Review: Dream Child (Dream Series Book 3) by J. J. DiBenedetto ★★★★★
Review: Dream Doctor (Dream Series Book 2) by J. J. DiBenedetto ★★★★★
After a year and a half of peace, her sensitivity to the dreams of others suddenly re-emerges the night before her wedding to fiancé Brian, bringing back the troubling feeling of imminent danger as she remembers the horrific acts of the killer she had unwittingly become dream-witness to. As she enters her first month […]
Review: Blackcloak: A Man of his Sword (The Bloody Tapestry of Kaef’re Book 1) by W. James Chan ★★★★★
An Interview With SPR Grand Prize Winner Author Ashley R. Carlson
Ashley R Carlson is the winner of the SPR Awards 2015 Grand Prize and First Prize Fiction for her book “The Charismatics”.
For the uninitiated, what’s The Charismatics about?
“The Charismatics” is a fantasy novel geared toward young adults set in a unique, steampunk universe – one that is full of magic, supernatural influences, and terrible secrets. This world is presided over by Legalia, an all-encompassing government of wealthy, powerful individuals who rule over the poor, allowing them to live in squalor.
Duchess Ambrose Killaher is a member of Legalia, having been born into aristocracy and sent to a freezing, […]
Review: The Charismatics by Ashley R. Carlson ★★★★★
Duchess Ambrose Killaher was only seventeen when she was exiled to Shinery, a city of snow and darkness. Ambrose’s arranged marriage turns out to be a disaster and she soon learns her husband despises her. The only person she can trust is her invisible friend named Roan.
Shinery is holding its yearly celebration to celebrate Legalia’s rule, while the poor starve in the streets below. Ambrose can’t keep turning a blind eye to all around her and when she accidentally witnesses […]
Review: A Mathematical State of Grace by Cathy McGough ★★★★
A Mathematical State of Grace, a young adult dystopian novel by Cathy McGough, has a bit of everything going on in the story to keep the reader entertained.
Grace Greenway is a sixteen-year-old math whiz. Vincente Marino is a star high school athlete and the only time he gives Grace attention is when he needs to copy her math homework. Grace, on the other hand, hardly ever stops thinking about Vincente. Then a fateful moment brings the two of them together and they have to depend on each other to survive in a new world.
Grace is the perfect […]
Review: The Ocean Spinner by Samuel & Jared Perry ★★★★
Review: Kalëon by N. A. Sylla ★★★★★
In a dark time of the Fourth Age, in a strange land known as Earth, a child is born. Son of a king, and heir to a throne, he carries in him a darkness that threatens the world as he knows it. Born of betrayal, raised in conflict, he lives when by all means he should not, watched by mighty beings from beyond that seek – finally – to conquer the heavens and destroy their god, Orph, the ultimate entity. As the world threatens to end once more, myth turns to matter in the hands of the eponymous Kalëon, […]