A Sci-Fi Futuristic Women’s Fiction
Date Published: July 12, 2024
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Two worlds hang in the balance. Two love affairs will change both societies. Forever.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Monday, May 3, 2021
A Fairy's Quest
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A century ago, the
fairy crown was stolen from Alina Lehrer's clan, but now the usurper is dead
and it's time to reclaim what's theirs. Rylan Jackson, codename Orion, is The
Court's most trusted assassin who always gets the job done. Until his target is
Alina, the one woman he can’t resist. Fate has placed them on opposing sides
for the crown, but Alina soon learns Fate isn't set in stone.
my review...
Paranormal & romance, not me, BUT...I enjoyed this tale.
That’s how I think of it. A magical fantasy tale. And it’s such a mix of
fantasy and the normal that we see every day, I got caught up in it, as if it
were real. A rebelling young woman breaking off an arranged engagement Who thinks of mixing a magical fairy kingdom
and a hired killer with a conscious?
Sounds like James Bond and Cinderella mixed together, doesn’t it? Well it is a
little bit. It has some fantasy and some love, and it has plenty of action too.
I have never read another book by Maya Tyler but this one
seemed as if it could be read as a stand-alone. It was fast paced, sweet and a
little sexy. Is that possible? Seems to be:)
The Fairy’s Quest is Book 3 in a series titled The Magicals. All three books have good reviews. Check them out here. https://amzn.to/3xGCi0C
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
The Crying of Ross 128
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| Science Fiction |
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MY REVIEW
Read an excerpt...
I don’t read too much Science Fiction anymore although it used to be one of my favorite genres. Then I looked at this book and saw it was over 300 pages on my e-book and I wondered if I could get it read in the time I had allotted and then…I couldn’t put the thing down. I read it in two days.
This is a great page turner mystery and although its genre is listed as Science Fiction, many of the discoveries in this storyline could be very realistic today. Its setting is a college town with normal everyday people and a group of amateur radio astronomers. One member, a sort of single father, thinks his instrumentation and software has detected a possible alien cry for help. There are plenty of your normal naysayers but there are a certain amount of people making it sound believable for plenty of other reasons.
It’s well written, well edited, and its characters are as interesting and as human as can be. This is an easy read but I think I am saying that because it flows so well. It does have intricate twists and turns, and you need to pay attention. That’s what makes it an even greater read.
***This book was provided to me in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are definitely my own.
Read an excerpt...
Whitt continued talking while he worked. “So, there are the two Americas, our own government of course, the Russians, Indians, Chinese... not to mention those terrorist groups out there who would love to exploit our human fears about hostile aliens and such.”
“I hadn’t thought about all that.”
“I’m sure if you spend any time at all on this question, you’d come up with a list of 50 organizations all wanting to know how you discovered the signal, and how to use that for their own goals.”
Whitt replaced the cover on the computer and wiped his hands on his coat. “There’s someone else you may want to consider, too. Someone closer to home as it were.”
“Who’s that?”
“I hesitate to say because I recognize how close you are.” He put his tools back in a small pouch.
“Who is it, Dr. Whitt?”
“How well do you know Kate Braddock? I mean, how well do you really know her?”
Atteberry threw his head back and laughed. “That’s insane! I trust her more than anyone in the world.”
“Oh, I understand, truly, I do. But the work she did in the past was highly specialized and top secret. Where does she come from? What kind of dubious alliances has she forged over the years? In short, she may have been playing you all along.”
“No, no, I don’t believe that for a second.”
“Fair enough, Mr. Atteberry, but if you’re considering who could be behind this mysterious tracer, I think you have to consider all possibilities. Even the ones that appear impossible.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
David Allan Hamilton is a teacher, writer, and multipotentialite. He is a graduate of Laurentian University (BSc. Applied Physics) and The University of Western Ontario (MSc.
