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Review: Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine
Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine Genre: fantasy, suspense, adventure, drama Publisher: Berkley Date: July 11, 2017 What if a library was the master of everything? Imagine governments around the world all controlled by a library. The Great Library in fact. But rather than dispensing knowledge and understanding, the Archivist is a dictator. Wisdom, free thought, invention and knowledge are ideas that are tamped down, held tight, and not released outside the control of the Great Library. In fact, the printing press is something that is so dangerous an idea, that men and women have died for just coming up with the idea of it. Under this tremendous tyranny and…
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Subscription Box Review: Once Upon a Book Club
You guys know I love subscription boxes. I mean I really, really love them. I think it is really cool to get a box every month and be surprised by what is inside. Unfortunately, you can’t always guarantee that a box is good. Sometimes you get duds. Seriously I got a box once that had all this stuff free floating in it – looked like someone had cleaned out their junk drawer! I also love books. That’s a fact that is pretty well documented by the fact that I own Fiction Addict and Radiant Lit. At the beginning of the subscription box phase, I tried a couple of book themed…
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Review: Bring Her Home by David Bell
Bring Her Home by David Bell Genre: contemporary, thriller, suspense, mystery, drama Publisher: Berkley Date: July 11, 2017 Bill Price’s life isn’t extraordinary in the least. At best, you could call it a struggle. Bill’s wife died 18 months ago and left him with a teenage daughter. Like most men, Bill doesn’t speak teenager and he’s not sure how to help his daughter get through the loss that he’s barely surviving himself. Just when he thinks that things couldn’t possibly get more difficult, the worst thing imaginable happens. His daughter Summer, and her best friend Haley, go missing. Days after they’ve gone missing, life takes another sharp, painful curve. Summer’s…
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Book Review: The Burning World by Isaac Marion
The Burning World by Isaac Marion Genre: science fiction, romance, drama, Publisher: Atria Date: February 7, 2017 R and Julie live in chaos and upheaval. Normal for them would be considered absolute horror for the rest of us. Cataloging whether someone is completely dead, almost dead, or living is part of their every day. Throw in the fact that they are in a daily fight for survival and it’s not exactly what you could call ideal. But they make it work and together they have carved some semblance of a life. It’s an existence and for R (who remembers being dead not so long ago) it’s as close to heaven…
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Book Review: Moonbreaker by Simon Green
Moonbreaker by Simon R. Green Genre: Science fiction Publisher: Ace Date: June 6, 2017 Eddie Drood is not just a secret agent. He’s a very secret agent. I’m not kidding. He fights things that most of us only read about in books. His girlfriend, Molly, is one of the most powerful witches in existence and the two of them basically travel all over the place fighting the supernatural. It’s big. It’s bad. And right now, it’s deadly. Eddie’s been poisoned by himself. Well, sort of. It’s him from a parallel universe. And he knows he’s dying. So now he’s going to spend his very last days tracking Edmund down to…
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Red Nose Day May 25
As someone who LOVES British television, I have followed Red Nose Day for years. It’s a fabulous tradition and I’m excited to see it get picked up here in the U.S. So when I got a press release recently, I knew without a doubt that I was going to share it. As we near the start of summer and think about vacations and time off with families there are others who are not nearly as fortunate to enjoy those luxuries. On May 25th NBC television will air Red Nose Day, a live telecast aimed at ending child poverty. Red Nose Day is unique in that multiple charitable organizations will benefit…
