All Blog Posts Tagged 'witches' (29)

By Kieran Shields

Broadway Paperbacks (Random House), 404 pgs

978-0-307-72029-0

Submitted by Random…

By Chris Bohjalian

Crown Publishers 378 pgs

978-0-307-39499-6

Rating - It'll Do and a Half

This is a weird little book. If you are familiar with Chris Bohjalian's work then this will not surprise you. He is a master at New England village life. You understand that his books could not be set anywhere else. There are hamlets in these mainly rural states that remain fairly isolated. This allows all manner of belief and behavior to take hold and hold on. I'm…

"As you all know, Halloween is only a matter of days away and to get you all in the mood I am sharing my Top Halloween Reads. Whether you are looking for a full-on fright or to inject a little comic relief into the festivities - look no further."

Read the list in full on my blog at…

Flyte : Had A magical Entertaining Start, But Sadly Loses Direction

Okay this time around the book is Flyte by Angie Sage. And yes this is the one of cheesey wizards fantasy books that is only founding the colorful kids section of book stores. It’s two inches thick and made to look like spell book and neighbors Lemony Snicket and James and The Giant peach. But you know what, I‘m not going defend myself any or cover up the truth. I every once and a whole will read a kid book. I will…

The Witch Tree by Karin Kaufman is a Christian novel about a woman who unwittingly gets involved with a group of modern day witches and must protect her reputation and ultimately, her life. Anna Denning  makes her living as a genealogist, researching other people’s family trees. When she shows up at a client’s house with her findings, she discovers the woman dead. Thus begins a tale that takes us into the minds and hearts of modern day witches, wiccans, druids and covens.…

Two centuries ago, the Temple Initiates made up the Order of the Dragon, named after the Great Dragon Shyrdasa that once lived within Dragon Park. Legend told that a group of knights once helped the Dragon and her unborn young. As a reward for their valor, the Dragon awarded them secret knowledge, martial powers and magic. The Dragon also chose women throughout the Hugue to serve…

Dark Moon – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; and A Book and A Dish

“Well, my girl, I hope that boyfriend of yours is ready to make an honest woman of you.  Congratulations. Everything looks fine so far.”  Though he smiled, there was…

From Chapter 2 of Secret Lives:

“Aha, my pretty one,” cackled the hag in the pointed hat. “I’ve got you now! You’re in my power. You’re mine, mine, mine!” Still cackling, she held her squirming captive up close and peered at it until she was…

John Everson won the HWA Bram Stoker award for his first novel, Covenant. The Pumpkin Man is his fifth novel. I originally snapped up an advance reader’s copy of The Pumpkin Man because it looked so appropriate for Halloween. I’m not a huge horror fan so I was kind of dreading reading it. This is definitely an over 18 book, because of the nature of some of the rituals involved. That said, I really liked the main…

  As I wrote the story the world called Htrae began to evolve in my mind. I decided it was ten times the size of Earth and it's rotation was slower which meant the days and nights were longer. It is farther away from their sun, one day is…

 Barbara Ardinger, author of Secret Lives is on Book Tour this month with Pump Up Your Book and her press release appears in the Long Beach Post online edition. Take a look at the press release and then visit her tour page at  Pump Up Your Book.…

Hey everyone.

   I am brand spanking new to this site as well as blogging. I am an author who dabbles in the paranormal. Not only in writing but also in practice. I love to go on ghost hunts, visit creepy places and hunt for cryptozoological creatures. I have hunted Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest and Kapre in Southeast Asia.

  I have written four books. One of them, "From the Graves of Babes," is currently the number 1 ranked ghost novel on Amazon based on…

Mathew Clairmont, a vampire and scientist, is thrown from his normal ways by his intense attraction to a witch, Diana Bishop. Diana is the last remaining decendant of the Bishop witches that survived the Salem witch hunts. When she was very young, her parents were killed, and thinking that they were killed because of their use of magic, Diana swore to never use those powers again. Times change when she calls up an alchemical manusctript, and miraculously, a manuscript that hasn't been seen…

It’s a fact, not widely acknowledged, that the witch hunts of the 16^th and 17^th centuries but the development of some modern medicines back several hundred years.

So how can this be when witches had a reputation as evil women, who used black magic and charms to lay curses and do the devil’s work.

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  Spellbound follows world-famous photographer Calin Farrell on his much-needed vacation in Ireland. While there, Calin becomes bewitched by the ravishingly beautiful Bryna Torrence, even if he refuses to believe in the spell…

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Do Witches Make Fishes? This book, by Jason Mayo, tells the tale of a boy who, like so many, would rather eat candy than the fish and veggie stew his mother has served. A grave warning is issued, a hasty wish is made, and a witch appears! A difficult decision is made by the boy, and a lesson on healthy eating is learned.





I read this book with two of my daughters. As I read it, I found the rhythm and flow of the words to be pleasant. The storyline was…