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…

Dani Hoots’ Review of Bound by Night by Larissa Ione

Bound by Night, Book 1 of The MoonBound Clan Vampires, by Larissa Ione Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Pocket Books Review by: Dani Hoots Bound by Night follows Nicole Martin and Riker, a human and vampire, as they try to right wrongs of both of their pasts while also trying to survive. As a young girl, Nicole’s…

A Review of Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads *Broken Monsters* is not your run of the mill, average, ordinary read. It becomes a mind warping, engrossing read that’s full of suspense and unimaginable horrors in all different shapes and styles. The title itself leaves the reader to question if whether everyone in some way or another is broken, and if perhaps…

Review of “F,” by: Daniel Kehlman

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads Novel Released Today: August 26, 2014, from Patheon/ Knopf Publishing Services     Ever since the nineteen-fifties or sometime around there, philosophy has practically been bogged down in existential vexations: questions and intellectual extrapolations surrounding the meaning of human existence and consciousness in a century that has been bursting with the revolutionary…

Lestat Book Coven Newsletter-8/21/14

**Read the entire post to find out more details on how you can win a genuine signed, first-edition hardcover edition of The Vampire Lestat!!**     NEWS ABOUT Coven of the Articulate: A Scholarly Compendium of Anne Rice’s novels. (Click the hyperlinked text, to read more information about essay submission guidelines and the ultimate deadline for all…

Maria V. Snyder Wednesdays: Review of “Storm Glass”

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads        After two weeks without any Maria V. Snyder-centric posts on this blog, the much-anticipated retrospective reviews of her books returns in fine form and flourish with the first entry of the Glass Trilogy, with the intrepid, often ruthlessly defiant Opal. Antithetically, I would say that Opal is more daring and…

Tea Time at Reverie: Tazo®’s China Green Tips Green Tea

So far at Tea Time, we’ve covered three different teas flavored with floral, fruit, or herbal notes. Today we’re going back to basics. I’ve been craving green teas recently, and one of the choices in my current supply stash is Tazo®’s China Green Tips Green Tea. According to Tazo®’s website, this tea is made from…

Review of ‘Storm Siren’ by Mary Weber

Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads Then I see my eyes. Standing out like sea sirens- clear, salty, ice blue. I don’t even look good enough to be a slave. I look like a curse. Storm Siren is the tale of the slave girl, Nym, who believes herself cursed. Nymia is a slave in the war torn lands…