Sarah Kurz

"There was a flash of light as Jame's seraph blade arced through the smoke and plunged into the demon's middle.  Black ichor sprayed as the demon shrieked in a high, chittering voice." Chain of Gold is the first book in Cassandra Clare's latest Shadowhunter series, The Last Hours.  If you are no stranger to the world of Shadowhunters you will love this book.  And if you are a stranger I highly suggest you make yourself acquainted with them.  They are wonderful.  I own fourteen of them and love them all dearly. In her latest series, Clare introduces us to James and Lucie Herondale, son of Will and Tessa.  We also meet Cordelia Carstairs, the brave and fearless female that wields Cortona during the beginning of the twentieth century, and Matthew Fairchild, Jame's best friend and parabatai, and a few of their friends as they try to figure out why demons are suddenly attacking Shadowhunters after London has been quiet for over a decade.  Just like Clare's ...

"Her house wasn't my home.  This town wasn't my home.  Yet when I looked at the coffee cup again, that warm sense of belonging lingered.  I wanted to hold on to that feeling.  But I didn't trust it, either." When Emily's sister, April, was injured in a car accident and needed help she didn't hesitate to pack up and move to the small town of Willow Creek. Why wouldn't she?  As a newly dumped college dropout things weren't exactly booming.  And she'd get to do lots of fun things with her teenage niece, Cait.  Things like volunteer to spend the entire summer working at the local Renaissance Fair. Well Met , by Jen DeLuca, is an adorable little romantic comedy about a twenty-five year old woman that moves in to help her sister and niece.  She volunteers at the small town's large Renaissance Fair where, of course, girl meets boy.  Girl despises boy.  Girl makes out with boy in a bar wench costume and falls madly in love.  It was won...

"She kept whispering the words over and over again.  They morphed together into one sentence, a prater, a challenge.  My friends are with me and I am not afraid." Bryce Quinlan is living a pretty great life as one of Crescent City's biggest party girls.  She works days at the gallery and spends her nights high and dancing with her best friend Danika Fendyr.  And while her half fae/half human blood doesn't always make her feel like she fits in, Dankia's pack adores her and her asshole of a father, the Fae Autumn King, leaves her alone.  All of that changes one night when Bryce comes home in a stupor to find that Danika and the Pack of Devils have been brutally murdered in her apartment.  Bryce spends the next two years with guilt and pain eating away at her, not sure what to do with life anymore.  It isn't until she meets and enslaved angel that's just as broken as she is that things start to change.  With the help of Hunt Athalar, Bryce sets out t...