This book was reviewed via Netgalley Kudler’s Risuko is an enthralling tale of feudal Japan. Kano Murasaki, known as Risuko, has been sold into a half-slavery to Lady Chiyome, who runs Mochizuki, training shrine maidens called miko. But miko aren’t the only things she trains. No, Chiyome trains kunoichi, or ‘very special women’. It’ll […]
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Book Review- Playful Song Called Beautiful
This book was reviewed for University of Iowa Press via Netgalley Blair’s Playful Song Called Beautiful is certainly one of the more unusual poetry collections I’ve read. This collection was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Contest. These poems are rich with unique symbolism. That sometimes backfires though, when symbolism is so unique to […]
Book Review- Map of Bones by Francesca Haig
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Map of Bones is the second in Haig’s Fire Sermon series. The resistance has scattered, victim to Council predations. Zoe, Piper, and Cass make their convoluted way back to resistance leadership, through a maze of obstacles and diversions. Along the way, they collect […]
Book Review- Jekyll Island Chronicles (graphic novel)
This book was reviewed via Netgalley The Jekyll Island Chronicles by Nedvidek, Cromwell, and Lowe tells the behind the scenes story of an alternate history in which the titans of industry and science come together to do far more than craft the Federal Reserve. Meeting on Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, […]
Book Review- The Helland Reckoning by Adrian Martin
This book was reviewed for Crooked Cat Publishing via Netgalley The Helland Reckoning, by Adrian Martin, begins on a frigid winter’s night with a car making its slow lonely way to Bowannack, in Helland. In the car is a fretful mother and her twin daughters. A collision with a deer is the start […]
Book Review- Charnel House by Graham Masterton
This book was reviewed for Open Road Integrated Media via Netgalley Masterton’s Charnel House is a horror story that evokes style and story akin to Edgar Allan Poe and to Dean Koontz. Indeed, there are a few parts reminiscent of The Tell-tale Heart. However, it isn’t a murder the house hides, but something far […]
Book Review: Ivy in Bloom by Vanita Oelschlager
This book was reviewed for Netgalley Oelschlager’s Ivy in Bloom is a charming introduction to poetry for younger children. Through adorable illustrations, we follow Ivy, who just can’t wait for spring to arrive. It’s a patchwork of poetry, culled from some of the greatest poets history has to offer, stitched together by Oelschlager. […]
Book Review- What Haunts Me by Margaret Millmore
I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review What Haunts Me, by Margaret Millmore, is the first book in the budding Ghost Killers series, and yet another book in my accidental run of books set in San Francisco 😛 I do seem to be inadvertently attracting them […]
Book Review- Voyage of the Basilisk by Maria Brennan
I purchased a copy of this book for my own enjoyment, and with no expectation of a review. Voyage of the Basilisk is Brennan’s third Lady Trent book. This story follows Isabella and Tom Wilker as they set forth on a sea voyage in search of dragons. The whole thing still reminds me of […]
Book Review- Forever and One Week by Caroline Cairn
I received a copy of this book via Lola’s Blog Tours in exchange for a fair and impartial review Forever and One Week by Caroline Cairn is second in the Spirits of Saoradh series. We follow Logan and Tessa in this journey, as each inadvertently and slowly helps the other to heal […]