Review: Hocus Pocus & the All-New Sequel

Title: Hocus Pocus & the All-New Sequel
Author: A. W. Jantha
Genre: Humor, Fantasy Fiction, Paranormal fiction

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Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens.

Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.

Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest death-defying scheme.

Review: The Evolution of Ivy: Poison by Lauren Campbell

Title- The Evolution of Ivy: Poison
Author- Lauren Campbell
Genre- Contemporary

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They won't recognize the new me.

But they know the old me well—the me she harmed, and the me he loved.

She thinks she has him. But I'm going to take him back.

He thinks she's the one. But I'm going to show him he's wrong.

I thought it was over. But now I have a chance.

I decided pick up this book at UTOPiA Con after it won Best Debut Novel. I'll be honest, I never heard of it before I went. I started reading it on the place ride back home and couldn't put it down. Lately I've have a hard time reading books in the amount of time that I used to. What used to take me a few days now takes me over a month 😭 I breezed right through this! It was just the right book to get me through a reading slump. I'm still asking myself "if I loved it so much, why am I having a hard time thinking of what to write in my review?" This happens a lot now. I don't know why but it's annoying! I'd love nothing more than to tell you why I needed to be reading this every second of the day. I've got NADA :(

Early on, I knew Ivy was cuckoo bananas... like a straight up crazy Popsicle, dipped in chocolate, rolled in gun powder and set on fire. She should probably be in a loony bin. But with every chapter came a new layer to the story that was Brooks and Ivy that just made her craziness seem justified and less like a stalker. I kinda don't like Brooks, tbh, and I especially hate Eliza! I want to slam her face into this damn desk. My hate for her just grew to an alarming rate that it's probably unhealthy to hate a character so much. I can't even tell you why she's a raging thunder cunt because I don't want to ruin it for you. There's still so much that I need answers to and I'm really hoping Lauren finishes the second book ASAP!

Lauren Campbell lives in Atlanta, GA, with her family, and is author of The Evolution of Ivy: Poison.

She was raised in Columbia, SC, with her three sisters who annoy her greatly.

Lauren's social life is pretty boring, but she loves reading, coffee & hot tea, and living in her pajamas. She's a glutton for punishment, and regrettably signs up for things like Room Mom in her children's classes, leaving her up all night doing things like baking dozens of cookies between swear words. Her favorite food is avocado. If she could, she'd find a way to put it on everything.

Review: THE BURNING OF JUNIPER SLAIDE (THE JUNIPER SERIES Book 1) by Johanna Handley

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Title: The Burning Of Juniper Slaide
Author: Johanna Handley
Published: Sept. 5, 2016
Pages: 227
Format: ebook
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Juniper Slaide is the sole survivor of an arson attack that destroyed her home and killed her family. Nine years later she’s worked hard at putting the past behind her. She clings to her best friend James, the only person she’s been able to trust since the fire.
But one day James disappears.
Juniper tries to find her friend, but she uncovers more than she bargained for. As tensions grow and friendships are tested, she begins to realise that James wasn’t who she thought he was.
And worst of all, his disappearance is connected to her somehow, and what happened to her all those years ago … An exciting thriller full of twists and turns which you wont be able to put down!

Review: Onyx Webb: Book Nine: Episodes 25, 26, 27 & 28 (Onyx Webb #9) by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

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Title: Onyx Webb (Book 9) Epsoides: 25, 26, 27
Authors: Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz
Published: April 28, 2017
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback
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Welcome Back to the World of Onyx Webb! This is Book Nine. (Episodes 25, 26, 27, & 28) Haven't Gotten Entangled Yet? Please Start with Book One.
Book Nine is the most cataclysmic book in the series yet and what we have been building to for so long. The web is almost entirely formed now. But questions remain: what happens to everyone now that it is?
Onyx Webb is a complex multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times.


