Take What You Can by Heather Garvin

𝒫𝒶𝒾𝑔𝑒 𝐿𝒶𝓌𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒿𝓊𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝑒𝓉 𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐹𝓁𝑜𝓇𝒾𝒹𝒶’𝓈 𝓈𝓊𝓃𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒹𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝒫𝓇𝓎𝒸𝑒, 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝑜𝓇𝒹𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓇𝓎 𝑔𝓊𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉. 𝒫𝒶𝒾𝑔𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑔𝓊𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓈𝑒𝓈 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒹𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝓊𝑒𝓁 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒. 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒫𝒶𝒾𝑔𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒽, 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒶𝒻𝑒𝓉𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓈𝑒𝒹. 𝒩𝑜𝓌, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝑜𝒻 𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒹𝓇𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝑔𝒶𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝒫𝒶𝒾𝑔𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Young Adult | Fiction | Contemporary | Romance |Thriller

4 out of 5 stars!

COMING THIS MONDAY JULY 27, 2020! MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

I am blown away! Take What You Can is Heather Gavin’s debut novel! This is why I love reading, there is so much talent in the world.

Paige is this well behaved, shy, gullible, keep to herself type of lady. (That is of course until she meets Fredrick).

Fredrick is this mysterious, dark, yet alluring handsome young man that all girls could fall for.

The supporting characters in this story… Josh, Leah, Luke, Dan, Melissa, Connor, Jason, Kelly and Paige’s father are so well done. If you are a reader drawn to character driver stories, Take What You Can is definitely for you. BUT! It doesn’t stop there! Take What You Can is packed full of drama, excitement and action. So…if an exciting story line is your cup of tea, well than Take What You Can is the perfect read for you too!

The splash of romance was just the right amount and every bit mysterious and puzzling. Paige had this gravity pull to Fredrick, she just couldn’t get enough. Yet Fredrick was closed off, guarded and wouldn’t come out honestly to Paige on what his true feelings were or what he wanted from her.

The only reason I removed one star from my rating is when it came to new situations Paige was in, something bad would happen and yet Fredrick was always there to save the day. Although this did highlight Fredrick’s character showing how protective he was over Paige and how mysterious he really was. I found it a little unnatural on how often this scenario would hit. I know so many people would disagree with me and a younger adult would absolutely love this aspect and would tell me that Paige was in some of those situations simply because she got intertwined with Fredrick and his friends. I would 100% agree and I know this was Heather’s meaning for the characters. I just found it a bit repetitive. This was such a SMALL, SMALL thing to me and doesn’t stop the fact that I absolutely LOVED this read and would highly recommend it!

Honestly! If this is Heather’s debut novel, I can’t wait to see what else she brings into the book world and I most definitely can’t wait for book two.

Thank you so much Heather for sending me an ARC to read and review. It means so very much to me.

Publisher: Tuskan Publishing

Release Date: July 27, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your PIRATE Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here:

Scratches by Joshua Marsella

𝔸 𝕞𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡 𝕚𝕟𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕥 𝕒 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕒 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕧𝕚𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖. 𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕠𝕞 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕗𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕒. 𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕖 𝕦𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖, 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕪 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕝𝕖𝕗𝕥 𝕒 𝕞𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕪. ℂ𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕕𝕚𝕗𝕗𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕠𝕣 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕓𝕠𝕥𝕙?

***Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Adult | Fiction | Dark Fiction | Horror

5 out of 5 stars!

What an amazing debut novella!

Joshua Marsella is a new horror author in the book community and we all adore him so! He is such a fantastic guy!

Scratches is packed full of eerie goodness with a twisted, yet bitter, heart-wrenching story line!

Connor and his Mother may have a disconnected relationship and for very obvious reasons (as you learn throughout this read). Yet there are moments in this story where you will love what they have (although they are few). Connor has moved into this home not knowing the relative in a close personal way, he has no idea what their past was and what type of person they were. This shows to be truly terrifying when the evil is stirred.

I feel so many teenagers would find Connor relate-able and Scratches may remind us all about moments we may have experienced from our childhood. Moments where are minds truly mess with us but Connor was truly living it and how terrifying it was! I couldn’t imagine experiencing these horrifying moments, thinking you may be absolutely insane but yet it feels so real. Reaching out to your Mother or people around you subtly trying to seeing if you can get some answers and them shrugging it off telling you its all in your head. Although they may know that’s not true, they just don’t want to believe it’s happening, they don’t want to have to deal with such evil again.

