This book was reviewed via Netgalley Kudler’s Risuko is an enthralling tale of feudal Japan. Kano Murasaki, known as Risuko, has been sold into a half-slavery to Lady Chiyome, who runs Mochizuki, training shrine maidens called miko. But miko aren’t the only things she trains. No, Chiyome trains kunoichi, or ‘very special women’. It’ll […]
Month: June 2016
Book Review- Playful Song Called Beautiful
This book was reviewed for University of Iowa Press via Netgalley Blair’s Playful Song Called Beautiful is certainly one of the more unusual poetry collections I’ve read. This collection was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Contest. These poems are rich with unique symbolism. That sometimes backfires though, when symbolism is so unique to […]
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Book Review- Map of Bones by Francesca Haig
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Map of Bones is the second in Haig’s Fire Sermon series. The resistance has scattered, victim to Council predations. Zoe, Piper, and Cass make their convoluted way back to resistance leadership, through a maze of obstacles and diversions. Along the way, they collect […]
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Book Review- Madame Pele, curated by Rick Carroll
My sister purchased this book on a trip to Hawai’i and I borrowed it to read. Madame Pele is a collection of stories, curated by Rick Carroll, that tell of encounters with the fiery goddess of the Hawaiian isles. Some encounters are benign, some are helpful, some akin to tales of phantom hitchhikers. Then […]
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Book Review- Jekyll Island Chronicles (graphic novel)
This book was reviewed via Netgalley The Jekyll Island Chronicles by Nedvidek, Cromwell, and Lowe tells the behind the scenes story of an alternate history in which the titans of industry and science come together to do far more than craft the Federal Reserve. Meeting on Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, […]
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Book Review- The Helland Reckoning by Adrian Martin
This book was reviewed for Crooked Cat Publishing via Netgalley The Helland Reckoning, by Adrian Martin, begins on a frigid winter’s night with a car making its slow lonely way to Bowannack, in Helland. In the car is a fretful mother and her twin daughters. A collision with a deer is the start […]
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Book Review- Charnel House by Graham Masterton
This book was reviewed for Open Road Integrated Media via Netgalley Masterton’s Charnel House is a horror story that evokes style and story akin to Edgar Allan Poe and to Dean Koontz. Indeed, there are a few parts reminiscent of The Tell-tale Heart. However, it isn’t a murder the house hides, but something far […]
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Book Review: Ivy in Bloom by Vanita Oelschlager
This book was reviewed for Netgalley Oelschlager’s Ivy in Bloom is a charming introduction to poetry for younger children. Through adorable illustrations, we follow Ivy, who just can’t wait for spring to arrive. It’s a patchwork of poetry, culled from some of the greatest poets history has to offer, stitched together by Oelschlager. […]
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Book Review- What Haunts Me by Margaret Millmore
I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review What Haunts Me, by Margaret Millmore, is the first book in the budding Ghost Killers series, and yet another book in my accidental run of books set in San Francisco 😛 I do seem to be inadvertently attracting them […]
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Author Interview- Shirley McLain, Princess Adele’s Dragon
Welcome to Port Jericho! Today we are interviewing Shirley McLain, author of Princess Adele’s Dragon, available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/25lUOYM Getting to Know You *Shirley, where are you from? I was born in California but Oklahoma is home. A lot of my family ended up in […]
