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April 5, 2014
Book Review: Hell’s Door by Sandy DeLuca
Title: Hell’s Door
Author: Sandy DeLuca
Genre: Dark Fiction, Horror
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Detective Lacy Powers and her partner John Demmings are stalking a sadistic killer down the rainy streets and back alleys of Providence. Together they go undercover into a dark and perverse subculture, where pimps, hookers and sexual deviants gather at an underground nightclub called Hell’s Door. There th...
April 4, 2014
Book Tours: Starter Day Party for The Uncovering
I’m hosting a starter day party today for the book tour for paranormal romance / urban fantasy “The Uncovering”. I’ll be reviewing the book on April 26. Stay tuned for the review, and in the mean time, check out the other tour stops.
Tour Schedule
April 5th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
April 6th: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader
April 8th: Book Excerpt @ The Readers Hollow
April 9th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog
April 11th: Promo Post @ Bookaholic Ramblings
April 12th: Guest Post @ K...
Book Review: Alex (Verhoeven, #2) by Pierre LeMaitre
Title: Alex (Verhoeven, #2)
Author: Pierre LeMaitre
Genre: Thriller, Mystery and Suspense
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prévost – beautiful, resourceful, tough – may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they...
April 3, 2014
Book Review: The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky
Title: The Dybbuk and Other Writings
Author: S. Ansky
Genre: Drama, Horror, Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
S. Ansky played a seminal role in the establishment of modern Jewish fiction. This generous collection of his work includes the classic drama, The Dybbuk, a haunting tale of ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in an Eastern European village.
All right, so I’m probably one of the few...
Book Tours: Book Spotlight A Killing Notion
ABOUT A KILLING NOTION
Title:A Killing Notion
Genre:Cozy Mystery
Author: Melissa Bourbon
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Pages:320
Format: Ebook
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Harlow Jane Cassidy is swamped with homecoming couture requests. If only she didn’t have to help solve a murder, she might get the gowns off the dress forms….
Harlow s doing everything she can to expand her dressmaking business, Buttons & Bows—without letting clients know about her secret charm. When she has a chan...
April 2, 2014
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Edge of Civilization
I’m hosting the starter day party today for literary fiction “Edge of Civilization”. The tour runs from April 3rd to April 10. Visit all the tour stops below!
There’s also a giveaway for a $25 amazon gift card during the tour. You can participate at the bottom of this post.
Tour Schedule
April 3rd: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
April 4th: Author Interview @ Iequals Alissa
April 5th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog
April 7th: Guest Post @ Bookish Madness
April 9th: Book Excerpt @ Deal Sha...
Book Review: And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard
Title: And We Stay
Author: Jenny Hubbard
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 3 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
When high school senior Paul Wagoner walks into his school library with a stolen gun, he threatens his girlfriend Emily Beam, then takes his own life. In the wake of the tragedy, an angry and guilt-ridden Emily is shipped off to boarding school in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she encounters a ghostly p...
April 1, 2014
Book Review: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
Title: Love Letters to the Dead
Author: Ava Dellaira
Genre: YA Contemporary
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, an...
Release Day Party Edge of Civilization
We’re celebrating the release day for literary fiction “Edge of Civilizaiton”. Happy release day!
Buy your copy on Amazon.
About the Book
Title: Edge of Civilization
Author: Jennifer Ott
Genre: Literary Fiction
Earl Hollsopple lived on the edge of civilization in a deserted shack for nearly forty years. His life was one beautiful night of stargazing after another, until a helicopter flies overhead, and exposed his meager world. It is a sign; it is time for him to return to civilization.
Unknowingly,...
Book Review: Severed by Gary Fry
Title: Severed
Author: Gary Fry
Genre: Dark Fiction, Horror
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 2 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
When an unknown virus is unleashed on London, it turns everyone in its path into violent, zombie-like killing machines, leaving their souls separated and floating away to form a giant halo above the capital. Flesh and spirit, dead and alive, they are both. They are severed.
As a beleaguered government brings in scie...
