B- Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Egypt / Historical / Historical Fantasy / historical paranormal / mythologyComments Off on REVIEW: Warrior of the Nile (The Gods of Egypt Book 2) by Veronica Scott
Egypt, 1500 BC Lady Tiya is bound to the service of the goddess Nephthys, who plans to sacrifice Tiya’s body to protect Egypt from an ancient terror. She embarks to meet her grim fate alone but for the hardened warrior Khenet, who is fated to die at her side. Tiya’s ... more >
B Reviewsancient-Egypt / Ghost / Historical / historical paranormal / mythology / Paranormal / Soldier2 Comments
1550 BCE Betrayed, murdered, and buried without proper ceremony, Egyptian warrior Periseneb is doomed to roam the gray deserts of the dead as a ghost for all eternity. But then the goddess of truth offers him a bargain: return to the world of the living as her champion for 30 ... more >
A ReviewsFantasy / mythology / Villain30 Comments
Dear R. Lee Smith: Disclaimer- I am a huge fangirl of your work. HUGE. The enormity of which is as unfathomable as the depths of the Marianas Trench. I routinely reread both The Last Hour of Gann and Heat. If someone mentions you on Twitter I’m like a hound catching ... more >
Letters of Opinionarchetypes / Beauty-and-the-Beast / Dracula / Fifty Shades of Grey / Frankenstein / genre critique / mythology / Transcendence / tropes / Twilight / vampires12 Comments
The idea for this essay started with a question: what is it about Twilight and its derivations, especially Fifty Shades of Grey and Transcendence, that allow these variations to represent “fresh” and “new” in the retelling? I’m not interested in whether these books are good or bad, nor am I ... more >
B Reviewsdemons / Fairy-Tales / Fantasy / Magic / mythology / Young-Adult7 Comments
Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorites, so any sort retelling of it is a must buy for me. It also means I’ve read many, and while I don’t mind those that are more standard, I enjoy one that’s different. Yours is one of the more original, possibly ... more >
Book ReviewsContemporary / Dystopian fiction / Fantasy / Mormons / mythology / non-fiction / Reading lists / short stories7 Comments
Also read and reviewed: The Passions of Emma, The Bride, Wolf Hall and The Moonlight Palace. The Boss by Abigail Barnette Reviewed by Kati here (along The Girlfriend) – I gave this a B, but had the same reservations about it that I wrote about in my review of The ... more >