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 […]
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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. […]
Book Review: Dark Spirits by Stephen Lancaster
This book was reviewed via Netgalley In paranormal investigator Stephen Lancaster’s second book, Dark Spirits, he covers a series of events and investigations detailing some of his more interesting moments as a paranormal investigator. Ok, I’m going to be honest. This book hit several ‘frission’ points for me, things that just rubbed me wrong. […]
Book Review: The Wisdom of Not Knowing by Estelle Frankel
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review Using lessons garnered from such diverse sources as Jewish mysticism, Buddhism, psychology, mythic studies, and spiritual alchemy, Frankel offers a new way of looking at the unknown, and embracing the chaos of uncertainty. As we age, we lose the wonder of the child, for whom […]
Book Review: Fatal Option by Chris Beakey
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Fatal Option, by Chris Beakey, is a whirlwind collision of time, place, and players, where synchronicity is revealed in the obscuration of a ferocious blizzard. As snows pile high, Stephen Porter is woken in the middle of the night to pick up his daughter whose car has […]
Book Review: Issaura’s Claws by Katharine Wibell
This book was reviewed via Lola’s Book Tours Issaura’s Claws tells the story of Lluava, a Theriomorph tigress conscripted into the Elysian army, and sent Thowcelemine to be trained as all Theriomorph women are trained, as support roles to the warriors, such as being healers. Lluava soon proves there is much more fire […]
Book Review: Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review What do you get if you toss hard-boiled detective fiction, and lore of the Great Old Ones into a blender? The answer is Cassandra Khaw’s Lovecraftian noir Hammers on Bone. When John Persons is approached by a kid who wants to hire him to kill […]