Getting a pretty good start in this new year with the SPFBO finalists! This one had an audiobook so that made it a lot easier for me to fit it into my day at work! 🙂 The days of adventure are passed for Auric Manteo. Retired to the countryside with his scars and riches, he... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
Time to read some finalists in this year's SPFBO! Getting a head start. Truth be told, this one has been on my TBR for a while - and in my audible library for just as long! Brimming with swords, sorcery, and wit, Orconomics: A Satire introduces Arth, a world much like our own but with... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Gods of Men by Barbara Kloss
I'm just gobbling up these hopefuls. I never doubted though - if Esme, Wol or Coffee like a book, there's a good, good chance that I will also like that book. It has proven wrong a time or two... and it certainly doesn't work in reverse all the time (KISSING BOOOOOOOKS) - but it's a... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Strangehold by Rene Sears
Another one of Wol's hopefuls makes it into my eyeholes today! Woooo! Morgan Tenpenny has retreated from her painful, magical past, choosing to live quietly as a guardian of one of the gates between worlds. But her sister Gwen is married to a lord of the High Court of Faerie—and when Gwen asks her to... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Lords of Asylum by Kevin Wright
I was rather excited to get to this one, because when Wol likes a book, I tend to generally also like that book! Of course... this isn't universal... but ehhh close enough. 😀 Waylaid in the wilds, they left him for dead… Sir Luther Slythe Krait is a bad man. He tried outrunning his past,... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Everblue by Brenda Pandos
It's your friendly neighborhood kissy book expert here, and in today's SPFBO review, we have a YA Mermaid Romance. OooOOoOoo She wanted her life to change... he wanted his to stay the same. Best friends share everything with each other. Or do they? Seventeen-year-old Ashlyn Frances Lanski is tired of her boring, single life. Spending... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Carnival of the Night by Nicholas Carey
In which Kristen attends a Carnival, of sorts. 😀 Some call it purgatory, others know it as the in-between, but for those poor souls who are trapped there eternally, it is simply The Carnival — a macabre mockery where night is never-ending, and a sadistic creature known as The Fool reigns unchallenged. And The Fool... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: Dragon Mount by Jennifer M. Eaton
As the friendly neighborhood kissy book expert, this one got sent my way. I don't dislike shifter romances, but some of them can make my eyes roll real hard. I get my silliness guards up pretty early on. So, silliness shields up! And here we go. Things can’t get any worse than being snatched by... Continue Reading →
Review: Death March by Phil Tucker
For me, at this point, Phil Tucker is one of those authors whose kickstarter I will immediately throw money at - which is a good description of what happened here. I was backer #2 on this one. Who has faster fingers than me?! WHOOOOO?! 😀 And naturally, seeing that the audiobooks are narrated by Vikas... Continue Reading →
SPFBO Review: The Fire Eye Refugee by Samuel Gately
This one was a pretty good contender in the cover contest for this year. Because, I mean look at it. 😍 A spy must face her past or die in exile. As lanterns stream up towards the Fire Eye, a woman weaves through the crowd, eyes down. Kay is a fetch, a finder of lost children,... Continue Reading →