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Review: Shield-Maiden: Under the Hunter’s Moon by Melanie Karsak

Review: Shield-Maiden: Under the Hunter’s Moon by Melanie Karsak

Hervor has been treated poorly by her grandfather the jarl her entire life. Now she has finally learned the truth of her parentage and sets off to seek Tyrfing, a dwarven blade that will prove her lineage. Masquerading as Hervarth, a young male, she and Yrsa, her mother-not-mother, travel to the island of Bolmso, where […]

Review: Come to Me Quietly by A.L. Jackson

Review: Come to Me Quietly by A.L. Jackson

Jared Holt believes that he doesn’t deserve anything good in his life. Jared goes through the motions, but he’s been dead inside since the day he lost his mother. When he runs into Christopher Moore, his best friend while growing up, he can’t turn down his offer to stay with him and his sister. Jared […]

Review: Shield-Maiden: Under the Howling Moon by Melanie Karsak

Review: Shield-Maiden: Under the Howling Moon by Melanie Karsak

I fell in love with Lagertha, a character in the History Channel’s show Vikings. The description of this book made it sound like the MC was a young Lagertha, which really appealed to me. I found that to be pretty accurate. Hervor is an outcast, unwanted and unloved by almost all. In her dreams Odin […]

Review: Monster by Jessica Gadziala

Review: Monster by Jessica Gadziala

I’ve been really into MC romances recently. My quest to find a new MC series to start led me to Jessica Gadziala. This isn’t an MC romance, but there are connected characters and this book came out before the MC series started. Or that’s what I think, anyway. Breaker is someone who gets things done […]

Lightning Review: The Prince and the Troll by Rainbow Rowell

Lightning Review: The Prince and the Troll by Rainbow Rowell

This was a well-written short story that really seemed to serve no purpose. I enjoyed how the friendship between Adam and the Bridge Troll developed, and there was a lot of witty dialogue, but the story lacked any kind of cohesion or conclusion. The Road (aka Climate Change and Development) were bad, but there’s nothing […]