Review: The Messenger
The Messenger by Enita Meadows My rating: 4 of 5 stars Orphaned seventeen-year-old Alexis who moves to Washington state to live with a cousin at her mother’s death, where she meets Cougar, a Native...
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Love Hurts – A Bubba the Monster Hunter Short Story by John G. Hartness My rating: 4 of 5 stars What might seem like a dream come true is always a nightmare for Bubba when he’s laid up in the hospital...
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Hauling Ash by Tonia Brown My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was such a lot of fun to read. Take a ne’er-do-well mortician, a ghost, a hooker, a hitter, and a mobster, shake don’t stir, and well, there’s a...
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Grumpy Old Wizards by John O’Riley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Grumpy Old Wizards I found this mildly amusing. Good premise, interesting world, some interesting characters. What got me was the 80-year-old...
View ArticleReview: Professional Plot Outline Mini-Course
Professional Plot Outline Mini-Course by Holly Lisle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Need to kno whow to think about plotting. This is your key. Holly Lisle has written a few dozen novels, and she has a...
View ArticleReview: Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine by Pendred Noyce My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am inspired and humbled by the stories of these women of math and science who made...
View ArticleReview: Ashes and Rain: Sequel to Khe
Ashes and Rain: Sequel to Khe by Alexes Razevich My rating: 4 of 5 stars The second in a series but a standalone story, Ashes and Rain: Sequel to Khe by Alexes Razevich follows a catastrophe brought...
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Shifter by Alma Alexander My rating: 4 of 5 stars Being one of a kind is a difficult proposition at any point in one’s life, but in this story, it is dangerous for him even to exist, and from his...
View ArticleReview: This Old World: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War
This Old World: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War by Steve Wiegenstein My rating: 4 of 5 stars Weigenstein develops the story by showing how the people try to heal the scars from the war and the...
View ArticleReview: Headshot
Headshot by John G. Hartness My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m reviewing the audio book version of Headshot by John G. Hartness. At 2.5 hours, it’s a nice afternoon of action, bloodshed, and teenage longing...
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