“This is not at all what I thought it would be.” This is so very much more. A beloved son. The Beloved Son. The son of the mother, and the Son of the Mother—both placed above and before all else for the good of all mankind. The Aisling and the Guardian, the Dream and the…
Category: 5 Stars
Aisling Book Two: Dreams by Carole Cummings
I wish there were a word in the English language that meant something bigger than love, a word that meant something grander than epic, a word that meant something greater than extraordinary. Extralovepicary. There. If you can’t come up with the appropriate word, sometimes you just have to make one up. Aisling Book Two: Dreams…
Aisling Book Two: Dreams by Carole Cummings
I wish there were a word in the English language that meant something bigger than love, a word that meant something grander than epic, a word that meant something greater than extraordinary. Extralovepicary. There. If you can’t come up with the appropriate word, sometimes you just have to make one up. Aisling Book Two: Dreams…
Aisling Book One: Guardian by Carole Cummings
”You’ve so many names and I haven’t a one.” One man does not know who he is, one man does not know what he is; one man is prey, one man is protector; one man is the weaver of life, one man is the keeper of peace—the dreamer and the defender, the Aisling and the…
Aisling Book One: Guardian by Carole Cummings
”You’ve so many names and I haven’t a one.” One man does not know who he is, one man does not know what he is; one man is prey, one man is protector; one man is the weaver of life, one man is the keeper of peace—the dreamer and the defender, the Aisling and the…
Ghost: Wolf’s-own (Book One) by Carole Cummings
Oh, the Booyah! that is this book. Eden Winters, you know me so well. How irresistible is the number one? As in Chapter One, Book One, the beginning, the nervous anticipation and sometimes trepidation I feel when I start a new book and series from an author I’ve never read before. There are so many…
Ghost: Wolf's-own (Book One) by Carole Cummings
Oh, the Booyah! that is this book. Eden Winters, you know me so well. How irresistible is the number one? As in Chapter One, Book One, the beginning, the nervous anticipation and sometimes trepidation I feel when I start a new book and series from an author I’ve never read before. There are so many…
Review: Mine by Mary Calmes
It doesn’t take long to realize there’s something a little bit special about Landry Carter—from the manic highs to the frightening lows, from the dangerous impulses to the intense shifts in behavior that cause him to become aggressive one moment and submissive the next—Landry Carter is a bit like a butterfly in a jar, beautiful…
Chase in Shadow by Amy Lane
There is no one who can break my heart quite the way Amy Lane can. It’s never a quick, clean break. No, it’s a slow and agonizing process that begins with the first word of the book, and that first word is like the end of the thread that holds my poor little heart in…
Chase in Shadow by Amy Lane
There is no one who can break my heart quite the way Amy Lane can. It’s never a quick, clean break. No, it’s a slow and agonizing process that begins with the first word of the book, and that first word is like the end of the thread that holds my poor little heart in…
His Holy Bones (Rifter, #10) by Ginn Hale
His Holy Bones by Ginn Hale My rating: 5 of 5 stars So it began and so it ended, at well more than 1000 pages of nothing less than outstanding character exposition, world building, dialogue, narrative, humor, action, terror, violence, heartbreak, romance. This was the Chronicles of Basawar and was everything great speculative fiction should…
The Iron Temple (Rifter, #9) by Ginn Hale
The Iron Temple by Ginn Hale My rating: 5 of 5 stars And finally, we are at the beginning of the end. Or is it the end of the beginning? Perhaps when dealing with shifts in time, as Ginn Hale has done throughout this series, it is both. There is one certainty, however—John, Jahn, Jath’ibaye;…
The Holy Road (Rifter, #5) by Ginn Hale
The Holy Road by Ginn Hale My rating: 5 of 5 stars 5+ Stars I am, by turns, frightened and fascinated at this point in the saga, which sums things up pretty concisely and accurately. The Holy Road is darkness defined. This is the point in the journey where John discovers everything there is to…
Black Blades (Rifter, #3) by Ginn Hale
Black Blades by Ginn Hale My rating: 5 of 5 stars And the plot thickens. Prophesies broken, awesome powers revealed, an assassination thwarted, and former allies who apparently have become enemies, these are some of the enticements Ginn Hale offers up in episode three of the Rifter saga. Told in a non-linear fashion, this installment…
Bad Boyfriend (Bad in Baltimore, #2) by K.A. Mitchell
Bad Boyfriend by K.A. Mitchell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quinn Maloney spent ten years in a monogamous relationship with a straight man. Well, at least Quinn was monogamous. Peter? No, Peter was just an ass who’s “not gay,” and who used Quinn until something different came along; then he made like Houdini and…
Review: Renfred’s Masquerade by Hayden Thorne
Title: Renfred’s Masquerade Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Self-Published Length: 216 Pages Category: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: 5 Stars At a Glance: Hayden Thorne’s work is a celebration of storytelling, and Renfred’s Masquerade is a novel that made me realize how terribly insignificant a numerical rating can be on a book that exceeds my ability to…
