By J. Timothy King on July 19, 2011
Sixteen year old Channie Kerns leads an idyllic life of magic, deep in the Ozark Mountains, until her family is forced to flee from a powerful rival who wants them all murdered. They leave everything and everyone behind, uproot their lives, change their names, and disappear to Louisville, Colorado. But when her parents catch Channie […]
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By J. Timothy King on June 7, 2011
Phoebe Rain’s violent ex-husband lies in a coma a thousand miles away. Yet Phoebe knows the voice on the other end of the phone, the voice of that twisted man, who vowed he’d never let her get away. Panicked, she turns to her neighbor, Dr. Alan MacKerrie, who finds the story hard to believe… But […]
Posted in Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Holly Lisle, Midnight Rain |
By J. Timothy King on April 26, 2011
When high-school bad boy Derrick Weston returns after ten years, for his grandfather’s funeral, old rivalries and new robberies place him right in Ginger’s path — whether they like it or not. I’ve been wanting to read one of Lazette Gifford’s books for a long time now, because she (like me) admires Holly Lisle’s work. […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Lazette Gifford, Return to Redlin |
By J. Timothy King on April 12, 2011
Not far from the Six Duchies lies Bingtown, hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships- rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Bingtown’s Old Traders, their wealth eroded by northern wars and the rapacity of southern pirates, now face an influx of upstart merchants […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic, Used Book Superstore
By J. Timothy King on April 5, 2011
I’m about 85% through Fire in the Mist, one of Holly Lisle’s earlier titles published by Baen Books. (And now available electronically from the Baen Free Library.) Holly throws the plot a curve ball at around page 210, and breaks one of the premier “rules” of storytelling. And I’m loving it! Unfortunately, I can’t tell […]
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By J. Timothy King on March 8, 2011
Can writing a bestseller be dangerous? Christian author Beth Rider’s 2nd vampire novel hit number 1. She’s flying high, until confronted by an evil she’d only experienced in nightmares. Jack Dawn, a supernatural monster belonging to an ancient race of bloodthirsty immortals, “marks†the young writer because of her book’s redemptive effect on his people, leaving […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Chasing Beth Rider, Ellen C. Maze, Rabbit |
By J. Timothy King on March 1, 2011
A simple shepherd girl discovers her wild mage powers after a murderous magician destroys her family. Now every mage in the world wants to train her. But Faia wants only to confront the madman who killed her loved ones. I was going to read something other than another Holly Lisle book, but I’m enjoying this […]
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By J. Timothy King on February 1, 2011
Hawkspar almost never made it to print. The drama started in September 2006, when Holly Lisle’s editor told her that the manuscript was too long. It weighed in at a hefty 190,000 words. So either 55,000 words needed to be cut, which would gut the story, thereby ruining it; or else it would have to […]
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By J. Timothy King on December 14, 2010
Here’s another from my archives, a book I’m giving away as part of a small box of previously read books, the famed Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. If you’ve never heard of the Hitchhiker’s Guide, give up now: you have no hope of avoiding the destruction of the world. If you’ve just never read it, […]
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By J. Timothy King on November 30, 2010
I actually read Julie Carobini’s debut novel Chocolate Beach some time ago. But I’m doing a teaser on it today, because I’ve got a beautiful, brand new, autographed copy of it, which I will be giving away in a post that’s going up tomorrow. Chocolate Beach is what Julie calls “beach-lit,” or what I had […]
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