Awakening by Catrina Burgess Amazon/Barnes & Noble/Goodreads Published by: Full Fathom Five Digital Review by: Dani Hoots Seventeen-year-old Colina was born a healer. But after a horrific event forces her to leave her clan, she becomes desperate to learn the dark magic of the death dealers, mages who draw their power from the spirits of the…
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Dani Hoots’ Review of Be Careful What You Witch For by Thomas Hoobler
Be Careful What You Witch For by Thomas Hoobler Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Booktrope Editions Review by: Dani Hoots Magic is a tricky thing. Especially when it comes from an ancient book of spells that jumps off a shelf into Olivia’s hands. Bad news for the popular girls in her new school who don’t…
Discovery of Witches, Chapters 1-12 Discussion- Formative Stages of Alchemy
Be sure, if you haven’t already, to obtaina copy of Discovery of Witches from either Indiebound (independant book stores), Kobo, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, or at your local library. Today, we’ll be mostly focusing our discussion (very brief overview, with some discussion questions) on the first 150 pages of the story, with relation to the beginning stages/ formative…
Review of “Hostile Takeover” by Shane Kuhn
Amazon/Barnes &Nobles/IndieBound/Goodreads Synopsis, Taken from Simon Schuster Product Detail Page: Professional assassin John Lago faces off against his deadliest adversary yet—his wife—in Hostile Takeover, the exciting sequel to Shane Kuhn’s bestselling debut The Intern’s Handbook, which the New York Post called “a sexy, darkly comic thriller.” At the end of The Intern’s Handbook, John tracks…
Review of “The Witch of Painted Sorrow,” by MJ Rose, Featuring Downton Abbey Literary Tea Recommendation
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads This is my first foray into the decadent, luscious, powerfully enigmatic world of a MJ Rose novel, and the historical ghost drama, The Witch of Painted Sorrows, lives up to the high expectations I had about her novels. This is based on the many people I know personally that have recommended her novels, and…
Dani Hoots’ Review and Summary of Witch-Hunt by Marc Aronson
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Review by: Dani Hoots The mysteries behind the Salem Witch Trials has baffled scholars for many generations. What was the truth behind the witch accusations? Did people really believe that Salem was plagued by witches or…
Special, Spoiler-free review of Deborah Harkness’ “Book of Life”
Amazon/Barnes&Nobles/Books-A-Million/GoodReads Part of Female Magic Wielder Month on A Bibliophile’s Reverie Please be advised that it is spoiler-free, in terms of having no explicit plot revelations. But, people these days are even more over-scrupulous (and even a little neurotic) about avoiding spoilers. If you want to avoid them at all costs, don’t read any reviews before…
Review of Emily Croy Barker’s “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic”
Amazon.com (Kindle edition)/ Barnes & Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo/Books-A-Million *Review part of Female Magic Wielder’s Month-End of June-End of July* While reading this enchanting book, the main musical theme from Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle,” kept waltzing around my mind,both merrily and excitedly,indicative of my main mood while reading “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic.”…
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