Book Review Alert: A Breaking of Realms by Jasmine Young

Reviewed: November 5th, 2023
Released: October 2nd, 2023
Genre: Epic Fantasy

The Realm-Building Enterprise is open to all. On the continent of Elondria, anyone may become the next legendary dragon rider by building the greatest towns, cities, and even kingdoms.

Skálda Branwright dreams of leaving the Longcold and becoming the first Dragonlord to build an official realm. Only no dragon egg has ever hatched for her.

But when a wild hatchling falls to her from the skies, begging for rescue, she must decide whether to relinquish her dreams and become the worst criminal of all – a rogue rider. One with the potential to restore mankind’s sovereignty from the brutal dominion of elves.

The Realm-Building Enterprise was meant to unite all races, until it became a means for elves to control the continent.

But this is no ordinary dragon. By the time Skálda realizes what she holds in her hands, it is much too late.

She never meant to steal a hatchling. She always meant to build a realm. She never wanted to break the continent.

A Realm-Breaker is coming. Read My Thoughts…

Book Review Alert: Trodaiche, My Fighter by Lousie Murchie

Reviewed: November 3rd, 2023
Released: March 28th, 2022
Genre: Spicy Scottish Romance
Format: ebook (KU)

My past was soul-destroying.

Annie Holmes: I’ve spent the last eight years in survival mode, living on a vow I made to myself: Never allow those with money to make me powerless ever again.

I’m a warrior.

I don’t need an unsupportive, uncaring, low-life in my world. I’m better than that. I tackle every challenge thrown at me head-on. My daughter and I are doing just fine, thank you very much.

I’m a Trodaiche; a fighter. I protect those who can’t defend themselves and bring corrupt politicians, sex traffickers, and criminals to justice. They fall to their knees at my feet and tremble at my power.

Called to rescue a runaway becomes far from business as usual: I encounter him.

Will Tony be my salvation, or will he leave us both in ruins? Read My Thoughts…

Podcast Alert: Words & Pictures Podcast featuring Helen Garraway

When: October 30th, 2023
Where: Words & Picture Podcast
Episode 66

Join me as I chat with DJ Bowman-Smith on her podcast, Words & Pictures.

We talk all things books and writing, from world building to romance to helping and supporting other authors.

Listen to the podcast here:

or hop on over to the Words & Pictures Podcast on Podbean, Spotify and other podcast platforms.

This is a podcast for all writers and artists who are involved in the book business. Each week, author and artist DJ Bowman-Smith will have a brief chat about her own working week and then introduce a guest to talk about writing and the art authors use to promote their words. It’s about inspiration and business. Aesthetics and exploring the creative mind.

Find Helen Garraway here: Helen Garraway – USA Today Bestselling Fantasy author

Her Amazon page: Amazon.co.uk: Helen Garraway: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle

Her linktree: https://Linktr.ee/HelenGarraway

And find her in person signing books at Norden Farm Christmas Festval in Maidenhead on December 2nd, 2023.

Find DJ: www.djbowmansmith.com

Also mentioned: Book Dragon: https://the-bookdragon.com

Alliance of independent authors: www.allianceindependentauthors.org

Book Review Alert: The Verderer by D K Girl

Reviewed: October 29th, 2023
Released: June 30th, 2021
Genre: Historical MM Fantasy
Format: ebook (KU)

Silas Mercer is a dead man walking.

And the mysterious Order of the Golden Dawn have big plans for their newest ankou and his deathly bandalore.

Life as a servant of death has its challenges. But the biggest one of all is Silas’s daemonic guardian, Pitch. He may look like heaven, but he’s making Silas’s life all kinds of hell.

The daemon is arrogant, egotistical and his appetite for violence and tea cakes is fast outgrowing the small village where they have been recuperating since their run-in with Black Annis.

Now, the increasingly unstable Blight is causing new havoc, and fresh monstrosities are emerging. Pitch and Sickle are back in the saddle, and on their way to the haunted Forest of Dean. But can Silas rely on his guardian’s protection? Or will Pitch prove to be the most dangerous encounter of all? Read My Thoughts…

Book Review Alert: Dacia Wolf and the Prophecy by Mandi Oyster

Reviewed: October 22nd, 2023
Released: May 24th, 2022
Genre: YA Fantasy
Format: ebook (KU)

She doesn’t want to stand out. Too bad the fate of the planet rests on her shoulders…

Dacia Wolf longs to be normal. After accidentally killing her brother years ago when her awakening powers set fire to their house, the now-college freshman just wants to fit in. But when another unintended blaze results in a trip to the dean’s office, the distraught young woman learns she is the subject of an ancient prophecy.

Destined to battle a demon bent on annihilation, Dacia struggles to develop her magic into a controllable weapon. And now plagued by damaging dreams, a nosy roommate, and a haunted bully, the would-be heroine fears she’ll be responsible for the deaths of everyone she loves.

Can an unprepared sorceress conquer evil without going up in flames? Read My Thoughts…

Book Review Alert: The Necromancer’s Daughter by D. Wallace Peach

Reviewed: October 5th, 2023
Released: August 25th, 2022
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Format: ebook

A healer with the talent to unravel death. A stillborn child brought to life. A father lusting for vengeance. And a son torn between justice, faith, and love. Caught in a chase spanning kingdoms, each must decide the nature of good and evil, the lengths they will go to survive, and what they are willing to lose.

A healer and dabbler in the dark arts of life and death, Barus is as gnarled as an ancient tree. Forgotten in the chaos of the dying queen’s chamber, he spirits away her stillborn infant and in a hovel at the meadow’s edge, breathes life into the wisp of a child. He names her Aster for the lea’s white flowers. Raised as his daughter, she, too, learns to heal death.

