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May 26, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating: 4.0/5 Summary: Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of plants and insects and in order to shut them up, she makes collages of them. She also fears that she is going insane, since all her female relatives have been committed to asylums. When her father is going to take excessive measures to treat her mother, Alyssa makes her own decision to find wonderland. However, when she ends up there, with childhood friend jeb, it is not at all what it seems to be. I liked […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: Cover lust, Cute, retelling, Wonderland, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Cover lust, Cute, retelling, Wonderland, YA ·
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Whoops I Summoned A Lightning Bolt and Now Everyone’s Freaking Out

May 4, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating: 4/5 Summary: This story is about a mage who is prophesied to save the Realm. Out of all the elemental mages, only she can summon lightning, which makes her dangerous and extremely powerful. Atlantis, the evil corporation-like entity that controls the crown, wants Iolanthe and her power for themselves. However, Prince Titus, the Master of the Domain, has his own plans for Iolanthe. Namely saving her from Atlantis and hoping she’ll help him destroy Atlantis and all it stands for. Neither of them expects […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: All Powerful Female Mage, Cover lust, Elemental Magic, mages, magic, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: All Powerful Female Mage, Cover lust, Elemental Magic, mages, magic, YA ·
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The Breaking Pointe: How It Can All Fall Apart

May 4, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Summary: Theo Cartwright is an amazing dancer, and she has secrets. When her childhood best friend is found after being abducted for four years, she doesn’t know if she should tell. One of her secrets involves her ex-boyfriend, and that’s who they think kidnapped Donovan. Her other secret is that she has a crush on Hosea Roth, but he already has a girlfriend. While trying to wade through the guilt of Donovan’s capture, and trying to keep the semblance of a normal life, Theo forgets […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: Beautiful, Cover lust, Dancers, This Prose, Wanted to Cry, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Health, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Beautiful, Cover lust, Dancers, This Prose, Wanted to Cry, YA ·
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Am I Possessed by an Alien Right Now or Not?

May 4, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating:4.0/5 Summary: When something goes majorly wrong on the Icarus spacecraft, rich heiress Lilac LaRoux and newly decorated General Tarver Merendsen, become trapped in a space pod. It’s only thanks to Lilac’s familiarity and mechanical skill that they get their pod to launch and narrowly evade death. After crash landing on a seemly empty, but terraformed planet, they begin their search for the ship and inhabitants of the planet. Strange visions accost the pair and they believe they’re going crazy, but maybe there’s something else […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Cover lust, need the next now, sci-fi mystery, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Cover lust, need the next now, sci-fi mystery, YA ·
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