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Blog Tour – World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade

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World's Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks DemonWorld’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade

Tracy’s Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Series: Supernatural Entanglements #2

Release Date: August 11, 2026

Middling oracle and cheese lover, Gwendolen “Gwen” Wexloff is preparing for her final evaluation by the oracle verification panel at the Delphi Academy when she meets Hugh Blacke, a demon who she thinks is a representative of the Supernatural & Enhanced Ruling Council (SERC) interviewing students. They chat for a few minutes, and she is incredibly attracted to him and thinks he might be attracted to her as well, but then she learns that he is actually one of the panelists. To say her evaluation went badly would be a massive understatement and her dreams of a better life for herself and her family are crushed. Now twenty years later, Gwen, who has been living in the Containment Zone, is single, pregnant, and has just battled a zombie breach and then had the most powerful vision she has ever had. From her vision she learns that there is a conspiracy to frame demons for the zombie breach and it will trigger a worldwide species war that will leave millions dead. She and her friends need to find someone powerful enough to help them prove the breach was meant to trigger the events that will lead to the war in Gwen’s vision, and she knows that there is only one person she can turn to, the man who witnessed her greatest humiliation and the man she hoped to never see again…Hugh Blacke.

Hugh Blacke is a powerful man, a lawyer and a councilor for SERC, he is known to be fair, law abiding and honest, so when Gwen shows up on his doorstep in the middle of the night, he agrees to hear her out and keep an open mind, despite the fact that her track record with him isn’t stellar. He has never forgotten Gwen and has even wondered about her over the years. He agrees to go to “The Zone” with her to examine the scene for himself, never expecting to get dragged into a fight for the future of the world! He is convinced that something shady is going on, but before he can leave, the authorities show up and he needs a good reason for being in “The Zone” in the middle of the night, so he pretends Gwen is his girlfriend and even fights one of her Troll friends to prove it. Now he and Gwen will have to figure out who is behind the plot and stop them before their evil plan can come to fruition and hopefully live long enough to explore the attraction that is clearly still brewing between them.

I really enjoyed this story, Gwen and Hugh are such likable and relatable characters that it is almost impossible not to root for them. This story is filled with emotion, found family, conspiracies, laugh out loud moments, betrayal, secrets, spicy love scenes, hope and finally an ending with a HEA! I do wish I had read the previous book in the series, but that is just because this one was so good that I feel like I missed out and not because I couldn’t follow this story. I have definitely added it to my TBR pile and am already looking forward to the next installment. Highly recommended.

*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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BLOG TOUR – Henry Tudor Must Die by Jillian Laine

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Henry Tudor Must DieHenry Tudor Must Die by Jillian Laine

Tracy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars

Series: Standalone (?)

Release Date: July 21, 2026

Once King Henry VIII set eyes on Jane Seymour, Anne Boylen’s days as queen were numbered, but what Henry didn’t realize was that Anne wasn’t the weak woman he believed her to be. Anne was a powerful witch and a member of the Hellebore Sisterhood, but without her spellbooks and her bloodletting knife, she is powerless – or so she thought. While awaiting her execution, Anne is visited by the last person she ever expected to see, the late Queen Catherine of Aragon. But Catherine “Lina” is not dead as everyone believes, she was saved by the Hellebore Sisterhood and has been sent to save Anne.

After performing the magic necessary to convince the world that she was executed, Anne is weak and at the mercy of Lina – a woman who should want her dead. Everything in Lina rages against helping the woman who was responsible not only for her own downfall, but the reason her daughter Mary was no longer heir to the throne. But when Princess Marguerite d’Angouleme, the sister of the French King and the leader of the Hellebore Sisterhood saved her from a life of exile, she couldn’t say no when the Princess asked her to save Anne. After nursing Anne back to health, the women travel to Spain and spend the next few years working for the Princess. But the rage and hatred for Henry is always simmering under the surface, so when Anne’s young cousin Catherine Howard, catches Henry’s eye, Anne knows the time has come and that Henry Tudor Must Die…

I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I started this book, but I have to say, this was one of the better Anne Boylen fictional retellings that I have read. I loved the idea of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boylen working together, I felt their pain, their anger and their rage, and rejoiced in their friendship and commitment to the sisterhood. For me, the story did drag in the middle, but the ending was great (although heartbreaking) and I loved the interactive “footnotes” throughout the story. Overall, it was an interesting fictional historical retelling with a magical twist, and I would definitely read another book by this author – in fact I have my fingers crossed for a story with Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth!

*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. *