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December 14, 2013
Book Review: I Believe…A Ghost Story for the Holidays by Valerie C. Woods
Title: I Believe…A Ghost Story for the Holidays
Author: Valerie C. Woods
Genre: Magical Realism, Novella
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Was Marley & Scrooge the only ghost-to-human intervention ever? This is the question. Marley’s haunting, and the arrangement he made for Scrooge had a far-reaching and beneficial effect.
Surely, poor Jacob Marley’s ghost found some peace for being such a compassionate medium. Furth...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Clara
I’m hosting the starter day party today for fantasy novel “Clara”. Unfortunately I won’t be able to review the book during the tour, because it sounds awesome, but at least I got to host the starter day party! I hope you visit all the participating blogs.
Tour Schedule
December 15th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
December 16th: Book Excerpt and Promo @ For The Love of Books
December 17th: Guest Post @ Runaway Pen
December 19th: Guest Post @ Kristy Centeno’s Blog
December 21st: Book Review, In...
Book Review: The Madrona Heroes Register by Hillel Cooperman
Title: The Madrona Heroes Register
Author: Hillel Cooperman
Genre: YA Superhero Fantasy
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Someone in ten-year-old Binny Jordan’s family has a super power – and it’s not her. Binny’s seven-year-old sister Cassie can turn herself invisible and now a strange man is keenly interested in what Cassie can do. Binny’s parents seem mor...
Release Day Party The Druid’s Doorway
We’re celebrating the release for YA urban fantasy novel “The Druid’s Doorway” today!
Visit the author’s website here: http://www.sgdaniels.com/
About The Druid’s Doorway
Title: The Druid’s Doorway
Author: S.G. Daniels
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Jake Reese thinkshe’sjust a screwed-up high school kid living in a small town isolated in the Arizona desert. Traumatized at an early age by his mother’s sudden death—and believing he might have had something to do with it—he’s allowed his guilt and lack of se...
December 12, 2013
Book Excerpt and Giveaway Atlas Tour
I’m going to share an excerpt with you from military science fiction novel “Atlas”. There’s also a tour-wide giveaway for a $25 Amazon gift card, 3 paperback copies of “Atlas” and 3 eBook copies. Find out more about the giveaway below the excerpt!
Book Excerpt
“Hey Tahoe,” I said. “Bet you wish you could grow a chin rug like this, huh? Maybe I should snip off a piece for you? With some glue and a little creativity we could give you some decent facial furniture. You’d look very manly.”
“My geneti...
December 11, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday (25)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases bloggers are eagerley anticipating. These can be debut novels, sequels, eBooks,…as long as they aren’t released yet.
Click HERE to view all my ‘Waiting on Wednesday‘ posts.
I’m waiting for…
December 10, 2013
Book Review: Braineater Jones by Stephen Kozeniewski
Title: Braineater Jones
Author: Stephen Kozeniewski
Genre: Horror, Zombies, Historical Fiction
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
Braineater Jones wakes up face down in a swimming pool with no memory of his former life, how he died, or why he’s now a zombie. With a smart-aleck severed head as a partner, Jones descends into the undead ghetto to solve his own murder.
But Jones’s investigation is complicated by h...
Teaser Tuesdays (24)
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.
Click HERE to view all my ‘Teaser Tuesdays‘ posts.
Here is my teaser:
Could they enter the house? Come upstairs, push through closed doors, avoid all those loose floorboards that gave the building its voice? If in his sleep, he muttered those words spoken by Papa in that clearing long ag...
December 9, 2013
Book Review: The Last Page (Storyteller Series #3) by Lisa Cresswell
Title: The Last Page (Storyteller Series #3)
Author: Lisa Cresswell
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Smashwords
When her story began in Storyteller: The True World, Lily Lightfoot didn’t know she was a fairy with the power to make things happen, just by telling a story, but then everything changed. Now she’s on a quest to save the True World with only a few friends to help her. Her mother and her best friend captured, it’s up to Lily to complete the Quest of Galamar – a centuries old fa...
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?
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
Burn by Danae Samson
I Believe…A Ghost Story for the Holidays by Valerie C. Woods
Starcursed by Jessica Spotswood
Currently...
