Title: Holding

Author: Graham Norton

Publisher: Atria Books

Date of publication: August 1st, 2017

Genre: General Fiction

Number of pages: 272

POV: 3rd person

Where you can find Holding: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Graham Norton’s masterful début is an intelligently crafted story of love, secrets, and loss.

The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn’t always been this overweight; mother of­ two Brid Riordan hasn’t always been an alcoholic, and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn’t always felt that her life was a total waste.

So when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke – a former­ love of both Brid and Evelyn – the village’s dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated PJ struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community’s worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret.

Darkly comic, touching and at times profoundly sad. Graham Norton employs his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of loveable characters, and explore – with searing honesty – the complexities and contradictions that make us human.

Trigger Warning: Child Death, Alcoholism, Cheating

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Colorless by Rita Stradling

Colorless

Title: Colorless

Author: Rita Stradling

Publisher: Rita Stradling Books

Date of publication: August 8th, 2017

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Number of pages: 286

POV: Alternating 1st person

Series: Colorless

Hazel – Prequel

Colorless – Book 1

Where you can find Colorless: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

In Domengrad, there are rules all must live by: Fear the Gods. Worship the Magicians. Forsake the Iconoclasts.

To Annabelle Klein, the rules laid down by the Magicians are the mere ramblings of stuffy old men. As far as she’s concerned, the historic Iconoclasts, heretics who nearly destroyed the Magicians so long ago, are nothing but a myth. She has much more important matters to worry about.

Heiress to a manor mortgaged down to its candlesticks and betrothed to her loathsome cousin, sixteen-year-old Annabelle doubts the gods could forsake her more.

Then Annabelle is informed of her parents’ sudden and simultaneous deaths, and all of the pigment drips out of her skin and hair, leaving her colorless. Within moments, Annabelle is invisible and forgotten by all who know her. 

Living like a wraith in her own home, Annabelle discovers that to regain her color she must solve the mystery behind her parents’ murders and her strange transformation. 

Meanwhile, hundreds of the Magicians’ monks, with their all-black eyes and conjoined minds, have usurped control of Annabelle’s family manor. An Iconoclast is rumored to be about—a person who they claim goes unseen, unheard, and lost to memory, yet is the greatest threat to all of Domengrad. For the first time in a hundred years, the monks plan to unleash the dire wolves of old. 

Their only target: Annabelle.

Trigger Warning: None

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The List by Patricia Forde

The List

Title: The List

Author: Patricia Forde

Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Date of publication: August 8th, 2017

Genre: Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Number of pages: 336

POV: 3rd person

Where you can find this book: Amazon

Goodreads synopsis:

In the city of Ark, speech is constrained to five hundred sanctioned words. Speak outside the approved lexicon and face banishment. The exceptions are the Wordsmith and his apprentice Letta, the keepers and archivists of all language in their post-apocalyptic, neo-medieval world.

On the death of her master, Letta is suddenly promoted to Wordsmith, charged with collecting and saving words. But when she uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language and rob Ark’s citizens of their power of speech, she realizes that it’s up to her to save not only words but culture itself.

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Hunger (The Energy Vampires: Book 2) by Jacquelyn Frank

Hunger: The Energy Vampires Book Two

Title: Hunger

Author: Jacquelyn Frank

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Loveswept

Date of publication: August 8th, 2017

Genre: Romance, Paranormal

Number of pages: 320

POV: 3rd person

Series: The Energy Vampires

Thirst – Book 1

Hunger – Book 2

Where you can find Hunger: Barnes and Nobles | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Dark cravings and illicit bloodlust are back in a novel of forbidden love set against the backdrop of an all-out vampire war, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightwalkers saga.

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Dirty Deeds (The Dirty: Book 1) by HelenKay Dimon

Dirty Deeds (The Dirty, #1)

Title: Dirty Deeds

Author: HelenKay Dimon

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Loveswept

Date of publication: August 8th, 2017

Genre: LGBTQIA, Romance

Number of pages: 250

Series: The Dirty

Dirty Deeds – Book 1

Dirty Games – Book 2 (expected publication date: March 13th, 2018)

Where you can find Dirty Deeds: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Alec Drummond didn’t make his billions by playing nice—or by playing much at all. When it comes to pleasure, Alec only has time for whatever’s quick and easy, which is exactly what he gets from his company’s hot new computer genius. But Gaige Owens isn’t some pushover. He pushes back, and it’s giving Alec a rush. The question is, could Gaige be the one who’s leaking trade secrets? Just to be safe, Alec keeps him close at hand . . . night and day.

Gaige never thought he’d roll over for a man like Alec again, but who could resist sex this mind-blowing? Then there’s the draw of Alec’s mysterious side: his cutthroat ambition, his covert CIA connections, and the murder in his past. For Gaige, a deeper look proves an irresistible temptation. But when Gaige and Alec are stripped of their defenses by an unseen danger, everything they don’t know could bring them closer together—or tear them apart. Only one thing is certain: Before it’s all over, someone’s going down.

Trigger warnings: Suicide

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Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker

Title: Emma In The Night

Author: Wendy Walker

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Date of publication: August 8th, 2017

Genre: General Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

POV: Alternating 1st person and 3rd person

Where you can find Emma In The Night: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back…

One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn’t add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister’s return might just be the beginning of the crime.

Trigger Warning: Child Abuse, Mental Illness

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Environmentally Friendly by Elias Zanbaka

Environmentally Friendly

Title: Environmentally Friendly

Author: Elias Zanbaka

Publisher: E. Z. Entertainment

Date of publication: March 5th, 2016

Genre: Thriller, Action, Short Story

Number of pages: 29

POV: 3rd person

Where you can find Environmentally Friendly: Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Out of seven billion people, one man has declared war on Mother Nature and plans to bring it to its knees.

Out of all the criminals in Los Angeles, he’s the number one target being hunted by the LAPD tonight.

And out of the entire LAPD, one officer is hell-bent on helping him complete his mission.

Trigger Warning: None

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FountainCorp Security: Diaries of a Space Marine by Watson Davis

FountainCorp Security: Diaries of a Space Marine by [Davis, Watson]

Title: FountainCorp Security

Author: Watson Davis

Publisher: Self-published

Date of publication: December 10th, 2016

Number of pages: 259

Genre: Science Fiction

POV: 1st and 3rd person

Where you can find FountainCorp Security: Barnes and Noble | Amazon

Book synopsis (from Goodreads):

Interplanetary Terrorism, Corporate Backstabbing, and Nanotech Zombies! 

Dorothea, decorated veteran of the Martian Marines and paroled war-criminal, has a new job using her old skills, but her first mission takes off on the wrong foot. In a zombie-infested station, every mistake can be your last.

In this military sci-fi romp across the solar system, Watson Davis weaves a tale of intrigue and terror with guns and blasters blazing.

Buy this book and start reading the Diaries of a Space Marine series today!

Trigger Warning: None

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