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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Book Review of Rock Star: Dream Weaver, Book 2

Book Review of Rock Star: Dream Weaver, Book 2
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Book 2:  review on 11/15/2014
Title: Rock Star
Series: Dream Weaver #2
Author: Su Williams
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Dark
Publisher: Su Williams & Dream Weaver Novels with CreateSpace
Release Date: January 15, 2014

Purchase: 
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The love story continues with Emari Sweet, and Dream Weaver Nickolas Benedetti. Music, magic, monsters and memories: Rock Star, a new supernatural, immortal novel.

Ever dreamed of being a rock & roll star? Emari Sweet has...and now she's living the dream...the life of a rocker babe in an elaborate memory weave constructed by Dream Weaver, Sabre James. But her rock star world crashes around her and she returns to reality and the memories of Nick and his betrayal. Thomas, the Nightmare Wraith, returns to haunt their minds and twist their dreams. Even Eddyson, Em's trusty teddy-beagle pup can sense the Wraith's presence. And Thomas is not alone. He’s brought a friend with him this time.... an old friend of Sabre's, who seeks retribution for the death of his beloved sister at Sabre's hands. Emari faces her own mortality at the hands of this vengeful Wraith.

A new magic enters Emari's life and she begins to discover treasures beyond her wildest dreams in the form of a titanium and ruby spider with all the powers of Dream Weavers and more. Immortality and magic unearth treasures and secrets that some would rather keep buried. And the biggest secret of all could destroy everything. 



Book 3:  Review on 11/19/2014

Title: Breaking Normal
Series: Dream Weaver #3
Author: Su Williams
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Dark
Publisher: Su Williams & Dream Weaver Novels with CreateSpace
Release Date: August 6, 2014

Purchase: 
Amazon

Does 'normal' even exist for Emari Sweet anymore?

Normal is all she's wanted since the death of her parents, but with the Wraith, Thomas, out for her blood, and the betrayal of Nick, Em doesn't see normal returning any time soon.

Making use of her newfound powers, she works with Spokane Police to uncover evidence in ‘cold cases’ and memoryprint clues for current ones.

But is she putting the entire Caphar race at jeopardy by her choices? Will her relationship with Nick survive? And will any of them survive the destruction of the malevolent Nightmare Wraith? 


Title: Dream Weaver
Series: Dream Weaver #1
Author: Su Williams
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Dark
Publisher: Su Williams & Dream Weaver Novels with CreateSpace
Release Date: March 18, 2013

Purchase:
Amazon ♥ Barnes and Noble

Vampires sparkled through the spotlight. Then, the zombies shambled through. Now, it's time for a new supernatural. DREAM WEAVER. A beautiful, atmospheric story that is dark sci fi meets teen fantasy. A YA paranormal love story receiving 5 star reviews from readers of all ages, and FINALIST in the Readers Favorite International Book Awards.

Emari Sweet understands waking up in a cold sweat, heart pounding and screaming in fear. Night terrors plague her after the death of her parents, and she strives for control over the darkness that threatens to swallow her. But a monster lurks in the shadows, and his subtle hints of brutality explode in a violent attack that plunges her back into the depths of fear.

Nickolas Benedetti is a Dream Weaver…an ancient, arcane and almost immortal race descended from the offspring of angels & humans, the Nephilim. Nick has the power to command memories and dreams, and each night, Emari's screams tear another piece of his heart. Nick plunges heart-first into Em's tormented dreams to save her. But something dark and nefarious has followed him to her little cottage in the woods. His magic can save her from the night terrors, but does he have the power to protect her from the real, living, breathing nightmares that threaten to dismantle her sanity?

Dream Weaver is a young adult paranormal fiction novel set in the Pacific Northwest.


Author Information: 

I confess...I'm a bit of a dork, with a quirky and sometimes dark personality, though not as dark as some. I love the outdoors and nature, and photographing normal, everyday things from different and abnormal angles. One of my photos has been published in the political humor book Red Dog/Blue Dog by Chuck Sambuchino.

