Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 22

The Other Ones

“A beautiful and unputdownable story about love, friendship, and the ghosts that grief can leave behind, The Other Ones is a heartfelt, contemporary romance with a haunting twist… Salem Amani is a world-weary sixteen-year-old living with his mother and older sister in a haunted house. But all Sal really wants is to be ordinary, which is hard to do when you live in a house full of ghosts. And when a strange boy arrives on his doorstep asking more questions than he’s at all comfortable with, Sal’s...

Blackheart Man

“The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.

Veycosi, a scholar of folklore, hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on Cynchin’s Colloquium. However, unexpected events prevent that from happening. Fifteen Ymisen galleons arrive in the harbor to force a trade agreement on Cynchin. Veycosi is put in ch...

Atlas

I was looking forward to this, both because I liked glimpses of Atlas we got in the rest of the Mike Bravo Ops series, and because it finally featured Lemon again, who first appeared in Rockstar Hearts and who I couldn’t wait to see again and get his happy ending.

ATLAS
Working undercover at a strip club is not my usual kind of job. If it weren’t a great opportunity to show the Mike Bravo team I can run my own op, I wouldn’t have agreed to it.
When my boss asks me to befriend the biggest gossi...

Ahhh, new books alert

I think my hobby is collectiung books, not reading them. Please end my reading slump.

If anything can cure my reading slump, it has got to be queer books with cat themes. Just saying. How could this go wrong.

Cat’s Got You Heart is coming out in just a few days. Pre-orders are up. Key details that make me NEED this book:

Trans lead

Trans author

An animal being the voice of reason, though it appears to not be a talking cat so don’t let that put you off!

I always need more ...

Iris

Pretty basic military m/m romance with a comfortable amount of humor and quite enjoyable.

Mike Bravo. Knights in shining … camo.

Iris
I live for adrenaline. The thrill of the chase. And because I work for Mike Bravo, a private black-ops firm, it’s my job to go into dangerous situations.
But when we’re called in to extract a military team from a hostile situation, the thrill is so much better. Because one of those men happen to be the golden boy from my basic training days.
Brock “Saint” Harlow w...

Mighty Millie Novak

“Social anxiety, her parents’ divorce, and tumultuous friendships won’t stop Millie’s pursuit of what she wants–in roller derby and in love. But her own lies might…

Sixteen-year-old Millie Novak is stuck in an “if only” rut. If only she were stronger and faster, maybe her roller derby teammates would take her seriously. If only she had the guts to go back to in-person learning, maybe she’d have a social life. If only she wasn’t such an awkward mess, maybe she could get the attention of that c...

Jane Jet: Nuclear Shadows

“In a dieselpunk 1955, JANE JET hits the skies after killing her abusive husband, ROCKET MAN, and becoming public enemy number one. If she’s to survive, she’ll need to outfly the looming shadows of WWII and onslaughts from the nearly unstoppable armored heroes of this age. JANE JET serves two fistfuls of truth and fury in Book Nuclear Shadows.”

I got an ARC of this book.

When the author approached me, I was curious about the concept, but wary. I am not a superhero person. I try. I read ...

Fotinoula and the Christmas Goblin

“A thrilling battle of wits between girl and goblin in snow covered Athens…

‘Never forget how devious a Kallikantzaros can be. It will try to snatch Mirtoula. It will keep trying until it has her. And if it succeeds you’ll never see your sister again.’

11-year old Fotinoula doesn’t believe her grandfather when he warns her about the Christmas goblins. After all, the Kallikantzaroi were just an old Greek myth. Creatures with blood-red eyes didn’t really climb up from the underworld during t...

Forbidden Desires Series #1-5

The Forbidden Desires series is an omegaverse M/M dragon shifter series with plenty of humor, a decent amount of lore and an overarching plot around fighting social injustice and breaking outdated traditions.

It follows the Drakes, a family of dragons, who live hidden amonst (contemporary) humanity in an elite, traditionalist and rigid community. Each book is about a Drake (all of who are brothers with one exception, their father) and how they find their mate. As such,...

Raven: Part II

This is the second and final part of Sorin and Bertram’s story, and it seems to conclude the Drake’s series of stories, Forbidden Desires, as now all brothers (plus their father) are partnered up.

It retells the events from the previous books that involve Raven but this time from Sorin’s point of view, as well as beyond them. I enjoyed reading the contex of why he was doing what he as doing, but… not all of it made sense. I do wonder how much of it was planned in advanced. Some things fit so ...