Joshua’s writing is fantastic! Scratches is so fast pace and each page of this novella is packed full of dark goodness. Don’t get me wrong, although I said I feel Connor would be so relate-able to many teenagers, this is not a read for young! It would scare the pants right off them.

I am so happy I dived into this read! I was absolutely consumed and I can’t wait to see what else Joshua has in store for us. Call me a new dedicated fan!

“𝙏𝙃𝙐𝘿 𝙎𝘾𝙍𝘼𝘼𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙏𝙃𝙐𝘿 𝙎𝘾𝙍𝘼𝘼𝘼𝙏𝘾𝙃 𝙏𝙃𝙐𝘿”

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: May 11, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your BASEMENT Book Worm

-Nichole

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The Goodbye Family and the Great Mountain by by Lorin Morgan-Richards

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘖𝘵𝘪𝘴, 𝘗𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘖𝘳𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦. 𝘗𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘖𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘳𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘖𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘻𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴. 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴? 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵-𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥-𝘓𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘥.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

4 out of 5 stars!

Such an imaginative story!

Otis, Pyridine and Orphie are some of the most odd, unusual and exciting characters I have met.

During their carriage ride through the underworld to save their family business they also meet some of the most unique characters, they speak with the most unique characters…. (and for Otis’s sake, even some animals).

The Goodbye Family and The Great Mountain is such an amusing, whimsical read. Perfect for all ages really but especially young readers! A way for them to explore their minds and explode their imaginations.

Lorin Morgan-Richards created this fast paced, thrilling Wild-West meets The Addam’s Family esk read. You will fall in love with the characters and the story will absolutely consume you. The chapter heading illustrations throughout are absolutely delightful and truly add to the story.

I can’t thank Lorin Morgan-Richards enough for sending me a copy to read and review. This will be one to go back and re-read and I also can’t wait to see what else Lorin Morgan-Richards has in-store for us!

You can check out my BookTube Review here:

My BookTube channel: I_ReadPastMyBedtime

Publisher: Raven Above Press

Release date: February 16, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Magical Book Worm

-Nichole

The Unworthy Blood Knight by Negus Lamont

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖀𝖓𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖞 𝕭𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝕶𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍, 𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖞, 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖒𝖆𝖞𝖍𝖊𝖒.
𝕴𝖓 𝖆 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖛𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖓𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖈𝖚𝖒 𝖇𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈’𝖘 𝖇𝖔𝖔𝖙, 𝖅𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖊’𝖘 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖜𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖐𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙.

𝕱𝖔𝖗 𝖆𝖘 𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖘 𝖅𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖊 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖒𝖇𝖊𝖗, 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖆 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖑𝖚𝖗𝖊. 𝕭𝖚𝖙 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖅𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖑𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖓 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖉𝖊𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖛𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖆𝖓 𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙, 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖑𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖕 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖜𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖕𝖙 𝖍𝖊𝖗.

𝕷𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖔𝖒 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖑 𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖙𝖔𝖝𝖎𝖓 𝖜𝖎𝖊𝖑𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖛𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊, 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋. 𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉 𝖐𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝖆𝖙 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖚𝖓𝖜𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖘 𝖆𝖙 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖙, 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝖔𝖗 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍 𝖆𝖘 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖞 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖗.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

4 out of 5 stars!

The Unworthy Blood Knight is a different vampire tale.

Most Vampire stories I have read or movies I have watched human’s fear this superior creature, knowing we don’t stand a chance against them. In this unique read Vampires are seen as the scum on earth and man kind is the dominate creature.

Zurie is misunderstood and seems to mess up a bit and when she fails to warn the only group that has truly accepted her of an attack, she loses everyone and ends up alone. More than anything Zurie wants to become a Blood Knight and to gain whatever bit of higher respect she can. This is where the story takes off as you follow Zuire through her experiences of doing just that.

I enjoyed this story and Negus’s writing was done well. At first when I picked this up I found it to be a bit slow and I was not really invested in any of the characters nor was I consumed by the story line. Until I got to one paragraph in particular that was written so well it pulled me in.

“We are the superior creature, and yet you let them sleep in peace during the night. They should be cowering behind their crosses every single night. Not sleeping in silk threads and marble towers, while you what? You eat rations you hate and live in servitude to the boot on your face. Forced to live huddled together in rat-infested dens.”