Legally, my name is Susan Barton, but I write under the pen name Su Williams (my maiden name). I am a 48 year old mother of 4, Sarah, Josiah, Jack and Aundraic. I'm married to Ben and we have 2 cats, a garder snake, a crested gecko named Reid (like in Criminal Minds) and a beagle, Dyson (yes like the vacuum) who is my favorite teddy puppy.

I was born in Little Rock, AK. My daddy was military and my parents finally decided that Spokane, WA was the place for us and this is where I've lived since I was about 10.

I always wrote special poems for family birthdays, and began to write short stories in Jr. High. Many years later after a self-esteem building program of hypnosis, and reading Twilight, I was inspired. I said, "I could do that." So I did.

Dream Weaver has been 4 years in the making, as I've learned the ins and outs of the literary process. That is an ongoing endeavor.

Contacts:

Links: Website ♥ Facebook ♥ Twitter ♥ Goodreads ♥ Pinterest

Review: 



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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Book Review of Dream Weaver, Book 1

 
Book Review of Dream Weaver, Book 1
Sponsored by Love in Every Page

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Title: Dream Weaver
Series: Dream Weaver #1
Author: Su Williams
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Dark
Publisher: Su Williams & Dream Weaver Novels with CreateSpace
Release Date: March 18, 2013

Purchase:
Amazon ♥ Barnes and Noble

Vampires sparkled through the spotlight. Then, the zombies shambled through. Now, it's time for a new supernatural. DREAM WEAVER. A beautiful, atmospheric story that is dark sci fi meets teen fantasy. A YA paranormal love story receiving 5 star reviews from readers of all ages, and FINALIST in the Readers Favorite International Book Awards.

Emari Sweet understands waking up in a cold sweat, heart pounding and screaming in fear. Night terrors plague her after the death of her parents, and she strives for control over the darkness that threatens to swallow her. But a monster lurks in the shadows, and his subtle hints of brutality explode in a violent attack that plunges her back into the depths of fear.

Nickolas Benedetti is a Dream Weaver…an ancient, arcane and almost immortal race descended from the offspring of angels & humans, the Nephilim. Nick has the power to command memories and dreams, and each night, Emari's screams tear another piece of his heart. Nick plunges heart-first into Em's tormented dreams to save her. But something dark and nefarious has followed him to her little cottage in the woods. His magic can save her from the night terrors, but does he have the power to protect her from the real, living, breathing nightmares that threaten to dismantle her sanity?

Dream Weaver is a young adult paranormal fiction novel set in the Pacific Northwest.
 
Book 2:  review on 11/15/2014
Title: Rock Star
Series: Dream Weaver #2
Author: Su Williams
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Dark
Publisher: Su Williams & Dream Weaver Novels with CreateSpace
Release Date: January 15, 2014

Purchase: 
Amazon

The love story continues with Emari Sweet, and Dream Weaver Nickolas Benedetti. Music, magic, monsters and memories: Rock Star, a new supernatural, immortal novel.

Ever dreamed of being a rock & roll star? Emari Sweet has...and now she's living the dream...the life of a rocker babe in an elaborate memory weave constructed by Dream Weaver, Sabre James. But her rock star world crashes around her and she returns to reality and the memories of Nick and his betrayal. Thomas, the Nightmare Wraith, returns to haunt their minds and twist their dreams. Even Eddyson, Em's trusty teddy-beagle pup can sense the Wraith's presence. And Thomas is not alone. He’s brought a friend with him this time.... an old friend of Sabre's, who seeks retribution for the death of his beloved sister at Sabre's hands. Emari faces her own mortality at the hands of this vengeful Wraith.

A new magic enters Emari's life and she begins to discover treasures beyond her wildest dreams in the form of a titanium and ruby spider with all the powers of Dream Weavers and more. Immortality and magic unearth treasures and secrets that some would rather keep buried. And the biggest secret of all could destroy everything. 



