Book Review: Shadowless by Randall McNally
Book Review: Little Wanderers: The Everlasting Seasons by I. K. Silver
Author: I. K. Silver
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
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Indie Showcase #5 Science Fiction Books
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Authors work really hard, pouring all of themselves into creating their passion projects and achieving their dreams. One thing that I want to do is to help authors to reach a wider audience and make more sales. Something very important for all authors, is receiving reviews. Reviews on Goodreads, Amazon, Waterstones and other shop websites help authors to find even more readers. Sometimes authors will run deals such as offering their book for free or for a cheaper price so that readers can access their books and review them for others to find. In these indie showcase posts I am going to share some of these books. Please check out any books that you are interested in and leave reviews online! See other indie showcase posts on my book lists page.Dasjenya hates his society’s powerful overlords. In an effort to prove the Aosha in no way merit the right to bombard whole civilizations out of existence, Dasjenya gathers a scientific mission and heads into our planet’s forbidden wastelands.
Strange voices chant warnings, reality shifts and falling meteoric debris obliterates every trace of the world he has ever known.
Flung into the past, he must now embrace a new role within an elite and thriving Aoshan culture. In fact, Dasjenya must now work alongside a younger version of the very Aoshan whose future autocratic ways forced his journey.
To save Earth, can Dasjenya—for all our sakes!—close the gap between who he has been and who he must be?
Part quest novel, part post-apocalyptic time-travel adventure and part love story set in humanity’s near future, this story of human courage will thrill readers who have enjoyed C.J. Cherryh’s Wave Without a Shore, Julian May’s The Many-Colored Land, or Sheri S. Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country.
From the author of Many Moons, Lesser Beings, and Cross the Sky.
The new planet seems perfect; plenty of resources, good settlement locations, habitable climates. After what happened to Earth, Nina is conscious that they need to take better care of this one. It takes all sorts to make a world, and Nina’s got all sorts asleep in her cryobay; not only the people required to build it, but the ones to make it feel like home, too. After all, what good is saving humanity if you leave the best parts of it behind?
Some people find it easier than others to start new lives here on the other side of the galaxy, but then, it all depends on what they left behind. As Nina navigates relationships old and new, will she finally find the one thing she’s never had: a home?
Set in 2049 America, it is the story of Diana Gutierrez-Adams, a U.S. Space Force officer and war hero. She is tasked with retrieving her cryogenically frozen grandfather from a remote region outside the “pods” where 90% of the population live. When she and her military unit are captured by a domestic militia, she is caught up in a conspiracy that reaches higher than anyone can imagine.
To evade a devious enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Diana must outsmart a global monitoring system that tracks her every move. On a trail littered with the dystopian remains of middle-class America, she comes face-to-face with an artificial intelligence that threatens the future of all humankind.
Book Review: Childish Spirits by Rob Keeley
This book was kindly sent to me to review. However, all opinions are my own and honest. This post also contains affiliate links.
Title: Childish Spirits
Author: Rob Keeley
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
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This book follows two children who move into an old house and spooky things begin to happen which leads to the children meeting spirits and trying to solve a mystery.
Our two main characters, Ellie and Charlie, or 'Chas' were introduced well from the beginning, with personality and their own individual characteristics which made me more invested in what was going to happen to them.
The build-up and foreshadowing were excellently implemented and it made me keen to read on and find out what exactly was going to happen and what the cause of the strange occurrences was.
I do feel like I would have liked more information about the family's background in the first few chapters so I could see where they had come from and why they had moved to this place.
The sense of foreboding increased chapter by chapter as we found out more about a spirit living in the house. It was quite dark in places, with mentions of child death.
I also found the children's relationship with their dad a bit strange with conversations between them not feeling fully realistic.
One of the spirits was actually quite creepy and this added to the dark atmosphere of the book. I enjoyed seeing Ellie and Charlie questioning the situation and delving more into the mystery and I wanted to know what had happened.
If you are looking for a quick contemporary mystery with spirits and that also deals with family relationships, I would recommend checking this book out.
My rating: 3/5 stars
Book Review: The Legend of Podkin One-Ear (The Five Realms #1) by Kieran Larwood
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Chronic Illness Guest Post by Tylluan Penry
The most interesting theory I can come up with for this state of affairs, is that stress has a lot to answer for. Almost everyone in a similar situation to myself has cited stress as a possible cause for the immune system going into overdrive. I can’t prove it of course and at the moment health professionals aren’t interested in exploring this idea. I’ve even suggested they should bottle whatever is wrong with me as a sort of ‘cure-all’ but I don’t think they will take me up on that.
There were clues that something was amiss long ago, but the most devastating and unexpected symptom was losing my sight. I’d driven about 50 miles to Hay on Wye, and suddenly, in a bookshop, I thought it looked very dark. It turned out that a wide horizontal band of vision in my left eye had disappeared. Just like that. Over the next few days it got worse and worse. It eventually returned, but with some colours, especially blue and yellow, so bleached that they were meaningless. I’d had optic neuritis, and I had more bouts of it in the ensuing years, each leaving its own, dirty, frightening mark.
Book Review: Kodi by Jared Cullum
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Book Spotlight: The Fast Little Fox (The Fast Little Fox & Friends book #1) by Jill Horton
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Books on my Wish List: January 2022
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I love books. Reading allows me to escape from physical and mental symptoms and it makes me feel happy and relaxed. As people recommend me books, I am adding them to my wish list! I have set my Goodreads goal at 200 this year. I am eager to read as much as I can this year. I am getting books from Scribd and my library and using the books on my shelves too. But there are some books that I either can't get from Scribd or my library, or I would just really like a physical copy of. I am really preferring to read books physically, especially because I seem prone to migraines these days. I am listening to biology-based audiobooks though! So here are some of the books that are currently on my wish list:Monthly Book Club Buddy Reads Announcement
Hi everyone! I recently opened the monthly membership option on my Ko-Fi. This is like Patreon but you can pay anything you want to support me and you get exclusive rewards. One of these is a monthly book club buddy read.
Why I opened Ko-Fi membership:- I wanted to create a community where we can chat & have somewhere to go
- I wanted to have a place to talk about books as much as we like
- I currently can't do things I used to do & things are uncertain so this would give me something concrete
- A shout-out at the end of every blog post, including your name and website or author page link (you can opt out, this excludes book spotlight posts)
- Access to an exclusive Discord server to chat about books, health, games, writing/content creation etc.
- Regular reading sprints by message on a dedicated Discord channel
- Vote/contribute to upcoming content e.g. helping me decide my next read, blog post or topic to write a poem on
- Sneak peaks into any upcoming plans
- Monthly book club: help choose our book and chat about it on Discord
- An individual shout-out on Twitter once a week
- A shout-out in a monthly supporters blog post which can include your links and work and this will be shared on social media
- Regular updates from me about books, life, health etc.
- Direct message me to request blog posts and tweets and if possible, I will try to create them