diary of a wannabe writer

Rating: 💚  💚  💚  💚  💚 Author: G. D. Penman Title: The Year of the Knife Published:   November  28th 2 0   17 by Meerkat Press Genre: adult, thriller, urban fantasy Goodreads:  The Year of the Knife by G. D. Penman Amazon: The Year of the Knife (Affiliate link) Received from Expresso Book Tour in exchange for honest review Synopsis: Agent -Sully- Sullivan is one of the top cops in the Imperial Bureau of Investigation. A veteran witch of the British Empire who isn’t afraid to use her magical skills to crack a case. But Sully might need more than a good education and raw power to stop the string of grisly murders that have been springing up across the American Colonies. Every one of them marked by the same chilling calling card, a warning in the form of a legion of voices screaming out through the killers’ mouths: -It IS tHe YEAr oF the KNife.- Sully’s investigation will drag her away from the comforts of home in New Amsterdam, the beautiful but useless hyacinth

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author: Michael Okon Title: Monsterland Genre: paranormal, vampires, zombies, shapeshifters Number of pages: 214 Published: October 13th 2017 by WordFire Press Goodreads:  Monsterland Amazon: Monsterland: Volume 1 (Affiliate link) Received from Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for honest review Monsterland reminded on one of my all time favourite books, Jurassic park, instead of dinosaurs, you get monsters. 😊 In world where global economy was affected by global plague, turning people into zombies, vampires are almost extinct and expedition that is suppose to find big foot, discovers werewolves, billionaire business man Vincent Konrad, find a solution. He builds scary theme park, filled with very real monsters.  On the opening night world leaders are invited to one of seven simultaneous opening. Wyatt, high school senior, and his group of friends get tickets from Vincent himself, after he comes to the fast food restaurant where they work.

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author: Ingrid Seymour Title: Unreality Part of Marked by Fate Boxset Published: October 24th 2017 Genre: paranormal, urban fantasy, romance Goodreads:  Unreality Amazon: Marked by Fate: With Augmented Reality: Read, Watch, Listen. The new ultimate reading experience (Affiliate link) Received from Author in exchange for honest review. OMG, this book is so amazing!!!  It's like mixture of paranormal elements: psychic visions and mind control, murder mystery, friendship and romance. At times it gets really scary, too. Meadow has psychic power that run in the family, on her fathers side (he doesn't have powers). Her powers are very strong, unique and undeveloped. If she is in a room she can "see" everyone and everything that happen in it, like in a overlaid movies of the past events. She calls them bygones. When she was very little and her mother died, she helped police solve her murder and it affected her. She kept her powers l

Word count: 24998 It was a good and bad kind of writing week. At the beginning of the week I really struggled with my story, I almost deleted everything I written so far. I took a step back after that and took a break for few days. I figured few thing out (that are kind of obvious, when you think of it... but very new to me 😏) I took a last look before putting it all in trash. And to my surprise, it's not all that horrible. Apparently you don't have to start all over every time you find something you don't like. You can just re-read it, and fix the part that drives you crazy 😒😧. Another thing that should be no-brainer... ahh, well. So, I never outlined the story before or did any kind of plotting. I know this story, I now everything that happens and when it happens. I lived with it for so long, it should be no problem putting it down on paper. But it is . I realised that there is a difference between writing and writing 😃: writing #1 actual story, coming

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 Author: Farah Oomerbhoy Title: The Last of the Firedrakes Series: Avalonia Chronicles #1 Genre: ya, magic, fae, high fantasy Published: August 15th 2015 by Wise Ink Creative Publishing Number of pages: 488 Goodreads:  The Last of the Firedrakes Amazon: The Last of the Firedrakes: Volume 1 (The Avalonia Chronicles) (Affiliate link) Aurora has a hard life.She was adopted, when she was a baby. After her adoptive parents died, her uncle take her in. They are often mean to her and school is not much easies eather.  One day uncle takes her out of school, to go on trip. In the middle of the night she is kidnaped thrugh magical portal into another world.  With the help of fae, and Black Wolf (like a Robin Hood of Avalonia) she is saved, only to discover she accually belong in this worlds. She has a uncle, that will help her discover who she is and her powers.  She has to train, to develop her powers, so she can take what is rightfully hers. She is enrolled

