News and book reviews from award-winning British author K.J. Simmill
Onward the group proceeds through the black door. Onward in their quest and... around in circles? Surely that can't be right. But that is exactly what is happening. The latest Black Door seems to be a trap, sealing them within a strange labyrinth. Tempers rise and passions stir as they find themselves trapped. But as… Continue reading Book review: Vazdrag – Daniel J. Strait (@daniel_strait )
Anka had been raised to fear relics, touching them was taboo. Their power had razed cities, and had destroyed the bridge between worlds. So when one called out to her by name she knew true fear. She was a warrior in her village, brave, quick, and strong, yet the pull was impossible to resist. As… Continue reading Book review: Relics of Andromeda – Jonathan Michael Erickson (@EricksonAuthor )
Over the last several years I have been compiling a list of words that can be used in place of said. I have already shared this list with come of you as part of support groups, but I decided, since I recently publicly posted it on Facebook, I may as well add it to my… Continue reading 308 words that can be used instead of said
Tally should never have written that email. Then again, she didn't believe her doctors or her parents when they told her the life she remembered, the friends, the love, the parties, had all just been a dream within her coma. A coma she had slipped into after taking drugs. She knew she wouldn't do that.… Continue reading Book review: Blackout – Joey Paul (@MsJoeyBug )
When her mother is caught in the crossfire of murder Brit suffers an endless stream of nightmares. In a blink, she has lost her best friend, her home, everything. But she is not one to sit and lose herself to grief, not when there are answers to find and someone to be held accountable. It… Continue reading Book review: Game Six – Judy Bruce
With his technology stolen and his robot beheaded, things didn't seem as if they could get any worse for Bud. That was until the police arrested him, handing him over to FBI authority. The problem with being a genius, capable of amazing feats, is everyone wants your brain, especially the government. With promises of a… Continue reading Book review: JB Michaels -The Castle
Zan knew loving Rainer was dangerous. She had known it for some time. Every time it was his turn to fight in The Turning she feared he may not come back, especially now Lucifer, Rainer's father, had upped his game. Long had his father forsaken Balance and embraced only Destruction. He had made it his… Continue reading Book review: Libby Doyle’s The Vengeance Season
Michael and Kyle were brothers in both arms and blood, but any in the Black Knights would stand side by side, shoulder to shoulder. They would out their life in the hands of their fellow guild members without question. Experience from the twenty-year war had taught many lessons, ones the other guilds serving the king… Continue reading Book review: Brian Lambert – Ascension
Akinia had barely survived the torture. She had been flayed and beaten to the brink of death, healed, and forced to endure again. But even then they could not turn her. It had been a long road of recovery, and her insistence about being let back in the field, instead of hidden away on Paméd,… Continue reading Book review: Sarah Y. Westmoreland – Najee: Awakening (@SWestAuthor )
Akinia was obsessed with learning, in fact, she had learnt to hack in order to expand the material she had access to. One thing she never discovered though was why she had been left as a nearly new-born baby at the orphanage, nor why the necklace, her only possession aside from a plain blanket, protested… Continue reading Book review: Sarah Y Westmoreland – Najee: A Glimmer of Hope (@SWestAuthor )
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