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Title: A Raven's Revenge Author: Linda Bloodworth Genre: Upper YA/Paranormal/Fantasy/Christian Series: A Raven Wing #2 Add on Goodreads ***WARNING: This book contains violence and sexual situations. Not recommended for those under 18. *** Hell hath no fury like an angel scorned. Justice St. Michaels is on a mission from God to avenge her parents' death, even if it means hunting Seliki to the depths of Hell. Justice and her powerful friends won't back down until His will is done. Can an angel, witch, vampire and elf take on Hell and come out alive? Purchase Here Justice Something’s wrong. I opened my eyes to pitch-black nothingness. Moving my shoulders, I felt the familiar weight of my backpack. At least that made it through, but where the heck was everyone? Was Hell supposed to be this dark? Sure, I didn’t expect a red, cloven-hoofed devil holding a pitchfork to greet me. I reached out, hoping to find a clue as to where my friends were, but only felt air. I stretche...

Review of Rabi and Matthew by L.A. Witt A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet? With gay characters? Muslim vs Christian? Democrat vs Republican? Love vs hate? I am so there! This is what I was thinking after reading the blurb. Rabi's family and Matthew's families hate each other. Have forever. Why? Neither young man knows why, not sure if anyone knows why. All they know is that their families hate each other, so the two of them cannot, should not, be together. And yet they cannot help themselves, and fall for each other anyway. And set off a horrible set of consequences that are almost too real to be believed in this day and age of so much hate roiling around our country. I wanted to love this story; unfortunately, I didn't end up loving it. I did end up liking it, for the most part, though. What I like? Rabi and Matthew. They're both so sweet, so oddly innocent, and their love is an insta-love, romantic, fairy tale type of love. What I didn't love? The re...