Earthbound by Mari Collier is the first of the Maca books. Set in America’s Old West, it is certainly not my typical fare, and I’ll admit to being more than a little sceptical at first. Even though I read fantasy, adore Star Trek, and write in an arcanepunk realm where the inhabitants would technically be […]
This book was reviewed for Xpresso Book Tours The Empty Room is Sarah Clemens’ debut novel about a pair of newlyweds who move to the sleepy town of Eastbrook, Maine to get away from the drudgery and rat-race of their former jobs with different advertising agencies. Dean and Elizabeth purchase a Victorian […]
I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and impartial review A Time for Dragonflies and Angels by JM Erikson is a compilation of five short stories whose main focus deals with the notion of parallel universes. Recount Our Dreams: This is the story of a man participating in […]
As a writer of historical fiction, somedays I feel like an archaeologist, cobbling together an understanding of a past person or place from an amalgam of letters and artifacts and abandoned spaces. Using my own mixture of logic and fiction, I fill in the blanks between the signposts left by history. But, of course, sometimes […]
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews, and Netgalley The Other Einstein, by Marie Benedict, is a look at lost dreams, failing hopes, and ‘what ifs’. What if Mileva, little known first wife of Albert Einstein, had never forsaken her path, and graduated with a physics degree as she had […]
This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Hendricks’ Which Way is Up is a collection of poems focusing on the balance between the darker things in life with the lighter ones. I love the quote at the beginning of the first section that reminds us that you need darkness and sadness in order for […]
This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Noyila’s Poetry for the Soul is a beautiful collection of poetry following a range topics. Favourites include: ‘A Good Book’, because it is so true to my own feelings. Truly good books captivate. They are the keys to places your soul can dwell. I can’t […]
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Kelly’s A Criminal Magic is the story of an alter-Earth in which magic exists, and to which sorcerers were subject to a magical prohibition during the time of (our) America’s Prohibition on alcohol. It is a bewitching tale spun around two individuals whose families have been ripped asunder […]
A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly Publication date: February 2nd 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Historical, Young Adult Synopsis THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets THE PEAKY BLINDERS in Lee Kelly’s new crossover fantasy novel. Magic is powerful, dangerous and addictive – and after passage of the 18th Amendment, it is finally illegal. It’s 1926 in Washington, DC, […]
This book was reviewed for Online Book Club Find the book’s Online Bookclub page here. Snyder’s Shifting in the Realms is one of the Twin Cities Series, a collection of novellas written by different authors. This one focuses on Cody, a wolf shifter who fled to the Realms after dying, and who has […]
