Review: THE DRAGON TAMER by Ava Richardson

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42298504-the-dragon-tamer" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Dragon Tamer (Alveria Dragon Akademy Book 1)" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1539487652m/42298504.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42298504-the-dragon-tamer">The Dragon Tamer</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8167514.Ava_Richardson">Ava Richardson</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577307456">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Review of THE DRAGON TAMER by Ava Richardson<br />(Alveria Dragon Akademy Book 1)<br /><br />Wow, this author can write! I was immediately engrossed in this epic fantasy of Dragons, Dragon-Blooded, Dragon Tamers, and oh yes—mere humans. Kaelan is a young woman in training with her mother and grandmother to be a healer, as they are. Always fascinated with Dragons, she knows she will never be closer to one than to seeing one fly overhead. Moving from cottage to cottage in various locales, Kaelan and her mother and grandmother eke out a precarious but loving existence, until Kaelan's sense of justice protects an elderly citizen and results eventually in the village turning on her. Then she discovers at last the truth of her heritage...
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Review: TANGLED WEB by Gail Z. Martin

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40105465-tangled-web" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Tangled Web (Deadly Curiosities, #3)" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1526089936m/40105465.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40105465-tangled-web">Tangled Web</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1637418.Gail_Z_Martin">Gail Z. Martin</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2577060825">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Review of TANGLED WEB by Gail Z. Martin<br />(Deadly Curiosities #3)<br /><br />I haven't read Urban Fantasy in quite a while but find this series a great reason to delve in again. Set in Charleston SC, a city with a rich and varied history of several centuries, magic is afoot and sometimes treacherous. Cassidy is a psychometric, a person who reads objects and identifies their history and their magic. She, her assistant manager, and her business partner are the defense line against magical predators: not just in their city of Charleston, but throughout the world. When they encounter evil utilizing magic to upend the world as we know it, Cassidy, Teag, and Sorren will act—strongly and effectively...Or we'll all suffer the consequences.<br /><br />Readers who've enjoyed the former television series “Friday the 13th The Series,” about the antique/curio shop and the uncle, niece, and nephew who track down accursed artifacts and return them to safety in the shop, will adore the Deadly Curiosities Series by Gail Z. Martin. <br />
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Review: KILLING FROST (AFTER THE SHIFT BOOK 2)

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41794010-killing-frost" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Killing Frost (After the Shift Book 2)" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1536611687m/41794010.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41794010-killing-frost">Killing Frost</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4773803.Grace_Hamilton">Grace Hamilton</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2567097315">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Review: KILLING FROST by Grace Hamilton<br />(AFTER THE SHIFT BOOK 2)<br /><br />Grace Hamilton is a talented author and her knowledge of prepping and climate science inform this captivating series. Her grasp of characterization and the deeper human emotions ensure readers will remain engrossed. <br /><br />Now that Nathan and his family have at last departed upstate New York for Detroit, they've discovered that the near-Paradise they were promised doesn't exist. What they also discover is hard work and danger--but then this is, after all, the Apocalypse.<br />.
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Review: FREEZING POINT (AFTER THE SHIFT BOOK 1)

Freezing Point by Grace Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review of FREEZING POINT by Grace Hamilton
(After the Shift Book 1)

I've read post-apocalyptic books about nuclear winter, EMP's, pandemics, dystopias, global warming. I think this is the first time I've read one with this particular premise:
an inexplicable shift of the North Pole, plus volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, has caused seemingly unending winter througout the Eastern U.S., Africa, and the UK.
Seems like a nice change of pace from melting Antarctica and terrible hurricanes and unbearably hot summers, doesn't it?
I suppose not if you're living it inescapably, as our characters do, residing in Upstate New York State and trying to figure out how to move west, to Detroit, where it might be warmer, possibly, and supposedly, the municipality has planned for survival and improvement.

This is also the first novel I've read by Grace Hamilton, who is a prolific author of the Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Genres. She writes well, and includes a lot of descriptive settings presented in very imaginative ways. Her characters are also rather deeply delineated, so it doesn't take long for a reader to decide with whom our empathy lies and whom to cheer on. I'm off to read the second in the series now, KILLING FROST.

Winter rules!
(in this series, literally!)

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LOST ARROW by Marshall Ross_Review

Lost Arrow: Book I of The Kalelah Series by Marshall Ross
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review of LOST ARROW by Marshall Ross

First in a sci-fi trilogy, LOST ARROW is a tremendously exciting and engrossing novella. Literally “can't put down,” the story is set in our contemporary era, and begins when an oil company research vessel geologist scans the bottom of the Mariana Trench (already seven miles below the surface) and discovers—a ship! Buried even deeper than the trench, the ship's presence is inexplicable. Of course, the U.S. Government and Military insist on a solution, and it isn't pretty. But what the reader is made privy to, and the Government-Military Complex doesn't know, is that the ship is alive—and populated. Before this is over, there will be unexpected, nearly unbelievable, answers to Evolution on Earth, Outer Space, and the existence of Extraterrestrial Sentience. I absolutely cannot wait to read Books 2 and 3 in the Trilogy.

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Review_SLEEPERS: BLUE WORLD Series

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35654858-sleepers" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Sleepers (The Blue Planets World series Book 1)" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1499809950m/35654858.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35654858-sleepers">Sleepers</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/104277.Darcy_Pattison">Darcy Pattison</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2555912763">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Review: SLEEPERS: THE BLUE PLANETS WORLD Series by Darcy Pattison<br /><br />The Aliens are not always the Bad Guys. All the near-to-dying populace of the planet Rison wants is a new place to live, and Earth's oceans are ideal. Unfortunately, a minority of Earth supremacists are volatilely determined to repel what they consider to be an imminent alien invasion. Their overpowering xenophobia may be no match for peaceful citizens of either planet. 15-year-old Jake Rose is the test tube offspring of the Rison Ambassador and an American Naval Commander. As such, he is adored by both parents, but a target for the Earth supremacists, who intend to destroy all Risonians and sympathizers on Earth.
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SLEEPING SEER by Morgan Blue Malory_Review

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36644899-the-sleeping-seer" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Sleeping Seer: Book One of The Shepherds of the Damned" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1511400935m/36644899.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36644899-the-sleeping-seer">The Sleeping Seer: Book One of The Shepherds of the Damned</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17357180.Morgan_Blue_Malory">Morgan Blue Malory</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2553897419">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Review: SLEEPING SEER by Morgan Blue Malory<br /><br />SLEEPING SEER is Book 1 of the SHEPHERDS OF.THE DAMNED. A highly visual, artistic, avant garde urban fantasy, SLEEPING SEER also tickles conspiracy theories and considerations about Secret Societies and worlds beyond our own (isn't the latter, after all, the genesis and rationale of Urban Fantasy?)
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