Continuing a Love Affair with the Written Word
Book Review: Splintered, by A. G. Howard "A descendent of the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, sixteen year old Alyssa Gardner fears she is mentally ill like her mother until she finds that Wonderland is real and, if she passes a series of tests to fix Alice's mistakes, she may save her family from... Continue Reading →
EVO Nation: Book 1 in EVO Nation Series; by K.J. Chapman Book Review From EVO Nation Amazon listing: The government tortures her, her own kind use her, and she is learning the true meaning of ulterior motives. Teddie Leason has been dragged into the festering underbelly of the secretive world of EVO; a world about... Continue Reading →
From the paperback back cover: Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of twenty-fifth century, to wander the world being useful to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a Senssayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which... Continue Reading →
The Alpha stage is over for the front quarter of the book, and on to Beta... Let me know what you think! Silvery light from a full moon filtered through a scattering of clouds, illuminating the stone markers of the dead as pinpricks of reflected light that stretched out ahead of her, disappearing into the... Continue Reading →
Echo Volume 2: The Taste of Ashes by Kent Wayne After that cliff-hanger of an ending with Volume 1, I jumped right into Volume 2. There were questions I was waiting to have answered, that were masterfully avoided (Volume 3 is on its way)! This book is a non-stop whirlwind of life-or-death fighting, every second... Continue Reading →
Echo Volume 1: Approaching Shatter; by Kent Wayne Super soldier tech, a bad-ass hero questioning everything he's been taught, a dystopian planet, and a hint of mysticism (or is it?), Kent Wayne's freshman novel melds it all together in the perfect recipe for a fun Science Fiction story. What's not to love? As the pages unfold the... Continue Reading →
Published in 2010, Metagame, by Sam Landstrom is a science fiction novel I found through my Pixel of Ink account. I held onto it for a while before really getting into it, though when I did, it seemed strange that I hadn't dove right in. The world Mr. Landstrom creates is fun, and believable. Opening... Continue Reading →
Just wanted to read a love story. I found a series, The Apocolypse, by Melody Anne that fit that bill perfectly... It's funny, because the books weren't good. They were written poorly. The story was developed for crap- so many things that could have been great, that were set up to be great, that just fell... Continue Reading →
According to Publishers Weekly, This book could easily open a fresh new world of urban fantasy. I have to agree. Originally published in 2011, Shaman Healer Heretic brings a unique take on a story that's saturated the shelves of urban fantasy, M. Terry Green makes it all seem new. Maintaining the fun feel that endears characters such as Laurel... Continue Reading →
I've just stepped off a reading binge that's left me blissfully nostalgic. Turning jock in fifth grade could never get me away from the steady reading habit I picked up in kindergarten (thank you Mrs. Harwood). Through the years, I somehow lost this beautiful habit of jumping through portals, but every now and then, I remember the skill, and... Continue Reading →
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Continuing a Love Affair with the Written Word
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