by Melissa J. Troutman | Jan 13, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Fairytale retellings are cool and all, but nothing is cooler (literally) than a fairytale retelling mashed with Greek myth in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. A world of gray, ice, and snow. A world where memories are currency. A world of power struggles, gifts, and...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Oct 27, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Now a captain in the Air Force, Roger Greene loves spending his days in the cockpit while helping with a top-secret military project. So when the CIA asks him to leave this perfect life for a temporary government mission against the Heritage Organization, he turns the...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Feb 25, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Mystery
In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to do but re-read the tales of his idol, Sherlock Holmes, and browse the daily papers....
by Cammi Woodall | Aug 20, 2021 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“She was crazy but he needed her.” That one quote sums up the novel Misery by Stephen King better than any synopsis truly could. A gruesome, psychological thriller, Misery is the story of a successful author named Paul Sheldon. Riding high with the success of...
by Cammi Woodall | Jul 16, 2021 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fantasy, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I’m finishing up my Leigh Bardugo review series by talking about the last duology in the Ravka series, King of Scars and Rule of Wolves. These books focus on three main characters, although the secondary stories are just as thrilling. The main focus of the story...
by A.S. Hardin | Apr 9, 2021 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I have always enjoyed Hollywood’s black and white version of Frankenstein and the many adaptations that followed like Igor, Edward Scissorhands, and Frankenweenie. I had yet to read the story, so I hadn’t known better than to trust the popular misinterpretation that...