This is where I thought, YES! we as humans should be in fear of their kind and not dominating them. At this point I was intrigued and wanted to dive deeper into the story.

If Vampires are you thing! I say give this a go.

Thank you so much Negus for sending me a copy to read and review, I greatly appreciate it!

Publisher: Masani Press

Release Date: March 10, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your SUPERIOR CREATURE Book Worm

-Nichole

and then She rose by Lavender Rose

𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓽 𝓛𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓮.𝓣𝓸𝓹𝓲𝓬𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭: 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮, 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴, 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽,𝓰𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓽𝓱, 𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯-𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮.”𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮,” 𝓲𝓼 𝓭𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 6 𝓰𝓵𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓼, 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮: 1.𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓹𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾, 2.𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽, 3.𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓯𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼, 4.𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽, 5.𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓪𝓾𝓬𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 6.𝓯𝓪𝓲𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓼. 𝓦𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓥𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓼 𝓛𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻’𝓼 𝓭𝓮𝓫𝓾𝓽, 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓿𝓾𝓵𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓫𝓵𝔂 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓫𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓾𝓻𝓽𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼. 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓷 “𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮” 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓮𝔁𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓾𝓶𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓹 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓳𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓮𝔂. 𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓛𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓵𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓵𝔂 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓬𝓬𝓮𝓹𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓹 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓳𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓮𝔂. 𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓥𝓪𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓼 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓻𝓪𝔀 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓾𝓷𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓭. “𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷… 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝓪 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓶𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓶𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰. 𝓑𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝓫𝓮𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓭𝓻𝓪𝔀𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓷. 𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓽𝓸 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓹𝓪𝓲𝓷 𝓪𝓼 𝔀𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓪𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓛𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻’𝓼 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓳𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓮𝔂. 𝓒𝓾𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓛𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓼, 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂. 𝓐 𝓵𝓸𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓶𝓼, 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓾𝓹𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝔂𝓹𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓶𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓸𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶 𝓹𝓪𝓰𝓮 @𝓵𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓶𝓼__𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻: 𝓛𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝓻𝓷 𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓷 𝓐𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓷𝓮𝔀 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓒𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓭𝓪 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓸𝓯 14. 𝓘𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮, 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓶𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼; 𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓽 19, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓱𝓾𝓼𝓫𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓽 37 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓯𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓲𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓵𝓭𝓻𝓮𝓷. 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓼𝔂𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓰𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓔𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓸𝓻 𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓷 𝓞𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓸. 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓳𝓸𝔂𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓭𝓸𝓸𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼. 𝓗𝓮𝓻 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂. 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓳𝓸𝔂𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓳𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓼 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮, 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓽𝓱, 𝓭𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓹𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽, 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓽𝔂. 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓯𝓪𝓷 𝓸𝓯 𝓡𝓾𝓹𝓲 𝓚𝓪𝓾𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓙.𝓶. 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓶 𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴 𝓶𝓪𝔂 𝓮𝓶𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓼. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀 𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓬𝓽 𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓻𝔂 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓥𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 “𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮,” 𝓸𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶 𝓪𝓬𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓽 @𝓵𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓶𝓼

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Genre: Adult | Poetry

4 out of 5 stars!

A wonderful collection!

I honestly need to read more Poetry! Poetry is hard to share your opinions on. Poetry is subjective and so personal to each reader but honestly I truly believe that’s what makes it so magical.

and then She rose is filled with so much emotion and passion. From love, lose and fairy tales to anger and frustration, you will be consumed by this collection.

Lavender’s writing, as most poetry will enrich your soul and open your eyes to things you may have never imagined.

Poetry collections are great to discuss with others and see their take, see what they caught that you may have missed or interpreted differently. It’s also something you can go back on and read time and time again, reacting differently each time.

Thank you so much Lavender Rose for sending me a copy to read and review. I appreciate it very much!

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: March 9, 2020

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Graymatter: A Collection of Horror by Nicholas Gray

𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕒 𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕤. 𝔸𝕥 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥, 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕗𝕦𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕒 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟. 𝔸 𝕄𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕪 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕟𝕠 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕤 𝕤𝕞𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕤. 𝔸𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕒 𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕠 𝕥𝕒𝕡𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕚𝕞. 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕪𝕤 𝕘𝕠 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕜-𝕠𝕣-𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣!

𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕦𝕡 𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖. 𝕊𝕠, 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕙𝕒𝕥𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 ℕ𝕚𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕒𝕤 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕪 𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕐𝕄𝔸𝕋𝕋𝔼ℝ 𝕚𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕜𝕦𝕝𝕝!

