After this blog’s wonderful tea contributor Sara Letourneau tagged me on Facebook to devise this list, I decided to do it on the blog, as this is the most apt place to do this kind of thing. Even though it was mandated to be “10” by this recent Facebook trend, I decided to offer you…
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Review of Octavia E. Butler’s “Dawn: Book One of the Xenogenesis Trilogy” & Tea Recipe
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Be sure to check out the special literary tea recipe below, inspired by Octavia Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” series! Inadvertently, I was introduced to this gem of a science fiction novel, all due to lead woman Charlotte Wessels, from Dutch metal act Delain, citing this series as the main source of inspiration for…
Review of Neverhome by Laird Hunt
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Some books, dealing with hardened female protagonists, often skimp on the deep gender introspection, and oftentimes rely on the trope of the masculinized female heroine, who must completely divest of all feminine traits, to adapt in the male world. This psychological schism or divorce seems effortless, rewarding, and at the same…
Review of “Tokyo Kill,” by Barry Lancet
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Writing thrillers is no easy venture for any writer, and I’ve said that before with many of the previous thriller I’ve gotten the chance to read and review for this blog. Thrillers are easily some of the most challenging books, for any writer, to try their hand at writing. Many…
Review of A Triple Knot, by: Emma Campion
Amazon/ Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/ Goodreads Review: Book’s Title: A Triple Knot Author of Book: Emma Campion Published by: Broadway Books; 2014 Review written by: Shonda Wilson Historical novels walk a tightrope between the truth and fiction. In order to succeed, an author needs to realistically convey a story that has, for the most part,…
Blogger Vent Corner: The Quandary of Slow Publishers & Imminent Archival Dates: Why the Archival Vault needs to go?
Every Saturday, we will be having a vent corner, to help stir constructive conversation about issues that you face daily when trying to blog, whether that be emails that are persistently ignored for weeks on end (months on end, in some cases), tips on how to write the most tactful inquiries, how Netgalley/Edelweiss-platforms that are…
Lestat Book Coven Newsletter-9/4/14- Queen of the Damned Discussion & Prince Lestat Anti-Spoiler Policy
At the bottom of the post, be sure not to miss out on entering a contest to potentially win a signed, First-edition hardcover of “The Vampire Lestat!” The contest is ending very soon!! \ Prince Lestat’s release is on the horizon, and the reader’s ability to read, without fear of spoilers, is being cruelly encroached…
Review of “China Dolls,” by Lisa See
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads In ninth grade (a time that seems eons ago..), I wrote a report on Japanese Internment camps, since the topic completely fascinated me. This was at a time, where history lessons were becoming increasingly more divisive, thus featuring more critical thought and response as a result. Most of my education has…
Is selling ARCs of a book, before pub. date, considered theft?
Picture Taken from a recent product page, for a “Prince Lestat” ARC, being sold nearly three months prior to the slated Publication Date. **Click the hyperlinked text, to be taken to the incriminating Ebay page, which really quite shocked me, to say the least!** As a book blogger, it is commonplace for me to receive Advance Reader…
Review of Night of the Chupacabra by Michael Hebler
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads Night of the Chupacabra by Michael Hebler Written by Michael Hebler Review by Christina R. Olivo The journey with the chupacabra continues with Michael Hebler’s first installment of the series Night of the Chupacabra. While the third book would act perfectly fine as a stand-alone piece it left a good amount of…
Review of David Mitchell’s “The Bone Clocks”
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads From the fantastically visceral film adaptation of another David Mitchell masterpiece “Cloud Atlas,” the Cloud Atlas sextet serves as the musical underpinning that really weaves together all the disparate elements of that story. There is so much needless, and even at times, inordinate effusion and tomfoolery in this review, so you…
New Chat Format Change Policy/ The Vampire Lestat Wrap-up Discussion Post
**Click the cover image above for Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned, to be taken to Amazon, to purchase the newest edition, containing the first chapter of the much-anticipated Prince Lestat.** Discussion for Queen of the Damned begins September 1st, 2014, so be sure to have your copy prepared to read analytically, for the next few…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 