Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Hunter of Demons Series: SPECTR: Book 1.1 Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: JordanLHawk.com Length: 108 Pages Category: Paranormal Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. Well, color me cuckoo because here we are again, with another... Continue Reading →
ACK! And GAH! I’m really feeling a psychotically unhealthy kind of love for this book, peeps. Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin, Book #1 ) is part Historical, part Horror, part Egyptian Mythology, part Fantasy, part Alchemy, part Thriller, part Arcane Grimoire paying homage to an ancient and evil Magick. And it’s one-hundred-percent romantic too; if, that... Continue Reading →
Title: How to Repair a Mechanical Heart Series: Mechanical Hearts: Book One Author: J.C. Lillis Publisher: Self-Published Length: 298 Pages Category: YA Romance Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Just when I’ve become complacent in the belief there can’t possibly be any more original ways to tell me a coming-of-age story, J.C. Lillis happens along... Continue Reading →
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov I love books that make me feel like a hypocrite. When the Music Stops is most definitely one of those books. There is a line between doctor and patient that is never to be breached. That line becomes even... Continue Reading →
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov I love books that make me feel like a hypocrite. When the Music Stops is most definitely one of those books. There is a line between doctor and patient that is never to be breached. That line becomes even... Continue Reading →
How is one supposed to find the words to review a book in which the author has already exhausted (Vin might love the irony of that x in such a lethargic word) all the most brilliant words in the English language to tell his story? Come to think of it, Vin might like the word... Continue Reading →
How is one supposed to find the words to review a book in which the author has already exhausted (Vin might love the irony of that x in such a lethargic word) all the most brilliant words in the English language to tell his story? Come to think of it, Vin might like the word... Continue Reading →
“There is a rose in the Devil's garden/In shadow it grows alone/Many things are dangerous now/In this garden we call home.” - Tiger Army, “Rose of the Devil’s Garden” Roses in the Devil’s Garden is a short and sublime little story set in New York City during the height of prohibition in the United States,... Continue Reading →
“There is a rose in the Devil's garden/In shadow it grows alone/Many things are dangerous now/In this garden we call home.” - Tiger Army, “Rose of the Devil’s Garden” Roses in the Devil’s Garden is a short and sublime little story set in New York City during the height of prohibition in the United States,... Continue Reading →
“…when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.” - John Knowles, A Separate Peace And sometimes the same applies to someone, and that alone has to be good enough because to expect anything more is asking too much of the one you love. To want anything... Continue Reading →
“…when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.” - John Knowles, A Separate Peace And sometimes the same applies to someone, and that alone has to be good enough because to expect anything more is asking too much of the one you love. To want anything... Continue Reading →
Fontana is a brilliant book. And I don’t mean that solely in the intellectually brilliant sense of the word; I mean that it is also luminous and powerful, and it made me angry and it made me cry, and it’s been some time since I’ve read a book that engendered such a strong emotional reaction... Continue Reading →
Fontana is a brilliant book. And I don’t mean that solely in the intellectually brilliant sense of the word; I mean that it is also luminous and powerful, and it made me angry and it made me cry, and it’s been some time since I’ve read a book that engendered such a strong emotional reaction... Continue Reading →
I think I’ll just take a Xanax and a bottle of gin and go curl up in a corner now because, let me tell you, if I didn’t have some sort of anxiety disorder before reading Koan, I think I do now. I was going to make that my review. Just that. But please, I... Continue Reading →
I think I’ll just take a Xanax and a bottle of gin and go curl up in a corner now because, let me tell you, if I didn’t have some sort of anxiety disorder before reading Koan, I think I do now. I was going to make that my review. Just that. But please, I... Continue Reading →
No. No, no, no. A book cannot just end like that. Okay, apparently it can, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Okay, apparently that’s not true either, because I loved it, which I suppose means that I more than liked it. ::sigh:: I think I get too involved with the characters in... Continue Reading →
No. No, no, no. A book cannot just end like that. Okay, apparently it can, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Okay, apparently that’s not true either, because I loved it, which I suppose means that I more than liked it. ::sigh:: I think I get too involved with the characters in... Continue Reading →
Aw, the short bus to Happytown has finally arrived and it looks like maybe, just maybe, Ty Grady and Zane Garrett remembered to get on and have bought a one-way ticket there. It seems Agents Grady and Garrett have figured out that if their relationship is going to survive, they’ve got to remember to be... Continue Reading →
Aw, the short bus to Happytown has finally arrived and it looks like maybe, just maybe, Ty Grady and Zane Garrett remembered to get on and have bought a one-way ticket there. It seems Agents Grady and Garrett have figured out that if their relationship is going to survive, they’ve got to remember to be... Continue Reading →
Daniel Schroeder lives in a world where dreams and fantasies can be bought for the right price. It’s an intriguing proposition, the idea of being able to fulfill an ambition, to achieve the unachievable, to participate in the illusion of sex with a virtual stranger without the complication of awkward entanglements and empty promises. Daniel... Continue Reading →
Daniel Schroeder lives in a world where dreams and fantasies can be bought for the right price. It’s an intriguing proposition, the idea of being able to fulfill an ambition, to achieve the unachievable, to participate in the illusion of sex with a virtual stranger without the complication of awkward entanglements and empty promises. Daniel... Continue Reading →
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina put the Crescent City on the world stage, a horrifying and profoundly decimated stage that touched a nerve in the consciousness of anyone who had either witnessed the destruction firsthand or who sat safely in front of the television, thousands of miles away, and mourned for the unspeakable loss and punishing... Continue Reading →
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina put the Crescent City on the world stage, a horrifying and profoundly decimated stage that touched a nerve in the consciousness of anyone who had either witnessed the destruction firsthand or who sat safely in front of the television, thousands of miles away, and mourned for the unspeakable loss and punishing... Continue Reading →
Oh, temptation. Life is full of it, sweet and evil temptation. Rickey and G-man have given in to a few enticements over the course of their years together—booze, drugs, money; the kind of money that will get Rickey exactly where he wants to be in spite of the fact that he has to wager a... Continue Reading →
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