Julie’s Review: Orion’s Kiss is a fun fairytale retelling. The story goes, that Zeus cursed the seven Pleiades sisters – six to die, and Merope, the youngest, to watch. Orion is the one cursed to kill the sisters. Lifetime after lifetime, reincarnation, again and again, she experiences first the visions, and then the deaths […]
Author: Gigi Langer, PhD Narrator: Robin Waters Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Publisher: Possum Hill Press Released: Sep. 20, 2019 Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Help Do you want to stop dreading the future or reliving past disappointments? Thirty years ago, Gigi Langer was a prisoner of her worries who used alcohol, romance, and professional accomplishments to soothe […]
We decided to do a read-along together since it has been a WHILE since we did one. October is all about creatures so we picked this one, thinking it would be fun, with lots of short little stories, and get to revisit different types of creatures and stories. Since we’re both doing the audio, we’re […]
Authors: Megan Linski & Alicia Rades Narrators: Jennifer Jill Araya & Graham Halstead Length: 15 hours and 3 minutes Series: Academy of Magical Creatures, Book 1 Publisher: Tantor Audio Released: Jul. 24, 2019 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Fire and water don’t mix. Sophia: I’m Sophia Henley, your typical college freshman. I never expected a lion […]
Julie’s Review: What happens in the afterlife? Negative Zero explores those fun topics of Angels – Guardian Angels specifically – and what their role is on the Earth. We get introduced to our main character right around the time she um dies. Oops. But we know that’s not the end for Evika, as she […]
Author: Caryn Larrinaga Narrator: Ruby Hankey Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes Series: Solstice Survivors, Book 1 Publisher: Twisted Tree Press Released: Jun. 19, 2019 Genre: Urban Fantasy Tess McBray was dying. The solstice syndrome had no cure, and she resigned herself to an early grave. But just when she gave up on survival, all […]
Julie’s Review: I am a huge fan of this type of urban fantasy adventure stories. Something terrible and scary is happening, and the police department turns to the paranormal investigator for help. But this trouble is so much bigger than Cassie expected. We have unknown beasties, more magic than the town knew existed, and very […]
THE SHADOW WRITER by ELIZA MAXWELL Genre: Psychological Suspense / Domestic Thriller Publisher: Lake Union Press Date of Publication: May 1, 2019 Number of Pages: 348 Scroll down for the giveaway! Every writer has a story. Some are deadlier than others. Aspiring author Graye Templeton will do anything to escape the horrific childhood crime […]
Julie’s Review: I really enjoyed the world-building in Going Down in Flames. The notion of dragons and their individual clans is really interesting. There are dragons of various colors, and each color dragon has a special breath weapon. Red dragons breathe fire, as expected, but then there are blue dragons who breathe ice! There’s […]
It’s that time again. Time for a Chapter Break Bookish Chat! This time around, we have Renegades by Marissa Meyer. Julie and I are both huge fans of Ms. Meyer’s so we thought we’d check out her most recent series. Via Giphy So, Renegades. Which I’m guessing you weren’t a […]