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October 4, 2022
Book Review: The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3)
The Book of Life (All Souls #3) by Deborah Harkness
SPOILER WARNING
It took me way too long to finish this series, but seeing as I just reread book one for the autumnal vibes, I finally managed to get back into the groove of the series and wanted to see how it ended. And I really wanted to see how Matthew and Diana wrapped things up in the book (rather than the show, etc). I think overall it’s an incredibly interesting, vividly written tale, but I didn’t love it as much as book one, mo...
Book Review: The Battle That Was Lost (Ringlander, #0.5)
The Battle that was Lost (Ringlander, #0.5) by Michael S. Jackson
“Some tides are inevitable, Horse Master. They may never be stopped.”
This is my first foray into the Ringlander universe and it was straight into battle with this one! I really appreciated that there was action from page one and even though I wasn’t familiar with the novel’s setting to have context for the opening battle that unfolds, it was easy to fall into the story and let the characters lead the way. So for anyone ...
August 11, 2022
#IndiePride: K. Leigh – Constelis Voss: Colour Theory
THIS #INDIEPRIDE SPOTLIGHT POST FOCUSES ON K. LEIGH’S CONSTELIS VOSS
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Blurb: The series opens on a dystopic planet-sized ship in the far future, where a very advanced android receives a personality file from the 90s. He is the only one of his kind.
His name is Alex, and in his quest for understanding just how he got to be an android-and on the planet-sized ship known as CONSTELIS VOSS-he finds curiously familiar faces who help him ...
August 8, 2022
Book Review: Legacy of the Brightwash
Legacy of the Brightwash by Krystle Matar
“My son is imprisoned in the Rift, Mr. Finn. I come here three or four times a week to see him and most of the time he has fresh bruises. No new ones this time, thank the North Star. As long as my son is in this place, I don’t have ‘good’ nights.”
I fell face first into this story. I bought it a while back and cheered it on during the SPFBO finals because it just looked SO GOOD, but I haven’t had the time to read it until recently. AND NOW I’M ...
August 4, 2022
Book Review: A Handful of Souls by Stephen Rice
A Handful of Souls (The Split Sea #1) by Stephen Rice
Mud, gold and lies. That’s all you get in Branera.
OH HECK YES THIS BOOK. DARK, BRUTAL, FAMILY-FOCUSED FANTASY.
Okay, to properly ramble about this book, there might be spoilers from here on out. So, SPOILER WARNING.
This is my first read by Stephen Rice and I must say I’m in awe of the prose. So many well spun lines! Like, I just really adored the descriptions and details. So many were so visceral (which is a compliment fo...
July 12, 2022
#IndiePride: L. Gourley – Incipience
THIS #INDIEPRIDE SPOTLIGHT POST FOCUSES ON L. GOURLEY’S INCIPIENCE Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Instagram
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Blurb:
Incipience is the debut novel from L. Gourley and first in the Incipience series. This fantasy novel explores the concept of fighting your inner darkness, and how alluring it can be, when trying to fight fate to determine who you are.
After the angels and the humans came God’s final creation: the seraphs. The last attempt at a perfect being. The...
Author Interview: L. Gourley
1. Paperback, hardback, audiobook?
I need to go paperback for this. I’ll tend to sit somewhere for hours in awkward positions reading, so paperbacks are less likely to dig into me and interrupt the reading session!
2. Pick a genre, any genre!
Unsurprisingly, I’m a fan of fantasy. I include most sub-genres in that, but I’m a particular fan of low/mid fantasy because I like seeing how worlds collide and finding fantasy “explanations” for eve...
#IndiePride: Jess Frankel – Fight Like A Woman
THIS #INDIEPRIDE SPOTLIGHT POST FOCUSES ON J.S. FRANKEL’S FIGHT LIKE A WOMANTwitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Facebook
Blurb:
Meet Kyle Sorton, teen, orphan, living a life of no purpose on a space station. Occupation: janitor. Future prospects: none. His only dream is to be someone. Anyone will do.
Wish granted–sort of. An accident aboard his space station forces his flight, and his ship crash lands on an unknown world. Mortally wounded, he uses an experimental healing device called a C...
#IndiePride: T. R. Hamby – Bright Land
THIS #INDIEPRIDE SPOTLIGHT POST FOCUSES ON T.R. HAMBY’S BRIGHT LANDTwitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Website
T. R. Hamby has been writing stories since she was tall enough to reach the keys on the family computer. She began writing novels when she was thirteen, hoping to publish one day, and debuted a short story about a mischievous cat as a Christmas present for her family. Her characters are some of her dearest friends, and there’s never a time when she doesn’t have a story in her head...
July 10, 2022
99c eBook Sale!
Three of my romantic fantasy stories are currently available for just 99c!
