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Bishop, Anne: The Pillars of the World (Tir Alainn) (2001)
Reading to my daughter continues to be a pleasure. Our journey through the land of fantasy brought us into the world of Anne Bishop and the trilogy The World of the Fae. The Pillars of the World is the...
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Hurley, Kameron: Rapture (The Bel Dame Apocrypha III) (2012)
Throughout Nyx’s exile, she didn’t think much about all the men and women she’d beheaded, or the mullahs she’d pissed off, or the mines she’d planted, or the battles she’d lost. She thought about the...
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Scott, Alan: The “Y” Front Chronicles (2013)
Alan Scott has written a wonderfully funny and dark story about murder and mayhem. I suppose it could be read as a warning about the consequences of training our soldiers too well. The thought did not...
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McCoskey, Scott: Bad Mojo Blues (2014)
Merriam-Webster defines mojo as: “a power that may seem magical and that allows someone to be very effective, successful, etc.” Bad Mojo is certainly something Marcus suffers from during the three days...
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Scott, Alan: The “Y” Front Standoff (The Y-Front Chronicles) (2014)
Once again Alan Scott serves us a plateful of humour with a dash of serious. OMG, that talk-show. “Women Who Bitch With Other Women” remind me of some very popular talk-shows that definitely do not...
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Black, Levy; Red Right Hand (2016)
Some authors write horror too well for my own good. In the case of Mr. Black, this happened before the end of chapter 6. I could not go on. Not since beginning to read Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill have...
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Flynn, Sabrina; The Broken God (Legends of Fyrsta III) (2016)
Although The Broken God can be read alone, it is better to read A Thread in the Tangle and King’s Folly first. Some characters hit me harder than others. In The Broken God that was the boy Zoshi. There...
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Jenkins, David Elias: The First Spark (2016)
Finding a soul-mate is not a given in life. In Free Spark, David Elias Jenkins introduces us to John and Isabella Gaunt who embody what soul-matedness seems to be all about. At first, their...
View ArticleChina, Max; The Sister; Skinnybirds Productions; 2014
My copy of The Sister, is the 2014 edition. Apparently, some of the problems in the 2012 edition have been corrected. “You should have learned to swim.” The perfect murders are the ones where the...
View ArticleBishop, Anne; Daughter of the Blood (Black Jewels I) (1998)
Anne Bishop‘s Black Jewels trilogy is one of my favorites and I have read it four or more times. One of the reasons I like it so well is that it is NOT a romance. Well. I don’t think so. Daughter of...
View ArticleBraden, Jill (2013). The Devil’s Concubine. Wayzgoose Press
With “The Devil’s Concubine” Braden blows a breath of fresh air into fantasy literature that seems swamped with poorly edited stories. I am having a difficult time trying to find fault with it. You...
View ArticleThoma, C. (2014). Boreal and John Grey Season 1. Self-published.
I absolutely loved the scifi/fantasy/thriller story Boreal and John Grey, Season One. Thoma is an author that justifies self-published works. Season 1 contains the novellas “The Encounter” (45 p),...
View ArticleCross, K. (2014). Miss Mabel’s School for Girls. (Network I). Antebellum...
Without strings attached, K. Cross offers a free copy of Miss Mabel’s School for Girls to any and all on her website. I stared at the lavender flowers on the white china and willed my heart to stop...
View ArticleSaintcrow, L. (2016). Cormorant Run. New York: Orbit.
STRUGOVSKY: All we can say for certain is that one night, eighty-six years ago, there were strange lights in the skies of many countries. Aurora borealis, perhaps. Then, the Event, at a very specific...
View ArticleHarper, T.K. (1990) Wolfwalker, New York: Ballantine.
It was dark, and she could not see. She could not hear for the roaring in her ears, and she could not move. Oh, moons of mercy, moons of light… She tried to spit out the panic but choked on grit and...
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