***This book was reviewed for Sourcebooks- Jabberwocky via Netgalley *Words are… tears of the sun, given shape. Words are… Awen manifest; fruit of the soul. Words are… arbitrary symbols of communication. Patricia Forde’s The List is a clarion call for the future, echoing the lessons of Fahrenheit 451 and Equilibrium. Set in a post-apocalyptic future […]
Crescent Calling by Axelle Chandler (The Crescent Witch Chronicles #1) Publication date: August 9th 2017 Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy Enter to win a 20$ Amazon gift card Synopsis ‘Skye Williams is an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Or so she thought. When she receives news of her estranged mother’s death, she must go […]
***This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Klingler’s Tune Up: Secret of Mylin is an intense mystery set in modern day California and Nevada. It begins with a questionable traffic accident that proves to be less an accident than premeditation upon closer inspection. An elderly Chinese woman is struck by a motorcycle […]
***This book was reviewed for Random House/Doubleday via Edelweiss Cantero’s Meddling Kids was such a fun book! It’s a cheeky parody drawing on reminiscences of childhood classics like Scooby-Doo and The Three Investigators, with helpings of Lovecraft, King, and others added to taste. I could see echoes of 80s action shows peeking through as well. […]
***This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review With Lucia Zarate, award-winning author Cecilia Velastegui has woven a beautiful tale of the late 1800s, where superstition still abounded, and life was both freer, and far more dangerous. It was a time when that which was strange and unusual was exploited for profit. It […]
***This book was reviewed for She Writes Press via Netgalley & for the Manhattan Book Review Volker’s Venetian Blood weaves alluring language, seductive setting, the charm of shadowed history, and cunning intrigue into a (modern) historical mystery so tantalising you will be swept away from word one. Anna Lucia Lottol, a financial investigator […]
***This book was reviewed for Chronicle Books via Netgalley This delightful collection of Victorian ghost tales features offerings by such notables as Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. I was a bit disappointed to find no tale from Edgar Allan Poe though. Ghost stories of this era are a […]
***This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Paul’s wife Allison has succumbed to cancer after a long hard fight. He is grieving still, but time waits for no one. During the final days of her illness, their three children stayed with aunt and grandparents. Now they’ve returned home, forcing Paul to engage in life again. […]
***This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review and for Harlequin/MIRA via Netgalley. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone is a story of broken dreams, fractured family, and the power of belief. One lonely night, Benedict Stone is woken by banging on his door. On the other side is a young woman named Gemma, […]
***This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite Life Bank, by Magus Tor, is a novella following the life of Daniel Chia, and chronicling the consequences he faces after making a deal with an otherworldly being. After a fruitless interview, merely one in a string of them, Daniel is approached by a man named Raphael […]