In Book Nine: The Mulvaney's host the Solstice Eclipse Ball for the Restoring Savannah Foundation and Gerylyn's prediction comes to pass. Stan Lee gets his revenge and Juniper battles a dark evil at the mansion. Onyx Webb spends her days at the lighthouse alone again without Noah Ashley but Noah may have other plans.

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Review: Outpost by Ann Aguirre

Title: Outpost
Author: Ann Aguirre
Series: Razorland #2

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Deuce’s whole world has changed.

Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight.

To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance. Her feelings for Fade haven’t changed, but he seems not to want her around anymore. Confused and lonely, she starts looking for a way out.

Deuce signs up to serve in the summer patrols—those who make sure the planters can work the fields without danger. It should be routine, but things have been changing on the surface, just as they did below ground. The Freaks have grown smarter. They’re watching. Waiting. Planning. The monsters don’t intend to let Salvation survive, and it may take a girl like Deuce to turn back the tide.

Review: Granjy’s Eyes (Modern Tales of Horror) by Matt McAvoy

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Title: Granjy's Eyes
Published: Nov. 7, 2016
Pages: 164
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Meet Ollie. Well-educated and spoilt - a rich kid, fun-loving party-goer and brutal sociopath.
Ruthlessly arrogant Ollie takes what he wants, when he wants it. But Ollie's going to learn, the hard way, that for every action there's a consequence, and for every bounty a price.
Because living with Granjy isn't the bed of roses he thought it was going to be; the blind old lady sees everything - sees him - and most of all sees the monster he is becoming, in a way that nobody else can. And that strange and terrible perception that surely only she has frightens Ollie more than he'll ever admit.
It was she that spoilt him rotten-to-the-core, and now his payment is due. Her sightless eyes and her creepy, knowing smile will compel him to tear apart his own dark soul.
Granjy will teach him new meaning of the word 'remorse'.

Review: Waiting For The Beast by T. Hayden

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Title: Waiting For The Beast 

Published: Feb. 14, 2017
Pages: 309
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What if the Bible has it all wrong about the Anti-Christ?
What if this person is female and what if she actually has a choice?
Meet A.C. a.k.a Angelica Cunningham
Angelica is drop dead gorgeous, lives in a sprawling mansion with her two aunts, attends a prestigious private school, is an A student and excels at everything she does effortlessly. She has a great life.
That's until her 16th birthday and it all goes banana's. One of her aunt's fall mysteriously ill on the brink of death. Angelica is suddenly telepathic, has a heightened sense of smell and is seeing supernatural beings, that only exists in fairy tales.
Angelica's family is forced to tell her the truth. Her aunts are actually supernatural beings that have been charged with protecting Angelica from her father, Lucifer. He has put a bounty on Angelica's head and every creature from the Abyssal Realm a.k.a Hell is looking for her. In addition she has a hot guardian angel that has been assigned to her since birth that she can now see.
She is suddenly thrust into a dangerous, magical world. Between dealing with her new identity, a love triangle, hiding from her father, and just trying to be a teenager she has to make a decision to run, fight or wait for the darkness to consume her.

Review: Five Suns of Treason by Jim Heskett (Part 1)

Title: Five Suns of Treason
Published: December 18, 2014
Genres: dystopian, science fiction
Pages: 76
Format: eBook
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Part one of the three-part Five Suns Saga
Kellen’s tired of politics and the back-stabbing that accompanies it. As a senior staffer to a US senator, he’s privy to all kinds of information, like details about the meteor hurtling though space on a collision course with earth. He also knows what the public has been told isn’t the whole truth, and now he’ll have to decide if exposing the lie is worth trading his life.
Part dystopian epic, part espionage thriller, Five Suns of Treason features six interconnected short stories before, during, and after the downfall of society, with each one unlocking another piece of the mystery of how the world collapsed.

