Two Favorite October Reads: The Games Gods Play & Phantasma!

 I can't decide which one of these two books I love more. I just devoured them. I loved the stories, the settings, the plots and the characters.

The Games Gods Play was tantalizing while Phantasma was straight up spice. Both novels were brutal, winner takes all, The Hunger Games style games with Greek gods and demon princes as the game makers. Both authors, Abigail Owen and Kaylee Smith, are well versed (and oh so talented) in the lore, history, mood, descriptive language, and world building of the books they have created. They really put you inside the story and then took you on an adventure you could picture so clearly with smells, sounds, feelings, that it reads you into the stories.  I love authors who cover all the senses and take the time to romance you and remind you why you love to read, and especially their books. 

Wonderfully fun fantasy romance! It's sassy, thrilling, and had me staying up well past bedtime finishing it. 

A necromancer trying to save her sister in a gothic New Orleans mansion with the help of a sexy phantom... It's delightfully gruesome and a passionate paranormal romance. 

Kaylee Smith is a new author for me. I am going to do some looking at her other books. Abigail Owen is a known author to me and already has books sitting on my library shelves. I just love her shifter dragons and phoenixes in the Inferno Rising series. Fires Edge series I just started this last year and can't wait to read more about rogue dragon shifters.