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Blog Tour: Encampment by Shalana Battles

Encampment by Shalana Battles

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On May 17,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Encampment
Author: Shalana Battles
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Release Date: TBA

Summary:

Madeleine is a witch.

A fact that should have been more helpful when she woke up shackled to a wall with no idea how she got there.

Fourteen days later, she’s released from the dark cave into Encampment, a prison full of captured witches forced to fight one another until they’re sold to the highest bidder.

With spells controlling every inch, Madeleine can’t tell where reality begins.

Can the son of her captor be trusted?

Will she be brave enough to save the others?

Is there any way out alive?

Madeleine is only certain of one thing, death would be better than an enslaved life.

Magic isn’t always beautiful.

Hope doesn’t ensure happiness.

Love doesn’t always win.

Welcome to Encampment.

Academy Romance, Book Reviews, YA Fantasy, YA Reverse Harem, YA Romance

Book Review: Stone and Secret by Evangeline Anderson

Stone and Secret by Evangeline Anderson

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On May 09,21 | 0 Comment

Title: Stone and Secret (Nocturne Academy #3)
Author: Evangeline Anderson
Genre: Fantasy YA
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Stone and Secret is my first Nocturne Academy novel, and I am ashamed I’ve not read the series already!

Emma Plunkett is the white bread of young ladies. She’s the average of unforgettable, you just saw her, and you don’t remember it. She’s trying her best to survive the meanest of Nocturne Academy because even white bread has to deal with mold. Emma’s mold? That would be Morganna Starchild, beast of a Fae, mean girl gone wild.

Emma thinks she’s pulled the short straw when lined up to be lab partners with one of the most unfortunate looking students in school, Bran O’Connor. It seems like one more thing for which Morganna to snipe at her, but she quickly finds herself seeing more in Bran than what is on the surface. This is good because soon, she finds herself needing some help getting out of a sitch that is skin deep.

Blog Tour, Book It, YA Fantasy, YA Sci-fi

Blog Tour: The Ones We’re Meant To Find by Joan He

The Ones We're Meant To Find by Joan He

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On May 03,21 | 1 Comment

Title: The Ones We’re Meant To Find
Author: Joan He
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Release Date: 04 May 2021

Summary:

Perfect for fans of Rick Yancey and Marie Lu, The Ones We’re Meant to Find is a sci-fi fantasy with mind-blowing twists, ready to burst onto the YA scene, from the critically-acclaimed Descendant of the Crane author, Joan He.

Cee awoke on an abandoned island three years ago. With no idea of how she was marooned, she only has a rickety house, an old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and Cee needs to find her.

STEM prodigy Kasey wants escape from the science and home she once trusted. The Metropolis—Earth’s last unpolluted place—is meant to be sanctuary for those commited to planetary protection, but it’s populated by people willing to do anything for refuge, even lie. Now, she’ll have to decide if she’s ready to use science to help humanity, even though it failed the people who mattered most.

Book It, Cover Reveal, Fantasy Fiction, YA Fantasy, YA Fiction

Cover Reveal: The Worlds That Separated Us by Megan Jayne

The Worlds that Separated Us by Megan Jayne

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On January 16,21 | 0 Comment

Title: The Worlds That Separated Us
Author: Megan Jayne
Genre: Fantasy/ Young Adult
Release Date: 01 May 2021

Blog Tour, Fantasy Fiction, YA Fantasy

Blog Tour: Abney Kelly & the Yuletide Shenanigans by SamiJo McQuiston

Abney Kelly & the Yuletide Shenanigans by SamiJo McQuiston

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On October 13,20 | 0 Comment

Title: Abney Kelly & the Yuletide Shenanigans
Author: SamiJo McQuiston
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: 09 October 2020

Abney Kelly seems like your typical thirteen-year-old trying to find her place in the world. She’s shy, awkward, has no friends, and is bullied constantly. However things are not always as they appear, after being pushed into a clover patch, a creature who says he’s her assigned guardian whisks her off to a school in Tìr na nÓg, called Yule.

Turns out she’s a Changeling, and it’s time she learns what that means. Between making new friends, discovering that all the monsters in her nightmares are real, and starting at a new school, Abney didn’t think life could get any harder as she splits her time between the human and Fae realms.

That is until her house matron warns them about Nicholas Kringle. He is stalking his prey throughout realms and collecting the hearts of those on his so-called nice list. At a New Year’s Eve party, Abney and her new gang use an Ouija board and discover that one of their friends is on Kringle’s list.

Determined to stop their friend’s death, Abney and company set off on a chilly adventure, to try to change fate, but only one thing is for certain… This year they’ll end up on the naughty list or die trying.

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Guest Post: Jessi Kallison, Author of Where Angels Can’t Follow

Where Angels Can't Follow by Jessi Kallison

ByMs Ali Cat: Ali Crean | On September 22,20 | 0 Comment

Where Angels Can’t Follow: The Origin

Angel photo by Kathy Hagood at Angel Finger Photography. It’s now displayed on Jessi Kallison’s Wall of Weird.

There’s a slightly creepy and definitely weird piece of art on my wall. The print caught my eye at a local festival a few years back, and I bought it because it intrigued me.

My kids hated it when I hung it on the wall, but my tastes haven’t gotten less eclectic since. (Sorry, not sorry, nerdlings.)

I obsessed over the details. I wondered why the angel woman was headless and whose much larger hand was on her stomach? Was he human? Another angel? Why was he touching her at all? Was the owner of that hand a good guy? Why would she be a statue? And why would she be a headless statue after that?I don’t know the real story. But my brain wouldn’t let go of the image and decided to start making up its own story that began with an angel statue. And Where Angels Can’t Follow was born