by lauralizbuckley | 20 Jul, 2019 | Book Reviews
*I received a free copy of this collection of stories for reviewing. All opinions expressed are my own.* Elves and spirits to modern magicians, rural villages to city apartments, this collection of stories takes magic into a range of scenarios. As varied as the...
by lauralizbuckley | 13 Jul, 2019 | Book Reviews
In ‘City of Thorns’ Ben Rawlence, a former researcher for human rights watch, tells the story of the world’s largest refugee camp by focusing on some of the individuals who have, as best they can, made their lives there. The camp in question, Dadaab, began its life in...
by lauralizbuckley | 6 Jul, 2019 | Book Reviews
Four Paths isn’t like other places. When Violet Saunders moves to the small, rural town with her mother, she quickly discovers that there’s more to the place than meets the eye; founder families with their otherworldly gifts, the mingled fear and awe of...
by lauralizbuckley | 29 Jun, 2019 | Book Reviews
Hannah Gold, the only child of high-flying professional parents, has always been intelligent and mature beyond her years. She knows how to take care of herself, and she knows how to get what she wants. Most of the time. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding and a...
by lauralizbuckley | 25 Jun, 2019 | Author Interviews
Caroline Giammanco—college educated, daughter of a deputy sheriff—seems an unlikely candidate to find herself inside a maximum-security prison. When she got a teaching job at the South Central Correctional Center she assumed she’d need to watch out for the...
by lauralizbuckley | 22 Jun, 2019 | Book Reviews
Hope is sweet, optimistic and more than a little naive. She has firm ideas about how the world should work, including (if not especially) how her own future is supposed to pan out. If only her family, and reality, would stop getting in her way… Happy Girl Lucky...
