This book pulls you in and doesn’t let go. The author has a magical component that she adds to her writing, which makes you live the characters’ lives rather than simply read about them. “Sky Watcher: A Shadow in Time” by Heather Lynn is a story about Charlotte. At twenty-two, her life has thrown too... Continue Reading →
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“Broken Boundaries” by Helen Aitchison
Melody Dartford is broken. After the traumatising events she went through as a teenager, she has not healed. But is it really so? As the reader learns more about the young woman living a seemingly ordinary life in bustling London, suspicions inevitably creep in about something not being right with her in the first place.... Continue Reading →
“Mercy House” by Lubov Leonova
Picking up right from where my review of the previous book of the trilogy ended… Imagine the sinister castle with the dark corridors and dungeons hiding the sufferings of innocent victims – young girls who possess ‘destructive’ magic, something men ruling the world cannot allow women to wield, so they don’t lose their power… “Mercy... Continue Reading →
“Reading You: A Memory Thief Mystery” by Lubov Leonova
Having read previous books by this author, I was excited to revisit the world she has created on the pages and learn more about the characters. The kingdom where magical powers can both elevate or destroy you and where people facing the challenges of taming their extraordinary abilities sometimes succumb to their dark side came... Continue Reading →
“Reflections: A Poetry Collection” by Elena Carter
Poetry doesn’t work for everybody. It takes an intricate combination of factors for the versed lines to reach a reader’s heart. A poet must spill a part of their soul onto the pages, and those lines should touch a familiar string in the reader. In my case, “Reflections: A Poetry Collection” by Elena Carter has... Continue Reading →
“Inside the Robe: A Judge’s Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America” by Katherine Mader
As a huge fan of memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies, I could not go by this book when it landed in my email among other promoted titles. Not so long ago, I finally changed my reading preferences on BookBub and started receiving promo deals for the books I’m really interested in reading. I am not as... Continue Reading →
“Snow: Cursed” by Willa R Finnegan
What if there existed a land inhabited by all the characters and magical creatures of our favourite fairy tales and books read to us by our parents when we were little? What if none of them were the way we imagined them while eagerly turning the pages or listening to our moms and dads reading... Continue Reading →
Category Winner in the 2025 Independent Author Awards
“The Accidental Cop” is a Category Winner in the 2025 Independent Author Awards. It feels especially gratifying that my cross-genre crime noir novel, with the setting unknown to most readers, has finally found its niche, winning in the “Social / Political Change” category in the 2025 Independent Author Awards. “The Accidental Cop” already won several... Continue Reading →
“Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen
“Mansfield Park” is not my favourite book by Jane Austen. It doesn’t stop me, though, from rereading it from time to time as I do with all this author’s books. For a long time, “Northanger Abbey” remained my least favourite Austen novel. But after the last rereading a few years ago, it moved up my... Continue Reading →
Birthday & book sale
It is my birthday today, and the weather allowed me to celebrate it just the way I like it. It isn't particularly warm, but not too cold either, so I took a long walk along the seaside, the river, and also in our highly therapeutic pine forest. There is no better gift for an author... Continue Reading →