There are two things Elijah Goldsmith does not lack. The first is money. The second is ambition. It is not enough, in one year, to graduate high school and begin college at Princeton. He mixes in one more thing: Becoming a spy. Only he doesn’t know, when he goes to Washington in the cold beginning…
Category: Book Reviews
CSFF Blog Tour: Merlin’s Nightmare
The whole of Britain is blighted with a drought. In the south, there is war against the Saxenow. In the north, there is war against the Picts. From within, the men of Kernow turn and attack the king’s city. Morgana, a woman with evil powers, drives them on, and has other plots in store. It…
Prism Tour Review: The Cinderella Theorem
A themed book tour through Prism Book Tours. Lily Sparrow is an atypical teenager: a teenager who thrives on mathematics, who wants everything clear and logical, who thinks all life should work out to a balanced equation. But when she discovers on her fifteenth birthday that her parents have been leading a double-life in a…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Warden and the Wolf King
The Jewels of Anniera are preparing for war. All the long winter they have been rallying the people of the Green Hollows to go up against Gnag the Nameless, to end his destruction by destroying him. The Skreeans are preparing for war. All winter Gammon has been leading them in the work, making ready to…
Review: Jupiter Winds
Grey Alexander has precisely two worries: providing for herself and her sister, and not getting caught. They live in lawless independence in the North American Wildlife Preserve, and there’s no telling where or when Mazdaar may catch up with them. Jupiter Winds is written by C.J. Darlington and published by Mountainview Books. The novel is…
Review: The Word Changers
One day, seeking a refuge away from home, Posy went to the library. She ended up in a book. Not, you know, in the metaphorical sense of reading a book, or even in the literal sense of having fallen asleep in an open book. She was inside the book: Within the story, surrounded by characters,…
CSFF Blog Tour: Dreamtreaders
Archer Keaton’s life, when he’s awake, is fairly ordinary: a brother, a sister, a dad, school days, chores. Friends, including that one he would like to have as more than a friend. But when Archer Keaton is asleep, his life is extraordinary. He is a Dreamtreader – roving the Dreamscape, meeting its many and often…
Review: Samuel Adams
In 1776, the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to determine what course the American colonies would take in their struggle against Britain. Some men were driving toward a declaration of independence, bold and dangerous, and others hung back. Thomas Jefferson, by appointment and at the urging of John Adams, began writing a declaration to present…
Review: Aerisia: Land Beyond the Sunset
In Aerisia, the land beyond the sunset, there are beautiful fairies, immortal warriors, and the magic-wielding Moonkind. There are thick forests, lovely palaces, and tall mountains. And there are the Dark Powers, the Evil. When Hannah Winters is suddenly spirited away from Earth into Aerisia, her hosts graciously but implacably assign her her destiny: to…
Review: Until That Distant Day
France, in 1792, was an unsafe place, and not only for the king and queen. As revolutionary fever seized the nation, and Paris descended into tumult and violence, everyone’s security became threatened; everyone’s peace melted away. Colette, in the thick of things with her revolutionary brother, finds her spirit drifting away from it. Regretting the…