Genre: Adult | Horror | Dark Fiction

4 out of 5 stars! (for the whole collection)

First off I have to start by saying how proud I am of Nick! Nick is a fellow BookTuber and it’s always exciting to see people whom I consider friends making their dreams become a reality. Now to all my readers out there, although Nick is a friend this will not stop me from providing an honest review.

Graymatter is a fun collection! and by that I mean dark, gruesome, spooky but loads of fun. Some great concepts here! These short stories are those type of stories narrated by the main character that end with a big cliffhanger….leaving you wanting more. Oh and I can’t forget each has a great moral to the story as well.

While reading this collection I felt as if I was chilling with Nick while he told me some truly eerie stories. Nick has a way of writing different characters and really bringing their personality traits forward. For example one story is about a dognapper, he makes a living taking other people dogs and than just hangs at home until the owner puts out a reward. Once they do he jumps on it claiming his prize. The guy is an honest dirt-bag and I was appalled the whole time I read this story! Honestly, if you can feel those emotions while reading that’s when you know the author did something right. These are things you just don’t forget even after finishing the read.

There is one tiny negative that pulled my star rating back on this horror collection. Although an editor was hired there seems to be a lot that was missed. Spelling mistakes, grammar, repetitiveness and some sentences weren’t even proper English. Although I can understand these mistakes as everyone is human and while the author is pouring their thoughts and passions out onto paper it takes a lot of time to make the story crisp and clean. Multiple read through’s alone, even before editing (if it’s an option, which isn’t the case for most indie authors). That being said even after taking these steps and even hiring an editor a lot was missed. Although I am not one to talk negative about others or tell them how to do their job, I really feel whoever did edit this collection for Nick did not provide the service he paid for and I hope this won’t deter people from picking it up. Editing can really hurt an author! Some people won’t even finish a read or give it an awful review solely on the editing.

All in all honestly this collection was great! Again, Nick had great concepts, awesome characters and not to forget your mind and emotions will be stirred. I say it’s totally worth giving it a go. Also if you would like to check out my video review on my BookTube channel that would be awesome!

Thank you so much Nick for sending me a copy to read and review. I am so proud to own a physical copy and to have it sitting on my shelves. I can’t wait to see what else you have for us in the future.

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: April 19, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your PROUD Book Worm

-Nichole

The Dark That Dwells by Matt Digman and Ryan Roddy

𝔸𝕟 𝕚𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕨 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕒 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟 𝕦𝕟𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥, 𝕤𝕖𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕒 𝕤𝕔𝕚-𝕗𝕚 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕪 𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥.

𝕀𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕖𝕧𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕤𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕗𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕨𝕖𝕡𝕥 𝕦𝕡 𝕚𝕟 𝕒 𝕘𝕣𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕤, 𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕓𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔.

ℝ𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣.

𝕎𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕣.

𝕋𝕪𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕥.

𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕥.

𝔸𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕨𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕒𝕥𝕖, 𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕘𝕖, 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕚𝕡𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤: 𝕒 𝕓𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕗 𝕦𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

The Dark That Dwells: An exciting, action packed Space Opera that is coming July 10, 2020! Mark your calendars.

Genre: Adult | Science Fiction | Space Opera | Fantasy

4 out of 5 stars!

The Dark That Dwells is such a fascinating world. An action packed story filled with so many wonderful characters that were executed perfectly. I’m finding it hard to decide which are my favourites I may just need to come to terms and realize I enjoyed them all in their own way. Although I feel the most interesting character was the villain. This could simply be because I do love a good villain when they are done well, which in this case he definitely was. His back story truly shows why he is who he is and why he does what he does. In a lot of stories I read my connection usually lies with the main group and the villain is just in the background causing chaos. But when we have the inside story on the villain it makes me fall back on a quote I have heard (sorry I don’t remember where from and it may be paraphrasing) “Even if you’re the hero, your the villain in somebody else’s story.”

On top of great characters you have an extremely engaging story line full of powerful events. The beginning of this story started out with a mind blowing scene. Then the introduction to each of the 4 souls and a look into their history. Then a story filled with love, loss, hate, ruin, revenge and so much more it completely devours you as the reader.

