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The Crow Girl Book Review

‘The Crow Girl’ Book Review

I don’t think I’ve ever read a book like The Crow Girl. I can’t decide if it was a work of high avant garde, wherein our expectations are subverted (no satisfying ending, double and triple tricks from unreliable narrators, perhaps making a comment on the overuse of unreliable narrators?). Or if it’s just a poorly written […]


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‘The Beautiful Dead’ by Belinda Bauer – Review

The Beautiful Dead is a story we’ve read before: Serial killer fixates on a pretty TV reporter. But it’s the details of the lives of the victims, the reporter, and even the killer, that give the book a heart. Will you be thinking fondly of this book or quoting it in ten years? Doubtful. But […]


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Harry Potter Guide: Yes, You DO Need To Read The Books

Writing this Harry Potter guide was quite an undertaking. It was a difficult task, not only because there’s so much information to gather and share, but also because I’m so emotionally attached to Harry Potter and the wizarding world. Unlike most die-hard Harry Potter fans who started reading the books when they were children, I […]


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The Prince of Knocknafay

‘Travers McCraken The Prince of Knocknafay’ Review

The tagline for this first novel by author Bret Bouriseau is “A Very Grown-Up Bedtime Story” isn’t quite accurate. Oh sure, there are the steamily written intimate scenes, and the occasional bawdy joke, but the “grown-up” part may make some people think it’s something that it’s not. It would be more precise to say “A […]


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‘Spiders in the Daffodils’ by Nelson W. Pyles

Nelson W. Pyles does a lot. He hosts podcasts, narrates audio books and writes. And by write I mean essays, blogs, short stories and novels. He’s creating himself a nice legacy filled with believable characters in situations-not-so-believable—but that doesn’t mean they’re not gripping, intense pieces. It just means that you have to keep reading because […]


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