Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 17

Sea of Secrets: A Review

This book was given to me by the author, Amanda DeWees in return for an honest review. Historical books are a passion of mine and this one is no different. I loved the storyline and was hooked into the character’s life right from the beginning, feeling her pain and her excitement. The romance was interesting [...]

Character Spotlight: Anya

Anya is the secondary/supporting character in the Sherdan series. Somewhere between a third and two fifths of the chapters in the Sherdan world are from her point of view. Anya is probably the female character of mine I like the least (of the good protagonists anyway). I don’t dislike her, not by a long way, [...]

NaNoWriMo Prep

Yup, it’s almost that time of the year again. In just over two weeks I’m going to be trying to National Novel Writer’s Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge of 50k words of a new novel in one month. I’m actually going to aim for 60k as I’ve done 50k the last two years and want it to [...]

Rowan in the Oak Tree: A Review

I grabbed a copy of this eBook when it was free about four months ago as I was intrigued by the blurb. This book made me very sad. It’s a great little story and very well written but it doesn’t have a happy ending. It’s a tough subject to write about but this is one [...]

Sherdan’s Legacy

The eBook of this sequel to Sherdan’s Prophecy was published recently so I thought I’d share a chapter from it so you could have a read. If you’ve not read the first book yet you can do so on my blog here. - Sleep was caught in snatches for Anya over the next few hours. [...]

A Storm of Swords: A Review

This is the third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series (otherwise known as the Game of Thrones books) by George R. R. Martin and is so huge they had to split it into two volumes to print it economically. So I enjoyed the first book, liked the second one a little bit [...]

Why My Books Are My Babies

I know thinking of books as babies is a rather odd concept but bear with me while I explain. To start with, the ideas come to me in a small form, often only snippets of what they are going to grow to be and it can take a while for them to fully form. Some [...]

The Liar and Other Stories: A Review

I was given a copy of this eBook by the author, Matthew W. McFarland in return for a review. I really enjoyed the stories in this collection. I think The Liar was my favourite. I didn’t see the end coming at all. If possible I think this collection was even better than the last one [...]

Character Spotlight: Sherdan

This is one of my special characters. I love all my characters but a few always stick out in my head and this is one of those. He’s my first male leading character and although he’s far from perfect he’s still one of my favs. I have two books out with him in now and [...]

Gaming Apps

These have got to be some of the biggest distractions in the modern world. It’s so easy to think ‘I’ll just play this for five more minutes’ or ‘I’ll just do one more race’ and over an hour later you’re still not writing but playing apps on your phone or tablet. Despite knowing this I [...]