Harry and Elizabeth are both working for the same New York publishing company. But while Elizabeth loves her life, her work, the travel, and maybe even her fiancée, Harry is just about to turn 50, feels trapped in a rut with both his writing, editing, and a group of friends that time is passing by. Worse still, he has developed an inappropriate crush on this new young woman who has waltzed into his life like a passing flood. Although Harry and Elizabeth spend all their time bickering, it seems fate is drawing them together – but for better or for worse?
(more…)Williams T, “Burke in the Peninsula”, Historical Fiction (Big Red: 2020)
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British Solider and Spy James Burke has returned from South America with his faithful Sergeant William Brown to help General Wellesley fight Napoleon’s armies in French occupied Spain. His mission is to help locate and organise Spanish guerrilla forces and gather intelligence on the size and location of the French armies. But the line between outlaw and guerrilla is a fine one, the French are far more organised than expect, and when he is forced to send his Sergeant back to help with the fighting at the battle of Talavera it will take the help of an old friend to save the British armies from disaster.
(more…)Review: Sakurazaka H, “All You Need is Kill”, Military Science Fiction, (Haika Soru: 2004), tr. Reeder J with Smith AO
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Keija Kiriya, a recruit in the global war against the alien “Mimics”, is trapped in a time loop of his first battle: live, fight, die, repeat. His body doesn’t change, but with each battle he learns more – how to fight, how to survive, the nature of his trap. But how will he escape? At what cost? And what is the role of the mysterious soldier Rita Vrataski?
(more…)Review: Kingston, A, “So, That Got Weird (So Far, So Good)”, (Totally Bound: 2019)
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A 21-year-old virgin and ashamed of it, Elizabeth is a pre-med student obsessed with the idea that she is too awkward, too weird and too difficult to find to ever find love. Thus, she hits on the idea of paying to learn the skills she needs. Using a dating website, of sorts, she finds her perfect man and propositions him in the library: $5000 dollars for four weeks, starting with kissing and cuddling, working all the way up to full sex in the final week. Peyton initially refuses, but then he loses his job and sees no other way to stay in college.
(more…)Giveaway and Review: Signed Copies of Dark Renaissance Series by Toby Frost
I have author-signed copies of the two books in the Dark Renaissance series, Up to the Thone and Blood Under Water, by Toby Frost, to be given to a randomly chosen person who leaves a comment ON MY WEBSITE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE saying why they’d like the books.
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