Matt and Ryan are the most adorable couple and I can’t help but think they made such a great team writing this epic space opera. I can’t thank them enough for sending me a copy to read and review and I look forward to what they may have for us in the future.

Again be sure to mark your calendars for July 10th! and if you pick this read up I would love discussing it with you once you have completed it.

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: July 10, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your DARK Book Worm

-Nichole

Divan of Shah by Shah Asad Rizvi

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒟𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝒽 𝓇𝑒𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒸𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓈 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓂 𝑜𝒻 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈. 𝐻𝑒 𝒶𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝒷𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝑜𝑒𝓉𝓇𝓎. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓅𝑜𝑒𝓉𝒾𝒸 𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝒹𝑒𝒶 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓃𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑒𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑜𝒹𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝓅𝑜𝑒𝓂𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓆𝓊𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

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“𝓜𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓶𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓪𝓬𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱”

Genre: Adult| Poetry

4 out of 5 stars!

Poetry is something I really need to strive to read more of!

Even the most simplest poetry pieces can find a way to enrich our lives. Poetry can have the most powerful, hard hitting words. Divan of Shah is no exception! Shah has created this flow of emotions and uses some brilliant examples throughout his collection. Helping the reader to truly connect with what is being said.

Poetry is incredibly intimate! Each reader will consume the pieces different and find a way to relate it with their own personal lives.

Poetry is something we can come back to time and time again. It can be that pallet cleanser in between reads, the uplifting words needed during hard times or even that warm hug we may need. Poetry adapts to what we may need in that very moment.

Divan of Shah is full of love, lose, pain, life and will truly warm the heart.

Whether poetry is your jam or not I say pick it up! You may be presently surprised on how much it can touch your heart.

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: October 31, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading

Your MOVED Book Worm

-Nichole

Of Rioters & Royals (Swift Shadows Book 1) by M.L. Greye

“𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓮𝔂𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓻 𝓭𝓮𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓪𝓫𝓲𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓼?”

𝓞𝓯 𝓡𝓲𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 & 𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓼

𝐸𝓂𝓇𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝑅𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓁 – 𝒶 𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐸𝓃𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒹. 𝒜𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑜𝓇. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓁𝓈. 𝐻𝑒𝓇 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝑔𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐸𝓃𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝑒𝓉𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝒻𝒶𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒫𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈’𝓈 𝒦𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒷𝓁𝑒𝓂, 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽, 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝐸𝓃𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝓅𝓁𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈: 𝑅𝒾𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑅𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓁𝓈. 𝐹𝒾𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈. 𝒲𝒶𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝐸𝓃𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒹.
𝒟𝑒𝒸𝓁𝒶𝓃 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝑅𝒾𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓇. 𝒜𝓃 𝓊𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓈𝑒𝓇. 𝒜𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓈𝓉. 𝐻𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒥𝑒𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓈 – 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒾𝑔𝓃 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝐸𝓃𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒹. 𝒴𝑒𝓉, 𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓊𝓅 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝒾𝒶𝓁𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈, 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑅𝒾𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓂. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓅 𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒫𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈’𝓈 𝒦𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉. 𝐻𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓀, 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝐸𝓂𝓇𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝓊𝓁𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒽𝑒’𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Young Adult | Fiction | Fantasy| Powers/Magic | Romance

4 out of 5 stars!

A great young adult fantasy with a unique concept.

Now a days it’s truly difficult for authors especially when writing in a heavily popular genre and reading age. Finding something unique to the story, something to keep the reader engaged and wanting to read on. Almost every story has been written; so what can an author do to set it aside from other fantasy reads, to make sure it’s not just a clone of the book it sits next to on the shelf. M.L. Greye found a way with Of Rioters & Royals.

At first I thought “Hm… eye color determines your abilities?….So blue is this and brown is that…?” Man was I wrong. M.L. went into a bit more detail than just one color. Even the flecks of different colors in your eyes can choose a mix of abilities .. all depending on how many colors you have blended into those eyes of yours. This concept pulled me right in! I couldn’t help but want to know the characters and what abilities they may have been blessed with.

The story started off with destruction; the world felt a lot like what we are dealing with in today’s life. Sickness, disease, isolation, rationing, desperation and more. The only tiny, slight problem I had with this read was the story started out with chaos and than slowed right down until we got closer to the ending where it started to pick up again.

