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- 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: Ghosts of Mateguas by Linda Watkins
This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Watkins’ Ghosts of Mateguas is the third in the Mateguas Island series. While the stories are connected, they can be read stand-alone. Later books provide sufficient back information so a new reader won’t feel lost. This story heralds a return to the infamous Mateguas Island […]
Book Review: Soil-Man by Oz Monroe
This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite ‘His dream of going to highschool next year with his big brother had been excised with the blade of a knife.’ Oz Monroe’s Soil-Man is a story quite like any other; a dark song to draw you under, revealing a hidden world few can imagine. […]
Book Review- Dawn of Hope by LRW Lee
This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Lee’s Dawn of Hope collects together the first 3 books of the Andy Smithson series. As a whole, the omnibus was quite enjoyable. Below, I’ll go over each book included. We start with Blast of the Dragon’s Fury, where we meet Andy, a young boy […]
Book Review: A Natural History of Dragons by Maria Brennan
Brennan’s Natural History of Dragons tells the story of Isabella Trent and her love of dragons. Told in first person, the story takes us from Isabella’s first forays into naturalism, all the way to her first true dragon expedition. This is set in an alter-world with echoes of our own, and has a definite […]
Book Review- Ash and Silver by Carol Berg
****This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review**** “You are not a murderer. The curious fact had been served to me that morning like cold fish on a platter, to be digested as I took my daily run.” ~Ash and Dust, Carol Berg With this masterful opening, we are introduced […]
Book Review- The Murder of Sherlock Holmes by David Fable
This book was reviewed for Readers’ Favourite. I am a big Sherlock fan (no, not because of the BBC Sherlock, though I do love that incarnation as well. Sherlock Holmes is one of the few characters I can think of who have become archetypal figures in their own right, and in doing so, pulled […]
Book Review- Get Lost (Never Say Neverland 1) by Xavier Neal
Neal’s Get Lost is the beginning of a new take on the story of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. Here, Peter is not the carefree boy you may remember from the eponymous tale penned by JM Barrie. No, here Peter is a sullen teenager, bitter over things he’s lost. He forces each newly minted […]