March 2022 Reviews – Baskerville Book Reviews

Review: The School Reunion

Welcome to No Angels – the hottest new series of erotic novels based around those people who have a hidden, darker, more sexual side than anyone who knows them would ever believe. The women in No Angels are just that – and our stories will show them embrace that side of themselves.

The School Reunion…: My wife and I have been married for 10 years, and I know everything there is to know about her. So when she gets an invite to a school reunion from an old school friend, I have no reason at all to stop her going. Do I? Imagine my surprise when I find out that she has a dark past that she’s kept hidden from me all these years, and as it unfolds, this new knowledge takes me on a journey to places I never thought I’d go…

No Angels novels include explicit sexual scenes with cheating, themes of cuckoldry, liberated and strong women, and the powerful partners and friends who love them.

Review: Mouth Full of Ashes

Mourning the sudden loss of her sister, Callie Danoff wants nothing more than to embrace a fresh start in a new town, leaving the haunting memories of her sister’s death behind. But when her brother Ramsay drags her to a spooky boardwalk, the two become entangled with a local vampire gang and its enigmatic leader, Elijah. Callie refuses to accept their existence…until she and her brother unknowingly ingest vampire blood. Now, they only have three days before they turn into vampires themselves.

With her carefree summer thwarted, Callie must trust a group she barely knows in order to save her family.

Review: Blood and Water

Seventeen-year-old Jay Harris lives in a world struck down by a deadly virus. His parents are dead, along with half the planet. When Jay’s sister Maia falls ill, he must find a cure before he loses her, too. But unbeknownst to Maia, Jay is also sick…and he’s running out of time to save them both.

When Jay’s friends tell him there might be a cure for him in France, he must decide whether to pursue it. The journey will be difficult and dangerous, especially in his weakened state, but with little time left – for himself and for Maia – it soon becomes clear there’s no other choice.

Jay leaves the relative comfort of London to search for help, knowing he may never find it. Along the way, he experiences the effects of disaster on the bonds of friendship and fluctuating notions of family. These teens, decimated by a dangerous plague, face stark choices in their search for help, not knowing if their efforts will end in loss and pain. Will Jay and Maia find a cure before the virus takes them?

Review: Heart of Thorns

They told her the fae weren’t real. She pretended she couldn’t see them. When she met him, everything changed…

Catherine’s first memories were of the fae and the misfortune they brought. No one believed her and told her she was insane. When Catherine arrives the country estate of Thornwood, she is determined to put her past and the fae behind. That is until she meets Ray Thorn. He challenges her prejudices and sways her heart. But can she trust him?

Ray introduces her into his world of the mesmerizing and deadly faery. Then a woman is murdered by one of the fae. She knew she shouldn’t have trusted a fae. But as more bodies turn up, Catherine realizes they’re targeting women like her, and she is their next victim.

She cannot find the killer alone, but is trusting Ray worth the price? Can Catherine find the killer in time, or will she lose her heart?

Dive into the slow burn romance of Heart of Thorns, the first in this gaslamp romantic fantasy trilogy. Fans of Carnival Row and Jane Austen will not want to miss this tale steeped in fae intrigue, romance, and mystery.

Review: The Dawn of Peace

Before the end of hatred, there was the dawn of peace…

Two immortals from warring species save each other’s lives as the conflict rages on.

Alrec, the hulking Vampyre warrior, spares her first.

Years later, Kilani, the fierce, uncompromising Slayer, returns the favor.

Stuck in her remote cabin, their bond grows as Kilani warily nurses her injured Vampyre, determined to deny her growing desire for the man with deep, knowing eyes and mesmerizing fangs.

And, of course, there’s only one bed…

The sizzling prequel to the Etherya’s Earth paranormal romance saga.

Review: Minion Special Huntress Edition

In L.A. Banks’ latest Vampire Huntress Legends novel, Minion, there is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.

Here is an account of her legend….

All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons – predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music.

Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life’s blood has been sucked from the body. These bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before.

Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world.

Review: Livingston Girls

“I see something in you, Miss Abbott, something I recognize. The potential for greatness, for channeling magic. For bending the world to your will.”

After an affair with her teacher, Rose’s parents ship her off to Livingston Academy, a stuffy all-girls’ boarding school. Ashamed of her past and herself, 16-year-old Rose just wants to chill, pass her classes, and make friends. The last thing on her mind is becoming a witch….

Until the enigmatic headmistress gives her the chance to join a coven secret from the rest of the school. Desperate to prove herself and looking for a purpose, the headmistress’s offer seems too perfect to pass up.

Rose puts on her metaphorical pointy hat and becomes a Livingston witch. She quickly discovers that the other witches don’t want her in their group – especially because she’s filling their dead friend’s space – but if they can’t band together, the witch-hunting headmaster of the boys’ school will kill them.

Meanwhile, Rose struggles to understand her growing feelings for her roommate, who may or may not hate her guts.

You know, typical boarding school stuff.

Review: Unboxed: A Play

Greg Zipper is a paranormal vlogger whose livelihood relies on his online popularity. When a fight between him and his girlfriend goes viral for all the wrong reasons, Greg purchases a dark-web mystery box in hopes of restoring his audience’s faith in him and hitting one million subscribers.

But when Greg opens the box, he gets much more than he bargained for, including a Boxer who’s determined to stop him from taking his loved ones for granted. Now Greg must do all he can to stop the Boxer, or else he’ll lose his livelihood – along with the woman he loves.

Review: Waking Beauty

What happens to the fairy tale when the Princess decides she doesn’t want to play the part?

In a kingdom where spring has not bloomed for ten years, Andromeda, ex-princess and newly awakened witch, follows a mysterious glimmering road toward the peak of a mountain. She is on a quest to find love; more specifically, to find Talen, the female bodyguard who stole her heart two years before.

But Andromeda soon learns that Talen has come to the mountain in pursuit of a quest of her own. She has sworn she will kill the dragon who lives on the mountain’s peak, and if she fails, she will pay with her life.

With an unbreakable fate between them, Andromeda will need all her magical power to claw back her and Talen’s future from a world slipping inexorably toward never-ending winter and death.

Review: Hit and Run

A message from the grave. An assassin on her tail. Sniffing out the truth could get them all killed.

September Day is ready for a new start with her detective boyfriend. Believing she’s finally put her husband’s death behind her, her life upends when his mother sends her a safety deposit box key that could unlock the truth. But before she can examine the cryptic contents, she’s brutally attacked, the files are stolen, and her former in-law is murdered.

Determined to uncover the harrowing facts, September and her dog Shadow battle to stay one step ahead of the merciless killer. But when they stumble upon shady business at a cattery, she must expose the mastermind before she too ends up in the ground.

Will Macy-Cat sniff out the key to unmask a decades-old horror? Can September and Shadow confront the past and live to tell the tale?

Hit and Run is the pulse-pounding fifth book in the September Day thriller series. If you like action-packed suspense, resilient characters, and four-legged heroics, then you’ll love Amy Shojai’s gripping adventure.