Horror is a genre that can be a bit hit or miss for me, and it’s even harder to maintain a successful series book after book and still hold my interest. J.L. Bryan’s ninth book in the Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper series The Tower, mixes things up a bit by heading from Savannah to […]
Happy Friday, and we have a great set of stories to review today. Story of a Kiss is a great anthology of thirteen stories featuring best friends who fall for each other, old flames that find themselves in each other’s company again after years apart, and summer loves that reignite. Kristen has come out of […]
Picking up one of J.L. Bryan’s Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper books is sure to be packed full of chilling scares, a bit of historical research about a real place that’s purported to be haunted, great one liners, and smart decisions/ways for the characters to get to the bottom of the hauntings. The fifth installment […]
In the first book(my review), The Mirror of Souls, we’re introduced to Jacqueline Talbot, who is known as the Gorgon—a spiritual being that is preordained to be the host body for the demigod Khayrat. While her Aunt Mitzy and Mitzy’s vampire bodyguard Edwin are sworn to protect Jacqueline and keep this prophecy from coming […]
I really love the urban fantasy world that JL Bryan has created in his Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper series, and he’s delivered three solid books with solid world building full of believable characters while displaying his trademark wit as the ghosts get more evil and harder to get rid of in each book. In the […]
Jacqueline Talbot hasn’t led an easy life since she was orphaned at a young age, shuffling from foster home to home ever since. She’s been seen as a bit troubled since her father received the death penalty for murdering several people after her mother passed away. But just when the last foster home seemed like […]
I’ve really enjoyed the Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper urban fantasy series so far. There’s the spooky atmosphere of haunted Atlanta, evil ghosts and poltergeist, and a cast of characters with many layers so you can really dig into the story and fully enjoy each and every person that appears within the pages. Plus, each book can […]
I love a good detective story, and the only thing I love more is a great ghost story. The Ellie Jordan series is the best of both worlds for me, combining great investigations–digging into the past of a location to determine who may be haunting the house, and more importantly, why. And these books also feature […]
Kate is fresh off of a long term relationship, and she’s looking for a new job that is challenging and is one where she will flourish. When she takes the sales development job with a firm where she’ll be traveling overseas, she must go through a hostage course to prepare her for what could happen […]
This is one of these times when I read the synopsis and knew I needed to read this book! I love superpower stories and Chasing Power sounded like a great big Adventure! Jumper meets Indiana Jones meets X-Men Did you see the movie “Jumper”? If not, then you should as it’s so much fun about […]
The weather in Chicago has grown cool and Halloween is almost here, so I’m in the mood for spooky tales about ghosts and ghouls and monsters. J.L. Bryan has written about some form of all of these before, but his latest offering focuses on hauntings and he kicks off a new series featuring a kick […]
Nothing says summer to me like amusement parks. My father would gather up my sister and I, and we’d make the trek to Six Flags, either to the one in St. Louis or to Great America in Gurnee. Even with the long drive from our small hometown in the middle of Illinois and walking around in the heat […]
Seventeen-year-old Elan’s life revolves around debunking psychics, proving that they are pulling the wool over unsuspecting and vulnerable people’s eyes. When her famous diabetic mother, who is the host of a popular ghost hunting television show, goes missing in Egypt while taping an episode for the series, Elan has to travel there to help find […]