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July 14, 2014
Book Review: Elderwood Manor by Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes
Title: Elderwood Manor
Author: Christopher Fulbright, Angeline Hawkes
Genre: Dark Fiction, Horror, Ghosts
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Things fall apart—Bruce Davenport knows this all too well.
On the heels of his wife’s death, laid-off and penniless with an eviction notice on the door, the only thing left for him and his four-year-old son Cody is Bruce’s childhood home, secluded deep within Ozark forests, haunted by the ghosts of his past.
After he receives a strange phone call...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight The Devil Made Me Do It
Title: The Devil Made Me Do It
Author: Colette Harrell
Publisher: Urban Books/Kensington
Pages: 288
Genre: Inspirational fiction
Format: Paperback
Purchase at AMAZON
The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it.
Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimilli...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight Signs of a Serial Killer
Title:Signs of a Serial Killer
Author: Crystal Clary
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Pages: 198
Genre:True Crime
Format: Ebook
Purchase atAMAZON
My friend Sue and I had spent so much time together we felt like sisters. We had made so many plans for our future, as young girls do. We would graduate from school, get married, have a career, children and we would be lifelong friends sharing those moments together. Part of that dream had already come true. Sue was a year older than myself. I went to her graduation...
Book Review: The Asylum for Fairytale Creatures by Sebastian Gregory
Title: The Asylum for Fairytale Creatures
Author: Sebastian Gregory
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytales, Horror
Rating: 2 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Once upon a nightmare…
Long ago, in a land where imagination meets the darkest nightmares, they built the asylum. Surrounded by a forest of thorns, it holds the most twisted minds in the fairy tale kingdom: a terrible collection of evil creatures and forgotten souls. Imprisoned within its walls,...
July 12, 2014
Mini-Review: Gilt, The Offering, Brambleman
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.
Gilt
Title: Gilt
Author: Katherine Longshore
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
In the court of King Henry VIII, nothing is free–
and love comes at the highest price of all.
When Kitty Tylney’s best friend, Catherine...
Book Review: Hurry Home by The Misfits
Title: Hurry Home
Author: The Misfits
Genre: Young Adult, Supernatural, Fantasy
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Seventeen years after Johnathon Parker murdered her mother, hybrid witch, Emmalyn Evans, gets sick of her father’s overprotective, distant ways, so she runs away in search of adventures with her aunt and uncle. Along the way, she meets charming, handsome, dark warlock, Nik Baker who has a troubled p...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party The Unknown Sun
I’m hosting the starter day party today for YA Fantasy “The Unknown Sun”. The tour runs from July 12 to July 19. I’ll be reviewing the book on July 16. Stay tuned for the review, and in the mean time, visit the other tour stops.
Tour Schedule
July 12th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
July 14th: Book Excerpt @ Realm Tramper
July 14th: Book Excerpt and Author Interview @ Iequals Alissa
July 16th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading
July 18th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian
July 19th: Book Exce...
July 10, 2014
Mini-Review: Velveteen, Confessions of an Angry Girl, Quicksilver
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.
Velveteen
Title: Velveteen
Author: Daniel Marks
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Ghosts
Rating: 4,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that’s not the problem.
The problem is...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight In Bed With The Competition
Book Title: In
Bed with the Competition
Author: J.K. Coi
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Author Website: http://www.jkcoi.com/index.html
Author Twitter: https://twitter.com/jkcoi
Author Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/JK-Coi/145636204540
Author Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1426838.J_K_Coi
Newsletter: http://www.jkcoi.com/contact.html#newsletter
Author Bio:
J.K. Coi is a multi-published, award winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance and u...
Book Review: Changeling (The Incubus Saga #2) by Amanda Meuwissen
Title: Changeling
Author: Amanda Meuwissen
Genre: Gay Paranormal Romance
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Nathan Grier’s dark fae bounty looms overhead. As he faces the very real threat of becoming a slave to the bounty’s owner, his brother Jim uses his changeling abilities more and more trying to save him. Every changeling throughout history turns evil once their powers manifest, meaning time...
