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Book Review: Mermaid in Troubled Water by Nikki Haverstock
After her engagement ends, mermaid Brooke drives away from her life and finds the reclusive town of Purgatory Falls, a sanctuary for paranormals like her to live freely. Unfortunately for Brooke, during her first moments in town she witnesses a murder, even though she doesn’t actually see very much because in her mermaid state her…
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Buddy Read & Rant #11 with Jonathan Pongratz: A Door into Evermoor by Kent Wayne
Jonny Did someone say portal fantasy?! *Pulls out emergency vacation luggage* When do we leave? (Buy Jonny’s amazing books here – Iseult) Iseult I’m ready to go adventuring *gathers up dog and cat traveling companions*. Let us journey forth to the kitchen of never ending food! This buddy read and rant is for A Door into…
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Book Review: The Tower Outside of Time by Joseph Sale
In his latest book, Joseph Sale brings together the worlds of Dark Hilarity and The Tunnel with the four main characters meeting up and taking on the world of Dae’eshta. Since escaping The Cretin, Tara and Nicola have moved to London and become successful fantasy novelists. I loved that they got a happy ending, and…
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Book Review: Virtue’s End by Joseph Sale
A personal epic poem, the stakes are high in Virtue’s End – Horus must save the land of imagination from the vile beasts that desire to destroy it. Inspired by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, it’s no surprise that the poet appears within this tome, and several other writers of great fame too, including Mary Shelley…
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Book Review: The Tunnel by Joseph Sale
When she is 11, Georgina Jones discovers something about her cold, calculating father that not only destroys her relationship with him, but results in her keeping men at a distance when she grows up, unable to form a meaningful connection. In 2019, a huge crocodile stalks the sewers of London. Some say it is Jack…
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Book Review: Dark Hilarity by Joseph Sale
Wolfkin, lizardmen and gorilli- oh my! Sale’s latest novel is a feast for fantasy lovers. Bonded by their love of the music of Valentine Killshot, preteens Tara and Nicola’s friendship is stretched to breaking point by a horrific shared event. Seven years later, the women confront their past, and each other, in the dreaming world…
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Book Review: Save Game by Joseph Sale
The author claims this book is his answer to Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’. I say it is the book ‘Ready Player One’ wishes it could have been. Levi lives in Birmingham in the UK. He wanted to be a lawyer, but after falling in love with computer games, he decided to become a game…
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Book Review: The Lucky Diamond by Valinora Troy
About the book The whirlclouds erupted on all sides, buffeting the boat first one way and then the next, sending Alan sprawling from one side of thedeck to the other. He couldn’t stay on his feet long enough to reach the tiller. Yvonne and Susan clung to the mast. He couldn’t see Vicky or Cathy…
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Bookouture Books on Tour: The Book Binder’s Daughter by Jessica Thorne
About the book The song surrounded her now, the murmuring of the library insistent, and her foot took the first step on the winding stairs. She knew it wasn’t entirely a dream. It was the library calling her, its magic driving her. When Sophie is offered a job at the Ayredale Library – the finest collection of rare books…
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2 Book Review: Odriel’s Heirs and Burning Shadows by Hayley Reese Chow
Odriel’s Heirs A fun young adult fantasy adventure that delights with its supporting cast of magical animals. Three heirs, gifted with powers by Odriel, which combined are powerful enough to defeat the mighty necromancer, Nifras. The time heir; a powerful healer. The shadow heir; able to become invisible. And the dragon heir; who wields the…
