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Book Review: The Stolen Moon by Rachel Searles

After the events detailed in THE LOST PLANET, Chase Garrity and his friend Parker are now living on the starship Kuyddestor. He has been reunited with his younger sister, but she’s not proving easy...

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Book Review: DISSONANCE by Erica O’Rourke

Delancey Sullivan is a Walker. She has the ability to Walk through pivots in this world to other worlds–worlds created by decisions. What if I hadn’t gone to the mall, but visited grandpa? What...

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Book Review: THE MARATHON CONSPIRACY by Gary Corby

This is the fourth book in Gary’s Athenian Mysteries series, which features the young investigator, Nicolaos and his feisty partner (in more ways than one), Diotima. Since the first book, THE PERICLES COMMISSION, Nico...

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Book Review: THE STAND by Stephen King

What if an accident in a Department of Defense laboratory unleashed a lethal “super-flu” on the world, killing 99% of the country? What would happen to the survivors? That’s the basic premise for THE...

Book Review: ALLEGIANT by Veronica Roth 7

Book Review: ALLEGIANT by Veronica Roth

Note: I will try to be as spoiler-free as possible in this review. But understand that, as the final book in a trilogy, it’s hard to discuss it in any way without some understanding...

Book Review: CARRIE by Stephen King 9

Book Review: CARRIE by Stephen King

To start off, I want to point out that horror is not my genre of choice. My interest in Stephen King’s writing is as a writer, not because I’m particularly intrigued with the type...

Book Reviews: THE QUEEN’S ARMY and SCARLET by Marissa Meyer 11

Book Reviews: THE QUEEN’S ARMY and SCARLET by Marissa Meyer

SCARLET is the second in Marissa Meyer’s “Lunar Chronicles” series that launched last year with the release of CINDER. Each book in the series is a re-telling of a classic fairy tale, and while...

My Book of the Year 2012 Contenders 4

My Book of the Year 2012 Contenders

As promised, here are the books that are contending for the honor of being my fiction Book of the Year for 2012. Last year, the honor went to DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth. Tomorrow, I...

Book Review: FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH by Stephanie Jaye Evans 12

Book Review: FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH by Stephanie Jaye Evans

Before I get into the review, there’s something I must get off my chest. Namely, two genre words I really do not like: “cozy” and “hard-boiled.” I understand the value of these terms as...

Book Review: HOW I WRITE 3

Book Review: HOW I WRITE

There are a lot of books that tell you how to write a novel, how to construct stories, build tension, write dialog, understand the ins and outs of the publishing industry–what we call “craft”...