🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 Life for ten-year-old Astra Hal isn’t easy. She lives in abject poverty, all but abandoned by her family – except her mother – who lives in a pill and whiskey induced…
Defining Reality – Victoria Halton
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 I wouldn’t call myself a poetry expert, just to make sure that’s known. However, this collection of poems from Victoria Halton enveloped me in a cocoon of emotions because it was…
A Break From The (Blog) Norm
Although books are everything, music is always going to be my first love. When I was an awkward teenager, growing up in suburban South Manchester in the mid 90’s, music was my…
Crown of the Phoenix – C. A. Varian
🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 Aurelia and Septima are adoptive sisters; bought up together from a young age when their father rescued baby Septima from a war-torn land. They live in a world where magic is…
A Grave of Flowers – Priscylla Attler
🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 Children are chosen at birth to be the next Child of Death – a chilling fate that means when they turn 18, they must relinquish their soul to become a reaper…
Every Awful Thing – S. E. Bourne.
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Every Awful Thing is a semi-autobiographical publication of poems and flash-fiction from the life of the author, S. E. Bourne. And within it, as the title suggests, is lots of heart-wrenching…
Year Zero – David Dean Lugo
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 Joey is simply trying to keep his dwindling family alive in a world where it’s become illegal to even think differently. The Corporation government has taken over the United States of…
How to Make Paper When the World is Ending – Dallas Woodburn
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 There’s something about a collection of short stories that makes you read the entire book in one sitting. Is it because the stories are short, and it feels as though you’ve…
Hallowed Ground – Maggie Hawkins
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 A small town in Upstate New York, nestled in the Hudson Basin. It’s a beautiful place, full of green fields and farm houses and suburban dreams. There’s the crazy lady with…
Night Rise – Frances De La Rosa
🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 Princess Dawn has been promised to Prince Geoff since she was a child. Although she tried to make herself believe that it’s what she wants, she’s conflicted. Marrying Geoff means leaving…