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Saturday, June 20, 2015

Book Review of The Stones of Caron

Book Review of The Stones of Caron
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About the Book


Title: The Stones of Caron

Author: R. Ann. Greene

Genre: Fantasy

        Earia, queen of the elves, has long fought against an enemy she believed she created: a man, Niren, who she raised as her son, over four hundred years ago and he will see every man, elf, and dwarf killed unless they bend a knee to him. The dragons already have, willing or not, and Earia is forced to fight them as well as Niren’s soldiers.

            Fillip is a seventeen year old, raised in the woods and seashores of the small country of Niss, and he has managed to find the one thing which can give the elves hope against Niren and his dragons.

            Pursued by assassins, Earia is desperate for Fillip’s help and he is aching for adventure, even danger. Fillip’s younger brother is not so inclined, but what is a brother for, if not to help chase monsters and throw down kings?

            Earia’s age old companions are quick to accept the youngsters and teach them a thing or two. Fillip soon discovers that he is not the farmer he thought, but a bold adventurer, willing to take mighty risks to see the world and to fight for his new friends.
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Author Bio
R. Ann. Greene grew up in Idaho with four siblings. She was home-schooled all twelve grades and was thirteen when she began writing, inspired by such fantasies as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien could weave. She was a little closer to fifteen when she started working to make writing her career. It took five more years, endless refining edits, and a lot of will-power to reach her first publication of The Stones of Caron.

Now, she lives in the Boise Mountains of Idaho and volunteers as a firefighter in her community. She spends her days writing, blogging, and splitting firewood to keep the house warm in the winter time, but mostly writing.

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Book Excerpts

            Their muscles burned in effort against the cold water, and the waves slapped them in the mouth. The chill of the snowmelt was enough to almost paralyze their bodies, except their willpower refused to let them give up and they never stopped kicking at the water as it closed its icy hands around them. At last they reached the other side where the boys could touch the slick bottom. The bank was slippery and they almost had to be tossed up the muddy slope. Langen and Earia dug their feet into the steep bank and gripped at clumps of grass and bushes while guiding the pair up to the dryer grass.

            Footing was almost impossible to find for the dwarfs. Using their knees and lying flat on the ground, they wriggled up the slope to a place more level. They then lay on their backs, panting and trying to calm their freezing nerves. The elves walked barefoot up by them and slipped their shoes on. In spite of the swim, the two didn’t seem affected by the piercing chill, though either of them would have said differently had the dwarfs asked.
 
            Langen led the way among the thick underbrush and grass out of sight from the ferry. He led them with obvious knowledge of the path he took, and when they finally stopped, the dwarfs were thoroughly exhausted.

            “Take a breather. We will stop for five minutes,” Earia said and glanced skyward at the blackness above them. The moons were hidden entirely and not a star could be seen anywhere.

            Lightening suddenly rent the sky and brightened the dark night for an instant. The earth seemed to shudder when it was struck and thunder vibrated in the rocks around them. Every fiber of their bodies quivered and rain poured from the sky in great sheets.

            “Lets get out of here and up higher. Hurry!” Earia stood with some difficulty in the already gummy mud. It was an even more challenging task for the leg-weary dwarfs.

Review: 

            This is a fun story of elves, dwarves, men, wizards, goblins, giants, and more.  In this story there is magic, family trechery, lost tribes, and impending war.  It is also the story of learning about your inner strength.

            Unfortunately it just ends, right in the middle of an important part of the story.  Now I have to wait for the next book.  I hate that because I worry about the people in the story (yes I know they are fictional, but I still worry for them....just let it go).

            I give this story 4 out of 5 clouds for leaving me hanging.




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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Book Review of The Twiceborn Queen


Book Review of The Twiceborn Queen
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About the Book

 Title: The Twiceborn Queen

Author: Marina Finlayson

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Kate O’Connor’s had a rough week. Thrown into the middle of a war of succession between the daughters of the dragon queen, her introduction to the hidden world of the shifters almost proved fatal. Now, because of Kate and her new powers, that hidden realm has been revealed to the world, which hasn’t exactly won Kate any popularity contests.

Still, it’s not all bad news. After all, it’s not every day someone you love comes back from the dead. Throw in a hot new boyfriend, and suddenly Kate’s got a lot to live for—which is bad timing, because now the queen’s set a bounty on her head and every shifter in Sydney is trying to collect it. 

Kate may have defeated a dragon already, but there are plenty more where that one came from. As her enemies close in and the body count mounts, Kate begins a desperate search for allies. The deadly game of the proving continues. If Kate is to save the people she loves, failure is not an option. The rules are simple: win or die. 

The Twiceborn Queen is 
the second book in the urban fantasy trilogy The Proving.

Author Bio

 Marina Finlayson is a reformed wedding organist who now writes fantasy. She is married and shares her Sydney home with three kids, a large collection of dragon statues and one very stupid dog with a death wish.

