Of books, writing, and life in general
Today we have a guest post by Andy Gavin, author of The Darkening Dream, a chilling new dark fantasy novel, and creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter. The book has received rave reviews and is on sale for only 99 cents on Amazon Kindle from June 25th-29th! Download your copy here.
In addition, Andy is doing a big giveaway, including a $100 gift certificate to Amazon, signed copies of his books, video games, posters, and more!
About the book
The Grimoire is an old magical book that answers only to one person and it has chosen Kara Magari, who accidentally stumbles across it during a hike. When she opens the book, she suddenly finds herself in Ourea, a beautiful yet terrifying world full of creatures that all want the book and its secrets. Kara suddenly becomes a most wanted person in this hidden magical world. By chance she meets Braeden Drakonin, a man who’s hiding something and has been looking for the book all his life. He can’t believe his luck when Kara comes into his life. Braeden only has one question for the Grimoire–one question that can fix everything in his broken life–and he’s not letting Kara out of his sight until he gets an answer. For Kara, there’s no way out of Ourea and she has no choice but to trust the Grimoire. — Get The Grimoire on Amazon.
I first found out about this book when I was browsing the giveaway page on Goodreads (awesome way to find book giveaways, by the way!). I saw the book and read the blurb. It had me at book and magic! I was feeling all book-blogger-ish and was interested in a book about a book. Plus it had magic stuff. And the title itself challenged me. Gree-mo-war? Grim-war? Gree-mee? Pronunciation challenge! :D
Time to play review catch up! Meaning, my posts in the next following days are all book reviews! Yay. And today we shall start with a little novelette.
Blink by Lloyd Poast is a short novel so this is going to be a short review! I’d like to thank the author for the opportunity to review his novelette and I also apologize for taking forever in posting this review.
In Blink, we read about Lance who had quite an adventure when he decided to enter the “scary” woods. Nobody ever goes to the woods, but Lance just couldn’t resist following the magical purple top hat that seemed to be calling to him. In less than twenty pages, we read about the interesting characters he met and the magical otherworld that he found himself in. Blink is a fast-paced fantasy ride. It feels like a rollercoaster ride–fast, confusing, amusing, fun. I think it’s perfect as a short story. If you want a quick fantasy fix, this is something you can consider.
Read more about Blink on Goodreads .
I received a review copy of this book at no cost and with no obligations. All opinions and views expressed are my own.
Today we’re featuring fantasy series The Ferryman & The Flame. Read on about this series and enter the $100 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway at the end of this post. :)
Remember the world of Harry Potter? You know, the world of magic, wizards, muggles, wizard government, flying broomsticks, good and evil? Of course you do!
If you miss ‘ole Harry’s world and have already read your HP books to pieces, here’s an easy alternative, The Day of First Sun. It has all those fun things, too. This book feels like it was set in Harry Potter’s world, only it isn’t about Harry or any of his friends or any of the other characters we know. Obviously it’s about other people, wizards and non-magical folks alike, and non-human creatures, too. Oh, and it’s set in the U.S. not the U.K. so some of yous can give those British accents in your head a rest. Well, you know, if you want.
I am a sucker for free Kindle books on Amazon. Every once in a while I check the top 100 free books list and download the ones that seem interesting to me. Most of the books I download fall in the young readers and fantasy categories. I download too many of these books, but I have only read a few of them. Some of the ones I read were so-so, but one or two were actually good. The Golden Acorn by Catherine Cooper was one of the nice ones.
Finally finished the book. Yayyy. Thank the heavens. Goodness, took me forever to get through that one. It was probably because I watched the HBO series first before I started on the book and I already knew what was going to happen so I guess I wasn’t really feeling the suspense and excitement of not knowing the twists and turns of the story and.. and.. SPLORT!
HNY! Happy New Year! May the year of the water dragon be great for all of us! :P
To celebrate, I read a book. Hah. Yay for geeks. Yay I finished my first book for the year. See? I’m still reading, folks! Okay, granted this is a book for young teens and is really easy to read, I think it still counts as good reading. Rick Riordan makes pretty good stories.
Whoa, reading wins! Yay!
Yes, I’ve been neglecting my blog a bit, but I haven’t been neglecting my reading. Yay for me. When I was in CDO for the holidays, I picked up these two books from Booksale:
