Delos: The Moon’s Eye by Blake Miller (Book#2)

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My Rating: 4/5 stars

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Delos: The Moon’s Eye by Blake Miller is the second book in the Delos series, an epic fantasy saga that follows the adventures of four young heroes who embark on a perilous quest to save a magical world from an ancient evil. The book is a sequel to Delos: The White Tree. When Cynthia Summers and Kaden Krossway learn that the Lil of Lurkur has gone missing, they join up with Alec Mulsiver and a surprising fourth companion to find her. This leads to another trip into Lurkur Woods, a haunting discovery about what has happened to the Lil, and then to Diluvium where they must undergo the Quest of Six Waters to claim what they need to save the Lil’s life: the Seventh Water. The problem is, no one has survived the Quest in over 6,000 years. . . .

The Flower from the Garbage by G. Edward Martin

 

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The Flower from the Garbage follows the journey of a newly wedded couple, Joe and Audrey Palmer, when they miscarry their baby and begin to disconnect from each other. While Audrey goes within and isolates, Joe continues to work more hours and make poor decisions, risking his marriage and future. Their marriage is saved when Joe discovers an unlikely friend and mentor in the form of a homeless philosopher who chose a life on the streets of Chicago after losing his own wife to cancer. Although Frank, the homeless philosopher, advises Joe on how to work through this specific tragedy, he goes on to teach him many important lessons about what it means to be a good man, a husband, a father, and more.

1001 Stories #33: Sun is also a star

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Do I really need to do this to myself? Pick on old wounds, scratch them till they are raw and bleed all over the paper that should ideally smell like hope? It all begins with a thought. The thought unravels and takes me back to the good old days, and suddenly the shadow appears as if it was a sign I should have been noticing. But have you ever been blinded by light? Imagine looking right into the sun and being unable to look away even as your eyes scream for help. When you finally do look away, all you will see is that light and all you would want to see is that light again. But till you adjust to the new reality, you will be blind to the world before you.

Broken Strings by Rachel Lane

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My Ratings: 4/5 stars

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How do you move forward after the unthinkable happens, and life as you know it is gone? That’s the question Celine and Alex are forced to answer when their son Gage is abducted one rainy spring day.
Before the abduction, Celine and Alex are best friends, childhood sweethearts, and parents to three tireless children. They are a unified team. But When Gage is taken, Alex breaks down while Celine pushes forward. And struggling to heal in different directions breaks their bond.

Between Shadow and Flame by C.T Bryce

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Ratings: 3.5/5 stars

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With a past shrouded in mystery and a childhood spent constantly on the move, David Rose has lived a life without consequences or connections. The last thing he cared deeply about was his friendship with his barely-remembered brother he hasn’t seen since he was seven.
When he discovers his mother burning a letter from the estranged family they’ve been running from, David ignores his mother’s warnings to reclaim what he lost.
What awaits him is a fog-shrouded castle full of threatening strangers and dangerous secrets. Torn between the meaningful relationships he’s always yearned for and his own sense of morality and self, his only hope lies in a power he never knew he possessed.

Satyromaniac by R J Covington

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Genre: Memoir, Erotica, New Adult

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My Ratings: 4/5 stars

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As a married father and CEO of a booming tech company, the author was executing his long-designed plan to sell his company and realize the American dream. But in that exact moment of presumed triumph, dark ominous clouds rolled in, pelting him with a series of devastating misfortunes that stripped him of everything: self-worth, identity, money and family. The eventual journey toward recovery would unexpectedly thrust him onto a tollroad through the sexual underbelly of America. This is a story about one man’s descent from self-confident entrepreneur and family man, to social leper who furtively detours into the world of sex clubs, paid escort encounters and massage parlors. Along the way, the memoir digs deep into the minds and stories of the many women serving the industry, humanizing them in the process and shattering preconceived notions about these women.

The Genesis 6 Project by Michael Ferguson

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My Ratings: 4/5 stars

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A middle of the night arrival by unmarked helicopters with secret cargo from the Middle East places the facility on high alert. When the unspeakable happens and the mysterious Subject Alpha escapes with Dr. Kathryn Ryan as a hostage, the military is forced to work with Indian Affairs agent Frank Ironhorse Whitman and his team to track the dangerous creature through Crow territory.

