Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Two Things

You know how everyone was putting a picture of a giraffe on their Facebook profiles a while back?  Well, I have an even better idea.  Let’s all put a picture of a teapot as our profile pictures in honor of all those how drink tea.  Tea drinkers are highly overlooked (at least in America, with the exception of Boulder, Colorado where Celestial Seasonings teas are bagged).  We need to be more attentive to these people.  Quiet, peaceful, comtemplative people.  They understand the importance of that break in the day called “afternoon tea.”  We can all learn something from this culture of drinking tea.  So, hail to the TEA DRINKERS!  Today I will change my profile pic to a teapot!

The second thing I have to say today is that I finished a novel called Wildalone by Krassi Zourkova and it left me in a rage.  My view of men is quite different than the main character’s opinion of the two main men in the book.  Has anyone else read this book?  Does anyone else share my rage?  I wrote a brief review on Goodreads.  I tried to be nice.  Some say if you are a writer reviewing someone else’s book, you must give a pleasant review (because it’s unkind to say bad things about theirs when you want a good review on your own book).  But it’s not right to lie.  So I just said what I thought but in a nice way.  Because, although it may not be the perfect book for me, there are plenty of people who would give it five stars and those are the people who need to find it.

You can find me on Goodreads here.  I’m curious on your opinion of the book.  I thought it was very poetically written, but the rights and wrongs of the love triangle are a completely different story.  None of this is from a literary standpoint, more from a realistic (and dare I say, moral) standpoint.  The attraction people have to immorality escapes me.  How a woman could be attracted to a man that wants her for her body alone is beyond me.  Does she not know that that kind must have many women and that he will not give up those many women at the drop of a hat (like a certain character did in the book)?  Anyways, if you want to talk more of that nonsense, come read my review and let me know what you thought of the book.

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Monday, March 30, 2015

Book Review for Innocence Coming April 3!

I have connected with a book blogger I'm excited to work with.  Her name is Karen Steer and she lives in Australia. (I thought that was really cool!)  She has agreed to review my first mini-book Innocence.  I am really excited and grateful to be working with her.

As an introduction to her, I would like to give you the link to her website www.karensbookhaven.com so you can check out her reviews of other books as well and see what she's all about.  The review for Innocence will be posted on her website on April 3, 2015, so mark your calendars.  I will post the link as soon as it's available, and, believe me, I'll be reminding you all of the upcoming review all week long.  I love connecting with other people who are passionate about any aspect of books or writing.

Below I have posted a bit about Karen from her about page (reprinted with permission), along with her picture.

Karen Steer
Here is a bit about Karen:
"Hi there - I'm Karen and welcome to my haven.
To say I love books would be an understatement. I adore them. I love all sorts of genres. Romance, erotica, young adult, women's fiction, some paranormal and thriller are the ones I gravitate towards the most. I love nothing more than diving into a book and being transported to another world and being bewitched by the author's characters. There is no better feeling than a book hangover.

"I am a mother of two boys, married to the man of my dreams and live in a beautiful part of Australia, just north of Sydney.

"I love talking about books. I can be often found on instagram and twitter talking about the books I've reviewed. I give honest reviews and I welcome others recommendations too."

Here are the links for her social media:
Facebook  (She's got an amazing 1,133 likes.  Be sure to add yours!)

Karen also offers Beta and Proofing services at a competitive rate.  If any of my writer friends are reading this, or you know of someone looking for this type of service, click here for more information.

I would like to thank Karen in advance for her hard work and support of authors.  Without readers and book bloggers our skill set would be kinda useless.  Thank you so much, Karen!

Don't forget to get your copy of Innocence.  It's the first mini-book (which means it's only six chapters long so it's perfect for a quick read) in my Gold Dragon series.  The second book will be out very soon.

You can get a copy at...
Etsy for only $1.99 in PDF format!
Amazon for the low price of $2.99 (lowest they'd let me go) in .epub format.
iBooks also for the low price of $2.99 in .epub format.

And coming soon...in print!  The hard copy version will be sold on Etsy.com as well as locally in a wonderful shop called Simply NC.  So if you live in my lovely hometown of Clinton, be sure to stop by for your copy.  I will post when they are available.  In the meantime, check out Simply NC on the Square in Clinton for everything North Carolina.  You'll love the shop.

Thanks for reading, as always, and I'll keep you posted about the release of the next book Awakened as well as the link for Karen's review!