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Review for: Black Hawk Day Rewind by Baibin Nighthawk and Dominick Fencer

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This book was full of action and intrigue. The authors made the story very smart and believable. The scientific and military aspects of this book were very compelling well written. In addition, the flying scenes made me feel like I needed to get my pilot’s license, the freedom and escape the characters felt in the air seemed so real and enticing!

The characters were beyond smart and I especially enjoyed the badass female agent, Anais. She was a very cool, smart and tough lead.

If you enjoy espionage and spy-type thrillers, this book is for you and I would definitely recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hawk-Rewind-Dominick-Fencer-ebook/dp/B00H5CEB6A

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Soul Keeper Series by L.A. Starkey- Books 1-3 Reviewed

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Book 1-  Deceived by L.A. Starkey

This book was good from start to finish! I had a hard time putting it down, wanting to know what was going to happen next. The story is very imaginative and well written. I am excited to get the next book in the series to see what happens. I highly recommend this book not only as a YA, but really for anyone because it has imagination, action, mystery, romance, thrills and it was just magical!

Book 2- Destroyed by L.A. Starkey

I definitely enjoyed the 2nd book as much as the first. It was great to see Sam discover more about herself, her past and where she came from. There is a ton of manipulation done by the Gods in this one…I was getting so mad, but that is a testament to the great writing. I look forward to reading the next book…

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“I, Hero – The Beginning” – Excerpt II

“What are you looking for?” Lisa asked unable to see what Nathan was trying to see. At first she thought he was looking down the street at the time on the bank which read “8:03AM” but by the way he was craning around she assumed it wasn’t that.

“Oh it’s silly actually because you can’t see it,” Nathan replied as the signal changed and they began to cross the street. “There’s a celestial event going on right now. The Baxter – Zephram comet is in the sky basically aligned between the Earth and the Sun right now. I know there’s no way to see it as the brightness of the sun blots it out. But I had to look. At the same time, on the far side of the Sun, Jupiter is aligned, and on top of that, on the opposing side of the Earth is the Moon and in deeper space, Saturn.”

“So they are basically all aligned in a row?” Lisa asked as they cut over towards Lexington Avenue.

Nathan pulled his phone out to check the time again. “Almost to the minute. Just a little more.”

As the two turned the corner to Lexington Avenue, they spotted two police cars and an ambulance. Nathan dropped the breakfast sandwich bag he was carrying and darted toward them. Lisa scooped it up and quickly followed.

Officer Jack O’Malley saw the two of them approach and held up his hands.

“Easy Nathan,” he responded sympathetically in his thick Brooklyn accent. “They’re taking care of her. A couple of thugs whacked her for her bag.”

“Is that Nathan?” the old, thin woman on the gurney called out. “I want to see him. I need to see him.”

“Cici,” the ambulance driver responded, “we really need to take you now. The cut is deep and you lost a lot of blood. We need to go.”

“Nathan! Come!” she yelled, taking a thin, tarnished and worn, open-sided, copper bracelet from her wrist.

Nathan pushed past Officer O’Malley and went up to the gurney before it was loaded into the ambulance. “What happened Cici?” he asked as he looked her over on the stretcher and for a brief moment remembered the way he felt seeing his father laying in his hospice bed during the last days of his life.

“Thugs. Wanted Cici’s bag,” the old woman replied. “Wasn’t going to get it without a fight.”

“Cici,” Nathan said disappointed. “I could have gotten you another one. It wasn’t worth taking a beating for. Nothing is.”

“You’re wrong. It was from you,” she said as she reached out and grabbed his right arm with her left with great strength for a healthy woman, let alone an old, frail one that had been stabbed in the abdomen. “You are the only person to give Cici any consideration. I always remembered your kindness. Daily. I wait for it. The beacon in the dark.” She slipped the “C” shaped bracelet over his wrist. The attendants tried to load the gurney but she wouldn’t let go of Nathan’s arm.

Lisa stood back with Officer O’Malley as both listened to the exchange.

Cici Johnson opened her deep brown eyes wide, kept a death grip on Nathan’s right arm with her left, and reached across again with her right and to cover the bracelet with her palm. She took a large, deep breath and spoke. “Where there is darkness, you are light. Where there is fear, you deliver bravery. When there are setbacks, you persevere. Where you find weakness, you bring strength.” She paused for a moment to take another deep breath and closed her eyes. “Where there is despair, you are hope. Where cowardice falls, you rise courageously. Where others do not have the ability to believe, you have faith.”

Nathan suddenly realized there was pain in his right arm from the wrist up and he felt incredibly weak. Where Cici’s right hand was laid across the bracelet it became hot to the touch. He began to pull his arm back but he couldn’t break her grip.

