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Review: Braineater Jones by Stephen Kozeniewski

  SYNOPSIS: Braineater Jones wakes up face down in a swimming pool with no memory of his former life, how he died, or why he’s now a zombie. With a smart-aleck severed head as a partner, Jones descends into the undead ghetto to solve his own murder. But Jones’s investigation is complicated by his crippling […]

Review: Blood Moon (Everealm #3) by J.D. Wright

  Synopsis: The aftermath of the wildfire has caused undesirable events to unfold in Everealm. When something precious is taken from Junacave, Bree and the others must hunt down a wizard and retrieve a stolen amulet in order to save their beloved. Little do they know, the amulet may very well be hiding secrets of […]

Review: Lustlocked by Matt Wallace

SYNOPSIS: The staff of New York’s premier supernatural catering company, has their work cut out for them in this outrageous follow-up to Envy of Angels. Love is in the air at Sin du Jour. The Goblin King (yes, that one) and his Queen are celebrating the marriage of their son to his human bride. Naturally […]

Review: Halfway Bitten (Halfway Witchy book 2) by Terry Maggert

Synopsis: Take a bite out of evil. The circus came to Halfway, and they brought the weird. When clowns, vampires, and corpses start piling up in town, Carlie has to break away from her boyfriend, Wulfric, to bring her witchy skills to the table- or grill, as the case may be. When the body of […]

Review: Halfway Dead (Halfway Witchy Series # 1) by Terry Maggert

      Synopsis: Come for the waffles. Stay for the magic. Carlie McEwan loves many things. She loves being a witch. She loves her town of Halfway, NY—a tourist destination nestled on the shores of an Adirondack lake. Carlie loves her enormous familiar, Gus, who is twenty-five pounds of judgmental Maine Coon cat, and […]

Review: The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins

  Synopsis: An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical […]

Review: Wildfire (Everealm book #2) by J D Wright

Review: Wildfire (Everealm book #2) by J D Wright

SYNOPSIS: The journey through Everealm continues as new evil arrives, casting mayhem about the realm. While war and wildfire are causing disorder, Bree and Rowan find that assistance from the fairies isn’t what they imagined. As Dagan and Sidonie seek answers to uncover the truth about her family and her magic, they are plagued with […]

Crime & Punishment & Sibling Rivalry

Thank you to @Vintagebooks , resident tweetist of https://www.penguin.co.uk/vintage/ who inspired me to write this post!     As far as I can remember, there’s only one book I’ve ever fibbed about finishing and that was Crime and Punishment. To explain this one fully, I’ll point out a few facts about my childhood: 1) I grew up […]

Review: Yuki Chan in Bronte Country by Mick Jackson

Synopsis: Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death. Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother’s death, her burgeoning friendship with […]

Review: E-Murderer by Joan C. Curtis (Contains some spoilers)‏

The e-Murderer won first place in the Malice Domestic grants competition for new writers before being published by MuseItUpPublishing.       Psychological Suspense Thriller by award-winning author, Joan C. Curtis On this anything but typical Monday morning, Jenna Scali, who works part-time for a shrink, opens an email that depicts the brutal death of […]