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 Author: Lisa Olsen Title: Angel of Mercy Series: The Fallen #1 Genre: angels, romance, urban fantasy Number of pages: 252 Published: June 15th 2011 by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Goodreads:  Angel of Mercy Amazon: Angel of Mercy (The Fallen Book 1) Mercy works as a bartender. One night after taking out the trash she is witness to the attack. She tries to help and gets stabbed. Doctors are not sure, if she will even survive, but she makes miraculous recovery and look and feels better than ever. She remember a guy with the piercing blue eyes, from the attack and from the hospital, so she thinks he might have some answers. One day, after spotting him, she decides to follow him.  She finds out he is a fallen angel. He healed her and transformed her in something else, she not just human anymore. I loved the concept and the fast pace of the book. The story pull you right in. What I didn't like is romance in it. Especially Ben, I really dislike him...

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author: Theresa Kay Title: Broken Skies Series: Broken Skies #1 Genre: dystopia, aliens, sci-fi, romance, ya Number of pages: 297 Published: April 2014 Goodreads: Broken Skies Amazon: Broken Skies (Affiliate link) The story is set in future, after catastrophic event killed most of the humans. People form few settlement around the world. Fer years after that, aliens came to Earth, to live her. They have been in conflict with people ever since. In one of those camps live Jax and her twin brother. They use to live alone, so Jax has hard time conforming to the rules of the camp. The camp itself is very weird, women have very little rights. She often escapes outside, to relax. Something happen to her in the past, that still hounghts her. She has panic attacks and is often very anxious. On one of those escapes, she sees aliens landing near bye. Out of curiosity, she stays and looks, instead of running and is almost discovered. Her brother saves her, ac

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author:   Bryan Cohen and Casey Lane Title: Crimson Reborn (part of the Venom & Vampires: A Limited Edition Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Collection) Genre: magic, vampires, shapeshifters, dragons, urban fantasy Published: July 25th 2017 by genreCRAVE Goodreads:  Crimson Reborn This book is sooo good. I read it one sitting, it pulled me in from the first page and I couldn't put it down. And now I desperately need next one. :) Lyra works in Chicago Police Department. She started working there when vampires became public knowledge and her handler disappeared. She is strong and fast, a hunter. Born to hunt vampires. After chasing creature she stumbles on vampire, that is also on a chase. Later she finds out he is FBI agent working on the same case. She hates him, likes him and somehow ends up working with him. Lyra is the kind of hero I LOVE. She is smart and can seriously kick-ass. The book is so action pack, there is no dull mo

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author: Emily Martha Sorensen Title: Fairy Stopwatch Series: Fairy Senses #9 Genre: children's, fairies  Number of pages: 65 Published: October 3rd 2017 Goodread:  Fairy Stopwatch Amazon: Fairy Stopwatch (Fairy Senses Book 9)  (Affiliate link) Received from Author in exchange for honest review Eileen comes from a family, that has magic (human magic) and fairy sense. She desperate to get one too. So when she moves next door to a girl that has one, she is determined to get one too. One day she gets a Stopwatch, that can slow down or accelerate time.  I really liked Eileen. She is determined and stubborn, that gets in trouble a lot. :) I love the writing styles and the message behind it. It has fairytale-esk felling to it.  It's really fun and meaningful story, that is perfect for kids and anyone who loves fairy tales. :) Happy reading. Anie