Book 3:  Review on 11/19/2014

Title: Breaking Normal
Series: Dream Weaver #3
Author: Su Williams
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Dark
Publisher: Su Williams & Dream Weaver Novels with CreateSpace
Release Date: August 6, 2014

Purchase: 
Amazon

Does 'normal' even exist for Emari Sweet anymore?

Normal is all she's wanted since the death of her parents, but with the Wraith, Thomas, out for her blood, and the betrayal of Nick, Em doesn't see normal returning any time soon.

Making use of her newfound powers, she works with Spokane Police to uncover evidence in ‘cold cases’ and memoryprint clues for current ones.

But is she putting the entire Caphar race at jeopardy by her choices? Will her relationship with Nick survive? And will any of them survive the destruction of the malevolent Nightmare Wraith? 


Author Information: 

I confess...I'm a bit of a dork, with a quirky and sometimes dark personality, though not as dark as some. I love the outdoors and nature, and photographing normal, everyday things from different and abnormal angles. One of my photos has been published in the political humor book Red Dog/Blue Dog by Chuck Sambuchino.

Legally, my name is Susan Barton, but I write under the pen name Su Williams (my maiden name). I am a 48 year old mother of 4, Sarah, Josiah, Jack and Aundraic. I'm married to Ben and we have 2 cats, a garder snake, a crested gecko named Reid (like in Criminal Minds) and a beagle, Dyson (yes like the vacuum) who is my favorite teddy puppy.

I was born in Little Rock, AK. My daddy was military and my parents finally decided that Spokane, WA was the place for us and this is where I've lived since I was about 10.

I always wrote special poems for family birthdays, and began to write short stories in Jr. High. Many years later after a self-esteem building program of hypnosis, and reading Twilight, I was inspired. I said, "I could do that." So I did.

Dream Weaver has been 4 years in the making, as I've learned the ins and outs of the literary process. That is an ongoing endeavor.

Contacts:

Links: Website ♥ Facebook ♥ Twitter ♥ Goodreads ♥ Piterest

Review: 

Fascinating new mythology about Nephilim and a type of Sandman.  I love how the writer weaves the mythology into a story about loss and love and choosing to survive.

I give this story 4.5 out of 5 clouds.


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Book Review of Scent of Valor: Chronicles of Eorthe, Book 2

Book Review of Scent of Valor
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Courage blooms in the meekest of hearts.

Chronicles of Eorthe, Book 2

After spending twenty years trapped in her civil body, Kele can finally shift into feral form. By tooth and claw, she’s determined to climb the Payami pack hierarchy.

Her parents plan to mate her with a hunter from a rival pack, but her heart’s already been stolen by the most unsuitable wolf possible—Peder, an omega male. She’d gladly give him her body except he’s disappeared from her life. Maybe into the thieving arms of another female.

Peder has spent every moment of their forced separation training to be a hunter. When he hears of her arranged marriage, he fears he’s waited too long to trespass back onto Payami lands to fight for her hand—but he damned well isn’t giving up.

On his journey to confront Kele, Peder is attacked and wakes in a cage, helpless as a band of vampires attack Kele’s mating party. Separated by social standing, thrown together by tragedy, they must work together to survive. And find out if their attraction is merely puppy love, or a bond that’s stronger than time.


Warning: This book contains an omega male who’s done submitting and a hunter female who isn’t used to needing anyone to come to her rescue. Violence ensues, not for the faint of heart.



Author Information: 

Annie Nicholas writes paranormal romance with a twist. She has courted vampires, hunted with shifters, and slain a dragon’s ego all with the might of her pen. Riding the wind of her imagination, she travels beyond the restraints of reality and shares them with anyone wanting to read her stories.

Mother, daughter, and wife are some of the other hats she wears while hiking through the hills and dales of her adopted state of Vermont. Annie writes for Samhain Publishing, Carina Press, and Lyrical Press.


