Category: Book Reviews
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CSFF Tour: Raven’s Ladder
Raven’s Ladder is the third book in the four-book Auralia Thread, a startlingly poetic, deeply spiritual fantasy series that begins with Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network…
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Raven’s Ladder: A Review
Raven’s Ladder is the third book in the four-book Auralia Thread, a startlingly poetic, deeply spiritual fantasy series that begins with Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight. The story dawns on a displaced people: The people of House Abascar, led by the young king Cal-Raven and his faithful guardsman Tabor Jan, have moved into a network…
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A Review: Haunt of Jackals (Day 2)
April 2000–Zalmoxis Cave, Romania She was free, for now. The first step . . . With dagger in hand, Gina Lazarescu faced the cave opening where the sounds of scuffing feet seemed to mark the presence of another. A Collector? One of Jerusalem’s Undead? Bleeding, she stood still and waited. Haunt of Jackals opens where…
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A Review: The Vanishing Sculptor (Day 2)
Tipper’s heart skipped a beat . . . “I have a feeling,” she said, “that we are going to have a glorious quest. This day is the beginning of a great adventure.” So declares Tipper Schope, who gladly gives up the responsibility of caring for her family’s estate when her disappearing father reappears after fifteen…
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A Review – Offworld (Day 2)
Six months out, six months back, two years on the surface of Mars. For dedicated astronauts, scientists, and adventurers, three years is just enough time to accomplish the greatest expedition in the history of mankind — but it’s also a long time away from home. Christopher Burke shares his teammates’ eagerness to get home, home…
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A Review – The Enclave (Day 2)
The Kendall-Jakes Longevity Institute is a literal monument to science, creativity, and the ability of man to rise above his limitations: a black glass ziggurat in the Arizona desert, labs and conference rooms interspersed with rainforest atriums, coffee bars, and incredible views. True, the Institute’s director, the globe-trotting, womanizing Parker Swain, once fell out of…
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A Review – Vanish (Day 2)
Conner Hayden: divorced lawyer struggling to relate to his teenaged daughter. Mitch Kent: tattooed mechanic on the eve of proposing to his girlfriend. Helen Krause: aging career woman and lonely ex-model. Three people with nothing in common — except that each is hiding a secret. Thunder rumbled louder now, low and sustained. Flashes of lightning…
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A Review – Tuck (Day 2)
What we know now as legend, old and familiar as the dusty books we read as children, began in the dark distance of the past as something else—as some truth we’ve changed until we remember things that never were and forget those that really happened. For every legend we love, another story lies buried somewhere,…
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Pendragon: Sword of His Father – A Review
Sometimes keeping a writer’s blog and having connections means you get perks, like when Home School Enrichment editor Jonathan Lewis (who moonlights as a Saxon infidel in epic homeschool films) pulled some strings and won me both a screening copy of Pendragon: Sword of His Father and an interview with Marilyn Burns, who did WAY…
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A Review – Blaggard’s Moon (Day 2)
There are moments in our lives that change everything. Forks in the road. Accidents. Love at first sight. Death. Yup, that one changes everything. Forever. A lot of the time we don’t see those moments coming. Especially the last one. But Smith Delaney, the marooned pirate whose post-sitting ruminations open Blaggard’s Moon, can see Death…