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Book Review: Petrified, Book 1 of The Keeper Chronicles Petrified by Ben Meeks Series: The Keeper Chronicles, Book 1 Genre: Urban Fantasy, Adventure This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Thera, the Earth Mother, is under siege. Demons from other worlds sneak through magical portals and wreak havoc…

There are things in this existence that not even a geniuscan understand: miracles, worldly dimensions,paranormal phenomenon, purpose… It’s commonly understood there are reasons for everything.There must be a cause in order to achieve an effect.Nothing can happen without it being the direct resultof something else that has happened. Most importantly,there must be an answer to every question. The…

Book Review: Finding the Inner G Finding the Inner G by Damon Thompson Series: Supreme Beingz, Book 1 Genres: Superhero, Adventure, Contemporary Fantasy This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Before his grandchildren were born, Doc asked God to bless them with gifts, powers, and superhuman abilities…

I’m an ant in a colony, but I cannot work.  I cannot work because I’m missing two legs on one side. The other ants want to kill me because I am no good to the rest of the colony.  Upon learning of their plot to take my life, I muster up every ounce of strength I have and slowly crawl through the tunnels and up to the surface while the others attend to the queen and feed the young.  I…

Photo by LER ZENG on Unsplash Ah, that majestic queen of the sky. She was the wind that carried him when he called out to her in pain. She was the breath of fresh oxygen that lifted him up into clouds. Air and Water together made beautiful symphonies of storms. The water elemental loved her more than even he, himself, knew, and though Air loved Water as well, his tears kept the rivers flowing.…

Book Review: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards Genre: Contemporary, Historical Fiction This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy.…

Book Review: Calamity Canyon Calamity Canyon by Bo Mandoe Genres: Historical Fiction, Contemporary This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: When Fred Fredericksen first visited the ghost town of Mogollon New Mexico he had no idea it would be the first of thirteen trips he’d take over the next…

Book Review and Discussion: A Day No Pigs Would Die A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck Genres: Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classic This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the…

Book Review: Knight in Paper Armor Knight in Paper Armor by Nicholas Conley Genres: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Supernatural, Speculative, Young Adult This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Billy Jakobek has always been different. Born with strange and powerful psychic abilities, he has grown up in…

Book Review: Shadow of the Serpent Curse Shadow of the Serpent Curse by Niki Livingston Series: Infernal Crystals, Prequel Genres: Urban Fantasy, Dystopia This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: It spread like a virus, driving each nation into a war that drastically changed our world.An enchanter’s…

Book Review: Descendant of the Serpent Queen Descendant of the Serpent Queen by Niki Livingston Series: Infernal Crystals, Book one Genres: Urban Fantasy, Dystopia This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Magical gorgons do not exist anymore.Only deformed ones. That’s me. An unmagical, deformed…

Book Review: Summer of Broken Things Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult, Middle Grade This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Summary: Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted is athletic, rich, and pretty. Sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts is known as “butt-girl” at…

Darlin’ showed up on Mom’s back porch one day as a tiny little kitten. She was all alone, severely malnourished and all alone. The other cats wanted nothing to do with her at first because she wasn’t part of the colony. We don’t know where she came from, but we are so glad she found us! Mom has given her lots of love and restored her health! We weren’t sure if she was going to pull through in the…

Moon is one of the tamest of the colony and wants a forever home so bad! She was the runt of her litter and fairly small for a full grown cat. She is about 2 years old. Daughter to Psycho. Sister to my sweet cat, Sugar. She is so sweet and gentle! Great with other cats!

Psycho was one of the first cats we met when my mom moved into her apartment. She was not friendly at all in the beginning, and enjoyed bullying the other cats. Because of her behavior, mom named her Psycho. In the three years since we met her, Psycho’s personality has morphed into one of a mellow, friendly cat that gets along with the rest of the colony. She will let you pet her, but she cannot…

Hope This oracle card comes from the Foxfire: The Kitsune Oracle deck, created by Lucy Cavendish. Artwork by Meredith Dillman. This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase using the links, I get a small commission at no extra cost to you! Hope is the offering that carries us forward into the darkness, unbowed and unbroken, despite the knowledge of the true challenges which face us.…

Book Review: Drowning Ruth

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars Summary: In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the…