22 April 2022

Thunderstruck by Wren Michaels

A woman standing in front of a shirtless man. Misty mountains are in the distance.

Reseda Juarez is dead.

Though she functions as a human, inside she's an emotionless weapon, trapped between the living and the undead. Cold and unrelenting, she's used as a super-soldier by the government in a special task force to hunt preternatural beings to the brink of extinction.

One night, five years ago, Kane killed an innocent and his brother lost the love of his life. The aftermath forces Kane to become the alpha of the legendary Thunderbirds. He now must protect what's left of his family from the tribe of wolf shifters who ripped them apart.

When Reseda's mother is bitten by a wolf, she and Kane are forced to work together to find the Mayan Pul Yah stone to heal her—the same stone that gifted Reseda to the life she now lives. But the journey is riddled with more than the wolves, also searching for the stone.

Something strange happens to their powers when they're together, and they struggle to fight the intense attraction between them. The deeper they go, the more secrets unravel, until love is the only thing that can defeat an enemy no one saw coming.

 

Thunderstruck (Thunderbird Brotherhood, book one) by Wren Michaels

Start date: March 15, 2022

End date: March 21, 2022

Rating: 2 ½ out of 5 stars

Content warning: brainwashing, racism

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

There’s obviously a large amount of suspension of disbelief in stories involving paranormal and supernatural creatures. I’m used to starting a story by assuming magic is real and that supernatural beings live alongside humans. In Thunderstruck, I kept finding myself taken out of the story.

21 April 2022

Demon Hunting with a Southern Sheriff by Lexi George


A picture containing the text: "Demon Hunting with a Southern Sheriff." A bow and arrow is overlayed over the D in demon and a sheriff's badge is over the E in sheriff. There are two gray wolves are howling in the background.

Rowdy rednecks. Shifty shapeshifters. Deadly demon hunters.

THIS TOWN'S GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL.

With its cross-cultural mix of good ol' boys, big bad wolves, and otherworldly beings, Behr County is the last place you'd want to be a cop. But for Sheriff Dev Whitsun, it's Sweet Home Alabama—and he plans to keep it that way. Famous last words. When a gruesome shifter massacre rocks the community, the sexy sheriff needs more than a badge and a few silver bullets. He needs the help of an immortal demon hunter. Her name is Arta, High Huntress of the Kirvahni. Whatever that means. Dev is no position to be picky about partners right now. But when Arta turns out to be the one female he could really fall for, Dev knows he's in for one hell of a ride. God help them all . . .

 

Demon Hunting with a Southern Sheriff (Demon Hunting, book six) by Lexi George

Start date: April 10, 2022

End date: April 16, 2022

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Content warning: child abuse, pregnancy

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I requested a copy of this book from NetGalley before realizing it was part of a series, let alone the sixth (and maybe final?) book in the series. After they approved me, I realized my error. Despite never having heard of the Demon Hunting series or Lexi George, I pressed on because the book summary really had me wanting to read it.