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Book Review: The Changelings
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Changelings *Series: War of the Fae Book One Author: Elle Casey Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 275 Release Date: February 5, 2012 Source: What’s Your Story Book Tours ——————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Adult Language; Violence ——————————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of fantasy, adventure and a great characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon Jayne Sparks, a potty-mouthed, rebellious seventeen-year-old and her best friend, shy and bookish Tony Green, have a pretty typical high school existence, until several seemingly unrelated incidents converge, causing a…
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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: Shadow of a Dead Star
Media Type: Ebook Title: Shadow of a Dead Star Author: Michael Shean Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 228 Release Date: June 23, 2011 Source: Author ==================== Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Cyberpunk, Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Seattle, 2078. The future hasn’t been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Cities of glass and exotic metals reach toward the poisoned sky, and every night sees a host of sins played out under glittering…
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Book Review: Six Moon Summer
Media Type: Ebook Title: Six Moon Summer Author: SM Reine Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 198 Release Date: April 29, 2011 Source: Author =================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Rylie’s been bitten. She’s changing. And now she has three months to find a cure before becoming a werewolf… forever. Rylie Gresham hates everything about summer camp: the food, the fresh air, the dumb activities, and the other girls in her cabin. But the worst part is probably being bitten by a werewolf. Being a teenager is hard enough, but now she’s…