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  • Foundations: Tower of Somnus Book 1 by Cale Plamann

    Released July 6th, 2022 Originally released on Royal Road, Foundations follows Kat Debs a young woman sick of being controlled by the corporation (a state-like entity that controls the lives of their “employees”) she was born into. Kat is a young woman who graduates high school and gets placed in her legit job as a…

  • Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

    Released July 12th, 2022 Eclipse the Moon is the second book in Starlight’s Shadow trilogy. This one follows Kee, a young bubbly woman who lived through a galactic war and came out still able (if not determined) to see the good in people. Eclipse the Moon picks up right where the first one left off,…

  • Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

    Released February 1st, 2022 Dead Silence is a wonderful example of Sci-Fi Horror. The story starts off with Claire in the “Tower”, a place where undesirables and people who are unstable are sent after missions with Verux, a large corporation that reminds me of Wayland Yutani. Here Claire starts to tell investigators what happened to…

  • How I evaluate books

    Most of these categories are going to seem muddled. That is because they are. It is hard to separate characterization from world-building, just as it is hard to separate writing style from story. And the impact a work will have or even does have is sometimes very difficult to talk about, but I will endeavor…