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 Author: Jedlie Title: The Great Maritini Genre: children's Published: February 6th 2017 by Jedlie Circus Productions, Inc Goodreads:  The Great Maritini Amazon: The Great Maritini (Affiliate link) Received in exchange for honest review. The Great Maritini is a children's book, with important massage, that the biggest magic, is kindness and compassion for another human being. The Great Maritini living a long time ago and was a magician, he was not all that good with magic tricks, except for turning paper into silk. One day he comes across someone that was hurt and perform his biggest magical transformation, with help of compassion and kindness. I like reading that kind of books to my niece, not only to help her love book, but to learn from them. I only wish the font was different, it was a bit hard to read. Happy reading, Anie

Rating: 💚  💚  💚  💚  💚 Author: Andrea Pearson Title: Forsake Published: October 17th 2017 Genre: magic, ya Goodreads:  Forsake Amazon: Forsake (Affiliate link) Received from Author in exchange for honest review. I've read Discern (first book in Mosaic Chronicles) a while ago and really enjoyed it. I loved diving back to this world. I especially love magic system in these book. Only fourth child in the family has magic, that is elemental in nature, and are called Aretes. There is even a university for Aretes.😊  Forsake is set before the events of Mosaic Chronicles. Nicole is in the last year of high school. She has one really good friend Lizzy. They are friends in the true meaning of the word and would do anything for each other. The whole book is like a testament to that. Just before the ball for her Restarting, she actually Restarts. She trows up and faints in class. On the actual ball she is approached by women with little piece of metal to protect in

Author: Farah Oomerbhoy Title: The Rise of the Dawnstar Series:  The Avalonia Chronicles #2 Published: April 24th 2017 Genres: fantasy, ya Goodreads:  The Rise of the Dawnstar Amazon: The Rise of the Dawnstar (Avalonia Chronicles) (Affiliate link)  Synopsis: Aurora Firedrake returns in the spellbinding sequel to The Last of the Firedrakes.  The seven kingdoms of Avalonia are crumbling and evil is spreading across the land like a plague. Queen Morgana is close to finding a way to open The Book of Abraxas and it’s only a matter of time until she uses the power trapped inside its pages to enslave the entire world.  With Avalonia growing more dangerous by the day, Aurora must travel through war-torn lands and deep into the heart of the fae kingdom of Elfi. Her goal is to find a legendary weapon infused with the last of the realm’s ancient magic—the only weapon in the world powerful enough to stop the queen.  Aurora might have survived her first battle against Morgana, but

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author: R. S. Broadhead Title: Chosen Series:  The Urban Legends Series Published: October 24th 2017 Genres: new Adult, supernatural, thriller, horror Goodreads:  Chosen Amazon: Chosen (The Urban Legends Series Book 1)  (Affiliate link) Received from Xpresso Book Tour in exchange for honest review Synopsis: Black eyes. No emotion. No sympathy. Only emptiness. Piper McAdams’s life was normal. Career? Check. Boyfriend? Check. Friends? Check. One unsettling run in with a homeless man turns everything from normal to terrifying. She begins seeing…things. Things she can’t seem to explain or make any sense. As if things aren’t already getting out of hand, Piper receives news that the only family member she has is dead. She thinks maybe a trip across the country to her hometown will get her away from all the strange events happening. After a late night accident, Piper isn’t in her hometown burying her loved one. She’s in a town called Hel

Rating: 💚 💚 💚 💚 💚 Author: S. E. Burr Title: Goblin Fruit Series: Gobbled #1 Number of pages: 198 Published: December 10th 2012 by Createspace Genre: ya, fantasy, paranormal Goodreads:  Goblin Fruit Amazon: Goblin Fruit (Gobbled Book 1) (Affiliate link) So there is this drug, called Goblin Fruit. No one is sure, how they make it. After few uses, or just one, if you have genetic disposition, you get catatonic. Even after few years, people can't touch users or catatonic people, there is still enough drug in the sweet, that will make you crave it. Story is mostly told from two perspectives. Clarity lives in one of the centres, that houses such people. Her mother is catatonic. Audrey and her brother had a band and were touring, getting quite known. Until he become catatonic too. He is house at the same centre at Clarity's mom. Audrey comes to visit her brother one day, and the girl meet. They become friends, helping each other and try to find clues to sa