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Aug 16, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Minaand Blood to Blood:The Dracula StoryContinues by Marie Kiraly Marie Kiraly, the author's grandmother's name, is the pseudonym ofElaine Bergstrom. However, the sequel published in 2000, Blood to Blood, was written under her real name, which is probablywhy I never knew there was a sequel until I went to write this review. You'llfind Mina available under eitherauthor name. Mina was published in 1994.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: HomeBefore Dark by Riley SagerWhat would it be like to bethe young child of parents who'd survived an Amityville horror-like hauntingand then went on to tell the story of their terror, living in a House inhabitedwith evil spirits? That's the scenario of HomeAfter Dark by Riley Sager, published in 2020.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Lois Lowry |Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
How Not to Write aSeries or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet byLois Lowry, Part 2Note: Be awarethat there are spoilers for all the books in the series in this review thatwill span the next three weeks in order to give adequate summaries for all fourtitles along with in-depth individual and series reviews.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Lois Lowry |Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
How Not to Write aSeries or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet byLois Lowry, Part 1Note: Be awarethat there are spoilers for all the books in the series in this review thatwill span the next three weeks in order to give adequate summaries for all fourtitles along with in-depth individual and series reviews.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List}As soon as I finishedreading (and reviewing in last week's Friday post) The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, published in 1969, Imoved directly into reading the sequel, TheAndromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson, published in 2019. In fact, thestory within the sequel is set 50 years after the previous events. Thispublication also marks the 50th anniversary of the original release.
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May 31, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: ThePhysick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe Note that this book is also published under the title The Lost Book of Salem. I was drawn tothe cover of this book when it first came out in 2009 (see it below, though thereproduction is washed out). The cover you see below theoriginal is a newer version. The first edition, in tones of brown, doesn'tinclude the girl on it.
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May 10, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Ezekiel Boone |Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Hatching Series by Ezekiel BooneDespite my avid fear ofspiders (little bitty ones and big ones alike; monster queen ones? well, let'snot even go there, except within this series), I couldn't resist something thatwas described as "Independence Day meets World War Z, only withspiders". In other words, apocalyptic stakes riddled with horror galore. Ilove horror and end-of-the-world stories.
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May 3, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List}Book Review: Leechby Hiron EnnesBe awarethat there may be spoilers in this review.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List}Book Review: The Way of the Drow Series by R. A. Salvatorehttps://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2023/07/book-review-dark-elf-trilogy-by-ra.html). The three books in The Way of the Drowwere published between 2021 and 2023. In the previous series including Drizzt,Generations, a demon uprising was settled and two years of peace followed. Nowrumblings from Menzoberranzan, where Drizzt was born, prove a civil war is inthe making.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
blogarama.com | J.K. Rowling |Karen Wiesner |Alien Romances
{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: FantasticBeasts OriginalScreenplays by J.K. Rowling Quite a few years ago, a trendstarted going around writing circles that was in direct opposition ofeverything I'd ever taught about going deep with characters. In this trend,writers were advised not to include more than basic information about maincharacters, allowing readers to fill in the blanks and make the characterswhatever they want them to be.
