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The Shadow Oaks Series

My Shadow Oaks series are five YA character-driven novels of adventure in a mysterious fictional town in Indiana. When sixteen-year-old Brian Rees visits the hidden neighborhood of his deceased mother, a town that forbids modern technology, he underestimates just what lies in store. Each novel is a self-contained story detailing […]

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Review of Power

Karen Diem’s third novel, Power, in her Arca series is as true to its title as the prior two (“Super” and “Human”) While not only a trilogy of clever titles, each single word relates to the plot of the book it represents. Power is all about our main villain’s schemes […]

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Review of The Relic Spell

The Relic Spell, (subtitled: Book 1 of The Phyrian War Chronicles) a novel by Jimena Novaro, is an urban fantasy which combines the high fantasy mysticism of magic casting with the horror adventure of monster-hunting. The start of series, Relic also works as a standalone novel. Set in the fictional […]

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Review of Human

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 […]