Review: Onyx Webb: Book Eight: Episodes 22, 23 & 24 by Richard Fenton , Andrea Waltz

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Title: Onyx Webb: Book Eight: Episodes 22, 23 & 24
Published:  Jan. 27, 2017
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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The timelines - the web - is more tightened than ever. Although the connections are clear, suspense reigns as always.
Onyx Webb is a complex multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times.
The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of your favorite tv series (think: supernatural soap opera like American Horror Story) each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.
In Book Eight: Onyx and Alistar's grandson Noah grow close as they create a "life" together with exciting new projects. The Mulvaney mansion is crawling with ghosts as a big event looms. Stan Lee continue to make mistakes without consequences, for now.

Review: Dead over Heels by Theresa Braun

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Title: Dead Over Heels

Published: Nov. 16, 2016

Pages: 38
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Veronica’s first date with Sebastian not only stirs up a powerful attraction, but also a series of supernatural events that will tear them apart.
After countless hours of dead end online dating, Veronica meets up with Sebastian at a reportedly haunted restaurant, since he knows she has a fascination with the paranormal. While enjoying their meals and each other’s company, they share a shocking supernatural experience. Their romantic connection is overshadowed by the ghosts of their own pasts that threaten to destroy their budding relationship. Veronica decides she must return to the restaurant to face her past and dig up more answers. Unfortunately, she realizes she must go back, this time with a reluctant Sebastian. In the end, they join forces against the evil that stands between them, but will they make it out alive?

Review: Onyx Webb: Book Seven: Episodes 19, 20 & 21 by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

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Title: Onyx Webb: Book Seven: Episodes 19, 20 & 21 (Onyx Webb #7)
Published: Oct. 24, 2016
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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More questions get answered in Book Seven and the timelines are narrowing much closer.
Onyx Webb is a complex multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times.

The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of your favorite tv series (think: supernatural soap opera like American Horror Story) each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.

In Book Seven: Juniper's brother Quinn visits Koda and will finally see his sister. Stan Lee gets revenge against Mika Flagler. Onyx Webb deals with the crazy film festival and life alone... for now.

Review: Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl (The Zombie Girl Saga #1) by A. Giacomi

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Title: Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl
Published by Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing on Sept. 12, 2016
Genres: young adult
Pages: 268
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Eve used to be an ordinary girl, from an ordinary town, with ordinary dreams, but her dreams rapidly turn into nightmares when one grave mistake leaves her a little less than human and a lot less average.
Eve’s not quite the same girl she used to be. She desperately clings to her humanity as new desires, new abilities, and new urges take over with each passing day.
Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl is a tale that takes you on an emotional and terrifying journey as Eve struggles to cope with her new life and find a cure for her strange illness before time runs out. She desperately clings to her humanity as she tries to control the monster she knows is lurking inside her.
Turns out living was the easy part.

Review: Giovanni Goes To Med School (The Med School Series 1) by Kathy Bryson

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Title: Giovanni Goes To Med School
Published:  March 23, 2016
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Everyone knows zombies aren’t real, no matter how fun. You don’t have to be a med student to know the dead do not get up and walk around in real life. Anyone who’s buried a pet in the backyard knows the dead don’t walk. They don’t even lurch.
So Giovanni is stunned when his patient sits up in the morgue and starts scolding. The night-shift was supposed be a relief, a chance to study in quiet and off-set ridiculous student loans. Babysitting a huge dog and a dead voodoo mambo were not part of the plan. Now he’s got to convince an unbelieving medical community to take action, so he can get back to learning about the dead – not the undead!

Review: Heart on the Devil’s Sleeve (Miki Radicci Book 7/Tenebrous Chronicles) by: M.E. Purfield

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Title: Heart on the Devil’s Sleeve (Miki Radicci Book 7/Tenebrous Chronicles)

Pages: 142

Published: May 28, 2015

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In the seventh book of M.E. Purfield’s urban noir series, Miki Radicci tries to make sense of a string of murders while wading through the lies and myths of her crime-ridden family.
Just as teen psychic and art protégé Miki Radicci is able to get back to work on her art, Federal Marshals knock on her door. No, they are not there for her but for her uncle Tony who recently escaped from prison. Having no idea what is going on, she tries to contact her grandfather who’s been out of town helping a sick friend. But he’s not there. He was never there.

