Phantasma – Kaylie Smith
This book gave me the same vibes as Caraval by Stephanie Garber but a tad bit darker. Phantasma is a game of 9 trails played in the devil’s lair, of all the contestants only one can win the devil’s wish. Ophelia hears about the game coming to New Orleans on her way back home from the morgue little does she know she’ll be competing to find her sister who has run away to play the trails to get them out of their predicament.
Holly – Adalyn Grace
A Novella in the Belladonna series which was such a delight to read. There are spirits haunting the newly located Wisteria Garden, they are stuck in their own time loop which is unfortunate for Signa. She needs to find out how they died and what she can do to solve their unfinished business so they can cross over.
Alchemised – SenLinYu
Paladia is a dark world; One where a necromancer wants to rule with his army of Undying and Necrothralls but the Eternal Flame (resistance) and the current leader Principate Luc won’t let that happen. This war is something else and with Helena stuck in the middle. Helena; Luc’s best friend, healer, alchemist and informant has to step up her game to do what’s right.
The devil’s playground – Charly Cox
Skye is a single mother of two small children who has some friends over; Elena and London. While London is reading bedtime stories to Carter (6) and Abigail (3) she hears both Elena and Skye screaming she knows something isn’t right. She decides to take the kids and hide out in the closet… With her phone still somewhere in the house she can’t call for help, so she tells the kids to stay put while she goes out searching for her phone. Little did she know both attackers were still present and attack London and then kidnapping her with one more thing in mind; torture.
Alone in the Woods – Charly Cox
When the district attorney calls to tell you her brother and sister-in-law are brutally murdered and her niece and her best friend have been kidnapped, you come all guns blazing. Seeing the scene for herself Alyssa comes to the conclusion that whoever did this had a lot of rage; overkill comes to mind. The clock is ticking on finding those teenagers but it’s a hard task without any leads to go on.
The Toybox – Charly Cox
When young girls keep disappearing without a trace, Alyssa and her team need to up their game to get to the bottom of this. When they find the body of a 14-year-old girl; badly beaten and mutilated do they suspect the girls aren’t kidnapped without a purpose but to be part of something horrendous. When they find out how horrendous it actually is, the team has trouble keeping their mind at ease.
