DuMort, a gaslamp horror novella by Michelle Tang, is set in the fictional gothic city of Myndalla. An oppressive, creepy place where one cannot discuss the dead, and to raise them will send you to the gallows, or worse. Miss Mina Kwan, aka Lady Mina Braithwaite, seeks out a famous […]
Ember Weathers is a bookstore owner on the island of Devil’s Island, Maine. She dreams of adventure and escape from her small town. Nothing ever interesting happens to her. That is, except she has an invisible dragon that only she can see. At the start of the novel, a mysterious […]
Heather Ashle’s An Heir of Realms is the first book of the Realm Rider Series. The novel is a multi-world, multi-POV, epic fantasy of soldiers who ride dragons, protecting a world. A brief summary. In the main world of D’Erenelle, Rhoswen and Thane are niece and nephew to the king. […]
Melisandre (Melissa) Roberts is a new homeowner of a wonderful house on a decent-sized lot. Her best friend, Alexandra, sends over a handsome man, Ryan, to help her move in. Ryan is not only handy around the house, he’s friendly. In addition, Melissa’s acing her classes at college and enjoying […]
Many fairytale anthologies focus on the princesses, so it’s a welcome surprise to find a collection of stories on a fable not often represented, “The Three Little Pigs.” Ye Olde Dragon Books has produced their fifth in the series of take-a-fairytale-in-an-unusual-direction series. The short stories contained in Trouble Comes in […]
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson’s novel, A Bloody Habit, is set in the early 1900s, directly after Bram Stoker published Dracula. In the novel, Londoners are talking about the Stoker book, and the main character, John Kemp, is currently reading it. Kemp is a lawyer and above such foolishness as vampires, but […]
Stefanie Gilmour’s Fear the Wolf is the initial entry in the Alex Steward series. The novel tells the story of a woman, Alex, in her twenties at odds with her lycanthropy. Alex finds herself in a traumatic experience when her inner beast first emerges. Having no idea she was a […]
Three greeting-card co-workers from different generations lose their significant other at the same time. Welcome to the premise of Rebekah L. Purdy’s romance: Greeting Cards for Exes. Piper is in her twenties and has recently caught her ex cheating on her. Kerrie is middle-aged with a husband and children, but […]
Authors Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone bring us a unique time travel novel entitled This is How You Lose the Time War. The novel is told from the point-of-view of two protagonists. Nearly all chapters end with one of them reading a letter. An unconventional choice. This reviewer loves the […]
The fourth novel in the Dreaming Princesses series continues the pattern of royal daughters falling under a sleeping curse. In each case, the victims travel to Earth, have an adventure, and then awaken in their world. On Earth, each princess finds they lose “something” (taste, sight, etc.), but when they […]