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Book Review: Beast Master's Planet
This book, Beast Master’s Planet, is an omnibus which contains the first two stories, Beast Master and Lord of Thunder as written by Andre Norton. Andre Norton is actually a pen name for Alice Norton.These original tellings are quite different from the Beast Master film from 1982 which used these books as a basis. From what I have read elsewhere, the movie studios had found success with the Conan…
Book Review: Pinquickle's Folly
I’m a big fan of R. A. Salvatore’s books and I was looking forward to reading Pinquickle’s Folly. As I started turning the pages, I was initially feeling skeptical. The author threw the reader into a whirling stew of words, of new places, exotic cultures, and curious characters. I felt very disconnected for the first few chapters and even considered not reading the book.But then the story took…
Betrayal: Today Is Truly Special
“My handsome, noble fool. Hopes and dreams drowning in a hostile sea of gold-tinted faith, agitated by the sword of an invisible God.” We start Chapter 18 with Francis and Midonia Whitehall still arguing inside their tent-home at a tournament in Germany. Midonia starts poking hard at Francis’ faith, and concludes her argument with the understanding that Francis loves God more than he loves his…
Betrayal: The Yoke Is Eternal
“I want to hit him again,” she thought, surprised how effortless it had been. She bit back a smile. The value of violence took on a life of its own. “I want to do it again. Hurt him. Really hurt him.” Midonia Whitehall had just done the unacceptable, the nearly unforgivable, at the end of the last chapter, striking her husband. It was more of a slap down the face than an actual punch, but it…
Book Review: Red Rising
Red Rising is the first book in the Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown.The book claims to be a “hectic ride”, and it is. Hectic. Fast. Quick. Entertaining. The pace is like a sprinter from start to finish.And this pace is its charm and its weakness. Let me explain.The entertaining part is that the author blows through micro-details about various places, characters, technology and other advanced…
Definition Of A Crux
The supernatural blueprint Hephaestus devised was a scryers dream. It was a small pyramidal device consisting of five unique crystals, none much larger than a man’s fist. The first four gems would be perfectly geometric octagons and serve as the base. The fifth stone, the capstone, the crux, would be a little larger and sit upon the others. Each stone would be imbued with some of the esoteric…
Betrayal: Chivalry Is Not Dead
Before Pero de Alava entered his life, Francis Whitehall was barely surviving on the manna of the land, a reaper of the fickle spoils of officiated melees and jousts. Behaving like a young man with time on his side, the aging knight travelled Europe and played at war. The games were his last great enthusiasm. Out there in the grassy fields, far beyond his scarcity and despair, Francis Whitehall…
Betrayal: The Kitchen Steward
Benectus, a round, balding man who challenged hygienic convention with day old grime on his hands and an unwashed bloodstained apron tied about his waist, started whooping and hollering at the sudden idleness inflicting his charges. Benectus is the Kitchen Steward at Capua.Pero and Francis, having just returned from La Torre on horseback, are making their way through the kitchens causing the…
Betrayal: The Breaker of Jaws
The Crystal Crux Series covers ten days in August 1198. In Chapter 14, we have gone back five months to a banquet hall in Parthenope and the beginning of Pero’s woes. Taking advantage of his influence with the Court in Spain, Pero developed trade relations with the Almohads. Circumventing the provost office in Parthenope, he signed a treaty. The Crystal Crux Series books are not historical…
Book Review: Conan - City of the Dead
“No more threats,” snapped Conan. “Speak against any one of us again and I’ll split your skull. We stand or fall together now.” Conan: City of the Dead by John C Hocking is two Conan novels in one.Conan and the Emerald Lotus was published in 1995.Conan and the Living Plague was published in 2024 with the release of this two-book edition.The original Conan character was created back in the 1930s…
Betrayal: The Rock of Penafiel
After they made their engagement official in August 1197, Pero whisked his bride-to-be off to Spain to introduce Anthea to his mother Maria Alava. They toured the haciendas and ranchos he inherited from his father. We are now on Chapter 13, and as was established previously, Pero was the bastard son of Maria Alava and Blassilo Velez.When Pero’s father, Blassilo, passed, Pero inherited his…
What We Did Not Know Before Writing A Book
But if you wanted to go on from the end The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable choice as the link. If then you wanted a larger tale, the Ring would at once acquire a capital letter; and the Dark Lord would immediately appear. As he did, unasked, on the hearth at Bag End as soon as I came to that point. So the essential quest started at once. But I met a lot of things on the way that…
Betrayal: With Eyes Closed And Heart Open
The fair-haired courier was in his forties. He wore a clean white cotte with the crest of an orange griffin across the chest. With a familiar modest smile, he tipped his head and made his greetings to Anthea.Anthea was nearly never terse with anyone, especially Capua’s estate steward and Pero’s best friend, but right now all she could manage for him was a half-hearted reply. His name.…
Helloween - German Power Metal
Helloween is a German Power Metal band founded in 1984. The initial lineup featured Vocalist/Guitarist Kai Hansen, guitarist Michael Weikath, bassist Markus Grosskopf, and drummer Ingo Schwichtenberg.There have been a few lineup changes over the years.Kai Hansen left to form a band called Gamma Ray.Michael Kiske took over the vocal duties in Kai’s absence. Schwichtenberg died in 1995.For a time,…
Betrayal: Chapter 11 La Torre Market
There had always been a market at La Torre compromised of local fare, regional crops and goods, decent wares from tradesman in the province. But today was different and unique. Today, thanks to Pero’s connections abroad, there were traders, vendors and hawkers from Spain and Morocco. In previous chapters, we had established that Pero’s trade deal would benefit the Campania region, hence the…
Quick Update on Whispersync!
Whispersync is now active if you buy a Kindle copy and an Audible copy of Ares in Chains.That means you can read along with the Kindle copy while I read the book to you.I thought it might take longer for this process to be completed but it is a short book, a novella, so it probably didn’t take them that long to process it. The Crystal Crux Series
NEW AUDIOBOOK: Ares in Chains
Ares In Chains I’m excited to announce thatAres in Chains:Book One:Shades of Myth Seriesis now available on Audible and iTunes Books!I did the narration and editing myself.Big step. Exciting step.This has been a great learning experience. Just listening to the completed production, I already know a few things I can do better next time.The plan is to do all future Shades of Myth Series books on…