By Casie Aufenthie © 2021, Independently Published ASIN: B08YKCW6RM Kindle version; file size 777 KB In a future where humanity has divided through evolution, war has devastated not only the surface of the Earth, but all traces of civilization outside those areas controlled by the Illuminatos, most evolved of the species. Seven Illuminatos rule the…
Author: DremaDeoraich
Bewilderment
By Richard Powers © 2021, W.W.Norton & Company ASIN: B08X19W2HD Ebook File Size: 3245 KB Following the death of his wife, astrobiologist Theo Byrne is raising their son Robin alone. Robin is smart, warm, deep, and in love with Nature, especially endangered animals. But Robin is also deeply troubled, and about to be expelled from…
The Limits of Enchantment: A Novel
By Graham Joyce © 2013, Black Dust Creations Ltd ASIN: B00F66Q8TK Kindle version; file size 1104 KB In every way that matters, Fern Cullen is daughter to Mammy Cullen, who sees to the needs of village women in rural England around 1960. It’s Mammy who helps them regulate their bleeds. Mammy who blesses the wedding…
Kindness Teacher
I have said in my blog and to writer friends that critiquing helps me improve *my own* writing, as well as contributes feedback to the other person for their own writing. Yes, it takes away from my available time to write, but in the end, it is worth it for both people involved. (And for…
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
By V.E. Schwab © 2020, Tor Books 978-0765387561 Hardcover; 448 pages Adeline LaRue’s biggest fear is living a life of drudgery, like her mother’s and every other person in the tiny French village where she has grown up. On the night of her wedding in 1714, before they can compel her to make her vows,…
The Chronicles of Self-Publishing: 11th Part of My Journey
(or How I Did It, a “.doc”-umentary) Part 11/11 Latest update: I’ve always heard from experienced authors that the best way to stop obsessing over a single work is to move on to the next project. So I’ve been learning to juggle. Again. Projects, that is. As an indie author, I’d focused solely on Entheóphage…
The Poisonwood Bible
By Barbara Kingsolver © 2009, HarperCollins ASIN: B000QTE9WU Kindle Edition; File size 2370 KB When Orleanna’s fiery Baptist husband, Nathan Price, takes her and their four daughters to the Belgian Congo on a mission trip in 1959, none of them can foresee the tragic consequences of his ill-fated decision. The nation is already poised on…
The Chronicles of Self-Publishing: 10th Part of My Journey
(or How I Did It, a “.doc”-umentary) Part 10/? Latest update: Think back. Remember how I spent months in early- and mid-2019 researching this book which focuses on a peculiar new virus that affects only children, and the odd things that come of it? How I wrote the whole first draft during NaNoWriMo of 2019,…
Bella, Collector of Cuentos
By Carmen Baca ASIN: B0BM3PFKRJ Paperback, 233 pages, © 2022 Fourteen-year-old Bella is bored. A visit to her grandmother’s ranch in New Mexico leaves her with nothing to do in the evenings, so she climbs into the abandoned attic in search of a book. Instead, she falls into a photograph in an old album. She’s…
Cage of Souls
By Adrian Tchaikovsky © 2019, Ebook format ASIN: B07DPRW17S File size 1865 KB It’s easy to see why this book was shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award. This is an intricate story, part fictional memoir, part dark dystopian ecofiction with touches of horror. There were elements of the tale that read like a…