Book News and Reviews

Book: Heaven – Season Two: Hell Author: Mur Lafferty Genre: Fantasy Julia Rating: 10 Comments: This is the next book in the Heaven Series by Mur Lafferty. Our two main characters, Kate and Daniel are together again, but are now in hell with another daring and interesting mission. I can’t really give a whole lot [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]