With September being the month of ‘Back to School’ purchases and running around in an attempt to get ready for yet another academic year, I was tempted to compose a list of non-fiction books for this month’s article…then thought better of it. So without further ado, here are just a handful (actually, there’s eight so [...]

The novel that brought dinosaurs back to life way before Spielberg’s directed Jurassic Park… First of all, I need to say sorry that it’s taken me a while to write a new review. I had a small creative breakdown and after a month’s hiatus I haven’t been able to stop writing since. Secondly, I’m going [...]

Over the course of my University career, (which is continuing into an MA as of October…I obviously don’t know when to quit), critical analysis has been the key to getting a high grade. When reading something – whether a piece of fiction or not – we students are always encouraged to look at the text [...]

The “Sisters of the Moon” series, also known as the “Otherworld Series” by Yasmine Galenorn has reached the level of recognition it deserves. “Bone Magic” made the New York Times best seller list in Paperback Mass-Market Fiction, a place well deserved. The series is labeled by the publisher as “paranormal romance”. Fantasy romance is my [...]

There are plenty of fantasy books about ‘fae’ out there these days – Laurell K Hamilton immediately comes to mind as one of the forefront authors within that genre, but where Hamilton writes of a Celtic fae culture, Seanan McGuire takes every faerie legend she can find and melds them into a cohesive whole. The [...]