Book Review: Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall

*This book was purchased by me for my own use, with no expectations of a review to be given.   Writing Fight Scenes is one of Rayne Hall’s many super-specialised writingcraft books. As the name suggests, this one covers the myriad aspects of constructing fight scenes. There are several chapters with topics ranging from types […]

Book Review: Destiny of the Queen by Jacqueline Patricks

*This book was reviewed via Lola’s Blog Tours   Destiny of the Queen, third in the Brajj series by Jacqueline Patricks, concludes the entrancing tale of Cass Baros, Jeamon, and Captain Lewis. Through time untold, and across distance unfathomable, Captain Lewis and Ta’mat have been thrown into the future of the multiverse by an unstable […]

Book Review: Dreams of the Queen by Jacqueline Patricks

*This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours   ***Warning- graphic depictions of rape   Patricks’ Dreams of the Queen is an out of this world adventure quite unlike any other. First of The Brajj Trilogy, it has a very Dr Whovian and Stargate-esque nature. Cassiopeia Baros is a physicist at MIT working on a […]

Book Review: The X-Files and Philosophy, edited by Robert Arp

This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review   Aah, but this show, one of the first big serial paranormal dramas, shaped a large chunk of my teenage years. I’ve always loved the unknown, the unexplained, the unusual. There’s a great deal of philosophy embedded in the X-Files, to be sure. The X-Files […]

Book Review: Coming Darkness by Susan-Alia Terry

  This book was reviewed for Port Jericho   *Warning/ Age Level Advisory: some scenes of graphic sexual nature   Terry’s Coming Darkness is a story of loss, and change, of beginnings and endings. In a very Supernatural-esque way, God is gone from Heaven, and without his ordering guidance, things are beginning to unravel. Angels […]

Book Review: Are We Happy Yet? by Lisa Cypers Kamen

  This egalley was reviewed for Dragon Gypsy Publishing via Netgalley   Happiness is an elusive beastie, that responds better to gentleness than brute force. In Are We Happy Yet?, Kamen will teach you how to tame that shy, skittish creature we call happiness, and aid you in cultivating a permanent relationship with it. Kamen […]

Book Review- Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Allies by Lydia Sherrer

This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours Allies is the third in the Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus series featuring Lily Singer and Sebastian Blackwell. While still full of delightful snark, especially by Kip, things with LeFay are really starting to heat up and take a darker turn. As with the previous books, this […]

Book Review: Daughters of Carrawburgh by Nigel Plane

This book was reviewed for Troubadour Publishing Limited via Netgalley Daughters of Carrawburgh is a first-rate psychological thriller that you simply can’t put down! I lost myself in this book, and finished it in a single day, so engrossing was it. Sam Layton is a spiritualist. Not the cold reader, the charlatan psychic who is […]

Book Review: Zen for Druids by Joanna van der Hoeven

This book was reviewed via Netgalley Van der Hoeven’s Zen for Druids is her second book focuses on combining the nature spiritualism of Druidry with the teachings and tenets of Buddhism. She makes a note that the reader should have read the previous Zen Druidry before reading this one. I would disagree, and say that […]