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A Little Touch of Magic giveaway results!

Thank you all who entered!

The winner of the giveaway is Ash with her answer of charm magic. I will get the book in the mail in the next few days. I hope you love it as much as I did.

It is only fair that I reveal my favorite kind of magic, but it really is not surprising: necromancy. Always has been, probably always will be.

~Isaiah

Can’t Take That Away

“An empowering and emotional debut about a genderqueer teen who finds the courage to stand up and speak out for equality when they are discriminated against by their high school administration.

Carey Parker dreams of being a diva, and bringing the house down with song. They can hit every note of all the top pop and Broadway hits. But despite their talent, emotional scars from an incident with a homophobic classmate and their grandmother’s spiraling dementia make it harder and harder for Carey...

American Betiya

“Fans of Sandhya Menon, Erika Sanchez and Jandy Nelson will identify with this powerful story of a young artist grappling with first love, family boundaries, and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.

Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents, until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in–his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art–make him her mother’s worst nightmare.

They begin dating in secret, but when Oliver’s troubled home life unravels, he starts to as...

I Think I Love You

“A sweet and funny debut novel about falling for someone when you least expect it . . . and finding out that real life romance is better than anything on screen.

Emma is a die-hard romantic. She loves a meet-cute Netflix movie, her pet, Lady Catulet, and dreaming up the Gay Rom Com of her heart for the film festival competition she and her friends are entering. If only they’d listen to her ideas. . .

Sophia is pragmatic. She’s big into boycotts, namely 1) relationships, 2) teen boys and th...

An Echo in the Sorrow

Great setup for the series finale, bringing in new complications and hurts and finally closing up my favourite subplot!

Forgiveness is a hollow prayer you only hear in your dreams.
 
Patrick Collins has spent years handling cases as a special agent for the Supernatural Operations Agency, even as his secret standing in the preternatural community has changed. He should have confessed to his role as co-leader of the New York City god pack when he and Jonothon de Vere took up the mantle months ago...

A Little Touch of Magic giveaway reminder

Good afternoon!

You know what I have in my hands right now (well not this second as I am typing)?

Do you see this? It is an AUTOGRAPHED copy of A Little Touch of Magic as well as some exclusive cards that match the book. Even the tape on the card packaging is a nod to the book! There is also my desk at work, but that is a lot less exciting than getting mail directly from an author!

So remember, if you are in the US you just need to email your favorite type of magic to mibookreviews@...

Ranch Manny

“Trace is down on his luck, out of his teaching job, and on the road with his young daughter Savannah. Just as he’s contemplating tucking his proverbial tail between his luck and heading back to his ex or his parents to ask for help, a job opportunity falls into his lap. What he’s not sure about is working for a handsome cowboy. On a ranch. In the middle of nowhere.

Cowboy Brent has a ranch to run. three kids he inherited when his cousin passed away, and an elderly ranch hand with Alzheimer’s...

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

“African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing over the past 200 years. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.

Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have sh...

A Little Touch of Magic

“There are fairies. Someone has a tail. Must be a fairytale.

Rowan Finnegan’s father is currently in jail for stabbing a police cruiser 14 times with a sword. This is just another example of what makes her family so nerve-wracking. Her father and three extraordinary aunts are fairies, but if the townspeople of Fairhaven, Oregon, find out the truth Rowan can only imagine that it will end in torches and pitchforks. Protecting her family’s secrets while surviving eighth grade is all Rowan can th...

Out Of My Mind

“Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom – the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone know it – somehow.

I...