Month: August 2025

Voidwalker by S. A. MacLean

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Voidwalker (Beasts of the Void, #1)Voidwalker by S.A. MacLean

Tracy’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars

Series: Beasts of the Void, #1

Release Date: August 19, 2025

When Fionamara “Fi”, returns from death, she has the rare ability to glimpse rifts into other dimensions—the mysterious Void. Here dwell the daeyari, enigmatic immortals who rely on human flesh for sustenance yet maintain a fragile peace with humankind through willing sacrifices, trading their protection and advanced technology for human lives. Fi’s brush with death enables her to smuggle magic and forbidden goods across realms, a lucrative but perilous business.

When a former lover entices Fi into transporting a wagon to a daeyari capital, her journey swiftly spirals into chaos. She becomes ensnared in a terrorist bombing and a coup among the daeyari, ultimately betrayed and forced to be a sacrificial offering to Antal, the daeyari overlord she inadvertently helped target. In a desperate gambit, Fi strikes a bargain with Antal, agreeing to help him uncover the true masterminds behind the coup and reclaim his city.

I have mixed feelings about this book – I love the idea of it and Fi and Antal are great characters, but I was also confused about the “Void” and thought the writing was a bit repetitive and love scenes with razor-sharp teeth and claws seemed hard to believe. I think that maybe this was maybe a bit too “monster” for me and I probably won’t be reading the next book.

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by the publisher/author. All opinions in this review are my own. *

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Never Been Witched by Molly Harper

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Never Been Witched (Starfall Point Book 3)Never Been Witched by Molly Harper

Tracy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars

Series: Starfall Point, #3

Release Date: August 12, 2025

Alice Seastairs runs her grandparent’s antiques shop in the small lake town of Starfall Point, Michigan. She is also a witch/ghost wrangler, who along with her sister witches are trying to find the remaining Welling lock so they can ensure the safety of the ghosts at Shaddow House. Alice loves her sister witches, but lately she has been pulling away from them because she is ashamed of herself and scared of them rejecting her when they learn she has unwittingly given information about their coven to her former lover. A chance meeting with Collin Bancroft the new owner of the Duchess hotel, sets a lot of things in motion, and gives her new opportunities in not only her career, but in her love life too.

Collin Bancroft has made some bad choices in his life, but he has put his bad boy ways behind him and has purchased a hotel that was built by his family with plans to restore it to its former glory. He never expected to find romance or ghosts, but he has found both and life will never be the same! Throw in an ex-fiancée who still thinks they are destined to be together, some entitled family members and Collin will have to work hard to find his way to happily ever after.

This was a well-written, nicely paced story with wonderful, relatable characters. I loved Alice and Collin, they have both known immense grief and toxic relationships, but have each handled it differently, Alice by bowing to her nasty grandparents and Collin by becoming a “bad boy”. I loved how Alice finally stood up for herself, but I thought Collin was a little bit too beta and needed to say “No” like he meant it, but I still liked him. This was a new to me author and I jumped into the ending of a series without a clear understanding of the ongoing story in that series – but the author did a great job of filling in the backstory without losing track of the current story, so other than wanting to go back and read the previous books, I had no problem following this story.

*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by the publisher/author. All opinions in this review are my own. *