Ironhorse and his team face a final showdown after the military is thwarted, to try and stop the carnage. What if the creature escapes to the highlands in its quest to bring his kind back for the end of times? Who is the mysterious outside group involved? So much is hanging in the balance with their final confrontation!

ARC Review: Shades of purple by Niki Dominique

Publication Date: September 12,2023

Cost of Book: $21.99 US

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-955062-82-4

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When having it all wasn’t enough, Adrienne McQueen Louden lost everything and everyone she loved in a misguided attempt to gain more success. Homeless, penniless, and with no one to turn to, one rainy day Adrienne finds herself at a random church looking for a reason to keep moving forward when all she wants to do is sit down and never get up again. She finds a kind priest who offers her a roof over her head, a notebook, and a purple pen. This is where her story begins. In the basement of a church with a broken woman who dares to hope that she can turn her life around. The path before her is not easy. She’s given up her kids. Her husband is in prison (and it’s all her fault). She’s stolen money from everyone she’s ever loved. And on top of all that, she can’t seem to stop thinking about her former lover, who also happens to be her husband’s best friend.

Book announcement: ORCHID CHILD by Victoria Costello

Title: Orchid Child 

Author: Victoria Costello

Publisher: Between the Lines Publishing
Pub date: June 2023

Genre: Fiction, Magic Realism

Format: Paperback, eBook

“Victoria Costello’s family saga goes beyond the mapping of intergenerational trauma by imagining a tragedy-plagued Irish American family’s youngest member, an orchid child, halting the chain of suffering that came before him, by tapping into his neurodiversity and the ancient wisdom of his ancestors.”

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As a neuroscientist, Kate’s life is well-ordered and based on logic. Except when it comes to her married lab director. Kate loses her job when their affair is discovered, sending her orderly life in Manhattan out the window. To make matters worse, Kate’s family presses her to accept responsibility for her fifteen-year-old nephew, Teague, an orchid child, who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. Determined to salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ireland where hostile townsfolk rebuff her probe of their historically high rate of schizophrenia. When a local chief Druid identifies Teague’s odd perceptions as the gift of second sight, a bewildered Kate is thrust on a trail of madness, magic, and armed rebellion leading to her own grandparents who, she discovers were banished as traitors from the same town.

Kate’s investigations force a confrontation with the chief Druid, endangering Teague’s life and putting her in even stranger territory, where ancient Celtic mysticism intersects with 21st century neurodiversity, and the act of witnessing old wounds has the power to heal suffering past and present—even hers—if she can accept the limits of science and the power of ancestral ties.

About the Author:

Victoria Costello is an award-winning writer and educator living in Ashland, Oregon. Her non-fiction work has appeared in various publications, including the Huffington Post, and her debut title, A Lethal Inheritance, A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness was released in 2012 with Prometheus books. Orchid Child is her first work of fiction.

Book Announcement: Down a Dark Road by H. W. “Buzz” Bernard

Release Date: May 9, 2023
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
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ISBN: 978-1-64875-359-6
Page Count: 386
Format(s): eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
Genre(s): WWII Historical Fiction, War Thriller

About this Book:

Down a Dark Road is a heart-wrenching historical
fiction novel based on the true story of Lieutenant Jim
Thayer. As the war in Europe draws to a close, young
Army lieutenant Jim Thayer finds himself and his
platoon on the point of the American advance into
Austria. Jim and his men are no strangers to the
horrors of war. But what they find hidden in the forests
of western Austria is beyond anything they have yet
experienced. Jim and his men come face to face with
the cruel brutality of the Nazi regime and bear witness
to the fields of death left in its wake. Determined to
hunt down the architect of this atrocity, Jim
dispatches an unlikely team of allies to man this final
mission. The war may be ending. But for these strange
comrades in arms, the final battle has only just begun.

About the Author

H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is a best-selling, award-winning novelist.
His debut novel, EYEWALL, was a number-one bestseller in
Amazon’s Kindle Store. Later, Buzz switched to historical
fiction and two of his novels in the WHEN HEROES FLEW series
have been awarded Gold Medals by the Military Writers
Society of America (MWSA). Before becoming a novelist, Buzz
worked at The Weather Channel as a senior meteorologist for
thirteen years. Prior to that, he served as a weather officer in
the U.S. Air Force for over three decades. He attained the rank
of colonel and received, among others, the Legion of Merit.