Contacts:

 http://annienicholas.webs.com/scentofvalor.htm

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Interesting view of the world if vampires and shifters were all that was left and humans did not exist.  Taste of the first story of a human dropped into this world who becomes “infected” and turns into a shifter.  But this book is mostly a love story and a coming of age.

Alpha wolf turned into an omega due to abuse he suffers, but the love of a late-blooming alpha princess and being trapped by slavers pulls the latent alpha to the surface.  Well written and charming, this story can be read as a stand-alone, but is even more fascinating as a sequel.

I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds.



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Book Review of The Current

Book Review of The Current
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Publisher: Yannick Thoraval (September, 2014)
Category: Literary Fiction, Climate Fiction
Tour Date: November, 2014
Available in: ebook, 312 Pages

Peter Van Dooren’s wealth and prestige mean that his family wants for nothing – except a husband and a father.

When the president of a sinking tropical island in the south pacific calls on the world’s most ingenious entrepreneurs to help save his people, Van Dooren reckons his plan can save the island and its people’s way of life.

If it works, Van Dooren’s plan will not only make him richer, it could also change the very idea of nations and borders. After all, changing the world is what Peter really wants to accomplish. 

The thing is, not all of the islanders share Van Dooren’s vision for their homeland. That won’t stop Peter from risking everything to prove that nature can be tamed. Playing God may cost Van Dooren his fortune and his own family.

While Peter plots a world away, his wife, son and daughter sink deeper into their own personal abyss of retail therapy, amateur pornography and Christian fundamentalism.

Everyone is adrift on the same tide of greed, lust and fear. This is the current that shapes the world. It always has; it always will. 

Commended by judges of the prestigious, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript and finalist in the International Showcase Screenwriting Competition, 'The Current' is a novel about the difference between having a house and losing a home. The style of writing is literary (thoughtful but humorous), and will appeal to readers of Jonathan Franzen (particularly Freedom), Ian McEwan (particularly Solar) and Michel Houellebecq (particularly Platform). Stylistically, The Current offers readers a back and forth split storyline and portent of danger comparable to Paul Thomas Anderson's film, Magnolia (1999).

Praise for 'The Current':

Ironic and slyly, bleakly humorous. The Current is a story peopled by men and women of the Renaissance who jog and contemplate their plane food and visit websites and shopping malls, who seem both exhausted by and untiringly connected to their technologies. Gently vexing and hauntingly memorable.”- Clare Allan, Writers Victoria
"The Current has all the elements of a literary mainstream novel that demands the reader think about home, traditions, family, refugees and political and commercial intervention. This is a story of belonging, of finding your fit within family and your fit within the world.”–Amanda J. Spedding, Phoenix Editing

About Yannick Thoraval:

Yannick Thoraval is a professional communications adviser and university lecturer.

Best known as an essayist, Thoraval has publishing widely for both academic and general audiences. 

He formally studied film, philosophy and American political history, attaining a masters degree from the University of Melbourne before leaving academia to pursue commercial writing interests. He ended up working as a copywriter in marketing and communications.

Thoraval’s fiction has received critical acclaim. His first screenplay, Kleftiko, was a finalist in the International Showcase Screenwriting Awards. Judges of the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, Australia, highly commended his first novel, The Current.

The novel draws from Thoraval’s personal and professional experiences of working in the Victorian State Government, particularly his work in international development with the nation of Timor-Leste.

He is a career migrant and has lived in the Netherlands, France, Cyprus, Canada and Australia. Moving internationally from a young age has left him feeling culturally stateless, despite holding three passports.

Thoraval is a quiet advocate for refugees and asylum seekers. He is a founding member of the World Writings Group, which helps refugees write about their experiences of forced migration.

He has pledged to donate 10% of the proceeds of this book to assist the settlement of refugees. 

He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches professional writing and editing.  He is working on his second novel.

