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 »
Adorkable by Cookie O’Gorman Release Date: March 31st 2016 Summary from Goodreads: Adorkable (ah-dor-kuh-bul): Descriptive term meaning to be equal parts dorky and adorable. For reference, see Sally Spitz. Seventeen-year-old Sally Spitz is done with dating. Or at least, she’s done with the horrible blind dates/hookups/sneak attacks her matchmaking bestie, Hooker, sets her up on. There’s only so much one… 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 »
Majra is a vivid and complex world rooted in Central Asian culture similar in detail and style to JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The main character, Aris, is a quiet young man living in Serzhen, a dessert country filled with brilliant tales and crafty artists. Unfortunately, Serzhen is also filled with invaders from a country called Marja sent to “civilize” Aris’… Read more »
Orchids and Stones should have been an outstanding mystery. It has a great story premise, a wonderful message and characters that could easily have been believable. The story centers around Daphne Mayfield whose sister, Suzanne, was murdered twenty years earlier. Ten years later, when the detective assigned to her sister’s case retires, her father gives up hope of… Read more »
He said… As Ashley, and most of my friends will tell you, I’m different. I have always viewed things in a different light, taken a different approach or looked for ways to use things that one might normally ignore. Thus, one of the things that always surprise me when I read a book, especially a Kindle book, is how ignored… Read more »
Played to Death is an outstanding and complex murder mystery. The story centers around one Scott Drayco, former concert pianist, FBI agent and now, a private detective for hire. A private detective whose client has left him an abandoned opera house in the small town of Cape Unity on the Virginia coast. A town with its own set of mysterious… Read more »
Lola, is a single, twenty-nine-year-old editor of a parenting magazine and the center of our story. Lola inherits a house from her Great-aunt May and soon finds out that, along with the house, comes an entire block of characters. The neighbors immediately worm their way into her life, all except for one; the mystery man who lives directly across the… 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 »
Ah, the three 20 something witch cousins, Bay, Clove and Thistle of the Winchester Coven, are at it again! Once more, they along with Aunt Tillie, will wreak havoc in Hemlock Cove as it becomes the scene of a new mystery. This time a cabin cruiser from Canada has been found abandoned in the middle of the lake. It’s… Read more »
July 30, 2014 Is there a better feeling in the world than writing “The End” in your manuscript? It’s a moment to be celebrated: you’ve done it. You’ve written and completed an entire book. Not everyone can say they have. But you’re not finished. No, not even after you wrap up your self-edits. It’s time to pass your manuscript off to beta… Read more »
Waverly Bryson, the center of the story (and the series) is a lovable but klutzy character. She and her two BFF’s, McKenna and Andie, are in their late twenties and live around the corner from each other in San Francisco. Waverly works in the world of sports PR and so spends a lot of time with famous sports figures, supermodels… Read more »
A cleverly written piece of fiction, Follow the Dotted Line by Nancy Hersage introduces us to Andrea “Andy” Bravos. A semi-retired mother of four grown children, Andy has decided, on her own and without her children’s knowledge, to investigate the apparent death of the father of her children, who is also her ex-husband. Andy, along with her nephew Harley and… Read more »
Maria’s Awakening is a wonderful coming of age story about 19-year-old Maria, a freshman at Iowa State University. The story takes place in 1948 and covers her first semester at the university where she falls in love with two totally different men for totally different reasons. Along the way, she also loses her virginity and begins to question not only… Read more »