In the Company of Strangers by KE Mullins is the second of her Team Ice series. This story jumps perspectives often. Most are delineated with a line of asterisks separating the sections. Other times the change occurs after a dialogue exchange, and it is done so smoothly you barely even notice. We follow Elle/Gabrielle, […]
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Book Review: The Purloined Poodle by Kevin Hearne
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review and Netgalley Hearne’s The Purloined Poodle is a rollickin’ good novella set in the world of the Iron Druid series. It is told from the point of view of Oberon, Atticus’ ever amusing wolfhound. Through the Druidic arts, Oberon has been granted greater […]
Book Review: The Dragon Sphere by Abel Gallardo
This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours Gallardo’s The Dragon Sphere is a strong start to a new series. We follow Landon, a teen on the cusp of a great life change. Landon’s da disappeared when Landon was quite young. A visit from his uncle, near his fifteenth birthday, revealed a family secret […]
Book Review: The Devil’s Prayer by Luke Gracias
This book was reviewed via Netgalley The Devil’s Prayer by Luke Gracias is a brilliant series of nested stories recounting two generations of one young woman’s family. The mother who disappeared for decades, only to turn up dead in Europe. The two orphans raised by their grandma when their mother vanishes. The history […]
Book Review: The Jersey Devil by Hunter Shea
The Jersey Devil was my first introduction to Shea’s work and I quite enjoyed it! I’ve an interest in cryptozoology, and find the Jersey Devil among the more interesting of the beasties out there. No trope is this one, unlike the vampires, werewolves, and zombies that make their tired ways across the pages of contemporary […]
Book Review: The Shadowed Path by Gail Z Martin
This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review The Shadowed Path by Gail Z Martin is collection of short stories giving insight into the murky past of Jonmarc Vahanian, telling the story of how this young man got started down the path that would eventually cross with Prince Tris. I was so […]
Book Review- Jericho by Alex Gordon
This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review Alex Gordon’s Jericho is a gripping paranormal mystery reminiscent of Preston and Child’s works, with a hearty dash of Lev Grossman and Stephen King thrown in the mix. Lauren Reardon nee Mullins is now Mistress of Gideon. As a Child of Endor, she is […]
Book Review: Amanda Lester and the Pink Sugar Conspiracy by Paula Berinstein
This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours. Bernstein’s Amanda Lester and the Pink Sugar Conspiracy is the first in a new middle-grade detective series a lá Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and The Three Investigators. This is a world where the great literary detectives are real people. .Amanda is a young aspiring film […]
Excerpt- The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel
1 Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World —MILTON, PARADISE LOST 1:1–3 THE HEAT CAME with the devil. It was the summer of 1984, and while the devil had been invited, the heat had not. It should’ve been expected, though. Heat is, after […]
Book Review- Béla’s Letters by Jeff Ingber
This was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review Béla’s Letters, by Jeff Ingber, is a hauntingly beautiful tour through history, leading us through the lives of one family via the precious artifact of letters, one of the historian’s best friends. They are stitched together with narrative from Béla’s point of view, the author’s conjecture […]