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I try to be balanced in my reviews and hold off on ranting negatively about books, but I do struggle with how to introduce criticism in my writing. I've adopted "at times" as a phrase to introduce criticism in my writing. Does it lighten the affect of the 3* or 2* review? I have used it... Continue Reading →
A high-octane scifi run-and-gun filled with alien parasites, cloaked ships, and all means of smoking guns. Set in the 2082, Captain Calvin Rae is the best soldier in the totalitarian American Union, a nationalist regime that has taken over the bulk of the US and Mexico. Released from his emotions by the chip embedded into... Continue Reading →
Anger, frustration, and sadness. The feelings that come along with regret. The compromises made... the paths diverged and not taken. Two Luisas, separated by 17 years, but brought together by some sort of time slip. 15-year-old Luisa gets on the bus to go home out in the sticks in 1996 and gets off in Paris... Continue Reading →
Trampled by the hoof... run over by hogs... All that French had done in The Grey Bastards and MORE! If TGB was an introduction to this world, The True Bastards is a sequel that takes the badlands to the ranks of a great fantasy epic. Things have not gotten any easier in The Lots since... Continue Reading →
First off, a huge thanks to Jason over at Off The TBR for putting the month together. It really kicked my butt in gear to get to those books that had been waiting on my Kindle to be read. I had great fun reading all these book, and I have to tell you guys that these... Continue Reading →
Ok... school is just over one-sixth of the way done. We have 6 six-week grading periods... 3 per semester. Plugging along. I'm lucky to have a good group this year... 180 students or so. It took me awhile to memorize all their names! In the book world... I had a great time reading a bunch... Continue Reading →
In my mind I will always go back to Wool as being the book that brought me back to my science fiction roots. I had gotten away from science fiction and fantasy for a time as I pursued my career and basically got my act together... but everyone was talking about this book... taking place... Continue Reading →
Cyrus is a nonbeliever stuck in the Branch Davidian compound after his mom had been taken by David Koresh as one of his wives. He’s quietly planning his escape with two other teens about his age, yet on the morning of the ATF raid his plans are totally disrupted. And after a piece of Cyrus’s... Continue Reading →
Jason over at Off the TBR created Self-Published Fantasy Month. Its purpose is to feature more authors and their works during the month of September. Read about more about it here. At the forefront of Matthews's second book in his Riven Realm series is a deadly attack on the small hamlet of Timberford. Carvesh Tarne is hiding his... Continue Reading →
