Sophia Rose Reviews: Out of Obscurity by Jann Rowland

  

Today on the blog Sophia Rose Reviews: Out of Obscurity by Jann Rowland

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Out of Obscurity by Jann Rowland, narrated by Harry Frost

Historical Romance

Publisher:  Tantor Audio

Published: 1.38.25

Time:  18 hours 25 minutes

Speed: 1

Rating: 3.5 stars

Narrator Rating: 5 stars

Format: audio

Source: Tantor Audio

Sellers:  Amazon

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At a dinner party in London during the season, Fitzwilliam Darcy meets an enchanting young woman. Though he recognizes her beauty and poise, he is struck by a sense of familiarity and realizes she is someone connected to him.

What follows is a whirlwind of events in which the woman's lineage is discovered and her true identity is established. Darcy quickly realizes she is a woman estimable in her own right, and he finds himself besotted.

But amid the miraculous events of a lost soul returning home, dark forces conspire against the young woman, for her loss was not an accident. And so it is that a man is moved to action by a boon long denied, determined to avoid being cheated by Miss Elizabeth Bennet again.

Sophia Rose Reviews: Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

 

Today on the Blog Sophia Rose reviews, Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews
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Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews, narrated by Renee Raudman

#2 Edge

Paranormal Romance

Publisher:  Tantor Audio

Published:  9.28.10

Time:  15 hours 32 minutes

Rating: 4.5 stars

Format: audio

Source: Library Borrow

Sellers:  Amazon

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Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either. Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn't turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off-the-books job in the Broken just to survive.

Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power). But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them - or they'll devour the Edge and everyone in it.

Sophia Rose Reviews: Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn

 

Today Sophia Rose reviews Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn
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Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn

#2 Killers of a Certain Age

Thriller

Publisher:  Berkley

Published: 3.4.25

Pages:  359

Rating: 4 stars

Format: eARC

Source:  NetGalley

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“Much like fine wine, battle-hardened assassins grow better with age.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner

Four women assassins, senior in status—and in age—sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensation Killers of a Certain Age.

After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the lack of excitement is starting to a professional killer can only take so many watercolor classes and yoga sessions without itching to strangle someone...literally. When they receive a summons from the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready tackle the greatest challenge of their careers.

Someone on the inside has compiled a list of important kills committed by Museum agents, connected to a single, shadowy figure, an Eastern European gangster with an iron fist, some serious criminal ambition, and a tendency to kill first and ask questions later. This new nemesis is murdering agents who got in the way of their power hungry plans and the aging quartet of killers is next.

Together the foursome embark on a wild ride across the globe on the double mission of rooting out the Museum’s mole and hunting down the gangster who seems to know their next move before they make it. Their enemy is unlike any they’ve faced before, and it will take all their killer experience to get out of this mission alive.

Sophia Rose Reviews: Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan

 

Today on the blog Sophia Rose reviews - Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan

Beast of the North Woods by Annelise Ryan

#3 Monster Hunter Mystery

Cozy Mystery

Publisher:  Berkley

Published:  1.28.25

Pages:  320

Rating: 4.5 stars

Format: eARC

Source:  NetGalley

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When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature in the latest puzzling entry in this USA Today bestselling series.

An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a hodag. There's just one problem with it's well known that the creature is not real and was created by a local hoaxer. So how could an imaginary creature be chomping on local sportsmen? 

The suggestion that a hodag killed someone isn’t well received by the townsfolk because of its beloved ties to the town and the money it generates from tourist dollars. Due to this, people begin to suspect the witness is the real killer, especially when it’s discovered he has a tangled past with the victim. 

The witness to the attack happens to be the nephew of Morgan Carter’s bookstore employee, Rita Bosworth, who convinces the professional cryptozoologist to travel to Wisconsin to prove that a hodag not only exists but killed the victim. 

Clues may be hard to come by, but one thing's for something killed that man, and that something now has its eyes focused on Morgan.

Sophia Rose Reviews: Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs, narrated by Holter Graham

 

Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs, narrated by Holter Graham

#4 Alpha and Omega

Urban Fantasy

Publisher:  Brilliance Audio

Published:  3.3.15

Time:  11 hours 25 minutes

Rating: 4.5 stars

Format: audio

Source: purchased

Sellers:  Amazon

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Praised as "the perfect blend of action, romance, suspense and paranormal" (Rex Robot Reviews), the Alpha and Omega novels transport listeners into the realm of the werewolf, where Charles Cornick and Anna Latham embody opposite sides of the shifter personality. Now a pleasure trip drops the couple into the middle of some bad supernatural business....
For once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles' role as his father's enforcer. This time their trip to Arizona is purely personal, as Charles plans to buy Anna a horse for her birthday. Or at least it starts out that way....
Charles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous Fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. The Fae's cold war with humanity is about to heat up - and Charles and Anna are in the cross fire.
©2015 Hurog, Inc. (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Sophia Rose Reviews: Secrets of the Dragon Archives by Maria Grace

 

Today Sophia Rose Reviews

Secrets of the Dragon Archives by Maria Grace

#13 Jane Austen’s Dragons

Gaslamp Fantasy

Publisher:  White Soup Press

Published:  2.14.2024

Pages: 217

Rating: 4 stars

Format: ebook

Source: purchased

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Elizabeth was not running away from danger like prey when she left Pemberley for London, no matter what the Council dragons might be saying behind her back.No, protecting Little Anne and the baby she carried was the right, sensible and courageous thing to do. It was what any maternal dragon would do. And what place could be safer than Blue Order offices in London?

But where dragons were involved, safe was a relative term.

With threats to the Blue Order on every side, everyone is stepping lightly around the Council dragons. After all, with a huge, unpredictable sea drake off the coast, an ineffective dragon king, and an heir who is even worse, who can blame them for being crankier than usual?

Why, then, do they keep haranguing Elizabeth about the Historian’s assistant drake who has been digging up the Archives under the Order offices? Why is the Council so desperate to know what the Historian has found? What could awkward, annoying little Bede have found to warrant the Council's to threaten to eat her on sight?

What indeed?

A fresh new gas lamp fantasy adventure in the engrossingly intricate world of Jane Austen’s Dragons. Anne McCaffrey meets Jane Austen, a perfect mix for dragon lovers and regency-era fans alike.

Sophia Rose reviews: On The Edge by Ilona Andrews

 

Today Sophia Rose reviews On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews, narrated by Renee Raudman

#1 Edge

Paranormal Romance

Publisher:  Tantor Audio

Published:  1.7.10

Time:  12 hours 8 minutes

Rating: 4.5 stars

Format: audio

Source: bought

Sellers:  Amazon

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Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either. Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn't turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off-the-books job in the Broken just to survive.

Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power). But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them - or they'll devour the Edge and everyone in it.