Fall of the Cities: Planting the Orchard by Vance Huxley Genre: YA Fantasy, Apocalyptic The world is falling apart. Terrorists spark a worldwide oil and gas crisis while imports grind to a halt. Europe and Britain are erupting into chaos as food runs out and desperate people take matters into their own hands. As the […]
Month: November 2017
Book Review: Wind and Oyster Jack by Marcia G Moore
***This book was reviewed for Schiffer Publishing via Netgalley Wind and Oyster Jack is a delightful story about a man named Oyster Jack, who goes out every day in his boat named Dinah, traveling to the oyster bars, to trowel them up and sell them. Helping him get out to sea is his good […]
Nov 29, 2017
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam@Taking on a World of Words. To play answer the three ‘W’ questions listed below. Be sure to link back to her or to put the link to your post in the comment section of her blog so that others take a gander at your answers and […]
Book Review: My Wounded Island by Jacques Pasquet and Marion Arbona
***This book was reviewed for Orca Books via Netgalley **This book was translated from the original French by Sophie B Watson Imarvaluk is a young Inupiat girl who tells her story of being forced to leave home because of a monster. In her native language, her name means ‘song of the waves’, and once she […]
Books On My Winter TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week has a different topic. Check it out! This week’s theme is books on your Winter TBR list. 13 reasons Why by Jay Asher “You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn […]
Subhuman by Michael McBride
$10 Amazon Follow the tour HERE for exclusive excerpts, guest posts and a giveaway! Subhuman Unit 51 #1 by Michael McBride Genre: Horror, Thriller, Supernatural, Aliens THEY ARE NOT HUMAN. At a research station in Antarctica, five of the world’s top scientists have been brought together to solve one of the greatest mysteries […]
Book Review: Road of the Lost by Aidan Russell
****This book was reviewed for the Manhattan Book Review First in the Judges Cycle, Russell’s Road of the Lost is a fast-paced fantasy with an RPG feel. War is brewing, as dark elves and ogres invade the forests of Meridep, preparing to raise an ancient being. Dragons have appeared in a land bereft of them […]
Blog Tour: The Orb of Terra by Leonardo Ramirez
Steampunk Date Published: November 17, 2017 Publisher: Leonardoverse Books In the tradition of “City of Ember” “Chronicles of Narnia” and “A Wrinkle in Time”, this family adventure is a high stakes space race to save our world from an invading force before it is too late. -Book 3- Will Ian’s quest to find his destiny […]
Quickshots # 1
***This book was reviewed for Quarto Publishing via Netgalley This nifty little read by Paul Beck is a (very) brief introduction to objects in our universe. The first several pages look at the planets of our solar system, and some of the more familiar moons. Comets are briefly discussed, followed by six different nebulae, and […]
Book Review: Age of Swords by Michael J Sullivan
**The book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews Age of Swords is second in Michael J Sullivan’s Legends of the First Empire series. War continues to loom between Fhrey and Rhune. A vicious attack leaves those of Dahl Rhen without a home, and more determined than ever to shake free of […]