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Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! This series are standalone novellas with HEAs for main couples! However, there are little Easter Eggs and previous characters popping up. I read this one first before reading book one so I'm going to review them the way I read them = out of order (gasp)! * * * "Monsters are real." Monsters are real and they aren't the ones your typical monster lover author writes about. If you are caught outside after warning sirens, then you better have written out a will. . .  Max's tired of being stalked by a monster! Our ex-monster hunter is done of just sitting in his house watching the monster who watches him. He decides to take things into his own hands and confront said monster. He has nothing to lose so why should he care if his life ends? Yet, something about the monster fascinates him and has him awestruck by its beauty. NO, Max, no! It is a monster he should hate it, loathe it with every fiber of his being. . .right?!  "No one enjoys ...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! "Poor Eugine was in for a very, very, interesting day." Ah yes, let me get a coffee with multiple shots of a love potion. . . A mix up gone wrong or possibly very right?  Eugine is trying to be the best assistant he possibly can be, but Maeve doesn't make things easy for him. His curvy, cat-girl boss is a goddess in his eyes but our poor, shy, mantis can't bring himself to say those things out loud. I mean Maeve is viewed as a cold-hearted-tyrant of a boss so it may end with him out of a job. Little do either of them know that things are about to get very spicy, and HR will not approve! "I wasn’t going out of my mind, I’d been spelt." - Maeve This read is only seventy-two pages long but oh my!  While reading I kept getting "The Devil Wears Prada" or "The Proposal" vibes. Maeve has very high standards for everyone around her and if you don't meet those, goodbye. Eugine has lasted longer than the previous a...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! First off if you haven't read " Fall of the King Saber " book 3 in "The Tales of the Swordsmen" read that first! This little novella contains spoilers for the ending of said book! * * * * “Oh, Li Ming, how am I supposed to raise this wayward daughter of yours? She is wicked and wild and will not treat her elders with respect." - Tao Jun This is a fun little read as a 0.5 between " Fall of the King Saber " and " Echo of the Blue Mountain "! Shu Yan and Tao Jun come across a woman being harassed by a man. Shu Yan intervening and showcasing how much she has matured under her teachings with Li Ming and Tao Jun. Only like a lot of men who can't take no for an answer A Dou isn't letting go of what Shu Yan did. . . How will our little apprentice handle this sequence of events?! I've missed Shu Yan's snark and sass along with Tao Jun and his dramatics! The two pairing well as Tao Jun teaches Shu Yan....

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! First and foremost! This series goes in order and ends on cliffhangers! Major spoilers ahead if you haven't read the previous three volumes of this series! * * * * "Death is the way of the jianghu." - Tao Jun The Swordsmen of Blue Mountain have returned! Only it isn't a joyous occasion as Li Ming remains in a coma and Tao Jun bears the weight of his failures from the temple. All is not lost since Shu Yan was able to steal the Nine Dragon manual back and away from the Black Tigers! But the odds are beginning to stack against them with the presence of a fierce general. . . She Who Pacifies the North has arrived and is leaving burned villages in her wake. General Peng is here to set things straight and flush out the Black Tigers but at what cost? Our ragtag team will have to come together and hopefully be enough for what's approaching. Shu Yan continuing her training, but something seems to be missing. Maybe the surprise of a long-lost-f...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! “I just want a boyfriend, Siegfried. Or, at least, a lover…” - Prince Hal Prince Hal suffers from social anxiety and isn't winning at life when it comes to romance. He's just trying his best, but things just aren't working. While everyone focuses on ensuring he will be ready to take on the throne and the kingdom Hal's mind has been elsewhere. Why not make a wish? A birthday wish in hopes romance will find him! Little does our Prince know that the universe actually heard him and has a plan. Hal's wish may be coming true in more ways than one. . . "My soul will not survive this trip." - Prince Hal This novella was so good! Hal just wants to be seen and truly accepted by someone. Someone who doesn't care about his title or what he may or may not have in his trousers. On the night of his birthday celebration, he makes a wish and the next day he thinks maybe someone heard him! Because our prince nearly trips over his own jaw wh...

Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! "A hairpin pricking their fingers. A pinkie promise: To death and beyond, I vow to thee. Kill or die or bury a body." Sadie Greer had the world in her hands and an exciting future to look forward to but all of that changed when her best friend turned popular. Leaving her nerdiness in the dust and turning into the Queen Bee of their school. Washed out and tired of life Sadie doesn't wish for anything more ensuring to keep her distance from anyone and everyone. She may have gotten away with it to if it hadn't been for Honey showing up randomly at her doorstep asking if Sadie would help to bury a body?! Not only does Honey call upon the ancient blood vow but the girls are about to embark on a "murder road trip"! Honey's a newly turned vamp and she wants to make those who turned her pay, an indie band that she will track across the states to stop! Can Sadie get through this ordeal without thinking about or bringing up the past? ...