Its been awhile since I read a crime thriller so when I saw Death on Ibiza I got really excited. The synopsis captured my interest because of the "vacation gone wrong", whodunit mystery. The lack of romance was a nice change because sometimes a girl just needs a read completely unlike the usual! Piel delivers writing that, with some experience, could become the next Kathy Reichs or James Patterson. Nick is a German personal trainer on vacation in Ibiza, Spain. The friendship with a local drug lord's son is worth the opportunity to live in luxury and enjoy exclusive ... Continue Reading...
Archives for August 2015
Thursday Bookish Updates #6
Thursday Bookish Updates is a weekly post here at Silk&Serif devoted to anything book related. The main goal of this posting is to keep readers up to date on what's going on in the community and get a taste of future posts. I will provide information on some community events I am participating in and blurbs on newly acquired titles to be reviewed at a later date. I might even slip in a few surprises here and there. I was inspired by a post I read by Kelsye at Wise Ink Blog Ultimate Bloggers Guide to Growing Your Readership. Her list of ways to increase traffic ... Continue Reading...
Review: Resistance – Dave vs The Monsters #2
Following the same satirical path as Emergence, we return to Dave and the end of the world via Orc-creatures. We return to find Dave, drunk on his new found hero status, in Los Vegas and making a complete fool of himself. He can have all the women he wants, VIP perks he can handle and there's even live television interviews! Of course, Dave's sweet ride in life gets more complicated when dragons appear and the Orcs return demanding to see The Champion Dave. for a chat. Unfortunately, things get even worse when a shadow government operation recruits Dave, a super spy ... Continue Reading...
Review: Lumière
Eyelet is a member of the Afflicted, a group of people who have strange, fear inducing conditions that are labeled madness. She hides this affliction every day with the hope that one day she will discover The Illuminator: a long lost machine her father built to cure her illness. Eventually she tracks down The Illuminator and catches an mysterious boy in the act of stealing it. The law wants Eyelet dead and she has little choice but to spirit away in the boy's carriage. So begins the story of a girl who learns the Earth shattering truth about her father's Illuminator ... Continue Reading...
Beta Reading 101: The Low Down
I started off as all new reviewers do - completely lost and lacking any self-confidence. I spent the first year of my review career only posting on Goodreads. I didn't feel what I had to say was important. I definitely wasn't ready to create a blog or interact with authors. The very thought of talking to an author was intimidating. What if they didn't like me? My first year proved to be educational on all sorts of things and I enthusiastically nabbed every bit of experience I could get. I requested titles on NetGalley, read freebies on Amazon and even reviewed ... Continue Reading...