A preface to my review: this author and I should definitely be friends. Evidence:
She wrote retellings of Arthurian legends (as did I)).
The same narrator who read her book is currently reading Intangible for me: the very talented Rebecca McKernan. What are the odds?!
I know this is ...
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Interview with Hidden series author Amy Patrick
Today's podcast interview is with Amy Patrick! Amy is a two-time RWA Golden Heart finalist (2013 and 2014) who writes Young Adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance as well as Contemporary Romance. She is the author of the Hidden Saga and the Still series. Living in New England now with ...
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Review of Of Sea and Stone
I read this one mostly on the beach in Bermuda, which turned out to be just perfect! Since the story references (and later takes place in) the lost city of Itlantis (a different spelling of Atlantis, apparently) and one of the theories of the Bermuda Triangle involves the idea that the lost city ...
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Tiana Warner Interview: Author of Ice Massacre
Bio: Tiana Warner is the author of the multi-award winning Mermaids of Eriana Kwai trilogy. She has a Computer Science degree and is a professional nerd working in the high-tech industry. She lives by the beach in Vancouver, Canada, and spends her free time riding her horse, Bailey. Do you have an ...
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Review of Ice Massacre
A fun concept, and one I don't think I've seen done before... normally mermaid stories follow the mermaid as the main character, but this one instead followed Meela, a 17-year old human girl raised to hate mermaids and regard them as "demons" to be killed. The prologue is great--definitely hooks you ...
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Cosega Search
This is an archaeological action novel, sort of a cross between Indiana Jones and Dan Brown. It hooked me early on, and the action never stops--but characterization also never really happens. There was a perfect opportunity for romance that never materializes, and would have gone a long way toward ...
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A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea
Wow. This book was devastating. It's almost exactly like my Liberty Box trilogy--eerily so--except that it's real life, and it doesn't end happy, not truly. I'm all about happy endings, so I kept hanging on, hoping for that (particularly because the title, and the fact that the book exists, gives ...
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Review of Circe
I enjoy mythology, but less for its own sake than for the cultural heritage it represents. Because it’s not otherwise a passion of mine, I prefer retellings to the original sources. They’re just easier to consume, and I don’t want to have to work that hard to understand what’s going on and get into ...
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Review of John Adams
Continuing with my Revolutionary War theme — I’d heard about this book for a long time, and even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of McCullough’s 1776 (it was a little dry for me), I decided to try this one because it was supposed to be more character-driven. It was certainly that, although in a ...
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Review of Her Royal Spyness
I’m so glad I listened to this after I’d already listened to The Matriarch, because it gave me the context to appreciate the historical aspects of the story. While technically the book is a cozy mystery set in 1930s Britain, the main character, Lady Georgiana (“Georgie”) is a fictional member of the ...
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