Miki does a little digging in her grandfather’s life and all she can find is a list of doctors deep in psychic research and half of which have been brutally murdered.

With help of her best friends Gray and Miranda, Miki tracks down her family and discovers that they are not what they seem and all the assumptions of her past are wrong.

Review: A Girl Close to Death (Miki Radicci Book 6/Tenebrous Chronicles) by M.E. Purfield

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Title: A Girl Close to Death 

Published:  Feb. 7, 2015
Pages: 127
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While searching for a homeless girl, teen psychic Miki Radicci discovers a plan to rid the world of evil being executed by an old enemy thought to be long gone.

Review: Onyx Webb: Book Six: Episodes 16, 17 & 18 by: Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz

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Title: Onyx Webb: Book Six
Published: July 20, 2016
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
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Haven't Gotten Entangled Yet? Please Start with Book One.
More questions get answered in Book Six and NEW characters are introduced, several others return.
Onyx Webb is a complex multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times.
The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of your favorite tv series (think: supernatural soap opera like American Horror Story) each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.
In Book Six:
The serial killer has taken his ultimate prize.
In 2010, Koda attempts to find the girl in the mirror by crossing over to the other side.
Onyx Webb finally has a new person in her life but like most things, it does not last. 

Review: Onyx Webb: Book Five (Onyx Webb #5) by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

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Title: Onyx Webb: Book Five: Episodes 13, 14 & 15 (Onyx Webb #5)
Published:  April 26, 2016
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
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Welcome Back to the World of Onyx Webb! This is Book Five. (Episodes 13, 14 & 15) Haven't Gotten Entangled Yet? Please Start with Book One.
Readers of the series will see the web tighten in this book, the past and present are slowly starting to catch up to each other and shocking connections continue to be made.

Onyx Webb is a complex multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more. The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times.
The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of your favorite tv series (think: supernatural soap opera like American Horror Story) each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.
In Book Five: It's the 1980's and Bruce Mulvaney starts his own family while a killer watches from afar. It’s 2010, and the Mulvaney's are dealing with Koda's accident. Onyx Webb fights to keep her way of life. 

Review: Reaperlands: Los Muertos Trail: Reaperlands Part Two by Roy Burdine

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Title: Reaperlands: Los Muertos Trail: Reaperlands Part Two
Published:  Aug. 31, 2016
Format: eBook
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A Post-Apocalyptic Western
In the years following the zombie viral outbreak, those who risked their lives to seek out treasure among the wastelands became known as the REAPERS.
Gus and Oscar are back! After a successful Reaping run to the Los Angeles ruins, they set out to bring their scavenger spoils to market, a journey that takes them across the desert plains of the post zombie apocalypse future, and pits them against the mutant hordes of the animal kingdom, and the worst of their own kind, those who would prey on the survivors of a world gone to hell.
For Gus, this mission has a special purpose beyond just the monetary riches of his trade – To deliver a cargo of classic books to the library he is building in the fort city of Los Muertos in an effort to preserve the culture of a civilization that once was.

Review: Onyx Webb: Book Four (Onyx Webb #4) by Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz

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Title: Onyx Webb: Book Four
Published: Jan. 25, 2016
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback
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A multi-genre mash-up that combines elements of supernatural suspense, crime, horror, romance, and more.
The Onyx Webb series follows the unusual life of Onyx Webb along with a central group of characters in various locations and times. The billionaire Mulvaney family, piano prodigy Juniper Cole and her brother Quinn, paranormal show hosts Cryer and Fudge, and a few others make up the core of the series. Written like a book version of a supernatural soap opera, each character’s story moves forward with most every episode. It may appear that the characters are entirely unrelated and yet episode by episode, the connections will become clearer. Like being an inch away from a spider web, with each book, the web will move further and further away revealing the full story of every character and most importantly, the stunning conclusion for Onyx Webb herself.