Alice in Demonland by RaShelle Workman
I was contemplating keeping this as it sounds like it’s a retelling of Alice in Wonderland, but the first 10 reviews you see on Goodreads are only two stars. After having so many DNFs already this year, I don’t want to potentially pick this up and then have to stop reading because I’m not enjoying it. I’d rather just remove it from my to be read.
Verdict: remove
Synopsis: Alice is a Dark Moth trainee determined to slay her demon sire. That means no distractions, especially not from the gorgeous Kade Everett. He’s a warrior at the compound with secrets she wants to discover, but doing so might cost her life.
In the last millennia a deadly game has raged between demons and their half-human creations. Known as Moths, a select few were born with distinctive marks on their hands. They possess the same powers as their demon parent.
Over the years an elite group of warriors formed The Dark Moth Society. Their sole purpose to slay their demon sires. Alice Blackburn is a Dark Moth trainee. Some of her classmates call her the Queen of Hearts because she doesn’t share hers.
So when Kade Everett shows up at the compound, Alice is surprised by her feelings. But there isn’t time to act on them. In just a few days, her creator, the foul demon that slaughtered her mom will come to kill her. That’s part of their sick and twisted game, and Alice intends to win.
A Question of Faith by Nicole Zoltack
We’ve well and truly hit the ‘random’ books section of my to be read. When I first got my Kindle I downloaded every free book that looked interesting and the result of that is having a ton of books I’ll probably never read–this one included.
I must not have read the synopsis of this when I downloaded it because I couldn’t tell you what it’s about. I don’t even recognise the title.
Verdict: remove
Synopsis: It’s not everyday you learn you’re the incarnation of magic.
After learning her birth mother sought the help of witches to conceive her, fifteen-year-old Crystal’s previously unwavering faith is shaken. God hasn’t been answering her prayers like she thought–she was.
Crystal’s limitless magical potential is put to the test when her boyfriend’s mother is in a life-threatening accident. Surely God won’t mind her using magic to help people, but the miraculous outcome leaves Crystal wondering what she is capable of and worrying that her magic will damn her to Hell or, worse, prove she has no soul to condemn.
After her aunt is threatened, Crystal sets out to master her power, but flying and conjuring fireballs attracts dangerous attention. A witch hunter kidnaps her boyfriend, and shamans and witches hunt Crystal, desperate to use her to end a centuries-old war between the supernatural races. Her magic is an uncontrollable time bomb. If Crystal can’t figure out what she’s capable of, she won’t just fail to protect those she loves and end the war–she might start the apocalypse.
Any Red-Blooded Girl by Maggie Bloom
I’d considered reading this because it’s pretty short but again the reviews are bad. I don’t generally read reviews before I read a book because I don’t want to subconsciously put what someone else said into my own review (does this make sense?) but I couldn’t help myself. I only really do this on lesser known books because I’ve never seen this book talked about anywhere before.
Verdict: remove
Synopsis: The last thing fifteen-year-old Flora Fontain wants to do is spend her summer vacation stuck in a tent with her overprotective parents and angst-ridden brother, especially when she should be in Europe with her best friend Jessie—sipping espresso, posing for cutesy tourist pics, and hunting for hot Italian (or French, or maybe even English) stud-muffins.
But since her parents trust her about as much as they trust a cat burglar at the moment, Flora has no choice but to suffer through the boyfriend-less summer of her discontent from the back of a rented SUV, until…
Fate tosses a sexy, sophisticated gypsy boy into her path, making Flora wonder if destiny might know best after all. That is until destiny screws up, big time. Because just as Flora falls head over heels, an unexpected turn of events threatens to land her in the slammer—or worse, separate her from the man of her dreams.
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