I am a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic genre, so when I saw The Book of The Unnamed Midwife on NetGalley I was intrigued. A novel that follows a nurse the initial days after an apocalyptic event that kills a large portion of the female gender. In the days following the apocalypse women become property to men and it is revealed that no pregnancies render living children. As humanity struggles to overcome the loss of civilization, they also now must face a future without the ability to have children. I appreciated what this novel tried to do by bringing feminism to ... Continue Reading...
Tour: His Country Bride
When Ellie discovers her fiance is fraternizing with his secretary at their wedding, she flees to the only other place she can call home: a farm that her departed aunt left her in a will. She promptly steals her ex-fiances' car and burns her wedding dress in a fit of drunken rage that inevitably leads to the local law enforcement getting involved. The moment Ellie meets Sheriff Lucas McCann she immediately feels an attraction that she doesn't want. After her horrible wedding all she wants is time alone, but when danger follows Ellie to the sleepy small town she now ... Continue Reading...
Review: Freenet
Simara has spent her entire life in space living with a sexually abusive stepfather. Before the death of her mother Simara only experienced her stepfather’s abuse from afar, but now without her mother she becomes the primary target of his wrath. One day the abuse becomes too much and the naive girl who has ever lived in space flees to the Dark Zone; a planet where no digital signal can penetrate to the planet’s surface. There she meets Zen and uncovers a plot against special children like her who have a special connection to the virtual world’s AI “Mother”. Zen, a ... Continue Reading...
Tour/Review: The Aftermath
Excerpt: Review: Cormac "the Hurricane" O'Connell made plenty of mistakes with his life until he met Em who inspires him to be a better man. Fiercely protective, only three things in life matter to O'Connell: his wife, his family and his boxing career. The Aftermath follows O'Connell as he trains for a career defining fight while supporting his wife during her abusive step father's trial. With their future on the line in more ways than one, O'Connell struggles with anger management issues and 'faces the temptation of crossing a line he can never uncross. Life ... Continue Reading...
Re-Review: Nirvana
This is my review of the revised and published edition of Nirvana. My review of the ARC copy of Nirvana, which I enjoyed, can be found here. I'm pretty sure Nirvana was rewritten to fit with a middle grade audience or YA focus on the second go around. I'm not a reader of middle grade fiction, so my review probably doesn't really fit with the intended audience..but Nirvana works better as an New Adult Speculative Fiction title than a Young Adult title. To be fair, in such a short amount of time the author rewrote Nirvana better than I ever could. Uhh..okay. So, ... Continue Reading...