If it were possible to put a label on this novel, I think it would be Surrealistic Fantasy. It takes place in a world so uncertain that the buildings are constantly moving. It is a book about visuals: the beautiful, the grotesque, the gory, the wonderful. It’s also a mystery. Hard to say whether it’s…
Month: December 2019
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“Tainted Lionheart” By Christine Weimer
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This is a book of poetry that chronicles a woman working through the aftermath of a failed relationship. The chapter divisions follow her stages of grief, from pain to recovery.The strength of this volume is its evocative imagery and metaphor, the essence of poetry. Also the frequent flashes of insight that show a deep understanding…
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“Edge of Death” by Joni Parker
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All fiction reading requires a certain amount of suspension of disbelief. As a genre, Fantasy requires the most, because we must believe in a whole new world, usually with magic. However, there are limits to what a given reader will accept. Fortunately for this book, Young Adult readers are pretty forgiving. Most of them…
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“Refraction” by Terry Geo
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It’s difficult to give a mediocre review to what is basically a good story. But in this book there is just too much superfluous material keeping the reader from enjoying the characters and the conflict. This novel reads like the screenplay for an 8-episode Netscape series, complete with all the explanations of the scenes, telling…
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“Were We Awake: Stories” by L.M. Brown
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This is a book about the beautiful, ineffable loneliness of the human inability to share emotions. These people are not the ‘larger than life’ who expose their hearts on a big screen. These are the little souls who live their isolation in every empty minute of their lives. Their failures are the lack of contact.…
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“Below the Moon” by Alexis Marie Chute
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“Below the Moon” is a modern-day Young Adult Fantasy, a saga of alternate worlds and multiple races with multiple main characters and constantly shifting, incomprehensible magical powers. This is a book of uneven quality, created by a talented but inexperienced artist and writer. Thus it sometimes soars and sometimes crashes. While many readers who are…