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Book Review: The Promise of Plague Wolves by Coy Hall
Set in Austria in 1686, Dorian Toth, a brother of the Order of Saint Guinefort, is tasked by Bishop von Thun to investigate strange reports coming out of the small village of Drunstall. Nestled in the beautiful Styrian woods, the village is quarantined for plague. However, the dead don’t seem to be staying dead. The…
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Coffee and Thorn Book Tour: Milking The Cat by Theophanes Avery
bout Milking The Cat Milking the Cat is a tongue-in-cheek collection of animal related tales as recounted by a pet owner, former breeder, and farmer in New England. Each story revolves around the funny and absurd winding the reader into increasingly ridiculous situations. From naked cats, to psychopathic cockatoos, to love sick horses, and misplaced…
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Book Review: Inheriting Her Ghosts by S H Cooper
Forty something Eudora Fellowes defies Victorian convention in many ways. She’s single by choice, prefers the company of her wolfhounds, Cerberus and Black Shuck, to other humans, and she often wears trousers rather than dresses. When her great-aunt leaves her the seaside manor of High Hearth, Eudora looks forward to a quiet country idyll. Unfortunately,…
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2 Book Review: Idriel’s Children and Night of Ash by Hayley Reese Chow
Idriel’s Children It’s been 28 years since Kaia and Klaus’s epic battle against Idriel’s dark forces, and much has changed in Okarria. However, when enemies at the borders call the Dragon and Shadow Heirs away, it leaves their children – fire blessed son, Zephyr, and shadow gifted daughter, Aza – to travel to the forest…
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Book Review: Blindspots by Rhonda Parrish
In a world of almost exclusively dogs, veteran pilot Ricky is trying to find his place in postwar life. When his brother, Jasper, goes missing, Ricky recruits the old gang for one last mission. The war might be over, but is the world really at peace? Blindspots has the air of a 1940s post WWII…
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2 Book Review: Odriel’s Heirs and Burning Shadows by Hayley Reese Chow
Odriel’s Heirs A fun young adult fantasy adventure that delights with its supporting cast of magical animals. Three heirs, gifted with powers by Odriel, which combined are powerful enough to defeat the mighty necromancer, Nifras. The time heir; a powerful healer. The shadow heir; able to become invisible. And the dragon heir; who wields the…
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Book Review: One in the Hand by Rhonda Parrish
Autumn lives an ordinary life working two jobs, looking after her two fabulous wolfhounds, and chilling with her policeman boyfriend. After her grandmother is attacked in her retirement home, Autumn discovers that her life isn’t so ordinary after all. With magic swords, wings, giants and gods all set to complicate her life, will Autumn ever…
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Guest Post: How I Learned to Love Rescue Dogs by E C Bell
How I learned to love rescue dogs. I grew up on a farm where dogs worked, and were definitely not pets. Then one the day Mom took us all to the SPCA. (5 kids in a station wagon, can you imagine?) I think she was taking cats in for adoption, because people dropped them off…
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Book Review: Neolithica by Dan Soule
Like Crichton or Preston and Child at their best, but with even more horror and heart, you won’t want to miss this stunning novel from Dan Soule. Strange things start happening in Glasgow after a surprisingly perfect Neolithic bog body is found by a road crew. As murders increase, and a procession of odd phenomena…
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Buddy Read with Jenna @Bookmark Your Thoughts: Pax by Sara Pennypacker
It’s time for another buddy read discussion! This time it is with the lovely Jenna from BookmarkYourThoughts. Be sure to check out her blog. Her reviews are insightful and entertaining. We read the middle grade fantasy, Pax, by Sara Pennypacker. Read Jenna’s review of Pax here. Read Jenna’s buddy read here. The Book Pax was…