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Excerpt for Books Books

The pontoon boat churned through the water, choppy waves banging hollow against its aluminum hull. The water was blue and clear, and the flat seabed was visible beneath the surface, interrupted by the occasional patch of coral. Peter felt the cool salt spray on his hands and face and he breathed in deeply.

The boat rounded the island’s rough, pebbled shoreline.

President Koyl’s diplomatic efforts to contain the rising sea level had not been entirely in vain. A few small-scale projects stood as evidence of the international community’s involvement on L’Eden Sur Mer.

Small, individual sea walls had been built to protect homes along the beach. The walls had gone up, separating neighbors into little concrete pens along the foreshore.

But the walls hadn’t been strong enough. One by one, the sea had breached them and concrete slabs now littered the beach like an aborted game of giant dominoes.

Peter watched smoke rise from behind the little houses, the only sign that anyone was home.

Past a shallow reef system the wind picked up suddenly. The sea was darker here. It looked bluer, deeper, and colder. The motor revved higher but they moved no faster through the water. They must be fighting the same currents that droopy-faced Lieutenant Ball had noted in his logbook.  

Peter squinted at a silhouette in the distance. Not a mountain. Not even a hill. It was more of a mound. Curly white waves broke against its steep shore.

The motor quieted and the boat circled the little island. Shards of broken glass and twisted metal from a collection of crumbling buildings glinted in the sun.

“This is the Peak,” said Koyl gravely. “People used to be able to walk to the mainland from here.”

The shoreline of L’Eden Sur Mer was only a few yards away.

“Six years ago,” said Koyl, “we used a giant machine, a dredger, to bring sand and rock from the bottom of the sea and put it on the surface. This was already the highland, you see. So we made it higher.” Koyl’s turned to the sandy, rocky formation outside the boat. His audience did the same. “Locals call it the Peak,” he added quietly.

A dredger. Cunning, thought Peter. All of this sand, these rocks and boulders had just been lying, useless, on the seabed. For how long? Centuries? Millennia? Now they’d been brought to the surface to do something useful.

The flood-resistant island within the island had been the brainchild of the Öersk Development Corporation, a Danish company that had been contracted by the government of L’Eden Sur Mer to build and settle the new housing project. It was to be Öersk’s expansion project and serve as an alternative model for international development.

“It was a good idea,” said Koyl. “But it didn’t work.”

Some three hundred families had been persuaded to relocate to the Peak, lured by the promise of new, two-bedroom apartments, complete with air conditioning, double glazing and European appliances.

The boat circled the Peak a second time. A bent and rusting metal sign said something aspirational. The writing was barely legible: new, proud, construction, home. Only the top of the government crest remained to be eaten by the rust. Whatever the sign said was unimportant now. The experiment had failed. The relocation had muddled the islanders’ traditional social ties, which had long been based on their regional identity and their connection to ancestral land holdings. On the Peak, people from the east of the island had been lumped in with those from the west and it wasn’t long before in-fighting between families over meaningless domestic issues assumed religious proportions.

A series of arson attacks within the development had sparked an exodus, led by people with young children who felt they had too much to lose by remaining at the Peak. A band of youths had briefly taken over the burnt-out buildings but had been ‘moved on’.

The apartments lay vacant and served as giant nesting boxes for the Pacific gulls that squawked as the boat passed by. Fittings and fixtures had been torn out. Mounds of sand had blown in through shattered glass patio doors. The wind whistled around the sharp and broken edges of the Peak.

No one spoke.

“The Peak has become a cursed place,” said Koyl. “Most people dare not come here at all. Some have started to speak of it as an omen about the coming end of time.” 
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Review: 

Interesting concept for a novel that makes you think about the world and social issues on a more personal level.  Some parts of the book are amazing and well thought out.  However it is somewhat disconnected with odd storylines sticking out like loose threads.  I am glad I read it but still find myself with many unanswered questions and loose ends.


I give this story 3.5 out of 5 clouds for the amazing imagery and writing.



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