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January 5, 2016
Teaser Tuesdays (32)
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. In this meme, we grab our current read, open it to a random page and share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page with our readers.
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Here is my teaser:
He looked away, irritated. Of course he couldn’t tell her he wanted to self-harm with it. How could he? She’d just mock him. He needed to gain her trust, but if he told her things about himself, would she exploit...
Book Review: The Incurables by Jon Bassoff
Title: The Incurables
Author: Jon Bassoff
Genre: Horror
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The year is 1953. Disgraced in the psychiatric hospital where he’d practiced for nearly thirty years, Dr. Walter Freeman has taken to traversing the country and proselyting about a very new kind of salvation: the transorbitol lobotomy. With an ice pick and a hammer, Freeman promises to cure depression and catat...
January 4, 2016
Book Review: The Son of Light Book 1: Rebirth
Title: The Son of Light Book 1: Rebirth
Author: Chris Parker
Genre: Fantasy
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Nickolas Suzuki was not like your usual sixteen year old. First off, he has nine trillion dollars at his disposal. Secondly, he has superpowers. But while celebrating a birthday party, his loved ones are attacked by an old family enemy, which forces him to go into hiding. Ten yea...
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (58)
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. It’s where book bloggers gather to talk about what books they read and reviewed last week, what books they’re currently reading and what books they’re planning to read. This is a great way for me to plan my reading week, and to take a sneak peek at what others are reading.
Finished Reading
January 3, 2016
Mini-Review: Encounters with Spirits, Chronicles of the Unexplained, As Red as Blood
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
Encounters with Spirits
Tite: Encounters with Spirits
Author:CAN ũa Waya
Genre: Non-Fiction, Spirituality
Rating: 3 stars
Purchase:
Amazon
I have never been to heaven and neither have I ever been to hell, but both have come to me.
Amidst an ex...
Cover Reveal Party Blackbird Summer
Title: Blackbird Summer
Author: Em Shotwell
Genre: Fantasy Romance
When people hate the unknown, being Gifted is a curse.
In the cornerstone of the rural south, Brooklyn, Mississippi, no one dares make eye contact with the strange Caibre family. Until the rewards are worth the cost. The townsfolk come, cash in hand, always at night, to pay for services only a Gifted can provide.
No matter the Gifts prevalent in her family, at twenty-one, Tallulah is expected to follow the pat...
Cover Reveal Party Rhythm and Blue
Title: Rhythm and Blue
Author: DP Denman
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Gay Romance
What’s a little treachery among friends?
Blue’s unexpected success earns him international recognition and costs more than he expected. When jealousy turns a trusted friend against him, Blue learns the price of fame and the precarious balance of ego and amity.
Can he repair the damage or will friendship be the first casualty of his success?
Don’t miss the gripping sequel to the best-selling nov...
January 2, 2016
Mini-Review: Sing for Me, Forsaken and Flesh Failure
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
Sing For Me
Tite: Sing For Me
Author: Gracie Madison
Genre: New Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Rating: 3 stars
Purchase:
Amazon
Madeline Noel fled war-torn Heaven to hide within the mortal world, but the blessing that could protect her from evil is t...
In My Mailbox (51) / Mailbox Monday (58) / Stacking the Shelves (16)
The purpose of this meme is to share the books that came into our house last week with our readers. These can be ARCs, books we purchased ourselves, books requested for review by authors and publishers, eBooks, free reads we stumbled upon and audiobooks. The only thing that doesn’t count are library books.
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren.
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.
Click HERE to view all my ‘In My Mailbox’ posts.
In My Mailbox
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January 1, 2016
Author Interview with Larry Luikart
Today I’m interviewing Larry Luikart, author of “Throw Salt on the Water”. I hope you enjoy the interview, and thank you to the author for taking the time to answer my questions.
Author Interview
After a career as a Missouri State Trooper about six years ago I decided to make a serious commitment to writing a book. I started another project approximately ten years before that but could never get it done. This time however, I had the time and the desire to s...