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Books page on author’s website: www.marinafinlayson.com/books/
Facebook: Marina Finlayson


Book Excerpts
  
We stood in front of Elizabeth’s massive mahogany desk like naughty children called before the headmistress. It was impossible to think of her as our mother. Dragons didn’t do motherhood, not in the way that humans and other shifters understood it.

Her cold blue gaze travelled across each of us in turn. By coincidence, or perhaps unconsciously, we’d lined up in order, oldest to youngest. Valeria stood with her arms folded across her blood-spattered chest, chin lifted in challenge. That pale blue satin would never be the same again. Most people would trash it, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she kept it as a souvenir of her first kill. Because, despite her denials, I was one hundred per cent certain she was responsible for the bomb blast.

Next to her stood Alicia, her stark black-and-white ball gown still pristine. She’d been way across the other side of the room when the bomb went off. Ingrid, closest to me in age, was next in line and similarly unruffled. Now that Monique was dead, she was the only brunette among us. I looked a wreck compared to her, with a scrape across my cheek and raw patches on my hands and elbows where I’d been thrown to the stone flagging of the terrace. My chiffon skirts were sadly torn but I’d had a lucky escape, thanks to Luce’s quick reactions.

Monique, who should have been standing on my other side, hadn’t been so lucky. It was her blood that stained Valeria’s dress and coated the broken walls and floor of the throne room. Plus a few other people’s outfits, which were going to need epic dry-cleaning. There wasn’t much else left of our youngest sister, and Elizabeth was seriously unamused.

Oh, not because Monique was dead. We were expected to kill each other off. Last woman standing got to inherit our dearest mother’s throne. She just didn’t appreciate the battle beginning in her own throne room, with such destructive results. Not to mention the possible risk to her precious person.

An ornate grandfather clock in the corner ticked solemnly as Elizabeth let the silence lengthen, each swing of its massive pendulum reproaching us for disturbing the peace of the queen’s domain. I stared down at the carpet beneath our feet, following the intricate swirls and flowers of its design, and tried not to draw our mother’s attention. She disliked me enough already.

“The Presentation Ball is intended to introduce the candidates to the domain,” she said at last, her voice as icy as her gaze. “It is not meant to host the outbreak of hostilities. Such breaches of etiquette are not to be tolerated.”

Trust Elizabeth to label the murder of one of her own daughters as a “breach of etiquette”.


Review: 




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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Book Review of The SEAL's Angel

Book Review of The SEAL's Angel




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About the Book

Title: The SEAL’s Angel

Author: Petie McCarty

Genre: Contemporary Romance / Military

Navy SEAL Sean MacKay's teammate is murdered after stealing a deadly nerve-gas formula from Syrian terrorists. Naval Intelligence believes MacKay's teammate was a traitor and shipped the stolen formula to his sister in the states for safekeeping. MacKay is given orders to find the sister before the terrorists do and to retrieve the stolen formula at all costs.

Foreclosure looms for Cory Rigatero as she fights to keep her rustic resort near Mt. St. Helens afloat after her brother deserted her to join the SEAL Teams. Cory's whole world dives into a tailspin when Sean MacKay shows up at her resort with the news of her brother's death and the wild suspicion her brother may have sent her traitorous classified documents. No way will Cory trust MacKay -- the man who once seduced her and then vanished into the night without a trace.

Author Bio

Petie spent a large part of her career working as a biologist at Walt Disney World -- "The Most Magical Place on Earth" -- where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job in order to write her stories full-time.

Petie is a member of Romance Writers of America, and she shares homes in Tennessee and Florida with her horticulturist husband, a spoiled-rotten English Springer spaniel addicted to pimento-stuffed green olives, and a noisy Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in Angel to the Rescue.

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Book Excerpt
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Cory hesitated so long, Mac wondered if she'd tell the truth or fabricate some tale. He knew the Bel Tesoro legend like the back of his hand, having heard the tale numerous times over the years of his friendship with Blue. Usually when Blue got good and drunk -- and homesick for his little sister.
Blue thought the sun rose and set just for Cory and had always said the worst part of the Black Ops work they did wasn't the danger, but leaving her behind. He'd felt forced to cast her out of his life for her own safety, settling for a half-dozen covert trips back to town to check on her. Mac had always come along -- and regretted it afterward, for he could never get the little spitfire out of his mind.
She stared at him briefly as she slowed for an approaching curve. His heart hammered out a couple beats. Had she recognized him? She returned her gaze to the road, and he blew out a silent sigh of relief.
He decided to prod. "So what about the beautiful treasure. If it wasn't the lake..."
He watched her shoulders go back, and she took a deep breath.
Here we go.
"Brock expanded to ten cabins with the extra business, but Benny and Salvatore didn't come back for a while due to run-ins with the law back in New York."
"What sort of run-ins?" he dutifully asked.
Cory smiled then, and Mac felt a wave a relief knowing she trusted him with the truth. He could've dug up the legend from anyone in town, but it meant more coming from her.
"By that time, Salvatore had changed his name to Charles Luciano -- Charles "Lucky" Luciano -- and Benjamin went by the nickname of Bugsy. Meyer was always Meyer."
He hoped the appropriate amount of shock showed in his expression. "You can't be serious. You mean Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky?"
"Exactly the same."
He gave a low whistle.
"Guests wanted to rent Lucky Luciano's cabin even back then."
"But that doesn't explain the treasure."
She slid him a sultry sideways glance and maneuvered more switchbacks. "Patience, Mac. I'm telling this story."
He put his head back and hooted with laughter. The smart remark was all Cory. The sexy glance was not.
"So tell it already."
"Lucky and Bugsy had become too powerful for their mob boss Joe Masseria, and they set up his assassination, so they could steal his rackets. Lucky stole everything in Masseria's safe and hid the stash from their rival boss Maranzano. Legend has it that Lucky put the stash in a trunk and brought it here on vacation shortly after the assassination to keep it safe."
"And people think the trunk is buried at Bel Tesoro?" Mac scoffed.

