Where Fiction and Reality Meet
"Where there is a sea there are pirates." – Greek Proverb If you’re looking for some swashbuckling steampunk adventure, look no further than Eon de Beaumont’s Wayward Grace, a story that takes readers on a nautical journey on the high seas and on into the sky, through ingenuity and the sheer determination of a captain... Continue Reading →
"Where there is a sea there are pirates." – Greek Proverb If you’re looking for some swashbuckling steampunk adventure, look no further than Eon de Beaumont’s Wayward Grace, a story that takes readers on a nautical journey on the high seas and on into the sky, through ingenuity and the sheer determination of a captain... Continue Reading →
“There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.” ― Laxmi Hariharan Where to begin?? Let me start off with saying that I loved this book!!! I am very picky when it comes to fantasy books. I do enjoy a story set in different worlds but I think my favorite would be... Continue Reading →
“There is no getting away from the past or from one’s destiny.” ― Laxmi Hariharan Where to begin?? Let me start off with saying that I loved this book!!! I am very picky when it comes to fantasy books. I do enjoy a story set in different worlds but I think my favorite would be... Continue Reading →
“The fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." – Charles Darwin Noah Hipwell is fifteen-years-old, has been expelled from school for standing up to a bully, lives with his single and ::gasp:: never married mother, and, oh, Noah also happens to be openly... Continue Reading →
“The fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." – Charles Darwin Noah Hipwell is fifteen-years-old, has been expelled from school for standing up to a bully, lives with his single and ::gasp:: never married mother, and, oh, Noah also happens to be openly... Continue Reading →
“So he rolled on down and rolled on down where the mermaids sang while their lovers drowned…” – K.Z. Snow If you can, picture a realm where steampunk meets a real-world industrial revolution, a place where those who wear the brand of Mongrel on their person are segregated in the village of Taintwell, a place... Continue Reading →
“So he rolled on down and rolled on down where the mermaids sang while their lovers drowned…” – K.Z. Snow If you can, picture a realm where steampunk meets a real-world industrial revolution, a place where those who wear the brand of Mongrel on their person are segregated in the village of Taintwell, a place... Continue Reading →
Books may well be the only true magic. ― Alice Hoffman In our own world, perhaps, yes. But in Lucas Tripp’s world… Well, in Lucas’s world true magic is not confined entirely to the books for which he has a special love, the books for which, as his queen’s librarian, he is solely responsible. In... Continue Reading →
Books may well be the only true magic. ― Alice Hoffman In our own world, perhaps, yes. But in Lucas Tripp’s world… Well, in Lucas’s world true magic is not confined entirely to the books for which he has a special love, the books for which, as his queen’s librarian, he is solely responsible. In... Continue Reading →
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung There’s a brand new author on my radar, and her name is Agnes Black. If you love Alt U that feels a bit like a swashbuckling historical adventure, the novella Hidden in Plain Sight may be exactly what you’re looking... Continue Reading →
The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung There’s a brand new author on my radar, and her name is Agnes Black. If you love Alt U that feels a bit like a swashbuckling historical adventure, the novella Hidden in Plain Sight may be exactly what you’re looking... Continue Reading →
To die will be an awfully big adventure. – Aristotle Imagine, if you will, standing upon the banks of a lazy river, its surface a cool and contemplative deception that masks the roiling current tumbling below. You wade into its deceptive stillness, unaware of and unprepared for what lies beneath, an unknown variable that, in... Continue Reading →
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Kahlil Gibran There’s a single line in Eric Arvin’s The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men that, if I were being lazy, I’d use to sum up exactly what this book is and leave... Continue Reading →
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Kahlil Gibran There’s a single line in Eric Arvin’s The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men that, if I were being lazy, I’d use to sum up exactly what this book is and leave... Continue Reading →
Trapped in a hellish dream Spinning past worlds unseen and frightfully vanishing Into the dark eternal night – Dream Theater Jordan Sullivan is the harbinger of a legacy passed down through generations of his family, an inheritance from his ancestors that will long go dormant over the course of decades but will find a resurrection... Continue Reading →
Trapped in a hellish dream Spinning past worlds unseen and frightfully vanishing Into the dark eternal night – Dream Theater Jordan Sullivan is the harbinger of a legacy passed down through generations of his family, an inheritance from his ancestors that will long go dormant over the course of decades but will find a resurrection... Continue Reading →
Every fairytale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. – Alice Hoffman Welcome to a contemporary fantasy, where fiction becomes fact, and the pages of borrowed imagination become the amorphous fabric that veils the arcane realms from the sight of mundane mortals. If, that is, you’d classify Athens, Iowa and its residents... Continue Reading →
Every fairytale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. – Alice Hoffman Welcome to a contemporary fantasy, where fiction becomes fact, and the pages of borrowed imagination become the amorphous fabric that veils the arcane realms from the sight of mundane mortals. If, that is, you’d classify Athens, Iowa and its residents... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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