South African Christian, husband, Software Developer, and author of the urban fantasy novella, Memoirs of a Guardian Angel.
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41% complete! Graham Downs has read 5 of 12 books.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in …
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in …
Jane's nightmares are back—and this time, they've unleashed a brutal killer.
Jane Walker's nightmares aren't …
This is a nice continuation to the story in Blood Mark. It's the same characters, but a brand new adventure, and the titular marks have evolved.
I like that the author reminds us of all the thing we need to know, so it's not as if you have to read this one immediately after the last one or you'll forget. I don't think you'll be able to enjoy this book if you HAVEN'T read the first one, but if it's been a while, don't worry. You'll be reminded of everything you need to know.
I can't put my finger on it, though... but this one just wasn't as good as the first one. It didn't keep me quite as enraptured, I found myself putting it down for days and days at a time and not missing it. It was just a little more predictable, I think.
I'll still read the …
This is a nice continuation to the story in Blood Mark. It's the same characters, but a brand new adventure, and the titular marks have evolved.
I like that the author reminds us of all the thing we need to know, so it's not as if you have to read this one immediately after the last one or you'll forget. I don't think you'll be able to enjoy this book if you HAVEN'T read the first one, but if it's been a while, don't worry. You'll be reminded of everything you need to know.
I can't put my finger on it, though... but this one just wasn't as good as the first one. It didn't keep me quite as enraptured, I found myself putting it down for days and days at a time and not missing it. It was just a little more predictable, I think.
I'll still read the next one, because there are only three books and I want to finish the story. If I'd just finished Book Two of a twenty-book-deep series, I might feel differently, but since there are only three, I may as well.
"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions …
Jane's nightmares are back—and this time, they've unleashed a brutal killer.
Jane Walker's nightmares aren't imaginary—they're glimpses into the traumatic …
"Where were you when you turned?"
In this zombie apocalypse, the fight for survival begins after you're cured.
The Wormwood …
Stories of the old west told in the tradition of Dorothy M. Johnson.
Usually in western fiction the men get …
A world-weary woman races against the clock to save two children from an enchanting but deadly forest in this dark …
Sorcerers are a blight. Knight Adept Geneve must end them.
A wizard rumored to hold the Tome of Lost Souls …
From the author of DEMONSOULED and THE GHOSTS, here is a new epic fantasy of high adventure, heroism, and daring …
Jane's nightmares are back—and this time, they've unleashed a brutal killer.
Jane Walker's nightmares aren't imaginary—they're glimpses into the traumatic …
When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. Caged …
Wow. Just. Wow.
That was a rollercoaster. It's got this epic feel to it, as we meet Senna, who in the opening chapters wakes up in a strange house, all alone, and discovers she's been kidnapped. We don't know why or by whom, but what follows is a long, introspective journey of her life and the trauma that she's been through, as she tries to piece together who did this and for what purpose.
And there's a lot of trauma. This character is a full, complex, messed up human being. There were things that made me laugh at loud, and things that made me so sad I almost wanted to close the book and never open it again.
It doesn't have a cliched "Happily Ever After" ending, either. No spoilers, but it's complicated, because LIFE is complicated, and the story captures that perfectly.
Oh, and I loved the Acknowledgements!
Christmas is more than a humbug. It's deadly.
Ben Scrooge has the world on his shoulders handling his recently deceased …
When reclusive novelist Senna Richards wakes up on her thirty-third birthday, everything has changed. Caged behind an electrical fence, locked …
Daniel and Aidan have spent their lives apart from the rest of the kingdom of …
It was okay. It reminded me quite a bit of Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, only with all the truly violent bits taken out to make it safe for children to read.
And it clearly is a children's book. Not my cup of tea anymore, but it definitely has the feel of those old adventure stories I would've read when I was 10 or 11 years old. So if you've got kids in that age group, I'm sure they'll enjoy it.
The writing is a bit simplistic (read: modern) for the genre, but again, that makes sense because it's a children's story. There's quite a bit of "thinking of himself" and "nodded his head", which are unfortunately two of my redundancy bugbears. It also contains the dreaded "alright" (I hate that word)...
But I'm being overly pedantic. For a preteen or young teen who likes fantasy, I think it'd …
It was okay. It reminded me quite a bit of Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, only with all the truly violent bits taken out to make it safe for children to read.
And it clearly is a children's book. Not my cup of tea anymore, but it definitely has the feel of those old adventure stories I would've read when I was 10 or 11 years old. So if you've got kids in that age group, I'm sure they'll enjoy it.
The writing is a bit simplistic (read: modern) for the genre, but again, that makes sense because it's a children's story. There's quite a bit of "thinking of himself" and "nodded his head", which are unfortunately two of my redundancy bugbears. It also contains the dreaded "alright" (I hate that word)...
But I'm being overly pedantic. For a preteen or young teen who likes fantasy, I think it'd be perfect!
