Legends and myths contain nuggets of truth, oft buried beneath the detritus of time. Layer upon layer added until sometimes what is has become a distorted reflection of what was. With Minotaur, Simpson has given us just such a story of what might have been. Not the chimeric creature of legend, half human and half […]
I received a copy of this book via Word Slinger Publicity in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. The Bleeding Door by Todd Cook spans a broad swath of time, looking at the history of two families, and the region they live in, from a time just before the Civil War all the […]
This book was reviewed for Readers’ Favourite. Wayne Clark’s he & She is a wonderfully introspective novel. Kit Cayman is a middle-aged man whose life has fallen into a soul numbing rut. He is a man going through andropause, the masculine equivalent of menopause. A translator by day, and […]
This book was reviewed for Readers’ Favourite. Visan’s Broken Hearts is the sequel to the novel Broken People. In Hearts, we follow the continuing adventures of Dale, Aurore, and the members of the Nightingale Circus. Dale has been ‘contracted’ to protect Aurore, and now travels with her on business abroad. The Circus […]
This book was reviewed for Readers’ Favourite. Fossilised Gods by J Simon has got to be one of the funniest books I’ve read in quite a while! It’s a unique brand of humour full of hidden wisdom and thought-provoking questions, such as- what happens when the worship of a god stops and how are […]
Crying Woman Bridge is the 6th book in the High Country Mystery Series. Each in the series is a stand-alone story. In a crime that mirrors the haunting legend of Mirabella, a ‘crying woman’ whose story is a variation of the legend of La Llorona, a babe […]
Riordan has done it again! I absolutely love his work, and had been hoping to see him tackle Norse and Celtic myth. One half of my dream came true with Magnus! Perhaps in the very near future the other half will as well. This story follows Magnus Chase. As typical of Riordan’s books, our protagonist […]
Last Assault on Oak Island, by Jenn Rekka, first drew my attention when I was browsing for a new historical fiction novel to read. The story follows a museum curator and his assistant as they investigate new evidence surrounding the Money Pit of Oak Island (a real […]
This book was reviewed for Readers’ Favourite. The Inheritance by Lenore Kieseling, follows both the story of Faidhe Keeper of the Circle for the Tuatha De Dannan, and her family, in the time of the ancient Celts, and the story of Lenore (Lee) and Nora, two sisters […]
Does what enhances you, what makes you stronger, make you broken or less than whole? This is a question dear to my heart. I have a prosthesis that looks real. That’s it’s only job and talent, and it does it well. To all appearances, I seem whole. Am I really? In Broken People Ioana […]