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Interviewing Laura Kreitzer!
A huge thank you to both Revolution Publishing and Laura Kreitzer for providing this original content! 1) Out of all the characters that you’ve written, which one would you say is your favorite? That’s like asking who’s my favorite child! Ah. Can I cheat and pick one from each series? I’m not going to pick my main characters Gabriella or Summer, because it’s obvious I adore them or they wouldn’t be my MCs. In the Summer Chronicles, so far, I have to say my favorite character is Julian. When I first started writing the series, I didn’t know how I…
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Book Review: Forsaken Harbor
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Forsaken Harbor Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Publishing Inc. Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 15, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Mild Language ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoyed the first in the series, and also readers who crave a good action-packed read! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / B&N The Secret Clock Society has infiltrated every aspect of the government. You can’t hide from them, you can’t out run them—the only choice is to surrender or die fighting. Well,…
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Book Review: Phantom Universe
Media Type: Ebook Title: Phantom Universe Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: Revolution Press Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: February 3, 2011 Source: Purchased at B&N ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with the concepts of slavery and torture. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sold into slavery to pirates at the young age of four, Summer learns to survive the rough seas of subterfuge and thieves through silence. When the boat she’s lived on most of her life is destroyed,…
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World-Building: Guest Post and Giveaway with Charlotte E. English
Special thanks to Charlotte for providing the guest post below, as well as the giveaway! On Fantasy World-Building I’ve been a lifelong fan of fantasy fiction. Perhaps that isn’t saying much given that I’ve yet to reach my thirtieth year, but nonetheless I’ve read an awful lot of it. I still love it and read it very regularly, but there are some things about the genre that I stopped loving some time ago. The biggest of those is traditional fantasy world-building. “Traditional” fantasy books are usually inspired by Tolkien, to a greater or a lesser extent, and tend to feature…
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Book Review: Draykon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Draykon (Draykon #1) Author: Charlotte E. English Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 314 Release Date: August 31, 2011 Source: Author ———————————— Genre: Mystery/Fantasy HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy well written fantasy, coupled with a quick moving mystery. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When shy and retiring Llandry Sanfaer discovers a mesmerising new gemstone, she suddenly becomes the most famous jeweller across the Seven Realms. Demand for the coveted stone escalates fast; when people begin dying for it, Llandry finds that she herself has become a target.…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (Feb 6)
As always, a huge thank you to Book Journey for hosting! Click the button to participate. Once again I finished exactly what I set out to this week. It’s been a bit harder finding time to read, what with work, my new found Star Wars: The Old Republic obsession, and spending quality time with the fiance :). Still, it’s nice to know that I’m still finding that time! Away we go. This Week’s Reviews: Death Drop by Sean Allen (5/5) – A stunning science fiction adventure, complete with new races! Illumine by Alivia Anders (3/5) – Paranormal romance with just…
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Book Review: Graffiti Moon
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Graffiti Moon Author: Cath Crowley Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ——————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who swoon worthy moments and wonderfully rendered characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Senior year is over, and Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight, she’s going to find Shadow, the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. He’s out there somewhere—spraying color, spraying birds…
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Book Review: Illumine
Media Type: Ebook Title: Illumine Author: Alivia Anders Publisher: Self-published Release Date: January 7, 2012 Source: Purchased via Kindle ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence; Mild Language ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers of paranormal fiction, and those who can stomach a little violence while setting off on an epic adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon For the past five months Essallie Hanley has been trying to forget about the frightening murder of her boyfriend. Haunted by vivid nightmares and hallucinations of the event she does anything she can…
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Evergreen has a cover!
A kingdom on the brink of war. A king on the fringes of insanity. A family running for their lives. Ash and Fin’s only desire is to be together and dive into their happily ever after, though their conflicting worlds work to pull them apart. Neither is ready to convert to the other’s life: become a human or a mer. Little do they know that somewhere in Natatoria a secret holds the fine fabric of everyone’s lives together. If the truth is discovered, Ash and Fin will no longer have the luxury of waiting. They’ll be forced to choose. But…
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January Wrap Up
Can you believe January is already over? It left so fast that this post is already a day behind. Let’s face it though, I’ve got to keep organized. Here is what my reading month looked like! Keep in mind that books reviewed in January weren’t necessarily all read in January. The books with a * next to them are books that count towards my reading goal in 2012. Books reviewed in January: Feyland by Anthea Sharp – Review (5/5) The Next Shakespeare by Wanda Ernstberger – Review (4/5) Cinder by Marissa Meyer – Review (4/5) * Heavenly by Jennifer Laurens – Review (3/5) *…