Julie’s Review of [easyazon_link identifier=”B0GTG8ZPX1″ locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Realm of Shadows: A Slow Burn Hades & Persephone Gothic Romantic Fantasy Retelling (Heir of Hades Romantasy Series Book 1)[/easyazon_link]: Something about this book really got under my skin. The emotions and angst I felt, right alongside our main character! Going into it I knew it was a Hades […]
[easyazon_link identifier=”B0G4FPKNPR” locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Circus Bim Bom: A Cold War Adventure[/easyazon_link] A Cold War Adventure Historical Fiction/Cold War Fiction w/romance subplots Date Published: 03-01-2026 Publisher: Bim Bom Books “There are no accidents in life, only opportunities wearing different clothes.” When the first privately owned Soviet circus arrived in 1990 America as the Soviet […]
Julie’s Review of [easyazon_link identifier=”B0GJRPLFG7″ locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Curse of the Tiger Prince: A Twisted Spicy Fairytale Retelling/easyazon_link]: In this fairytale reimagining, we follow a princess in the modern world – she has a cell phone! – and there’s magic, too! The story kicks off with the King announcing the betrothal that princess Aisling is unhappy about, […]
Plant medicine has moved from the fringes into mainstream conversations, featured now on everything from celebrity websites to wellness podcasts. Shannon Nering’s new memoir, The Mother Vine: How I Healed My Heart With Ayuhuasca (4/21/26, She Writes Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster) is a soulful, oftentimes hilarious, journey from a harried mother’s rat race in the TV […]
For this discussion post, we are joining the Fantasy With Friends discussion with Pages Unbound. This week’s prompt: Do you have any favorite subgenres of fantasy such as urban fantasy, historical fantasy, etc.? Julie: I have some thoughts on fantasy. The OG fantasy that was high or epic fantasy is not for me. […]
New Picture Book Through the Garden Gate Invites Children Into a World Where Imagination and Nature Thrive [easyazon_image align=”center” height=”402″ identifier=”1685552021″ locale=”US” src=”https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51rJUyuYxLL._SL500_.jpg” tag=”chapbrea05-20″ width=”500″] [easyazon_link identifier=”1685552021″ locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Through the Garden Gate[/easyazon_link] By Sharon Rose | Illustrated by Erin Brown On Sale: April 7, 2026 Publisher: The Collective Book Studio Kids Blurb: Through the […]
[easyazon_link identifier=”164914234X” locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Golfing, Gardens & Ghosts (Katie and Maverick Cozy Mysteries)[/easyazon_link] Cozy Mystery Date Published: 01-28-2026 Publisher: Secret Staircase Books, an imprint of Columbine Publishing Group, LLC School’s out for the summer and math teacher Katie Wilk needs something to occupy her time, something beyond helping to plan Jane Mackey’s upcoming wedding. So, […]
Julie’s Review of [easyazon_link identifier=”B0G6SMM3N7″ locale=”US” tag=”chapbrea05-20″]Tides of Gold and Oblivion: A Steamy Dystopian Romantasy (The Council of Cyllene Book 2)[/easyazon_link] This book throws you directly into the story; an itty bitty recap would have been nice. I tend to forget things, though the first book ended quite epically. I devoured this book in a […]
We’re chatting about covers on Chapter Break. ‘Cause you know we all judge books by covers, whether we admit it or not. We judge the style, the color and font choices, and just the overall look. That might not keep us from reading the book, but we do still judge. [easyazon_infoblock align=”center” identifier=”B0G4FGB962″ locale=”US” […]
Life is built on the assumption that what we experience is shared and understood. For Aubrey Shallcross, that assumption has never fully held. The voices he hears have always been part of how he moves through the world in The Hearing Voices Series by Charles Porter. [easyazon_image align=”left” height=”500″ identifier=”0989425622″ locale=”US” src=”https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51UtYnIxM3L._SL500_.jpg” tag=”chapbrea05-20″ width=”324″] Aubrey […]