There are tons of swoon-worthy characters in literature.  Admit it, you know you’ve called dibs on a fictional character from time to time!  In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’d like to play a little game with everyone.  This all started a while back, when my good friends Laura (Sisterspooky), Andrew (Pewterwolf), Leanne (District YA) and I used to fight over our picks for Fictional Husbands.  We would have Twitter fights laying claim to our literary loves, and arguing why they were OURS.  We wanted to play along here at Bookshelf …

Touch of Power, by Maria V. Snyder, is a fictional fantasy that draws you in with its leading lady, merry band of men, and wickedly handsome villain.  Avery is a young ‘healer’ who has been on the run for three years.  Her powers are rare, but she soon finds out through a young man, Kerrick, and his merry band, that she is the only healer left in the land.  Where Kerrick left me looking for more from his leading role, I fell in love with his second-in-comand, Belen.  The odd …

 
Kelly’s Review
Holy cow! Amanda Havard has done it again, and this time Book 2 is better than the first!! I love these characters (especially Everett!!), and am in a need-to-know more frenzy now. The Survivors: Point of Origin is smart writing that takes you on a journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. I went into it with about a million theories of where I thought the story was headed. I ended up being wrong about most of them! Amanda Havard takes you through history and mythology and the supernatural all in one book and it is fascinating. …

Double by Jenny Valentine
This book left me in a state of constant anxiety. I could not put it down, because I was so anxious for the main character Chap. It is a good thing it was a short book or I don’t think my heart could have handled it. In this novel by Jenny Valentine, a teenaged guy named Chap learns from his dying “grandfather” that he is not who he thinks he is. At sixteen, he is suddenly on his own with no knowledge of who he is or …