Book Review: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Just as contrived, just as predictable, and just as compulsively readable as a Victorian novel. I found myself caring about the characters and being drawn into the story. I read it cover to cover in one evening, and I found that despite its ...
Book Review: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Book Blast: Blood & Roses Episode 1 by Rhys Christopher Ethan

Book Title: Harvest, Episode 1.1
Book Series: Blood & Roses: A Sci-Fi Adventure

Author: Rhys Christopher Ethan

 

Synopsis:

Dorothy meets universe in this stellar adventure of pain, survival and freedom and in the middle of all, a girl trying to find her place among the ...
Book Blast: Blood & Roses Episode 1 by Rhys Christopher Ethan

Book Review: Motherland by Maria Humel

by Maria Hummel

My review: 4 of 5 stars

I was curious to read a novel of Nazi Germany that focused on the experiences of a German family. How complicit were they? What did they know and when? Although the novel was insightful to a point, it never answered those questions to my ...
Book Review: Motherland by Maria Humel

Son of War, Daughter of Chaos Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Son of War, Daughter of Chaos

Aislynn is accustomed to watching for the enemy. Her parents instructed her from the time she was young to look for the signs: people with greater than normal strength, eyes that can glow green, and have the ability to jump long distances. Over the years, ...
Son of War, Daughter of Chaos Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Book Review: Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley

by Peggy Riley
My review: 5 of 5 stars

I"ll be haunted by this story for quite some time. The narration sets a tone of fear and despair. Immediately, the reader is thrown into the desperate, frantic situation of a mother on the run with her two daughters. The characters have been ...
Book Review: Amity & Sorrow by Peggy Riley

The Tesla Gate Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

The Tesla Gate

When a cosmic storm enters Earth’s atmosphere, scientists are baffled by its composition and origins, but not nearly as much as they are by the storm’s side effect – anyone who has died and chosen not to cross over is suddenly stranded here, visible, and can interact with the l ...
The Tesla Gate Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Matt Archer: Redemption Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Matt Archer: Redemption

“There’s more to me than you know…”

When Matt Archer’s sister, Mamie, said those words to him three years ago, he had no idea how prophetic they were, or what this would mean for his family.
Now, he knows. And it changes everything, bringing the war right to Matt’s ...
Matt Archer: Redemption Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Becoming Lady Lockwood Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Becoming Lady Lockwood

Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow. Married by proxy to a man she"d never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Heiress to her mother"s sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily ...
Becoming Lady Lockwood Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Spell Check Free Friday and Saturday

 



 



Spell Check by Julie Wright

A skeleton is rattling its way out of the closet marked “FAMILY SECRET! KEEP OUT!”

Allyson Peterson believes that being hanged by the Salem High Witches is the absolute worst thing that can happen. But when her powers, wrested fro ...
Spell Check Free Friday and Saturday

Book Review: Tell the Wolves I"m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

by Carol Rifka Brunt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Immediately arresting with fascinating characters. I particularly related because it was set in 1987 when I was in high school. The fourteen-year-old narrator is excellent but unreliable because of her immature and limited viewpoint. The eighties ...
Book Review: Tell the Wolves I"m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

July Kindle Fire Giveaway

Enter to win 1 of 2 great prizes both values at $229. Winner’s choice of a Kindle Fire HDX or $229 Amazon Gift Card or $229 Paypal Cash!

The first prize is available via the rafflecopter below. The 2nd is available only to bloggers who post about this giveaway. You can find info on how to e ...
July Kindle Fire Giveaway

Uncovering Cobbogoth Book Blast and $50 Giveaway

Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark

Norah Lukens needs to uncover the truth about the fabled lost city of Cobbogoth. After her archaeologist uncle’s murder, Norah is asked to translate his old research journal for evidence and discovers that his murder was a cover-up for something f ...
Uncovering Cobbogoth Book Blast and $50 Giveaway