Now I understand world building is crucial for an author! Introducing their readers to this world they have created (especially when its a series, not a stand alone) the first book or two is the authors chance to set the world up, introduce the characters and this can tend to slow the pace of the read down. This being said, it didn’t take away from the read or make it bad in any way. I just wanted a bit more buzz.

Emory and Declan are fantastic characters! I love how Declan is out to betray Emory but finds out that it may not be as easy as he planned and Emory may have an idea of exactly what is going on. Their connection in the story is something to cherish. As the story goes they become closer, more connected and in ways that they could never have expected. Of Rioters & Royals is pretty romance heavy and rightfully so. If romance is not your thing, you may not enjoy this read. Although I say it’s still worth giving it a go since there is so much more to the story and you may just devour it.

Thank you so very much to M.L. Greye for sending me an e-copy to read and review. I look forward to seeing where their story goes from here in book two.

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: January 17, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading

Your GREEN EYED Book Worm

-Nichole

Moon Deeds (Star Children Saga Book 1) by Palmer Pickering

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𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬

“𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝒶𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓈, 𝓈𝑜 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓋𝑜𝒾𝒹 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊’𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔.”

𝐼𝓉’𝓈 𝟤𝟢𝟫𝟢: 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓉𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒𝒹𝑜𝓂 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝑒𝓃𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑒𝒸𝒽𝓃𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝒸, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃.

𝒯𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓈 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒹𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒯𝑜𝓇𝓇 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝐸𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒽 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒶 𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒽𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓂𝓎 𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑒𝒸𝒽𝓃𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝒸. 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒟𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓊𝓃𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈’ 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝒶𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓍𝓎, 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃, 𝒸𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒾𝒸 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒶𝑔𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹.

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𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃 𝒮𝒶𝑔𝒶 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒹𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒯𝑜𝓇𝓇 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓈𝓁𝑜𝓌𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓎 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇 𝒞𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃, 𝒷𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓊𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑒𝑒𝓇 𝑒𝓃𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓀: 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓃𝑒𝓉 𝒶𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓍𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒶 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝑒𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓀 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓉 𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓀 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒.

𝒞𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝓌𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓎-𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇-𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓈 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒹𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒯𝑜𝓇𝓇, 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒾𝓃𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒸𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝐸𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒽 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓅𝑒 𝒶 𝒷𝓇𝓊𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝒹𝒾𝒸𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝓁𝑜𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝓈.

𝒜 𝓇𝑜𝓁𝓁𝒾𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑒𝓉 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝑔𝓃𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒, 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓃𝒾𝓏𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝐸𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝒹𝒾𝒸𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅. 𝒪𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒, 𝓅𝓁𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝓊𝒸𝓀𝓎 𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝑒𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃.

𝒥𝑜𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒! 𝒜𝓃 𝒶𝒹𝒹𝒾𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓈𝓅𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶, 𝓈𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒-𝒻𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓎 𝓈𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Adult |Fiction | Scifi | Space Opera | Fantasy

4 out of 5 stars!

Fascinating read! Amazing world building.

Not to mention the cover is absolutely breathtaking but once you dive into the story you see just how vivid the true guts of this story is!

When Palmer Pickering reached out to me to see if I would review her book, as soon as I read the synopsis I was sold. Of course I would, then she mentioned to me that if I enjoyed Dune at all she thinks I would enjoy her read since Dune is one of her favourite books. Then I was REALLY REALLY sold!

Palmer doesn’t focus on any one particular item in this story. Every piece of it is done just right! From the story line to the characters it’s the perfect balance. You have the twins, you have their connection, you have the people and their loved ones around them and you have chaos running rampant throughout. Fear was placed upon their people and all hope was placed upon Cassidy and Torr. Moon Deeds is the perfect mix of relationships, friendships, romance and hardship. Such a magnificent world both on and off the Moon.

I would be lying if I didn’t say there weren’t times I was confused. There is so much going on in Moon Deeds and if you aren’t concentrating you may miss a vital piece of the story. This was not a slight against the writing itself. My confusion was 100% my own, I was picking the book up at the wrong times while too many things were happening around me and interruptions were unavoidable. So, if I could give any tip on how to truly soak up each bit of this incredible read it would be to make sure while reading that you are able to give every bit of your attention to this busy world you are about to dive into.

I can’t wait to read on with this saga and to sink further into Palmer’s deep, in-depth world! Thank you again Palmer for sending me a copy for review!

Publisher: Mythology Press

Release Date: May 25, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading

Your BRIGHT Book Worm

-Nichole