Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis
The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
Startup Hell This was a fun urban romantasy that satirizes office culture. Main character Morgan is working for Zabloom, a company whose CEO keeps changing what their product is. When her boss dies while summoning demon Lucareoth (Luke) to make a soul-exchange Deal, Lucareoth ends up freed from … [Read more]
Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read by Rebecca Alexandra Simon
Let me start this off with a little taste from Amazon' summary of this book: "Between August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized the Caribbean in and around Jamaica. Despite their short career, they became two of the most notorious pirates during the height … [Read more]
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
The second of my non-fiction journey of 2026. This is an engrossing true story of a group of divers who discovered and identified a lost Nazi submarine of the coast of New Jersey in 1991. The story starts by setting the scene - to be a wreck diver (!) in 1980s (!) New Jersey (!) took a special kind … [Read more]
SideQuested Book 1 by K. B. Spangler
Charlie Woodgrain isn’t interested in magic and is far more interested in her training to be a librarian. It'll be a quiet life, but that's fine with Charlie. Magic is summoned through conflict, and she would like to avoid that to the point where she refuses to fight. Then her birth father shows … [Read more]
Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa
Princess Aisling is excited for her eighteenth birthday. She’s not expecting to be attacked in her own bedroom and kidnapped or to find out that she’s a changling. Forget-Me-Not, the princess she was switched at birth with, has a plan that she needs Aisling in order to complete. As the two of … [Read more]
The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey
Tia Cade enjoys her life moving from dig site to dig site and planet to planet with her archeologist parents. Precocious and inquisitive, she doesn’t mind that her best friend is a brainship or that she doesn’t get to spend time with other children her age. However, when an unknown space disease … [Read more]
