This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review Devil Dolphins of Silver Lagoon recounts some of Captain Michael Bennett’s many maritime adventures. Related in a light, playful tone, it was easy to fall into these stories and feel as if I were a part of the proceedings. ‘Devil Dolphins of Silver Lagoon’ […]
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Book Review: Ghosts from Our Past by Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews Yates’ and Gilbert’s Ghosts from Our Past is a collaboration of love from two young physicists in training. The book is (now) organised into three broad parts. ‘Our Stories’ focused on the authors’ histories and how they became interested in the paranormal, […]
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Book Review: Goliath by Shawn Corridan and Gary Waid
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review and Netgalley With Goliath, Corridan and Waid have woven a gripping novel in the style of M Crichton and the duo of D Preston and L Child. It is a story of man against man, of the deceptions we play against one another, and the […]
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Book Review: The Crystal Shard by RA Salvatore
I purchased this book for my own enjoyment with no expectation of a review I first read RA Salvatore’s The Crystal Shard many moons ago. The Drizzt novels helped me through a tough time of my life, and are still comfort books. This reread marks the 2000th book I’ve read since Jan 1993. I […]
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Book Review: Children of Icarus by Caighlan Smith
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews and Netgalley Smith’s Children of Icarus is a brilliant reweaving of Greek myth. In Daedalum, children between the ages of ten and sixteen can be chosen to be Icarii, the Blessed of Icarus, who are sent into the Labyrinth surrounding their city. If […]
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Book Review: Black Kettle by Jason LeClerc
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Black Kettle, by Jason LeClerc seems less to me a series of novellas, as advertised, and more a series of philosophical discourse that discuss various aspects of humanity, threaded with short stories that are independent of one another, yet are linked in the same time-line. Events that occur […]
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Book Review- Pagan Portals: Pan by Melusine Draco
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Draco’s Pagan Portals- Pan is a succinct look at the most ancient and venerable of deities. Tracing Pan’s mythologic lineage from Arcadia to the present day, Draco shows us the links between Pan and other Horned Gods, such as Cernunnos, and the Christian depictions of the Devil. This […]
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Book Review: Threads: A Neoverse Anthology edited by Aaron Safronoff
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Welcome to the Neoverse! Aaron Safronoff, author of the awesome young adult fantasy novel Sunborn Rising, edits this amazing collection of twenty short stories that were the result of Neoglyphic Entertainment’s writing contest. There are so many wonderful stories here, I’m hard pressed to […]
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Book Review: First Contact: Strings Attached by Paul J Nelson
This book was reviewed for the Online Bookclub You can find its OLBC link here. First Contact: Strings Attached by Nelson is a unique look at two very different, alike species making first contact with one another. I found it quite refreshing that neither species was human. The planets of Zeon and Arken […]
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Book Review: Warcraft by Christie Golden
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Warcraft was adapted from screenplay to novel by Christie Golden. It follows Lothar as he is dealing with reports of mysterious of attacks. Khadgar, a baby mage, once destined to be Azeroth’s next Guardian, approached Lothar about other attacks bearing similar evidence of the […]
