Category: Reviews

TE: 05/14/2019 06:35:52 PM BODY:The Demon Always Wins by Jeanne Oates Estridge My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good interplay between characters The characters are the star of this book, the plot of which could almost be lifted from a twelfth century passion play. They are all well defined characters who do the things they…

Amazon link This is a coming of age story set in an alternate version of early twentieth century San Francisco in a world where inhuman creatures such as vampires and lycanthropes are real. It took me some time to figure out that what the author intended was neither “The Perils of Pauline” nor a Wooster…

The beginning of this book is more than mildly confusing, even contradictory in places, but it does manage to introduce the story and the setting without a massive infodump. There are a lot of plot threads left hanging, or begun and simply left, but I don’t consider that necessarily a bad thing. Real life is…

The set up This essentially re-tells the biblical story of the rise of David with a few additions. It is the first in a series. The good: The writing is clear. and most people should know the background of the story The needs improvement: Lots of telling, not so much showing What else you need…

The Set-Up This is evidently the first in a series. Emily is kidnapped from our Earth (or a reasonable facsimile) by a necromancer in order to sacrifice her to the dark powers because she is a Child of Destiny. She’s rescued by a sorcerer who finds she has some magical talent and sends her to…

Too Wyrd The Good: The writing flows well. I was able to (mostly) keep reading smoothly. The elements of magic and fantasy feel organic and not forced. Works around the flaws in the protagonist to send the story where it needs to go. Lengthwise, this is an actual novel, unlike many Amazon books that tease…

A Spell In The Country 30days30authors #30authors30days The Good: This is an enjoyable little story I like the characters, the dialog and the narration are good, and it kept me reading and interested. As jaded as I sometimes get about books, that’s not a trivial feat. If what you’re after is a fun little read…