The Fairy Tale Case Files - Backstage!

  BOOK TITLE: Euphoria AUTHOR: Jayne Lockwood DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: A pale blue face with red eyes, below a city with a galaxy above it. GENRE: Science Fiction/Romance PAGES: 310 BLURB: It might take the arrival of an alien being to remind an isolated man what it means to be human. With a stressful job, his boss breathing down his neck for profitable results, and an estranged wife and daughter, scientist Kurt Lomax doesn’t think life can get much harder. Until a nonbinary extraterrestrial with an otherworldly beauty, captivating elegance, and a wicked sense of humor inconveniently shows up at his apartment. Vardam watched the destruction of their own world, and they don’t want to see the same thing happen on Earth. They are lonely, and feelings soon develop between them and the supposedly straight scientist—feelings Kurt reciprocates, much to his confusion. The arrival of cheery interpreter Tom Soames—whose Goth appearance belies a gentle heart—is like a ray of

  BOOK TITLE: Queen of Ice AUTHOR: Emma Miles DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: Black cover with the silver white silhouette of a large raven GENRE: Fantasy (Sword and Sorcery sub genre) PAGES: 352 BLURB: She’d killed a boy. His face haunts her dreams. With no notion of what she is seeking, Catya flees to the frozen and unknown province of Snowhold, leaving her friends and the Raven Scouts behind her. A glimpse of an intriguing face in a blizzard sets her on a path where her fate collides with that of ancient beasts, and a mysterious hidden people. Can she survive alone in a land where women are still slaves, and sorcerers rule? Perhaps there is a chance for redemption. Perhaps she can lay the ghost of the boy to rest. It’s time to choose; to be a hero, or a monster. # OF STARS: 4.5 *** When I thought back, I realized that it had actually been a while since I read sword and sorcery fantasy (probably my last binge through Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series was the l