Denied a living heir, the widowed king spies from a distance. But he heeds the claims of the fiery Vicar of the Red Order—in the eyes of the Blessed One, Aster is an abomination, and to embrace the evil of resurrection will doom his rule.

As the king’s life nears its end, he defies the vicar’s warning and summons the necromancer’s daughter. For his boldness, he falls to an assassin’s blade. Armed with righteousness and iron-clad conviction, the Order’s brothers ride into the leas to cleanse the land of evil.

To save her father’s life, Aster leads them beyond Verdane’s wall into the Forest of Silvern Cats, a wilderness of dragons and barbarian tribes. Unprepared for a world rife with danger and unchecked power, a world divided by those who practice magic and those who hunt them, she must choose whether to trust the one man offering her aid, the one man most likely to betray her—her enemy’s son. Read My Thoughts…

Book Review Alert: Star Sick by Amy Marie Myers

Reviewed: October 1st, 2023
Released: April 20th, 2023
Genre: Science Fiction
Format: ebook

Introversion is illegal in 2084.

But the lovely people at Friendlee.Face.s, a front for the SUPER.V1S.1ON corporation, insist this is for the betterment of Earth.
All those deemed introverted are lazier and less productive than the most recent incarnation of artificial intelligence.
And with the latest wave of brainwashing, most have accepted this reality.

But Luccee Winterscott refuses to comply. Her only hope is to escape Earth on her terms and find a planet with different rules. Or even better, a distant, uncharted star with no rules at all. She will find such a place.

And with the help of the alien race Coodaura, and a group of forgotten misfits, she will find her tribe. She will find love. She will take on the SUPER.V1S.1ON. Read My Thoughts…

Book Review Alert: A Song of Mange and Poison by Caroline Noe

Reviewed: September 22nd, 2023
Released: September 19th, 2023
Genre: Humourous Fantasy
Format: Paperback

It was all going so well…
But I might have guessed a dark side sequel was on the horizon.

No sooner had this Menopausal Madam nabbed her Mangy Wolf, and the jumbled pack of wolves, bears, snakes and an eagle howled their way to a Happy Ever After, than up pops the Messenger of the Alpha of Alphas, announcing the imminent arrival of the stinky Southern Pack.

A shed load of furry trouble descends, chief of whom being Curt’s Auntie Yelena, known as Yellfire to her enemies.
I’m one of them, apparently.
Before you can say ruffle my fur, we’re paw deep in backstabbing, arson, poison and attempted murder.
Everyone’s heart is in danger, especially mine.

Don’t turn your back. Don’t turn tail. Read my thoughts…

Book Review Alert: Dragon’s Fear by Sloane McClain

Reviewed: September 17th, 2023
Released: June 29th, 2023
Genre: Arthurian Fantasy
Format: ebook

When the man who raised Roane Pendragon as a son sends a woman in need of protection, what is Roane to do? Well, one thing he shouldn’t do is sleep with her.

Caitlin McGregor is the latest in a long line of Sword Maidens. As the latest Keeper of Roane’s sword, it means both she and Roane are now targets on the radar of the evil sorceress, Morgause.

Morgause needs to stop Roane from using his sword to turn his key. The easiest way is to stop Cait from giving it to him in the first place. If Morgause can get her hands on it before Roane, not only will her lover, Mordred be released, but so will a creature powerful enough to subjugate multiple universes.

Will Cait give Roane the sword before Morgause stops her? Will Roane be able to use it to do his part to lock away the evil creature? Will Cait and Roane have any chance for a happy-ever-after? Read My Thoughts…

SoulBreather wins a SILVER medal in the Global Book Awards

Even more celebrations! Not only has Sentinals Justice acheived a gold medal, but SoulBreather, the first book in the Fantasy Romance/Paranormal Romance SoulMist Series, has achieved a silver medal in the 2023 Global Book Awards in the Fantasy Myth & Legend category.

The 2023 Global Book Awards for Self-Published Authors.

The Global Awards aim to discover new talent as well as recognize fine examples of self-published books. As such, we hope they will give self-published authors the recognition they deserve, whether that is in their writing creativity, or in the way they have marketed their books to attract new readers.

In this modern age of self-publishing, books need to be appraised not only by their content and writing style, but also by the way they present and market themselves to the prospective buyer, whether that is in the good ratings it has on important stores like Amazon, its book cover and description, or the number of reviews it has collected. They must also appeal to new readers so part of the evaluation included a survey asking avid readers to select the top 5 books they enjoyed the most.

The awards are grouped by category (or genre) and divided into Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Award Finalists.

Grab your copy today!

If you fall in love with the shadows, does that mean you are fallen too?

A dying angel. A fractured realm. The mortal who might be able to save them both.

Solanji has a secret. One that is becoming increasingly difficult to keep. She can touch souls and see into a person’s inner thoughts. Soulbreathing is exhilarating and addictive, until the day Solanji caresses the wrong person’s soulmist.

Dragged into a long forgotten angelic mystery, she is forced to venture into Eidolon, the godforsaken last resort for those without souls. In order to save her brother, she must rescue a broken and tortured man. Can she save him from the shadows? Does he even want to be saved? And can she find a way to return to the light before the darkness engulfs them both?

SoulBreather is the first book in the fantasy romance SoulMist series.

Originally published as part of the USA Today Bestselling Realm of Darkness anthology.
Receipient of a Reader’s Favorite Five Star Review

If you enjoy fantasy books then you will love my epic fantasy Sentinal series or the Romantic Fantasy SoulMist series. As a new threat against Remargaren is discovered, only one man can wake the ancient guards who can protect them, only he doesn’t know how. Start the adventure and stay for the journey. Sign up to my newsletter and download a free novella called Sentinals Stirring and get notified when my next books are published.

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