#RBRT #bookreview for #YA #GhostStory WILL O’ THE WISP by C. S. Boyack
Blurb: There is something evil up Bergamot Holler, and it’s been targeting the Hall family for generations. Patty Hall is …
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Review of #YA #steampunk AUTOMATON, plus interview and bonus Chapter 1
A clockwork heart can’t replace the real thing.” ― Dru Pagliassotti, Clockwork Heart As a genre, I love steampunk’s science …
Review for 5-star #western MOLLY LEE by Andrew Joyce
We all know about the Wild West. Men wore cowboy hats—white stetsons for good guys, black for bad ones. Everyone was armed with a six-shooter, and cowboys were old white dudes with names like “Tex” who’d grown up on the open range. Women came in two kickass models: good (frontier wives/ preachers’ daughters) and bad (dance-hall girls/Soiled Doves such as Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday’s common law wife).
#MagicRealism, #AlternateHistory or… Review of BLINSBY, plus interview & excerpt
Magic realism is a genre that I like better before and after (as opposed to during) the experience. Actually reading the book is work. Or maybe the hard work happens at the beginning, when you have to turn off all the ways you normally look at and think about the world.
Review: luminous #memoir: Leaning Into Love by Elaine Mansfield
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ― Elisabeth …
Review of #YA #Fantasy #Quest THE BLACKWELL FAMILY SECRET, plus interview
I’ve never been a fan of blaming future generations for the sins of the fathers, but it’s a popular trope with certain gods, villains, and really pissed off ex-lovers.
Review: Lost and Found –humorous mystery thriller
In this character-driven humorous thriller, Daisy is a one-woman curvy strawberry-blonde bombshell force of nature. She can’t hold a job, can’t cook, and has a strange sense of dress. Her trademark charm, humor, and joy in life can send any situation spinning out of control, threatening her and hapless partner Solomon with danger, and even chance of death, but just as often providing the clues needed to solve the case.
Review of #DarkFantasy LINE OF DESCENT, plus interview & excerpt
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. (Psalm 139:12) What’s the difference between dark fantasy and horror …
#RBRT review of spy thriller Rise of the Enemy by Rob Sinclair
Thrillers—who reads them and why? At a recent dinner, talk turned from the election results (still an emotionally raw subject) …
Review of dark urban fantasy RAVEN’S WING, plus interview, contest, 2 Bonus Chapters
This week my guest is Shawna Reppert, award-winning author of the dark fantasy Ravensblood series It’s all Horace Walpole’s fault. In …
Barb Taub 