Book Review: Daughters of Carrawburgh by Nigel Plane
This book was reviewed for Troubadour Publishing Limited via Netgalley Daughters of Carrawburgh is a first-rate psychological thriller that you simply can't put down! I lost myself in this book, and finished it in a single day, so engrossing was it. Sam L...Book Review: Zen for Druids by Joanna van der Hoeven
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Van der Hoeven’s Zen for Druids is her second book focuses on combining the nature spiritualism of Druidry with the teachings and tenets of Buddhism. She makes a note that the reader should have read the previous Zen D...Book Review: Black Dawn by Mallory McCartney
This book was reviewed via Lola's Blog Tours 📚📚📚📚 Recommended McCartney’s Black Dawn tells the story of the fall of Kiero’s Academy. On a world where magick manifests as special abilities (much like mutant powers in X-Men), the elite institution was c...Book Review- Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations by Lydia Sherrer
This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours Revelations is the second book featuring archivist wizard Lily Singer and mercenary witch Sebastian Blackwell. As with the previous book, this one is separated into three parts alternating between the two chara...Book Review- Writing Vivid Emotions by Rayne Hall
I purchased this book for my own edification Writing Vivid Emotions is book 22 in Rayne Hall’s popular Writer's Craft series. Each of these wonderful books focuses on a specific aspect of writing or promotional work. This particular book, as the name says...Book Review: Eugenics Wars Vol 1 by Greg Cox
This book was purchased for my own reading pleasure I purchased the paired non-canon Eugenics Wars books by Greg Cox many, many moons ago. Khan is one of the most enduring and well-known of Kirk’s many adversaries. I was quite pleased when a version of Kh...Book Review- Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird
This book was reviewed for Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews and via Netgalley Drawing on sources previously unavailable, Baird gives us an intimate look at the Queen who defined and gave name to an entire era. I will admit, I am a huge fan of the Victor...Book Review: Turing's Imitation Game by Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews Rather than being a book about Turing the man, Warwick and Shah focus specifically on Turing's famous Imitation Game, a tool for judging artificial intelligence, or rather, can a given ...Book Review: The Grumpface by BCR Fegan/ Illustrated by D Frongia
This book was reviewed for TaleBlade Press This charming picture book for young readers is a new spin on the classic 'Beauty and the Beast’ tale. In the gloomy Forest of Ho lives a terrible creature called the Grumpface, and what an ugly fellow he is! But...Book Review- Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings by Lydia Sherrer
This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours Beginnings, first in Sherrer's Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus series contains three short stories. Labelled as two episodes and an interlude, they follow the adventures of Lily Singer and Sebastian Blackwell as th...Book Review: Lord of Chance by Erica Ridley
This book was reviewed via Netgalley First in the Rogues to Riches series, Ridley’s Lord of Chance sweeps us back in time, to England's Regency period. Charlotte Devon is a young woman traveling alone through Scotland, searching for her father. All she ha...Book Review: Something Wicked by Debi Chestnut
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Chestnut's Something Wicked is an overview of exorcism, that looks at history, forms in other cultures and traditions, what demons are vs other types of 'negative’ entities, levels progressing to full-blown possession,...Book Review: Symphony for the Devil by Marcus James
This book was reviewed for Manhattan Book Review Explicit sexual situations Storythreads spanning generations, and eras, come together in this neo-gothic work by Marcus James. Symphony for the Devil is a novel of the mysterious, the supernatural, and the...Book Review: Moana Junior Novelisation adapted by Suzanne Francis
This book was purchased for my niece. This is the story of Moana, a young woman who braves the ocean beyond the reefs that surround her island home. The land is dying and the fish are gone. Legend says that if the Heart of Te Fiti is restored to its prope...Book Review: Dark Spirits by Stephen Lancaster
This book was reviewed via Netgalley In paranormal investigator Stephen Lancaster’s second book, Dark Spirits, he covers a series of events and investigations detailing some of his more interesting moments as a paranormal investigator. Ok, I'm going to be...Book Review- Barsk: The Elephant's Graveyard by Lawrence Schoen
I purchased a copy of this book for my own enjoyment. Welcome to the richly complex world of Barsk, home to the Fant. It is a lush world of jungle archipelagos, where the arboreal inhabitants live high above the shadowed forest floor. The Fant, divided in...The Wisdom of Not Knowing by Estelle Frankel
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review Using lessons garnered from such diverse sources as Jewish mysticism, Buddhism, psychology, mythic studies, and spiritual alchemy, Frankel offers a new way of looking at the unknown, and embracing the c...Book Review: Fatal Option by Chris Beakey
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Fatal Option, by Chris Beakey, is a whirlwind collision of time, place, and players, where synchronicity is revealed in the obscuration of a ferocious blizzard. As snows pile high, Stephen Porter is woken in the middle...Book Review: The Hunger Saint by Olivia Kate Cerrone
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review In The Hunger Saint Cerrone has opened a window to the past, giving a glimpse of the harsh conditions of yesteryear. For decades, sulphur mining was part and parcel to Sicily’s economy. For much of that...Book Review: Hammers on Bone
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review What do you get if you toss hard-boiled detective fiction, and lore of the Great Old Ones into a blender? The answer is Cassandra Khaw’s Lovecraftian noir Hammers on Bone. When John Persons is approache...Book Review: Quiet by Susan Cain
I purchased a copy of this book for my own enjoyment with no expectations of a review Cain’s Quiet was a real eye-opener for me. I mean, I knew I was introverted, but not really by how much. I gained a new perspective and a few new ways of doing things. T...Book Review: The Stuff of Life
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review Asif Zaidi’s The Stuff of Life is a veritable treasure trove of essays bridging a wide variety of philosophical topics. There are several sections, each with a general focus. This book is stuffed with t...Book Review: Gilded Cage by Vic James
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews & Netgalley Vic James has woven a vision of a dystopic alter-earth where certain people, known as Equals or the Skilled, have magical abilities. In some countries, the Equals rule to th...Book Review: Confessions of Young Nero
This book was reviewed for the Manhattan and Seattle Book Reviews and via Netgalley George's Confessions of Young Nero humanises an oft demonised ghost from distant ages past, he who 'fiddled’ whilst Rome burned. We follow Nero’s musings about his childho...



