Perdita By Hilary Scharper Sourcebooks Landmark January 20, 2015 $16.99 Trade Paperback “Stunning… richly complex and unpredictable.” —Historical Novel Review Marged Brice is 134 years old. She’d be ready to go, if it weren’t for Perdita . . . The Georgian Bay lighthouse’s single eye keeps watch over storm and calm, and Marged grew up…
Review of “Neverhome” and The Journey: A Kronberg Thriller” Paula Tupper’s
Editorial Notes: Sorry to Paula Tupper, for the delay for the many wonderfully written reviews she sent me for the next three months. To make up for that wide gap of time that she she was left hanging, I will be dutifully posting all her reviews that still need to be posted over the next day…
Review of “The Night Butterflies,” By: Sara Litchfield/ Literary Tea Feature
INDIE AUTHOR APPRECIATION MONTH! Be sure to check out details on how to win a complimentary tea prize, courtesy of Mighty Leaf Tea Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads/Book Buzz Encapsulating the experience of reading Sara Litchfield’s intense, almost psychedelic/nightmarish dystopian novel The Night Butterflies in linear words feels self-defeating, or even borderline futile (much like the process of reaching genetic…
Review of “Burn” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Review of Burn by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge Published by Little, Brown and Company Reviewed by Christina R. Olivo Fiction has a lovely way of working its way just when reality gets ugly. It also tends to have impeccable timing when it comes to current events. Most of the time we notice…
Review of “Falling Starr” Trilogy, by Dani Hoots, Special “Literary Tea” Feature, Tea and Book Giveaway
GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!!!!!! ENTER TO WIN AN OMNIBUS COPY OF DANI HOOT’S FALLING STAAR TRILOGY, BY CLICKING THE PHOTO ABOVE!! (Also, a special giveaway, from Mighty Leaf, is also featured towards the bottom portion of this post!! Be sure to enter that as well.) All contests are open only to those, living in either the US/Canada. Amazon/…
Dani Hoots’ Review of The Rebel Trap, Rebel #2 by Lance Erlick
The Rebel Trap, Book #2 of Rebel by Lance Erlick Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Smashwords/Goodreads Publisher: Finlee Augare Books Review by: Dani Hoots The Rebel Trab by Lance Erlick follows a young girl by the name of Belle who has been thrown out the Mech Warrior institute because of not killing a young man she met on the battle arena….
Prince Lestat Discussion Post #1/Reading Assignment for Week of December 7th, 2014
SPOILER WARNING: Do not read the below post, if you have not had the chance to read Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat just yet. Discussion Post, Pertains Explicitly to Section Three of Part One, Entitled “Fareed and Seth.” Question Being Discussed/ Analyzed in this Post: 1. Science emerges as something that plays a stronger role in the Vampire…
Tea Time at Reverie: Teasenz’s Red Dragon Pearls Black Tea
With all the samples I’ve received so far for Tea Time, I’ve done my best to offer variety with each new review. At the same time, I’ve been dying to try Teasenz’s Red Dragon Pearls ever since Teasenz’s package arrived. Grown and harvested in China’s Yunnan province, this black tea (also known as “Black Dragon…
Indie Author Appreciation Month- December, 2014 on “A Bibliophile’s Reverie”
Below, you will find some very exciting details, as well, about the unveiling of my new audio-book services for self-published writers!! Hopefully, all my awesome, dedicated blog readers had a wonderful, relaxing Thanksgiving, yet you’re probably clamoring to see more book-related posts here on this blog. Feeling cagey by the woeful lack of posts during the whole…
HF Virtual Blog Tour Post:The Gollantz Saga Book One: “The Founder of the House” by: Naomi Jacobs Interview
Publication Date: August 23, 2014 Corazon Books Genre: Historical Fiction Set in nineteenth century Paris, Vienna and London, this is a novel about family ties and rivalries, love and ambition. The Founder of the House introduces us to Emmanuel Gollantz, the son of a Jewish antique dealer, Hermann Gollantz. Hermann lives his life according to…
Review of “The Winter Sea,” by Susanna Kearsley & Special Literary Tea Recipe!
Amazon/Barnes & Noble/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads After having been thoroughly engrossed by Diana Gabaldon’s wonderfully dense historical fiction novel Outlander, I have been on my own purposeful quest to find other stories in the same genre corridor, which I know from the outset won’t be comparable to Outlander.That should never be one’s modi operandi for seeking out books,which are…
Tea Time At Reverie: Yezi Tea’s White Peony Master Grade White Tea
After some brisk and flavorful brews for the past few Tea Times, it’s time for something more delicate. So, I went through my Yezi Tea samples and decided on their White Peony Master Grade White Tea. This brand of White Peony (also known as Bai Mu Dan) is grown in the Jian’ou County of China’s…
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