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Featured Fantasy: Finding the Way (Wishmaster Book 2) by Astrid V.J.

December 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Finding the Way (Wishmaster Book 2) by Astrid V.J.

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Viola Alerion has been on the run from the intergalactic Haldrian Empire for most of her adult life. After parting ways with her one and only apprentice who’s faith inspired her own transformation, the storyteller finds herself plagued with more profound, life-altering questions than she’s ever been willing to consider. And most importantly, she is in a position to choose her path, seemingly for the first time in her life.

Determined to face her past and unlock the secrets her apprentice hinted at, Viola sets off into the jungle of Téarman unaware of dangers there, which will test her faith, her self-belief and threaten to cast her back into the pit of her worst despair. But more frightening even than a raging swarm of poisonous fireflies is the knowledge she must face the most terrifying and powerful being in the whole intergalactic empire—her mother.

This is the second book in the Wishmaster series. For best enjoyment, read The Apprentice Storyteller first.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Astrid V.J., Finding the Way, Wishmaster

Featured Fantasy: Galactic Rift (Star Mage Saga Book 8) by J.J. Green

December 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Galactic Rift (Star Mage Saga Book 8) by J.J. Green

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The black is a lonely place

Carina Lin, her mage family, and her mercenary band, the Black Dogs, are on the final leg of their long journey aboard the colony ship, Bathsheba.

But before they can reach Earth, a beam latches onto the ship and drags her to an unknown destination.

When the crew arrives at a strange planet, they must fight to make their escape or face a terrible fate.

Galactic Rift is book eight in the dark, exciting space fantasy, Star Mage Saga.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Galactic Rift, J.J. Green, Star Mage Saga

Featured Fantasy: When Vamps Bite (Bedlam in Bethleham Book 1) by Nicole Zoltack

December 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: When Vamps Bite (Bedlam in Bethleham Book 1) by Nicole Zoltack

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Detective Clarissa Tempest is one of the best at sniffing out goons, but these particular goons seem to be the bloodsucking kind.


Vamps aren’t real, right? Of course not. But Clarissa knows what she’s seen. Unfortunately, she’s a little distracted, and her actions earn her a suspension. Great. Life is really looking up. Maybe her therapist is right. Maybe she’s under too much stress and is seeing things.


But then a vamp seeks her out, telling her to knock it off and leave them alone or else he’ll knock her off.
 Clarissa isn’t the kind to back down, though.

Hopefully, keeping Bethlehem safe won’t require her to lose a lot of blood… or her head.

WHEN VAMPS BITE is a part of A Mayhem of Magic World Story universe.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Bedlam in Bethlehem, Nicole Zoltack, When Vamp Bite

Featured Science Fiction: Primordial Earth the Complete Collection by Baileigh Higgins

December 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Science Fiction: Primordial Earth the Complete Collection by Baileigh Higgins

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This is their world, and we are the prey.

After an unexplained event shifts entire cities millions of years into the past, life becomes a daily struggle for survival. Rogue, tenacious and fierce, has never known anything except a harsh life on the streets of Prime City until she finds herself on the wrong side of the law… and the wall.

Nothing could’ve prepared her for the wilderness…
Exiled, unarmed, and alone, she faces a perilous journey into a savage prehistoric world. With nothing but her wits, she sets out into the unknown. Can she find a way to survive, or will the primordial land claim yet another victim?

Get the entire Primordial Earth 10 Book Series in one complete collection for over 1400 pages of suspense-filled, character-driven, post-apocalyptic action.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Baileigh Higgins, Primordial Earth

Featured Fantasy: Into the Darkwood Complete Fantasy Romance Trilogy by Anthea Sharp

December 18, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Into the Darkwood Complete Fantasy Romance Trilogy by Anthea Sharp

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Prophecy demands she marry a Dark Elf prince, but Mara Geary refuses to meekly accept her fate.

Danger, adventure, and romance await in the magical forest of the Darkwood, where an intrepid heroine and a warrior prince must learn to trust one another before their kingdom is devoured by an ancient enemy…

A complete epic fantasy trilogy brimming with intrigue, royalty, and fairytale enchantment from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp. Includes: ELFHAME, HAWTHORNE, and RAINE

Mara Geary faces a bleak future in the village of Little Hazel until, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, strange glowing lights beckon her into the mysterious shadows of the Darkwood. She follows, seeking adventure. What she finds is her destiny…

Prince of the Hawthorne Court, Brannon Luthinor has spent his life becoming a powerful warrior-mage in order to save his people. Now, on the eve of war, his fate is rapidly approaching. Brought together by fate, Bran and Mara forge an uneasy alliance. But in the face of evil, they must find a way to trust their lives – and their hearts – to one another.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Anthea Sharp, Into the Darkwood

Book Review: The Ice Pick Surgeon – Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

December 15, 2022 by Carolynn

Book Review: The Ice Pick Surgeon - Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

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This book was thoroughly entertaining … even when it was devastating. I see a lot of memes out in the world about “Trust the Science,” and yes, we should trust science, but we should also remember science is a process. Also, scientists are human. They can be swayed by greed, glory, fame, or politics. We need to trust the process not the people.

This book starts in the age of colonization and works its way up to the present day. It covers a lot of ground, and so doesn’t cover all of the scientific scandals that occurred in my lifetime (the massive fraud that fueled the opioid epidemic, bone marrow transplants for breast cancer, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, and the false memory syndrome epidemic are notable for their absence.) But truly, there have been so many scandals just in my 50 years of life, it’s easy to see why not everything could covered. I think this book gives a good overview of the various reasons scientists can do bad things, how they lie to themselves, and how they lie to the public (and those who give grants.)

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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Sam Kean, The Ice Pick Surgeon

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