The neighborhood opossum is still hanging around my patio in the evenings. In fact, there’s several now. They love eating the cat food I leave out for a stray male that drives my Sammie crazy. He wants out so bad as he thinks he’s gonna beat the bad cat up. Nope, ain’t gonna happen. 😆
2-star – “Overall it was an enjoyable incursion into the future, but there were so many unanswered questions and so little real character development that it was disappointing. The “heroes” had little to no remorse for their family, siblings, friends, loss of lifestyle. They didn’t appear to figure out or even consider that if their world was destroyed in year 2041 that everyone and everything they knew and loved would be obliterated within their normal lifetime had they stayed. The question of the car horn and the posts was never answered. And, at the very end, why was the car found in the same place? It had a full tank of gas and they would have driven vs. walked. Why was the merchandise still in the car?”
Me – These are all valid questions. I developed the characters more than what Bob had in the original rough draft, but maybe not enough. I never thought about how Don and Janet would feel about leaving their family or the fact their loved ones were dead. As for the other points, yeah, major plot holes. But, not something I will fix.
1-Star from 2017: “The dialogue is wholly unconvincing. Characters say things no normal person would say, and they’re forever addressing each other by name, John, which sounds really weird, doesn’t it, John? Yes, Tom, it sure does.
There are too many redundancies and repetitions in the text.
The passive voice is used too frequently, which pushes the narrative into telling rather than showing.”
Me – This review has a lot of valid points, and I addressed them when I re-edited and republished the book. I never thought about the use of names all the time in dialogue. Since then, I’ve seen other authors do the same thing and I HATE it. 😆 However, bare in mind that in 2016 this story was a Finalist in the Readers’ Favorite book awards. So, reviews are very subjective.
2-star from 2020: “I was really looking forward to reading this book and in the beginning I was excited about the story. However the language and content were inappropriate and not suitable to my standards. I will admit as a Christian I have high standards in this area and do not read books that go beyond my values in these areas. Therefore, I did not finish the book further than Chapter 1. :=(“
Me – I have a disclaimer on the book description that there are sex scenes and violence, so it’s on the reader if they ignored the warnings. Authors with any type of steam in their stories receive these types of reviews all the time. Makes us shake our heads. Sigh.
There were other reviews that mentioned the bad editing. Yeah, I was in the learning process and the story got overhauled, again. Still, in 2016 it received Honorable Mention (4th place) in the Readers’ Favorite book awards. That was BEFORE I re-edited the book.
So, in summation, negative book reviews can be used for good. If you have a hard shell and don’t let them rip you apart. Okay, off to drown my sorrows. 😂🤣
She was broken to fulfil an immortal destiny and granted a second chance as a sacrificial lamb for the greater good as a hitman for a Clan of immortals. They needed to create a Dragon. Her sanity was collateral damage.
Endearing antiheroes, wickedly titillating paranormal fantasy warriors and a heartbreaking, magical realism tale of survival against insurmountable odds. She was broken to fulfil an immortal destiny and granted a second chance as a sacrificial lamb for the greater good as a hitman for a Clan of immortals. They needed to create a Dragon. Her sanity was collateral damage. It’s a hard knock afterlife.
No matter how far she ventured from this farm, she would always be the monster created within its walls of timber and shame. They would see what she really was. She was a murderer, a psychopath and a victim. She was all three of those things.
Warning: The information contained within this book is not intended for mere mortals. Reading this may inadvertently trigger your Correction. If you show great bravery during your demise, you may be given a second chance at life by one of the Guardians of the in-between. For your soul’s protection, you must join one of three Clans of immortals on earth. You are still reading this, aren’t you? Welcome to the Children Of Ankh Series Universe.
Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother.
But Uwe’s fortune changes when Hans Sauer, the village bully, recruits him to join a guerilla resistance unit preparing for the arrival of Allied soldiers. At first, Uwe is wary. The war is lost, and rumor has it that Hans is a deserter. But Hans entices him with talk of power, brutality, and their village’s ancestral lore: werewolves.
With some reluctance, Uwe joins up with the pack and soon witnesses their startling transformation. But when the men’s violent rampage against enemy soldiers takes a devastatingly personal turn, Uwe must grapple not only with his role in their evil acts but with his own humanity. Can he reclaim what this group of predatory men has stolen from him?
Or has he been a monster all along?
A Glitch in the Godcode? What could be stronger than the Gods?
Love… It’s a most curious thing. I’ve watched as Galaxies sprung from dust. I’ve had a front-row seat to the stars, bringing life to the cosmos. I have held the most powerful forces known to us in my hands and yet, I never suspected something so simple—so delicate, could unravel the entire universe.
![The Glitch: The Godcode Book One by [Adam Johnson]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DDFpENvnL.jpg)
Is surviving the apocalypse enough?
A diary of the post-apocalypse. (short story)
Our diarist documents the lives of a small group of survivors. They’ve lived past the hard part. What could be worse?
The Pain (originally titled Journal) was a quarter finalist in the Writers of the Future speculative fiction contest. The Pain explores the significance of one death in a world where death is commonplace.
They thought the Flood was the end…
An action-packed dystopian sci-fi
An underwater ark that shelters the last remaining survivors. A young doctor tormented by his past. A mysterious power that could drive them into madness.
A cataclysmic Flood has forced the survivors to retreat into an intergenerational ark, secluded from the world they have always known. But the wait is insufferable in the abyss of the Great Ocean. More than a century, heavy with silence, has passed.
The surface is but a timeworn dream. A forgotten memory.
But Skyler Goldberg is not ready to give up. Even if it means losing everything.
Can a single man show the Archeans the path to redemption in a world abandoned by its creator?
Flower of Memory is the prequel of the dystopian science-fiction series Amaranth. Fans of the TV series The 100 and the Snowpiercer will enjoy every page!
![Amaranth: Amaranth #1 by [David M Snow]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41qd1wvdqEL.jpg)
It’s senior year and all I can think of is escaping. I just never counted on tumbling into another time, and an alternate reality. History had never been my best subject, and being stuck in a place that didn’t have the creature comforts of the twenty-first century should have been a nightmare. And it might have been… if it weren’t for the handsome men vying for my attention. When I’d wished that magic and things like vampires were real, I should have been more careful because my two suitors are a demon and a werewolf. What could possibly go wrong?
WARNING: Recommended for ages 17+ due to strong language and adult situations. No cliffhanger!
![Werewolf's Temptation: A YA Fantasy Romance (Otherworldly Book 2) by [Jessica Coulter Smith]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jsDT1MTOL.jpg)
An invasion threat. A guardian in peril. A seventeen-year-old boy to save them all…even as he questions his origins and sanity.
All Kallum wants is a peaceful life in Levitor city with the girl of his dreams. He has life all planned out. But after a simulation test unexpectedly leaves him reeling, normal takes a whole different meaning. He loses his guardian and fears he’s turning into his worst nightmare—a Crazy.
Worse than all of this? He finds he’s the cause of the fracture in the aetherium, a stone of vast energy that powers the dome protecting Levitor. Now the threat of invasion from the savages outside looms.
What is this aetherium stone bestowed by the Aeternas, an alien race? Who are they? Why did they give the stone in the first place? Are they so benevolent? Probably not. No Levitorian citizens dare to question.
To top it all, the Aeternas are now out to get him. The Shadowers, Levitor’s rulers, are more than happy to deliver him on a plate.
It’s up to Kallum to fix the aetherium and save the city. He will have to choose where he belongs and what is really worth sacrificing for the greater good.
Will he have the courage to do what must be done?