“You will suffer,” she said as her eyes snapped open and her voice bellowed, “so that others will endure. You will triumph where others fall.” Nathan pulled on his arm, hard, leveraging with his feet. He looked at the woman he knew as Cici but could no longer recognize her as her eyes went completely white and her voice dropped to barely a whisper above the city sounds. Nathan couldn’t understand what she was saying. It was in Latin and he was trying to catch the words.

Cici completely broke her grip and Nathan jerked himself back. Alarms on the monitors went off. The attendants jerked the gurney into the ambulance and worked feverishly.

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America the Beautiful: Route 66

GUNDERSTONE:

This is off topic for my review blog of course, but not for the flag waving, country loving, patriot that I am. With that, I reblog this awesome post.

Originally posted on lindamassucci:

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….if you finished the sentence with Route 66, congratulations. If you completed the sentence in song, you are my new best friend!  Then again, don’t all those who share a love for travel have a common bond?  The wanting to know what is over the bend, what a field of wheat really smells like, and does the Grand Canyon really need to be seen to understand its captivation by so many? What if every American had to travel to every state before receiving their citizenship? Yes, just being born here wouldn’t be enough. Traveling across state borders on Route 66 is like traveling through different era’s of our history. The abandoned gas stations that still have a coffee mug and sales receipts dated 1972 on the manager’s desk. The hotels that once bragged about air conditioners in every room, or the signs that read- Good Eats…

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America the Beautiful: South Dakota

GUNDERSTONE:

This is off topic for my review blog of course, but not for the flag waving, country loving, patriot that I am. With that, I reblog this awesome post.

Originally posted on lindamassucci:

If you’re looking for America, Hill City South Dakota is your destination. American history, wildlife, old-fashioned downtown shops, and restaurant food that tastes like grandma’s Sunday dinner- it’s all here.

Explore the Black Hills by steam train. The twenty mile round trip between Hill City and Keystone will provide amazing photos of landscapes, animals and the post card perfect towns of Keystone & Hill City. Of course, anyone who collects trains will be in awe with riding the locomotive- just like our ancestors did in the old days. After the ride, a myriad of shops and eatery’s await.

Mount Rushmore is a must see for every American. The light show at night will leave you in tears & honored to be a U.S. citizen. Gutzon Borglum, and his son Lincoln, would be proud to know over two million people visit this monument every year. In 1927, the initial concept was…

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America the Beautiful…Redwood Forest

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This is off topic for my review blog of course, but not for the flag waving, country loving, patriot that I am. With that, I reblog this awesome post.

Originally posted on lindamassucci:

 

Along the coast of Northern California, travelers will see signs for Crescent City. The journey will take them to 133,000 acres of indescribable paradise. The National Park Headquarters for the majestic Redwood Forest. In 1850, the redwoods covered more than 2,000,000 acres of land. Unfortunately, after many lost their dreams of striking gold in the area, lumbering the redwoods became the white man fortune. In 1918, many saw the destruction of nature occurring, and established the Save the Redwood League. In the 1920’s, parks were established, including Prairie Creek, Del Norte Coast and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. In 1968, after ninety percent of the original redwoods had been logged, the Redwood National Park was established. In 1994, to help stabilize & preserve the trees, three abutting Redwood State Parks joined the RNP.

I have visited the Redwood Forest a few times. I have yet to take a photograph…

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Thank you for my best Goodreads Book Giveaway For Another Sunset to date

I just wanted to get out a great big “THANK YOU” to everyone that signed up to win one of the ten copies of Another Sunset that I recently had set as a giveaway over at Goodreads.

With 712 people requesting a copy (“entered to win”), it was my most successful book giveaway to date; the book was in the top 10% of the most requested books, coming in at #252 (of over 2,900 being offered.)

I will likely set up another giveaway – I am encouraged by the responses to the giveaway, as well as the exposure for the book, and the reviews and feedback that are coming (and will keep coming).

So to all those that won – congratulations.

To those that didn’t, as I mentioned, I am likely to run another one so please consider entering that as well.

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Round Robin Clean-Book Reviews – New Facebook Group

We all know how difficult it can be to get honest reviews of our books and no matter how honest the review, a direct book swap is problematic at best. It is hard to be objective and honest (for most people) when you know a corresponding review is coming back at you (in the event you finished first) or you’re trying to be objective when there was a critical review given to you.

Because of these issues and in the interest of creating a better environment where reviews can be set up in a more “blind” fashion (round robin) where the book and author can be better judged on their merits (only) international author Tamie Dearen has set up a new Facebook Group called Round Robin Clean-Book Reviews to meet that need.

As she writes for the outline of types of books they are looking to attract in the group:

What is a clean book?

A clean book will have no explicit sex scenes, no excessive violence, little or no foul language. Sex scenes, if included, should take place “behind closed doors”, so that the reader does not get a play-by-play description. If your books has these elements, you will probably not receive the rating you are looking for from this particular audience.