Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Born This Way Author: Poppy Dennison Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Length: 115 Pages Category: Paranormal Romance At a Glance: The Liger is pretty much my new favorite animal. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Dayton Whitmore injures his arm playing basketball with his lion-shifter friends, and his best friend asks Dayton to check on her estranged brother... Continue Reading →
Kissing Sherlock Holmes has everything in it a good mystery ought to have: treachery, treason, blackmail, murder, attempted murder, and most important of all, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson working the case. It’s the spring of 1896 and Holmes and Watson have left 221B Baker Street to travel to Surrey, to Toddington Oaks to... Continue Reading →
Kissing Sherlock Holmes has everything in it a good mystery ought to have: treachery, treason, blackmail, murder, attempted murder, and most important of all, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson working the case. It’s the spring of 1896 and Holmes and Watson have left 221B Baker Street to travel to Surrey, to Toddington Oaks to... Continue Reading →
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche And Whatever the Cost, at times, had me questioning just how strong a man really needs to be, because, gods, there’s finding strength through adversity, and then there’s just a point where life and circumstances beat a person down so entirely that it... Continue Reading →
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche And Whatever the Cost, at times, had me questioning just how strong a man really needs to be, because, gods, there’s finding strength through adversity, and then there’s just a point where life and circumstances beat a person down so entirely that it... Continue Reading →
Epic is probably overstating things a bit. For that matter, love story is overstating things by a large margin, but that's irony for you, and The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen is full of it. Doug Bruce is...special, which is a really PC way of saying he's a bit wrong-headed, but once you... Continue Reading →
Epic is probably overstating things a bit. For that matter, love story is overstating things by a large margin, but that's irony for you, and The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen is full of it. Doug Bruce is...special, which is a really PC way of saying he's a bit wrong-headed, but once you... Continue Reading →
Well, apparently chefs are just moody bastards. (Pardon my Français.) Who knew? Certainly not me. And who knew pretentious food prepared by a pompous, self-important master of “molecular gastronomy” could be cause for a few good laughs? Again, not me. At least not until I read Soul Kitchen. Murder was afoot ten years ago at... Continue Reading →
Well, apparently chefs are just moody bastards. (Pardon my Français.) Who knew? Certainly not me. And who knew pretentious food prepared by a pompous, self-important master of “molecular gastronomy” could be cause for a few good laughs? Again, not me. At least not until I read Soul Kitchen. Murder was afoot ten years ago at... Continue Reading →
I think I’ve found a new obsession and their names are Rickey and G-Man. Actually, her name is Poppy Z. Brite, so yeah, she made me love these boys; I’ll give credit where credit is due, but Rickey and G-Man are the reason I’ll keep coming back for more until there is no more left... Continue Reading →
I think I’ve found a new obsession and their names are Rickey and G-Man. Actually, her name is Poppy Z. Brite, so yeah, she made me love these boys; I’ll give credit where credit is due, but Rickey and G-Man are the reason I’ll keep coming back for more until there is no more left... Continue Reading →
Many, many...way too many years ago than I care to remember, I watched a movie called Soylent Green, starring Charleton Heston. Set in a dystopian future, in a horrifically overpopulated New York City, Heston played an NYPD officer investigating the murder of one of the higher ups in the Soylent Corporation, a company that had... Continue Reading →
Many, many...way too many years ago than I care to remember, I watched a movie called Soylent Green, starring Charleton Heston. Set in a dystopian future, in a horrifically overpopulated New York City, Heston played an NYPD officer investigating the murder of one of the higher ups in the Soylent Corporation, a company that had... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Volume Five Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published (Second Edition) Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: Aleksandr Voinov was the master of my education, from start to finish. He led me by the senses and tweaked at my emotional boundaries; then, when he got me... Continue Reading →
Title: Dark Soul: Volume Four Author: Aleksandr Voinov Publisher: Self-Published (Second Edition) Length: 117 Pages Category: Mafia Romance, Dark Romance Rating: 4 Stars At a Glance: This installment in the Dark Soul series felt like progress, but that's also a dangerous feeling; there's always a sense of one step forward and two steps back when... Continue Reading →
The Silent City by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars On the path to becoming the Rifter, John joins the Fai’daum resistance, swearing his allegiance to their cause and training with the witch Ji Shir’korud in an effort to learn to harness the immense power he possesses. The Silent City is the continuation... Continue Reading →
Enemies & Shadows by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars Reading Enemies and Shadows was a little bit like standing in Hades and watching Sisyphus push his boulder uphill, seeing it strive toward its ultimate destination, holding your breath and hoping…only to have it roll back down to the bottom of the hill... Continue Reading →
Broken Fortress by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars Broken Fortress – The Interlude – This is the perfect place to catch your breath and digest everything that has happened up until now. Pluck what you know of the past and apply it to the present, because the future is sure to be... Continue Reading →
Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars So, if you’ve made it this far in the Rifter series, you know that John, Laurie, and Bill have inadvertently traveled to Basawar, to the year 185, when John intercepted a key meant for Kyle, his scarred, tattooed, and mysterious roommate. The three friends... Continue Reading →
Witches' Blood by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars So, if you’ve made it this far in the Rifter series, you know that John, Laurie, and Bill have inadvertently traveled to Basawar, to the year 185, when John intercepted a key meant for Kyle, his scarred, tattooed, and mysterious roommate. The three friends... Continue Reading →
Delsyn's Blues by Lou Sylvre My rating: 4 of 5 stars ”Sonny James and Luki Vasquez are living proof that the course of love never runs smoothly.” If ever there was a single sentence that set the tone for a novel, this is it. Not only does the course of love never run smoothly for... Continue Reading →
Delsyn's Blues by Lou Sylvre My rating: 4 of 5 stars ”Sonny James and Luki Vasquez are living proof that the course of love never runs smoothly.” If ever there was a single sentence that set the tone for a novel, this is it. Not only does the course of love never run smoothly for... Continue Reading →
The Shattered Gates by Ginn Hale My rating: 4 of 5 stars And so it begins, another Ginn Hale inspired addiction, this one woven somewhere between the contemporary and an alternate reality that is only just starting to take shape as a place of extreme danger, a place where being an outsider might mean a... Continue Reading →
Marathon Cowboys by Sarah Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Drama and romance tangle in a wonderful way in Marathon Cowboys, the story of two very different men who meet through little more than chance and who find a common bond in the love of their respective art. Jesse Clayton is a brilliant artist... Continue Reading →
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