![Book Review: Hook’s Tale by John Leonard Pielmeier [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Hooks-Tale-by-John-Leonard-Pielmeier-310x310.jpg)
James Cook III runs away from Eton after an incident, gets conscripted into the British Navy by a press gang at the age of 14, and ends up in Neverland. His time there, and everything he learns about his past, changes him. He claims Barrie's tale is incorrect, so this is the story of his life, as told by...
In Vicious, two men decide to give themselves supernatural abilities, but it doesn’t quite turn out how they planned. In The Night Circus, two magicians are pitted against each other in a lifelong contest, using a magical traveling circus as their playing field. In Lost Boy, James tells the tale of how he started out in Neverland as a Lost Boy and eventually became Captain Hook. Enjoy (or maybe...
![Book Review: Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy Book 1) by Emily A. Duncan [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Wicked-Saints-Something-Dark-and-Holy-Book-1-by-Emily-A.-Duncan-310x310.jpg)
Nadya can communicate with the gods, and she may be the last cleric in Kalyazin who can do so, which is why she's been hidden away in a monastery---in the hopes that she will turn the tide of the war in favor of her country. But when her monastery is attacked by the enemy---Tranavians---she flees and teams up with three others, including a Tranavian blood mage, in order to sneak into Tranavia,...
![Book Review: Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Never-Never-by-Brianna-R.-Shrum-310x310.jpg)
Thirteen-year-old James Hook agrees to go to Neverland with the enchanting and odd Peter Pan on the grounds that he'll be able to come back home, only to find once he's there that he's stuck there forever. When he grows too old to be a Lost Boy anymore, he joins his pirate crew and becomes the fiercest captain on the...
![Book Review: The Last Wish (The Witcher Book 0.5) by Andrzej Sapkowski [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Last-Wish-The-Witcher-Book-0.5-by-Andrzej-Sapkowski-1-310x310.jpg)
Geralt is a witcher; he travels from town to town killing monsters for a living and protecting humanity, sometimes with his best friend, the bard Dandelion, in tow. These are some of his...
![Book Review: Acid Jazz Singer (Hunger Hurts Book 1) by Nya Rawlyns [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Acid-Jazz-Singer-Hunger-Hurts-Book-1-by-Nya-Rawlyns-310x310.jpg)
Travis, a half-supernatural demon hunter, and RayLee, a vampire, are making a life for themselves in New Jersey under the protection of the local vampire. Travis promised his best friend he'd protect her from her maker, but when a demon and a vampire assassin show up, things get complicated, and that's not even including the changing feelings and relationship between Travis and...
Everyone knows Drosselmeier as the mysterious toymaker and godfather to the Stahlbaum children who gifts them with a Nutcracker one Christmas Eve. From his childhood as a foundling in a forest, to his confusing teen and young adult years with different families in Germany, to his old age making toys for Klara, this book tells the story of his...
![Book Review: An Heir to Thorns and Steel (Blood Ladders Trilogy Book 1) by M.C.A. Hogarth [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-An-Heir-to-Thorns-and-Steel-Blood-Ladders-Trilogy-Book-1-by-M.C.A.-Hogarth-310x310.jpg)
Morgan is a university student studying folklore when he discovers that not only are elves real, he might be their prince. Hoping to find a cure for his worsening disability, he goes to their lands and sets off on a quest, getting further entangled in danger and elf...
Julian's family and the rest of the surface merfolk are still dealing with the ramifications of their existence being made known to the world and trying to work on relations with the UN and the government. Things get even more complicated though when Drake leaves to an undisclosed location with the Navy in order to test new diving suits, an unexpected relative of one of the Brookses shows up in...
Unhappy with the living conditions and treatment of citizens in the underwater bunker where they live, Tommy and his friends use their video camera to produce and share Riot Reels---films that expose the truth about the darkness and messed up things taking place. But one night their attempt to find the truth about unsafe food processing leads to a deadly disaster from which they might not all...
