Embers closes the Burkhard clan’s story with its most structurally balanced installment, giving both Nikki and Gunter equal narrative weight in a way the earlier books, which tended to center on the mage’s perspective. Nikki’s decade of captivity under the Jaeggi gives their trust issues genuine stakes, and the authors are patient with that damage..
Review from Dead Serious Case #4: Professor Prometheus Plume →
I keep reading this series, but I’m not actually enjoying it all that much. The subsequent books haven’t quite captured the fun and intrigue of the first book for me.
Review from Merry Measure →
Yeah I liked these two little pumpkins together…not a lot of angst. Overall an enjoyable read!
Review from Sorcerers Always Satisfy →
Overall, this was a pretty enjoyable story. I think the primary relationship deserved a bit more flushing out/attention. I didn’t really have a good sense of why the ML was so enamored by his little sorcerer but okay…
I’ve never wanted to cuddle a fictional character so much. Poor Tony deserved so much better outta life, but I’m really happy he found love with both Zephyr and Taron. These three match each other so well! (And the smexy times are chief’s kiss 😘.) Please don’t ever get rid of Joel Leslie as the..
Blood delivers on the escalating threat that has shadowed the previous installments, with the Jaeggi conflict finally breaking into full confrontation and Sora and Ravi’s romance sitting at the center of it, complicated by Sora’s secret identity and potentially diverging loyalties that raise the emotional cost of the payoff. Ravi might be the most charismatic..
BREATHWhere Origin introduced the world through wonder, Breath tests it through damage, following Tori, a mage escaping an abusive clan, whose wariness makes the slow unfolding of his bond with Baldewin feel genuinely necessary rather than artificially prolonged. The road trip structure works because the external momentum keeps the book from dwelling too long in..
Sherwood and Drake launch their dragon-mage world with confident structural instincts, letting the lore and history of the Fire Dragon clan unfold through observation and dialogue rather than front-loaded exposition. Cameron is a genuinely winning protagonist, his sarcasm and engineering pragmatism playing well against Alric’s ancient, duty-weighted gravity, and the tension between them works because..
This books definitely needs readers to review TW ⚠️ because there is a lot of heavy and serious stuff discussed between the MMCs. One MMC faces extreme trauma, anxiety, PTSD, and a variety of issues after an horrible attack (off the pages, discussed at length throughout the book). One MMC is a criminal lawyer who’s..
Review from The Incubus’s Assistant →
I really enjoy this kind of story. Sweet, funny, sexy. And Joel is just the perfect narrator.