Tag: review
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Punk Rock Poetry?
“A Complex Accident of Life,” is less a collection of poetry and more an art book with poetry as it’s pulse.
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Tarot Del Toro
A tarot deck that’s designed using Guillermo Del Toro’s movies as inspiration? Yes, please.
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Season of Secrets by Kerry E. B. Black
Going to college, making friends, experimenting with long forgotten deities who alter your mind, just your basic girl goes to college story, right? Wait… one of these things might be different from the others…
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Knight in Paper Armor
If “Stranger Things,” “Maximum Ride,” and “Fahrenheit 451,” had a baby in a world where mega-corporations owned everything you just might get “Knight in Paper Armor,” by Nicholas Conley.
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A Modern Fantasy Classic: charged with emotion, filled action and lions
Do you remember the 1st time you read a book like Animal Farm or 1984 where you got wrapped up entirely in the story and then about halfway through you were hit with just how big the real-world under-current in the story is? That’s how I felt reading, “A Queen’s Pride,” by N.D. Jones. Two…
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Urban Fantasy built on powerful characters: Scepter of Fire by L. M. Preston
You know what’s a terrible idea? Reviewing the 2nd book in a series when you haven’t read book 1 and 1.5. You get all the recap spoilers and jump into the drama mid-story. I don’t recommend it. This is exactly what happened when I went to read “Scepter of Fire,” for today’s book tour review.…
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Zombies… but after 40 days of social distancing
Now that I’ve been self isolating for… *checks the calendar*… 40 days, how I experience films has changed. So when I watched this short zombie film by Les films Guacamole the whole tone was interesting because I felt my mind shift half-way through from pre-covid thoughts to post-covid thoughts.
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The Crimson Inkwell by Kenneth A. Baldwin
About the Crimson Inkwell The Crimson Inkwell, written by Kenneth A. Baldwin is about Luella Winthrop, a female journalist in the Victorian era who starts chasing stories to save her newspaper only to end up following a dangerous path. In this world of Gaslamp Fantasy women were not journalists. So Luella writes using a pen…
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Cozy Paranormal Romance Christmas Collection |Christmas at Caynham Castle
It’s been a while since my last book review on this site, but when I saw this collection come through my inbox I couldn’t resist. 7 romance authors, several of the paranormal romance variety (my fav!) Collaborating on a collection of stories all tied around a mysterious English Castle at Christmas. It’s, quite frankly, exactly…