This is an interesting article about ‘citizen reviews’ and why people would prefer to read book reviews written by ‘ordinary people’ over book reviews written by the organs of literary snobbishness like NY Times. The Writing Way I don’t think there’s much of a mystery. You want to know whether people like you have enjoyed…
Returning from disaster on the Prussian front, William Laurence and his dragon Temeraire find yet more misfortune awaiting them. A lingering but deadly sickness has struck the dragons of Britain, leaving His Majesty’s Arial Corps barely able to keep up enough of an illusion of strength to prevent an immediate invasion from the air forces…
The Phoenix, by Ruth Sims How to begin to summarize this?! It’s a wonderfully complex book, but at its heart is the love between Kit St Denys – the famous actor who was born a gutter rat in London but killed his abusive father and earned a better life – and Nick Stuart, the idealistic…
Lord John’s mother is getting re-married, and the change threatens to stir up more than one thing which should remain hidden. For a start John is in danger of falling very much in love with his new step-brother to be, Percy, a love which is distinctly reciprocated. But in a more sinister turn of events,…
Author: Joey W. Hill Book Title: Rough Canvas, Publisher: Ellora’s Cave Author Website: http://www.storywitch.com/ Genre: Contemporary Thomas is a true artist – an immensely talented painter of erotic art – who has given up both his painting and his relationship with his muse and Master, Marcus, to run the family business after his father’s…
I don’t know why I didn’t post an entry about this book when I first read it, because I was impressed enough at the time to make an icon 🙂 But today I’ve ordered the sequel; ‘Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade’, so it seemed appropriate to catch up with a review of…
