Book Review- Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings by Lydia Sherrer

  This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours   Beginnings, first in Sherrer’s Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus series contains three short stories. Labelled as two episodes and an interlude, they follow the adventures of Lily Singer and Sebastian Blackwell as they free a haunted house of it’s trapped spirits, track down missing artifacts, […]

Book Review: Eugenics Wars Vol 1 by Greg Cox

This book was purchased for my own reading pleasure   I purchased the paired non-canon Eugenics Wars books by Greg Cox many, many moons ago. Khan is one of the most enduring and well-known of Kirk’s many adversaries. I was quite pleased when a version of Khan made an appearance in the new reboot of […]

Book Reviews: Moana, adapted by Suzanne Francis

  This book was purchased for my niece.   This is the story of Moana, a young woman who braves the ocean beyond the reefs that surround her island home. The land is dying and the fish are gone. Legend says that if the Heart of Te Fiti is restored to its proper place, then […]

Book Review: The Hunger Saint by Olivia Kate Cerrone

This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review   In The Hunger Saint Cerrone has opened a window to the past, giving a glimpse of the harsh conditions of yesteryear. For decades, sulphur mining was part and parcel to Sicily’s economy. For much of that time, it was not uncommon to have children as […]

Book Review- Writer’s Craft 22: Writing Vivid Emotions by Rayne Hall

I purchased this book for my own edification   Writing Vivid Emotions is book 22 in Rayne Hall’s popular Writer’s Craft series. Each of these wonderful books focuses on a specific aspect of writing or promotional work. This particular book, as the name says, centres around working with vivid emotions in one’s writing. There are […]

Book Review- Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird

This book was reviewed for Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews and via Netgalley   Drawing on sources previously unavailable, Baird gives us an intimate look at the Queen who defined and gave name to an entire era. I will admit, I am a huge fan of the Victorian Period from a historical/literary perspective, but for […]

Book Review: Turing’s Imitation Game by Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah

This book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews   Rather than being a book about Turing the man, Warwick and Shah focus specifically on Turing’s famous Imitation Game, a tool for judging artificial intelligence, or rather, can a given machine ‘think’? This game asks the question ‘can a hidden machine fool […]

Book Review: The Grumpface by BCR Fegan/ Illustrated by D Frongia

This book was reviewed for TaleBlade Press   This charming picture book for young readers is a new spin on the classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’ tale. In the gloomy Forest of Ho lives a terrible creature called the Grumpface, and what an ugly fellow he is! But he wasn’t always so. Once he was […]

Book Review: Lord of Chance by Erica Ridley

This book was reviewed via Netgalley   First in the Rogues to Riches series, Ridley’s Lord of Chance sweeps us back in time, to England’s Regency period. Charlotte Devon is a young woman traveling alone through Scotland, searching for her father. All she has for clues are a name, and some family jewels. At the […]

Book Review: Something Wicked by Debi Chestnut

This book was reviewed via Netgalley   Chestnut’s Something Wicked is an overview of exorcism, that looks at history, forms in other cultures and traditions, what demons are vs other types of ‘negative’ entities, levels progressing to full-blown possession, exorcism gone wrong, and the necessity of protection and a few basic types of protection.   […]

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