Reva’s Quest by Sue Perkins

April 16, 2012 By 3 Comments

Reva’s Quest by Sue Perkins
Publisher: Muse It Up Publishing
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (74 pgs)
Age Recommendation: 12+
Rating: 4 stars
Review by Snapdragon

Reva and her garden gnome arrive in Fey to fight the evil, Malice. Joined by three quest companions, they travel across the land to Malice’s lair. Only Reva can rid the world of Malice, but their journey brings danger, and she wonders if she will survive. Malice’s evil has invaded many of the animals and these beasts try to stop them reaching their goal. One of the companions begins to act strangely, and Reva must consider the possibility of a traitor in their midst.

Reva’s Quest by Sue Perkins intrigues and entertains. Unexpectedly, what seemed a light setting with fluff for characters — after all, one of Reva’s companions is a garden gnome — actually presents a thoroughly engaging plot, and believable, surprisingly meaningful characters.

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Complaints? Early on, this world’s conversations seem stilted, and it takes a few pages for this work to really find its rhythm. It’s worth getting past those first couple pages. Once through the portal we truly arrive in a different world andstory.

Best: Reva makes friends and experiences a trove a heartfelt emotions, and we are right there with her.

Reva’s Quest is fun and engaging and so worth reading.

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Lady in Waiting by Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz

April 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Lady in Waiting by Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz
Publisher: Muse it Up
Genre: Historical
Length: Short Story (37 pgs)
Heat Level: Sensual
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Snapdragon

Mabriona is cousin to the beautiful and spoiled Princess Alana. When Alana is forced to marry a man she despises, Mabriona is torn between her loyalty to her cousin and her attraction to the handsome Prince Blayne.

Tragedy befalls the cousins on the way to Prince Blayne’s castle. Servants, believing Mabriona to be Alana, refuse to listen when she tries to explain.

While she waits for Blayne to recover, Mabriona meets his equally handsome younger brother, Madoc, a bard.

When Blayne awakes, will Mabriona choose life with a future king, will she be sent home in disgrace because of her inadvertent lies, or will Madoc win her love with his poetry?

Is this the classic torn-between-two loves? Well, not exactly, but Ms. Ehrenkranz does a great job keeping us guessing about the choices – and fate – of lovely, aristocratic lady Mabriona.

Mabriona’s life is all about duty. Getting along with the cranky princess (a princess who is a…well…a princess!) is her chief challenge at least in the beginning. And this is no easy task, since Alana has just been told she’s to marry a ‘brute’ she so plainly detests. Complicating things, Mabriona is attracted to Prince Blayne…which would certainly not suit the powers-that-be, aka King Cedric.

At first, the path before Mabriona looks simple. Challenging, to be sure, but we develop a little expectation (or maybe hope?) for where this relationship is headed. Surely, somehow, some way things will work out.

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Through various complications, we meet Madoc, a bard. He’s the other man – and a worthy soul, and suddenly, we readers don’t even know what to hope for.

Quick and witty conversation drives the plot and unfailingly builds the characters. Descriptions and the background to the story, in general, are good. For those who truly like a ‘historical’ though, it’s a bit difficult to assign this a specific era. I’d have preferred a better placement in time/history, as it’s got a rather medieval charm, but with no real commitmment to a specific time period.

However, this really is quite a good tale. Do read.

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Mind Over Matter by S. J. Clarke

January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Mind Over Matter by S. J. Clarke
Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
Genre: Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Paranormal, Suspense/Mystery
Length: Full Length (164 pages)
Heat Level: sensual
Rating: 3.5 stars
Reviewed by Sunflower

For three years, Rebecca McKenney grieved the loss of her daughter. Now, a vision showing Sabrina three years older, suggests her baby is still alive, and the FBI agent who gave up the search is the only one who can help find her. Rebecca once witnessed a psychic connection between Agent Cooper and her daughter. She only hopes their fragile bond remains – and that the coward has the decency to pursue it.

Special Agent Dan Cooper, haunted by a tragic mistake made early in the investigation, agrees to help Rebecca to ease his conscience, if nothing else. Together they fight inner demons, all too real bad guys, and an attraction neither wants to admit to. Each step closer to finding her daughter unearths widespread deception and an evil so vile it threatens to break Rebecca’s spirit. The thought of having her daughter back in her arms is all that keeps her going. Until she learns the horrifying truth – her daughter is scheduled to die in mere days.

The townsfolk say Rebecca isn’t right in the head after the loss of her child a few years ago. Often times they’ll find her in the same places, acting as if her daughter is still there. It’s sad and heartbreaking. She just can’t let go.

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Dan Cooper is reluctant to believe Rebecca, but the relief I felt that he decided to help her kept him in my good graces. He wanted to protect her, and prepare her for anything that would come out of this. The sparks between them came later.

The real suspense element didn’t come until about a third of the way through the book. The first few chapters were spent on Dan and Rebecca trying to pull of a charade so others didn’t know what they were really doing. It wasn’t until the real search began that the pacing picked up quickly. The rest of the story went by fast from there, and I was caught up in the pages, needing to know what they were going to find next.

The villains had a bigger agenda than I’d imagined, and the ending caught me off guard. The author created lots of action throughout most of the book, though the characters weren’t as well developed as they could have been. I really never got a major sense of who Dan was. There wasn’t a lot of conflict between the hero and heroine. The biggest conflict was with Rebecca, trying to find her child even though everyone else accepted the fact that she was dead.

Overall, the story line was interesting and filled with twists and turns. If you enjoy a romantic suspense with light paranormal aspects, then you may enjoy Mind Over Matter.

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