This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours Revelations is the second book featuring archivist wizard Lily Singer and mercenary witch Sebastian Blackwell. As with the previous book, this one is separated into three parts alternating between the two characters. During the first part, Lily gets a surprise new companion, and must team up with […]
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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, […]
Blog Tour: Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Series by Lydia Sherrer
This is my stop during the blog tour for the Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus series by Lydia Sherrer. This blog tour is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours. This series contains 4 books at this moment with more planned. On 28 April 2017 the latest two books released: Love, Lies and Hocus Pocus Allies and Love, Lies […]
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 […]
Shout-Out: The Device Trial by Tom Breen
Story Summary New York attorney Brian Bradford was severely injured and hospitalized after the violent confrontation at the end of the first novel, The Complaint. Having not learned his lesson from the first litigation against ZeiiMed, he decides upon his return to work to commence a second lawsuit against the billion dollar health insurance […]
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 […]