Hey all, Sam here. Happy Book Birthday to Paula Lafferty today for the trad pub release of The Once and Future Queen. Originally self-published as La Vie de Guinevere, this book was a fast success, after a massively successful Kickstarter, and lots of social media buzz. I read and reviewed the self-pubbed edition last year,… Continue reading NetGalley Review: The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty
Hey all, Sam here. Several years ago, when I started getting to the point of reading 150 or so books a year, I realized it was absolutely awful for me to try and narrow that number of books down into a top ten list for the year. It was then that I decided to split… Continue reading My Top Ten Reads of 2025 (January-June Edition)
Hey all, Sam here. I am kind of on a roll at the moment with getting posts up on my blog in a decently regular schedule. I can almost guarantee that it will not last. The last time I was on a rather regular blogging schedule was back in 2021 before I burned out big… Continue reading NetGalley Review: Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
Hey all, Sam here. All right, hello, and happy book birthday to today's review. This is another one of those books where I bought the indie pub version and then just didn't get around to reading it, so I ended up finally getting around to it in time for the trad pub edition. That's happened… Continue reading NetGalley Review: This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
Hey all, Sam here. Yep, I fell off my schedule again. This post was definitely meant to go up about a week ago. I'm sorry. I keep seeing my dozen partially written up drafts and then basically freezing up and not finishing any of them. Somehow I need to figure out how to actually get… Continue reading Book Review: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
Hey all, Sam here. Well, I was supposed to have this up yesterday, but I didn't get it finished in time. I'll blame the time change messing with my sleep schedule. Once again we've reached the start of a new month, meaning it is time to look back at the just completed month and see… Continue reading October Wrap-Up
Hey all, Sam here. It should not take reading a book four times to get a review written up....and yet here I am, a couple years late, finally getting a review written up and posted here. Clearly I enjoy this book. I've read it multiple times (and I own several copies). But I still want… Continue reading Book Review: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Hey all, Sam here. As soon as I saw the title and the cover for today's book, I knew that I absolutely HAD TO read it. Add in the fact that I've loved every book I've read by Jim C. Hines and I knew I was in for a good reading time. And I was.… Continue reading NetGalley Review: Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines
Hey all, Sam here. Was I just talking about wanting some atmospheric and spooky reads because it's October AKA Spooky Season? Yes, as a matter of fact, I was discussing that in the past couple of posts. So do I have an atmospheric and mysterious slightly spooky read to talk about today? Why, yes I… Continue reading NetGalley Review: Strange Beasts by Susan J Morris
Hey all, Sam here. Am I back with another cozy fantasy book review? Well of course I am! Yesterday was this book's birthday, so welcome to the world. I literally read this the day after reading The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong, so one could definitely say that I am in a cozy… Continue reading NetGalley Review: Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife by Deston J Munden
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