Book Review: Branded by Keary Taylor

    Jessica has been forced to stand trials for those who have died to see if they will go to heaven or hell for as long as she can remember and as a result every night she wakes up screaming, or at least every time she has to sleep, which isn't much. Her only companion is the battered and mentally unstable woman who lives next door, Sal and in a way she likes it that way. But when someone comes into the house she is care taking in the middle of the night everything changes. Even the trials that she must stand.
    Alex has come home after his grandparents died and left him everything, including the house that Jessica is care taking. She is a small thing but he is instantly crazy about her. Now to get her out of the littler hermit shell she has built around herself. She has been through a lot and now there is this new neighbor who is trying to take her away from him...even if she isn't really his. Yet.
    Alex is perfect and amazing and he deserves all good things. Jessica is such an amazing person even after everything that she has had to deal with. I am not so sure that I wouldn't have taken Emily's way out of it instead of having to deal with that every time I slept but honestly who knows. I don't believe I am capable of that but when faced with torture every time you fall asleep who knows what once is capable of. Anyway, this is a really great book and I am interested to see exactly how this plays out and how much time they get. Book 2 will be on my list at some point!
This book is available on Amazon for free at https://amzn.to/368jPwY.

Books by this Author: 

Crown of Death (Blood Descendents Universe Book 1)

Book Review: Bound by a Dragon by Linda K. Hopkins

    Kiera is a small village country girl who sells her father's handmade kitchen wares at the market and helps her parents out with the farm chores. Edmond, the annoying man-child whom her mother expects her to marry one day, is getting more earnest in his advances and she would rather become a nun. In fact none of the men in her village suit her liking very much, until a Drake comes to town. But what chance does a simple farm girl have of capturing the interests of a Drake?
     Aaron has come back to his birth-place in search of answers and to put the end of his parent's lives to rest in his mind, but when a little brunette captures his attention his stay may just be indefinitely extended. But can he grasp onto his humanity and allow this woman to fall for not only the man but also the beast that he hides?
    Normally I am not one for time period pieces, avoiding them whenever possible, but something about a medieval dragon carrying away a maiden and her man fighting for her honor against someone everyone considers to be an upstanding member of society can draw a girl in. This is a lovely story, but I do wonder what happens to Anna. Something tells me it has something to do with Aaron's annoying cousin who is the black sheep of the family.
This book is available on Amazon for free at https://amzn.to/2zJc704.