This book was given to me for free in return for an honest review. “Gods Inc.” is a creative thrill ride with plenty of twists and turns to keep readers engaged from start to finished, but its unstable world building and bland protagonist hold it back from being anything truly spectacular, which is rather unfortunate considering its potential. David Sands… Read more »
“The Summer of my Fourteenth Year” is an odd little book with what seems like a simple premise until Meaders gives it the most unexpected and creative one-eighty. Meaders essentially takes Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” and has him narrate an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” As crazy as that sounds, it actually works. The end result is a zany… Read more »
Pilgrimage is a mature, thoughtful and surprisingly funny magical journey through the Australian Outback that brings something new to the Contemporary Fantasy genre. Roland has been living in a rundown motel for the past six months, spending his time drinking away painful memories and getting into bar fights. Griffith is on his way to Salem to find a powerful sorcerer… Read more »
Maddie Lincoln’s life is a mess. She ends up back home in Nottingham after her mother’s death, trying to find her footing and start over again. However, her messed up life soon seems no big deal when she’s running for her life. Caught in a war between the Dark Lady and her enemies, Maddie stays one step ahead by… Read more »
A Fox’s Love is the first book in the romance comedy series, American Kitsune. The story is really based around Japanese gaming and Shonen Manga, which if you have no clue about (as I did), you’ll struggle with some of the characters but will eventually catch on to. In any case, our hero Kevin, is a very shy HS… Read more »
The Thief is a fantasy story set in an indeterminate time. It opens with Antares mourning the loss of a parent and the separation of his siblings. It continues to focus on Antares’ journey on his own and the twists and turns of his plot line. We follow Antares as he is forced to learn new skills and coping… Read more »
Enclave–Creation by Rafael Soares Genre: Fantasy In the earliest stage of the Universe, a sentient and powerful race found itself trapped within the confines of civil war. While countless factions were formed and thoroughly vanquished, other individuals sought to remain neutral and pursue their own objectives in the current dimension without taking sides. Sooner or later however, everyone had to… Read more »
To Live and Die Among Immortals is listed as Science Fiction Fantasy – Sword and Sorcery. The Sword and Sorcery part I got, the Science Fiction part I would replace with Fairy Tale. There really is not a lot to the plot; which is just one of the issues I had with the book. The story centers around Selvias,… Read more »
Shadowbound is a fantasy, roughly based on the fairy tales many of us are familiar with. The books heroine is Rhiannon, younger sister of Allesha, who has gone missing. Rhiannon’s hunt for her older sister takes her from secret night spot to secret night spot trying to trace her sister’s footsteps thought a realm of deceit and mystery. A… Read more »
Bad Blood Rising (The Dark Watchman Book 0) By Jake Jeffries Let me start with the fact that I have a love-hate relationship with this book. It is certainly not something I would select to read were it not for the fact that I was asked to rate it. Yet, I couldn’t put it down! Why? I’ll get into that…. Read more »
Wyvern Diary by Dahraan du Toit is the kind of book that sounds really, really cool. I’d just come off the tail end of another book involving dragons, so I was really eager and excited to get into this one. And the thing is, it has some incredibly great ideas. You can tell when you’re reading this one that there’s… Read more »