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October 11: Kimmi Love
October 16: Mixed Book Bag - review only
October 18: Deal Sharing Aunt
October 23: Independent Authors
October 25: Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin'
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November 1: Sea's Nod
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Freaking Fast
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| Futuristic YA Action Adventure |
MY REVIEW
I loved this short, sneaky, serious and yet full of whimsy
book. I read it in 2 days. I just couldn’t put it down. Can a book about
killing someone be whimsical? Well it can if David Pereda writes it. He seems
to be able to write any kind of book. I love the way he always gives us an
education all the while trying to fool us into thinking we are having a fun
read.
This time it was math; last time in Havana Blue it was the
social and economic history of Cuba and the hard times of a boy growing up in
Havana. Yet all the while I was having a blast reading both books. I enjoyed the
analogies he made between real life and mathematical equations in this book and
how even though the story switches back and forth between the current and the
future he still managed to keep a symmetry to his storyline.
He has provided another very different and very enjoyable
story. The characters in this latest
book were unlike any others, yet as alive as his characters always seem to be. Intelligent
young characters with very finite minds and yet still young and uncertain. Living
through and growing up with the same questions and dreams we all had no matter which
generation we grew up in. I loved the futuristic
setting. I could almost believe I had my own robot and my own flying car, sort
of like the Jetsons but now, in today’s technology very little of it seems very
far away or impossible. In fact, everything he wrote about seemed like a normal
progression of how things will be in another 40 years. In other words, it all
seemed very believable.
Is this a book for young people? I think so, but I don’t
think there is any age that wouldn’t enjoy it. I obviously did.
David Pereda has several books with great reviews. Check
them all out.
P.S. Dear David, I tried to use at least a few simplistic mathematical
terms just to tease you. Hope I used them in a proper way or should I say from
the proper angle:)
***This book was provided to me free of charge in exchange for
my own very honest review.
Read an Excerpt
Year 2066
8:30am. Asheville, North Carolina
Today I’m going to kill the love of my life.
This deliberate act should not to be misinterpreted for what the sensationalistic media will surely call a crime of passion, because it isn’t. There’s nothing passionate in what I am about to do. My action is premeditated, has been planned for a long time, and will be executed for the benefit of our city, our country, and our crumbling world – as well as for my own peace of mind.
I have chosen this date for a reason. Today is my birthday, and the anniversary of our first kiss, fifty years ago. I turn sixty-three years old today. Five decades ago, I would have been considered an old woman at this age, gray-haired and wrinkled, and possibly
overweight. But that was then. Nowadays, thanks to the medical advances of the past fifty years, of which I have partaken freely – they’re there, right, so why not make use of them? I’m in the prime of my life. I look and feel not a day over thirty and have the sculpted
body, the vigor, and the mental acumen of a highly intelligent woman in her twenties.
When I was a teenager, there was this beautiful model named Cindy Crawford, who in her sixties looked like she was in her late thirties and was an example to women all over the world. She was to me. But the world has evolved, and that was then, and this is now.
Were Cindy Crawford alive today she would look like my older sister or maybe my young-looking mother, even though we would both be about the same age.
But I digress. I have, perhaps, too much on my mind. Images of the past keep streaming through my head. I think of the love of my life, him, and wonder what could have been but wasn’t; what was and shouldn’t have been.
I feel like crying as I see my life play out, in black-and-white like an old movie, on the screen of my mind.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
David Pereda is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Havana Blues and However Long the Night, as well as the Havana Series of thrillers featuring the dashing Doctor Raymond Peters and the beautiful but deadly Cuban assassin Marcela. He has traveled to more than thirty countries and speaks four languages. Before devoting his time
solely to writing and teaching, David had a successful international consulting career with global giant Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked with the governments of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Qatar, among others.
A member of MENSA, David earned his MBA from Pepperdine University in California. He earned bachelor degrees in English literature and mathematics at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
He lives in artistic Asheville, North Carolina, with his youngest daughter Sophia, where he teaches mathematics and English at the Asheville-Buncombe Community College. He loves sports and is an accomplished competitor in track and show-jumping equestrian events.
Author’s Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/David-Pereda/e/B002BML17Q
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