Month: January 2021

Book Spotlight: Dragonkin by Sam Accardi

Book Spotlight: Dragonkin by Sam Accardi

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Dragonkin
Sam Accardi
360 pages
Published January 11, 2021
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Find out more about Sam Accardi on his website.

Kanaahn, Arial, Arkas, Shooter, and Drakhart have been friends for years. In the harsh criminal landscape of the town of Kula, they’ve had to grow up fast, but they’ve pulled through by sticking together. Yet lately, a rift has grown between Drakhart and Kanaahn. Drakhart feels unheard, pushed aside by the group’s self-appointed leader. Kanaahn can’t understand why Drakhart has been lashing out and withdrawing from their friends.

Then Kanaahn finds five dragon eggs in a cave outside town. In one fateful hatching, these young vigilantes become the fabled Khaleeshir—humans bonded to dragons and entrusted with great magical abilities, guardians of man and dragon alike. They are also harbouring the most-hunted creatures in the entire country of Altimara.

The five friends must travel across a vast desert, train with a hidden dragon council, and delve into ancient magic to learn their destiny and prepare to face the greatest threat to the continent of Enayra in a thousand years: Tenebrae, the human-despising black dragon who perfected the forbidden Blood Magic. No one can be trusted. Every choice they make is a strain on their already endangered friendship. The further they dig, the closer they get to losing each other.

Some relationships you can’t put off repairing without paying a steep price.

Review: Shield & Shade by Misty Hayes

Review: Shield & Shade by Misty Hayes

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Shield & Shade
Misty Hayes
472 pages
February 3rd 2021
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For fans of STORM AND FURY and MORTAL INSTRUMENTS. The Ascended Guardians series is a supernatural thrill-ride that never lets up.

It’s been over ten years since fifteen-year-old Zoey Taylor wandered away from her family home in the middle of the night. Or so she’s been told, repeatedly, by her mother—but the only thing Zoey knows for sure is that when her older brother, Corinth, found her in the woods, safe and unharmed, she returned with a crippling fear of the dark and no other memories from those lost days—except strange flashes of sharp teeth and red-flaming hair.

Since that time, she’s become a star pupil and is on track to graduate early … if and that’s a big IF her overprotective family doesn’t get in the way of her dreams first.

But when one of the wealthiest, enigmatic philanthropists on the planet—Gabriel Stanton—shows up on her doorstep on Thanksgiving Day, and reveals the truth about what really happened to her all those years ago, it completely shatters her perception of the world.

And the story isn’t anything like what she’s been told.


Misty Hayes is back with a new spin-off series! If you haven’t read The Blood Dagger series yet… then what are you waiting for? Go and fetch those books first before picking up Shield & Shade.

If you are familiar with The Blood Dagger books, you’ll be happy to witness the return of all our favorite characters, plus a few more new additions. Cor’s little sister Zoey has grown older and has her own POV chapters—which were absolutely great. I love her. I can’t wait to see where her story will go.

Misty Hayes has such a talent with creating wholly different types of characters—good, shades of gray, and evil— I love all of them.

I wasn’t sure what to expect with Shield & Shade, since certain things had changed in the events of The Blood Dagger series, but as you can see I can’t express exactly how much I adore this book without going full fangirl.
Review: Cage of Glass (#1) by Genevieve Crownson

Review: Cage of Glass (#1) by Genevieve Crownson

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Published January 15, 2021
248 pages
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EVERYTHING LUNA’S EVER KNOWN HAS BEEN A LIE.

Sixteen-year-old Luna Redwood was born into a world of conformity and lives a life of scarcity—thanks to a ruling that requires mandatory eye scans to determine social status. But when her mother sells her back to the government, everything tilts on its head.

With nowhere to run, and now the property of the establishment, she’s forced to transfer to a different universe where all her life memories will be lost. Determined to hold onto the only thing she has left—her identity— Luna fights them at every turn.

Now she must learn to navigate a new, seemingly perfect world that hides a dark secret while trying to hide a secret of her own. And if the government finds out what she’s been hiding, she might end up dead.

Her only hope of escape? Putting her trust in a mysterious boy she barely knows. One who, if she’s not careful, may betray her in the end.


Cage of Glass isn’t a bad book. It just didn’t ‘wow’ me or give me any particular strong feelings one way or another.

There were some things that made the story stand out from similar books in its genre. The main character was a little frustrating with some of her obviously disastrous choices but I guess for plot reasons they were necessary.

I didn’t feel any connection to the characters and I’m not very keen on continuing the series.