Hello everyone!!
I hope you’re all having a great start to your week! Work has been super busy for the last few days, so I’ve fallen a little behind on my reading this week. I am reading a couple of new books, though, so I should have some new reviews up for you soon. Have a great rest of the week!! As always, thanks for reading!
-T
Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you!! I hope this day, and every day, is filled with happiness and love for all of you! My love to you all!!
-T
Author: Quincy J. Allen
Genre: Cross-Genre
Publisher: 7DS Books/Twisted Core Press
Pages: 248
I know that you guys have heard me say this before, but I will say it again: Short stories are my favorite thing to read! With this being a short story collection, and the author being Quincy J. Allen (who’s writing you’ll know, by know, I have a bit of an infatuation with!), I had really high expectations for this book. It did not disappoint in any way! These stories took me in multiple different directions, from reimagined history, to steampunk, to sci-fi, to horror…It has something for everyone and every mood. Since they are short stories, I won’t go too much in to the stories, or I will give them away, but I will tell you my favorites. The very first story, Family Heirloom, was a reimagined history where a brilliant slave engineer helped free slaves in an underwater ship. Cornelius was amazing! An ex-movie star dwarf (yes like the seven dwarves) telling his story of how he hit rock bottom and is now on the Queen’s hit list. Of course, I loved Lasater’s Lucky Left, as it was a lead in to Allen’s steampunk/western that I previously reviewed, Blood Ties. My other love in this collection was Baby Wei, wherein a scientist who lost her own child to SIDS goes to Atlanta to help in a SIDS project, which turns in to a crazy plot twist! These were just my favorites, but there was not one story in this collection that I did not like. I didn’t want to stop reading, and I was sad when it was over. Maybe that will hold me until Mr. Allen’s next book comes out this year, though! If you like your fiction in the genre category, you’ll love this. Pick up a copy!!
Hey guys!!
Sorry I didn’t post yesterday. It was a bit crazy here. I am almost done with an awesome book of short stories by the amazing Quincy J Allen, called Out Through the Attic. I will be posting that review as soon as I finish it up! I hope your week is going well! As always, thanks for reading!
-T
Hey guys!!
A book of short stories that I reviewed last year, and absolutely fell in love with, is out in paperback TODAY!! It’s called Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link. It has some really amazing short stories in it that will have you literally going “WTF just happened?!” at the end! I really encourage you to check it out. You can find my review in the blog archives!
-T
Author: Jade M. Phillips
Series: Unfortunate Souls
Genre: Paranormal/PNR
Publisher: Jade M. Phillips
Pages: 234
Ruby Carter was a normal seventeen year old girl, until the night that her world was turned upside-down. With her emotions on high, she drove in to an oncoming storm straight to her death. Someone, however, decided that her death should not be permanent. Guy Stone is a hard as nails Captain in the FUSE Army, whose sole purpose is to hunt down what they deem “unfortunate souls” and dispatch of them. Their worlds collide on, what will be, a whirlwind of a ride when Guy finds Ruby in the midst of her change at the site of their latest battle. He can’t bring himself to kill her, as he is supposed to, but what will the two of them do?
This first book in the Unfortunate Souls series brings me back to the world of vampires for the first time in quite a while, and it turned out to be a pretty good trip back. This story was told from a two person narrative (Ruby and Guy) in the vain of Twilight, but has a very different story to tell. The author does a great job of fleshing out her characters and giving them their own voice. I felt that this book laid a very solid foundation for the series, and am very happy to have been asked to review it. If you are a fan of stories in the YA PNR genre, I feel that you will enjoy this book.
Hey everyone!
I hope your weekend is starting out great! I’ve had a major headache all day, so my review of Unfortunate Souls will be posted for you tomorrow. In the mean time, here is a pic of my haul from the book sale yesterday!
See you guys on tomorrow’s post! As always, thanks for reading!
-T
Hi everyone!
I hope that you guys are all having a great week, so far! Work has been super busy since I returned from vacation, but I think that I am finally getting caught up. Whew! I am finding tome to get some reading done in between all of the working, though. I am re-reading Harry Potter (which I do every year!), and am on The Goblet of Fire. I am also just about done with a book that was sent to me to review by an author that you may have heard of, Jade M. Phillips. The book that I am reading right now is entitled Unfortunate Souls. It is really good so far! She also sent me the follow up novel, Broken Souls. I am hoping to be done with the first one in a day or so, so you may be getting a bonus review this week! I ordered a book of short stories by the amazing Quincy J. Allan that I can’t wait to dive in to, so you will be hearing about that one soon, too. I guess that’s all for now, so I hope you have a great rest of the week! As always, thanks for reading!
-T
Author: Rick Riordan
Series: Heroes of Olympus
Genre: Fantasy/Mythology/YA
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 528
The final installment of the Heroes of Olympus series finds our Demigod Heroes still in the midst of their battle to stop Gaea from waking. The crew, still aboard the Argo II, are trying to make it in time to stop the Feast of Spes. Meanwhile, Reyna and Nico are attempting to get the Athena Parthenos to Camp Halfblood in time to keep Octavian from attacking and destroying the camp. Will our Heroes succeed in their quest?
I want to start this by saying that I am a HUGE fan of Rick Riordan, this series, and the Olympians series that preceded it. That being said, I was a little bit disappointed in this last book. It was almost as if Percy and Annabeth were moved in to minor character roles, after we have spent so many books becoming incredible invested in them. The final battle was also a little bit disappointing, in that it just didn’t seem like… enough. The final battle in The Last Olympian was much more what one expects from a final battle scene, in my opinion. I did enjoy the book, in that it was definitely a Riordan book, and was well written and incredibly descriptive. His wit and humor was definitely present, and I enjoyed the characters that were in the forefront. I just wish that there had been more Percy and Annabeth present in this one, as it was the last book. I am sad to see the series end, but I am excited to start the Magnus Chase series, since anyone that has followed Rick Riordan knows that Norse mythology is his favorite!
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Andrew Yancey was a detective with the Monroe County Sheriff’s office, until an altercation with his lover’s husband got a little out of hand. Now he has been reduced to an Inspector on the “roach patrol”. He also has an arm in his freezer. The detective in him doesn’t believe the story behind this arm, though, and he believes that is he can prove and solve the murder it will buy his way back in to his badge. It won’t be that simple, though. He will have to wade his way through a horde of kooky characters including the deceased’s wife and daughter, ambitious (to a fault) real estate developers, the aforementioned (now ex) lover, a crazy voodoo priestess, and of course, the bad monkey.
This was my first Hiaasen read, and was recommended and loaned to me by a friend. It will definitely not be my last! The setting/world was beautifully built and easy to imagine, and the characters were so well developed. The story was entertaining, and laugh out loud funny in many places. It had stories within the main plot that kept the mind working, and enough questions within it that I really wasn’t sure what was going to happen. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
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