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December 28, 2015
Netgalley Reading Challenge 2016
Last year, I participated in the Netgalley challenge and successfully reached my goals. This year, I’m signing up for it again. My netgalley ratio is currently 90% and I’m very proud of that, so this year it won’t be about upping the ratio, but about keeping it above 90% (and as close to 100% as it gets).
I’m going for the “hardcore” level, which means reading 41+ books from Netgalley. I’ll track my progress each month, and add the books that count for this challenge to this page. I will als...
Book Review: Full Circle for Mick
Title: Full Circle for Mick
Author: Michael Kramer
Genre: Historical Fiction
In 2013, Carolyn and Michael Georg Kaspar Friedrich Lampman applied for passports at the Albury Post Office and while hers went through immediately, (she is Australian born), his application resulted in a phone call being made to Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and that department refusing him a passport on the grounds that his Australian Naturalisation Certificate “Did not say if his gender was ma...
Book Review: The Samsaric by G.W. Lwin
Title: The Samsaric
Author: G.W. Lwin
Genre: Fantasy Horror
The plague of 1918 A.D:
The mortal world is in a state of devastation.
A woman wakes up in an abandoned temple of Kali, the goddess of darkness, in an ancient city of Gaya.
She does not know where she is.
She does not remember the events leading to this.
She only hears a familiar voice of a tormented man who has haunted her dreams.
He tells her a story – of a time of souls and suffering, of immortality and gods, of life and death.
Th...
December 27, 2015
Book Review The Blood-Tainted Winter
Title: The Blood-Tainted Winter
Author: T.L. Greylock
Genre: Mythological Fantasy
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Raef Skallagrim wants to take the sea road. His ship is fast and sleek, his crew skilled and eager, and they will seek out new lands and win fame in the eyes of the gods. But Raef’s father refuses to allow the journey and when a stranger brings word that the king is dead and a gathering has been...
December 25, 2015
Book Review: Fixed in Fear by T.E. Woods
Title: Fixed in Fear
Author: T.E. Woods
Genre: Romantic Suspense / Thriller
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The Fixer returns in the pulse-pounding Justice series—perfect for fans of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter, and Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter thrillers—as worlds collide in an inferno of bloodshed, revenge, and holy terror.
I’ll probably never see my daughter again. And if I do, she’ll either be dead...
December 23, 2015
Book Review: Degrees of Control by Eve Dangerfield
Title: Degrees of Control
Author: Eve Dangerfield
Genre: Romance
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Charlotte Bell is a typical yoga teacher. She’s friendly, earnest and has someslightmasochistic tendencies. After a painful break-up she’s determined to address her long-denied kinks with the kind of man she’s always been too terrified to approch. Her friends have select James Hunter a male...
December 22, 2015
Christmas Sales on Enchanted Book Promotions
Enchanted Book Promotions is holding Christmas Sales!
If you book two tours with us between December 21 and December 31, you get one FREE tour package! The FREE tour package will be te same one as the smallest package you ordered.
Just purchase two tour packages from the website using the same contact email, and then we’ll get in touch with you about your tours AND your FREE tour package.
Find out more about the sales here, and if you’d like to find out more about the different tour packages...
December 21, 2015
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Full Circle for Mick
I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for historical fiction “Full Circle for Mick”. The tour runs from December 21 to January 18. I’ll review the book on December 31. Stay tuned!
Tour ScheduleDecember 21st: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
December 23rd: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
December 25th: Book Excerpt @ The Single Librarian
December 27th: Guest Post @ Bookish Madness
December 29th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog
December 31st: Book Review @ I H...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party The Grim Spectre
I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour for crime / pulp fiction “The Grim Spectre”. You can win an autographed copy of “The Grim Spectre” during the tour. Scroll down to participate!
Tour ScheduleDecember 21st: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
December 22nd: Promo Post @ SolaFide Publishing
December 23rd: Book Excerpt @ Author C.A. Milson’s Blog
December 26th: Character Interview and Book Excerpt @ Compelling Beasts Blog
December 27th: Promo Post @ The Single Librarian...
December 20, 2015
Book Review: Emmy Nation Undercover Suffragette
Title: Emmy Nation: Undercover Suffragette
Author: L. Davis Munro
Genre: Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Being an independent woman in 1913 London is certainly empowering, but Emmy Nation is tired of the inescapable damp seeping through her worn shoes and the hopeless grumblings of her stomach.
When she receives an offer from Scotland Yard to boost her typist income by spy...
