Monthly Wrap Up: August 2019

This review was long overdue as I’ve read it back in June, but what’s late does not hurry… on the plus side, only 2 months to go until the  third book will be released!

“Limited Wish, the second book of the Impossible Times trilogy is just as fast paced, intriguing and full of heart as the first book was. Maybe even more so. Maybe some twists didn’t sit as well and was a bit predictable at places, but I’m just really nitpicking here. I would have jumped right at book 3 if I could, but alas, I have to wait – impatiently – for it to be released.”

Let me say, this book was one of my favorite reads this year. And I did read some awesome books.

“Daisy Jones & The Six is one hell of a tour of emotions, life and music. I don’t think a book ever made me tear up by page 38. And those were even happy tears!! Honestly, I just loved everything about this book from start to finish. It’s not happens every day that my extremely high expectations are met and I fell in love with a book everyone else seems to love. Just… go for it. Give this a read if your love the ’70s, rock and roll or just music in general. You won’t be disappointed. “

Ferocious Werewolf Virus Hits L.A. 
Werebeasts Rampage Through The Streets. 
The City’s In Chaos. 
Nobody’s Safe.

Enter Lucy Lowell, TheWerewolf Whisperer. 
Some call her savior.
Some call her bitch.
Xochi Magaña just calls her, FRIEND.

Together they kick Werebutt.
They thought there’d be no stopping them.
They didn’t know the half of it.

Welcome to the werewolf apocalypse. Hope you’re locked and loaded.

With a breath, the Dragon ruined everything. 

Yaki simply wanted to marry rich and then kill her husband. 

Her sister Ishe wished to inherit their mother’s airship and become the world’s youngest captain. 

Now the twins are on their own for the first time in their lives. Ensnared by the dragon’s schemes to conquer their homeland. With Yaki grievously wounded, the twins must escape the mountain. Ishe’s got a plan, but if she fails, they might not survive the Dragon’s Price.

Cath Schaff-Stump writes fiction for children and adults, from humor to horror. She is the author of the Klaereon Scroll series, the most recent of which is The Pawn of Isis. She lives and works in Iowa, teaching English. You can find her online at Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, @cathschaffstump, cathschaffstump.com, and unreliablenarrators.net, and follow her column The Crone on Substack.com

I’ve always believed there’s more to the story than we know, and I read and write to explore possibilities. I attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and still live in the Pacific Northwest where I enjoy hiking in the mountains, playing ultimate Frisbee, and being a member of the Olympia Writers Group. I’m a night owl who is most comfortable in the company of cats, fire, strong coffee, dark chocolate, and interesting weather.

Born in the year of Star Wars, in the birth town of Charles Darwin, he caught the fantasy bug as a child at the top of a faraway tree, in a hole in the ground and through a snowy wardrobe. He left Shropshire to study literature, travel the lands and seek his fortune. He settled in Madrid, where he teaches English and art, whilst scratching his imagination onto parchment.

Benjamin Hope is the author of gothic fantasy novel, The Procurement of Souls, and a number of short stories which have been published in speculative fiction journals. The sequel to The Procurement of Souls, A New Religion, is due for release at the end of 2019. He blogs regularly on the writing process and offers up recommendations in 60 words for novels within speculative and gothic fiction. He also occasionally guest lectures at universities on public speaking. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and daughter. Find him at http://www.benjamin-hope.com or follow him on twitter and Instagram @BenjamHope.

Carly Rheilan was born in Malta and lives in the UK. She was educated in the grand cloisters of Oxford University (which she hated and left) and then at Brunel (a small-town technological university where she discovered new worlds and stayed for a PhD). She is a psychiatric nurse. She has done research into criminal justice. She has children of her own and has also fostered two children with mental health problems. She has worked many years in the NHS. Her novels address issues at the edges of psychiatry, crime and personal trauma.

Carly Rheilan is shy and private person. If you want an image of her, you may picture her working late into the night in the rain of an English village, in a conservatory full of tropical plants, hunched over a computer and drinking too much coffee. When not working or writing, she spends time with family, rages against the politics of her unequal country, and battles against acres of nettles in a community garden.