When I review novels, I often don’t reference my own work but in this case, it’s warranted. I had just finished publishing my third novel, Kingdom’s Advent, which is a book of fairytale short stories all set in the same world. While I was on my page, Amazon listed a […]
Megan Tennant’s (@_Megan_Tennant on Twitter) Indiecember is one of the best ideas floating out on the Internet for bibliophiles near and far. I found her Bingo Board-inspired game last year and entered my book Kingdom Come. I decided to join in the reading frenzy and despite December being one of […]
“Secrets to ears and wishes to dandelions: both spread in the same fashion.” At one point, a key character shares this saying to another in Karma Lei Angelo’s latest thriller The Hummingbird Feeder. The line summarizes a good portion of this gripping and suspenseful novel. From the first chapter to […]
Human is the second book in Karen Diem’s Arca series about cancer-survivor heroes with multiple superhuman abilities. The first book, Super, was an action-adventure origin story that I reviewed (Super). As I picked up the second book in the series, I wondered where the author might go next. Would it […]
You may notice that the “k” is flipped around on “Havok” on the cover of the anthology Rebirth: Havok Season One. I can’t make the “k” flip around without drawing it, so you’ll have to put up with my misspelling of the title. Rebirth is a compilation of flash fiction […]
The Odin Inheritance by Victoria L. Scott is a steampunk, urban fantasy set in Cambridge, England and centered on a young lady named Ariana Trevelyan. She’s a college student, a tinkerer, and an expert dart-thrower. A game of darts opens the book—a skill Ariana has recently acquired. While she’s worked […]
Lisa Caskey’s The Farmed has been on my TBR list for a while so I was excited to finally read it. A YA dystopian novel set both ten years and approximately three generations in the future, The Farmed tells the story of Winnifred (Winnie) Kimball, an eighteen-year-old living in San […]
A witch’s code, steampunk weapons and gadgets, the frontier southwest, a stagecoach robbery, and a group of bandits led by a man named Shadow Wolf. All of this and a lot more are contained in Jewel E. Leonard’s Alight (The Witches’ Rede Book 1) which I spotted among a list […]
After reading the first two books in this trilogy, I was itching to dig into the “conclusion.” I put conclusion in quotes because the author plans many more in the series, but I had hoped this installment would bring the narrative in the first two books to a proper conclusion. […]
