In A Queer Trade, a warlock's papers get accidentally thrown out, and his apprentice tries to get them back from the waste man before they can cause magical chaos. In Rag & Bone, magic practitioner Crispin and waste-man Ned start looking into strange deaths of rag and bottle shop workers when no one else bothers to. In Priddy's Tale, a lonely young man working in a lighthouse rescues someone from...
In A Case of Possession, Lucien and Stephen try to figure out where their relationship is going while they work with Stephen's group of magic practitioners to solve some murders. In Flight of Magpies, Lucien and Stephen struggle to find balance in their relationship as Stephen's work and more magical dangers keep piling up. In The Long Way Home, a psychic works with a skeptical cop to solve a...
![Book Review: Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy Book 2) by Emily A. Duncan [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Ruthless-Gods-Something-Dark-and-Holy-Book-2-by-Emily-A.-Duncan-310x310.jpg)
With a coup at their doorstep, Serefin, Nadya, Malachiasz, and friends flee the palace and end up on a quest into a dangerous forest of legend. Each has their own goals and motives, but each might be nothing more than a pawn to the gods in a much bigger...
![Book Review: The ABCs of Spellcraft Collection Volume 1 (Books 1-4) by Jordan Castillo Price [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-ABCs-of-Spellcraft-Collection-Volume-1-Books-1-4-by-Jordan-Castillo-Price-310x310.jpg)
Dixon comes from a family of spellcrafters but failed his test and has been working as a meal delivery person instead. But when he enters a greeting card contest, he discovers something weird is going on, ends up with a hot spellcrafter boyfriend, and they embark on a road trip to try and find Dixon's missing...
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...
Still chasing down leads on the Morrigan's Staff, Patrick, Jono, and their unusual but loyal pack travel to London, once again employing Lucien's begrudging help. But they get caught up in the London godpack's trouble, they discover another shady group has their sights on the staff, and nothing goes quite as simply as they'd hoped it...
![Book Review: A Vigil in the Mourning (Soulbound Book 4) by Hailey Turner [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-A-Vigil-in-the-Mourning-Soulbound-Book-4-by-Hailey-Turner-310x310.jpg)
Patrick, a mage working for the government as well as the gods he's indebted to, is sent to Chicago this time because Odin might be in danger, and because there might be info about the Morrigan's staff. Meanwhile, Jono continues in his push against the New York god pack while avoiding hunters and forming new...
In Don't Let Go, Gideon and Lee continue to navigate their growing relationship when Gideon gets injured on the job and mysteries from Lee's past start plaguing his present. In Kitto, Gideon and Lee go on vacation to de-stress but encounter what may or may not be a ghost, struggle with Lee's growing psychic powers, find themselves in the middle of another mystery. In The Magpie Lord, an atypical...
![Book Review: A Crown of Iron & Silver (Soulbound Book 3) by Hailey Turner [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-A-Crown-of-Iron-Silver-Soulbound-Book-3-by-Hailey-Turner-310x310.jpg)
Patrick has been assigned to find the Morrigan Staff, given a case about a changeling child, and confronted by some fae who need his help, and all three of these quickly become intertwined when Patrick, Jono, their pack, and Patrick's old team from the military cross over into the Faery realm and start making more deals with the fae. Secrets come to light that threaten to tear their group apart,...
![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,...
