Hello! I aten't dead! I have moved across states, sold a house, got a new job, and have been going through a hell of a depressive episode on top of all of it. So, sorry for my absence, but reading has been... difficult of late. However, I had to come and tell you about this... Continue Reading →
Review: Short Changed: Stories from Ethereal Earth
Moving right along with my audiobook listening this year, this is a group of short stories from the Ethereal Earth series that the author was nice enough to offer me a copy of when he had finished the audiobook. So thanks very much to the author for the audiobook copy! How does a con man... Continue Reading →
Review: Where Shadows Lie by Allegra Pescatore
This was an audiobook that I picked up as it was the SPFBO Community Discord's Book Club title for January. Of course, I didn't manage to actually finish it in January... because of course I didn't. It's been one of those years, so far. ^^; THE CHOSEN ONE IS DEAD. Speak the truth. That is... Continue Reading →
Review: The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian
Time to review my first book of the new year *fanfare* which is a book I've been looking forward to reading ever since I read Hither, Page. Thanks so much to the author for the review copy! When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his... Continue Reading →
Review: Ajiwiak by D. P. Woolliscroft
I've quite enjoyed my time with this series up until this point, and so when a review copy of the third book in the series was offered to me, I couldn't pass it up! So thanks to the author for the review copy! ALL IT TAKES, IS A SINGLE SPARK Llewdon, ageless elf and Emperor... Continue Reading →
Review: Tales of Ioth by D.P. Woolliscroft
Having really enjoyed this series, I gladly accepted a review copy of this volume of short stories that that take place around the main story. So thanks to the author for the review copy! Ioth was gone. Kingshold had fallen. But we could not give up. I am Mareth, once Lord Protector of Kingshold, and... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Executioner’s Right by D.K. Holmberg
Almost there! I can see the bottom of my pile! Executioners don’t solve crimes, they punish those who commit them. Or so Finn thought before apprenticed to one. Poverty-stricken Finn Jagger would give anything to heal his ailing mother. With his father imprisoned, Finn has joined a thieving crew to earn the money he needs... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Red in Tooth and Claw by Ryan Howse
More SPFBO Shenanigans from Team Weatherdrifter! Getting closer and closer to the end of my batch! Soon, I'll just need to read Esme's semifinalists (because we all know she'll have mine read before I even announce all of them) and then it'll be that time again! A brutal wilderness. Hungry, plague-ridden animals. A winter so... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Gatekeeper’s Staff by Antoine Bandele
More SPFBO book adventures! TJ Young has been surrounded by magic his entire life, yet he has never tapped into it… until now. Fourteen-year-old TJ grew up normal in a secret community of gifted diviners in the heart of modern-day Los Angeles. His powerful sister was ordained to lead his people into a new age... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Thunder Heist by Jed Herne
This one wasn't in my original batch but I grabbed it from Esme when she wasn't feelin it. Who doesn't love a good heist? Uh... other than Esme... 😀 A relentless thief. An impossible heist. Meet Kef Cutmark. Pirate, monster-slayer, scourge of the Twisted Seas. After a lifetime of running from her past, she’s returned... Continue Reading →