Review: 

            Oh, I do love a man in uniform, even if it’s on paper.  Mac turns up to protect his best friend’s sister, or does he.  Problems start as soon as he arrives, and things just get worse and worse.  Is he the good guy she thinks or is he there to destroy her life?

            Not telling the answers because it would spoil the magic, and this book is magic. 

            I give this book 5 out of 5 clouds.


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Monday, June 15, 2015

Book Review of Cade and Anna


Book Review of Cade and Anna

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Blurb: 

When Dr. Marjorie schedules an ultrasound for Anna, Cade begins to go into paranoid meltdown. Something must be wrong! He’s sure of it.

     Seeing his Daughter on the computer screen larger than life sets Cade onto a path of foolish, well-meaning choices. In a state of panic he instigates a series of disastrous projects with the Help of Simon, Stefan, and Thomas.

     The final disaster lands Cade and Anna stranded on the family’s island with Anna in labor and no help in sight.

Author Information: 

url  https://www.goodreads.com/VADold


twitter username VADold


influences Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, J.R. Ward


About this author

V.A.Dold is the author of the Le Beau Brothers series, New Orleans wolf shifter novels. A graduate of Saint Cloud University, she majored in marketing. Prior to becoming a full time writer, she was a publicist to the authors, owning Innovative Online Book Tours and ARC Author & Reader Con's (ARC NOLA) (ARC Phoenix). Still is. The companies mesh so well together, much like PB&J.
Her idea of absolute heaven is a day in the French Quarter filled with nothing but her computer, her coffee mug and the Brothers, of course.
 
A Minnesota native with her heart lost to Louisiana, she has a penchant for titillating tales featuring sexy men and strong women. When she's not writing, she's probably taking in a movie, reading or traveling.
Her earliest reading memories are from grade school. She had a major fixation with horses, and the Black Stallion was a favorite. Then junior high came along and teenage hormones kicked in. It became all about the Harlequin Romances. She has been hooked on romances ever since.

Connect with V.A.Dold
Visit V.A.'s website vadold.com
Like on Faceboook at 
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Follow on twitter at @VADOLD 
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Review: 

            Sweet shifter romance.  Being Alpha is nothing compared to becoming a daddy.  Can this alpha surived his mates pregnancy and birth of his daughter, or will he crumble?

            This is a sweet story about love trimphing and how family is important.  I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds.



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Book Review of The Lord of Shadows Rises



Book Review of The Lord of Shadows Rises





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About the Book
Title: The Lord of Shadows Rises

Author: James Terzian

Genre: Fantasy

It has been 200 years since the Lord of Shadows was sealed in a horrific battle with the Order of White Rose. Now the year is 1998, a boy with murdered parent's must gather allies to stop the once powerful Lord of Shadows from regaining his full power and breaking the seal. Learning from the Order of the White Rose guardians he must fight or his parents death would be in vain. 
From Norway to United States of America from China to Korea he must join with the other students and fight.



Author bio
My name is James and I started the Lord of Shadows Rise. As a writer I am looking to better myself so please if you buy I would like some feedback and a rating so I know what to improve on. Thank goodness for editors because my weakness in grammar is significant. This bring me to me first point of discussion. 
"Know your weakness and never be to proud to admit them for that is the only way to overcome them,”
Now a little bit about my self "I was born in Ukraine came to the good old USA at age 5. I am currently working as a building service at a school clean and maintaining the building. My hobbies include writing and collecting coins. I also play video games and read manga and write fanfiction. My inspiration is my mom for her support and love as well as the rest of my family for their support and love despite my difficult nature sometimes. 
 

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Review: 

            This was an interesting story with a different mythos.  However it took a long time to get all the mythos explained and some of it is still murky.  The story is interesting and intense with many twists and turns, but it lagged in some places.  I think I would have prefered to get the mythos quicker and get more depth.

            I still enjoyed this book greatly and look forward to reading more by this author.

            I give this story 4 out of 5 clouds.



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