Book News and Reviews

Book: Heaven – Season One
Author: Mur Lafferty
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Mur Lafferty is one of those podcasting divas who has been doing podiobooks, podcasts and more. She has a whole “Murverse” with all her wonderful work.
Heaven – Season One is the first of the Heaven Series. This is basically a story about two close [...]

Author: Jess Haines
Book: Hunted By The Others
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Hunted by the Others is Jess Haines’ debut novel.   Jess sent me a copy of her wonderful book prior to release so that I could review it here, Yay!  (She also did a little brow waggle to get me off my lazy butt [...]

Here is the next on my list of gift suggestions for the upcoming holidays.
Fantasy
For those friends and family members who would be more at home digging around in a dragon’s cave, these are my recommended reads:
- Hogfather or any other books by Terry Pratchett
I reviewed the Hogfather in a previous post.  This is a perfect book [...]

Author: Tee Morris
Podiobook: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword
Performed by: Tee Morris
Main Guest Performances: LeeAnn Maybry, Dani Cutler
Genre: Fantasy and Historical Fiction
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Tee Morris created a fantastic character with Billibub Baddings – a dwarf detective living in the 1920s. This isn’t just any dwarf detective. Billibub originally came from Acryonis [...]

Author: Mur Lafferty
Book: Playing For Keeps
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: I may be a little biased on Playing for Keeps, since I follow Mur’s podcast, I Should Be Writing, so I really like Mur.  In fact, the podcast is the whole reason I read her book – that and her other book Tricks of the Podcasting [...]

Author: Heather Graham
Book: Deadly Night
Genre: Murder Mystery/Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Julia Comments: I finally am getting around to reviewing Deadly Night by Heather Graham as I promised for horror month.  Deadly Night is the first in The Flynn Brother’s Trilogy and I, for one, enjoyed it.  The book contains murder, suspense, mystery and the supernatural.  It’s one of [...]

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Book: Strange Candy
Genre: Horror/Fantasy/Sci Fi
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: I really bit off more than I could chew here.  When choosing books, I thought, “Hey, it’s a book of short stories – let’s shake things up”.  I had never read Laurell Hamilton before and I didn’t know what a fantastic writer she was. 
Strange Candyreally [...]

Before I start my little blurb about Howard Phillips Lovecraft I wanted to apologize for being absent and not completing out my week of author reviews last week.  I had an issue with my shoulder and couldn’t type for a couple days, then was super backlogged.  So, sorry.
So now, to H.P. Lovecraft.  I know that [...]

Is Ray Bradbury truly a “horror” author?  I think he’s one of those authors you cannot pin down to any particular genre, except to say that what he writes is classic “genre”  fiction (meaning anywhere from Sci Fi/Fantasy to Supernatural to Horror). Bradbury’s works from Fahrenheit 451 to the classic short story compilation The Illustrated Man all the way [...]

 Author: Terry Pratchett
Book: Making Money
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Making Money is the next installment of Moist Von Lipwig’s adventures into government. You may recall Moist from my very recent post about the book Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.  In Making Money, Moist has been Postmaster General for a year and is frankly, bored.  The Patrician [...]