environment – A Hippie's Bookshelf

Mauria by Steve North These pages jumped out at me in color. Two races, completely different. The opposites of one another and each live by completely different codes and ethics. Both flourish and live out grand lives, within their own set of expectations of. Enemies, yet both truly depend on the other. The circle is.… Continue reading Book Review: Mauria by Steve North

Book Review: Harrowing Roses by Barbara Cooper

Lyrical novella, set in surreal marshes.
Illustrations by author.

Dana feels the atmosphere of the marsh seeping into her skin with each day she spends in the cold unwelcoming mansion of her father’s estranged family.

When her young cousin, Debra Lee, mysteriously vanishes, Dana turns to Henry – an attractive neighbor in the isolated cabin nearby, to help her search for her.

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March 10, 2022March 10, 2022

Book Review: The Seven Hills by Julian Barr

Aeneas has returned from the underworld as a twisted monster. Determined to seize the throne of heaven, he embarks upon a campaign to bring the might of Olympus crashing down. The fate of the world will be decided on the battlefields of Italia.

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March 2, 2022March 1, 2022

Book Review: The Threat Below by Jason Latshaw

Three hundred years ago, a lethal and mysterious threat arose and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, a small remnant – the descendants of the few survivors who escaped the massacre below – lives above the clouds, on the top of a mountain. But now their water supply is being poisoned. Something down below is trying to kill them. Now an expedition, including seventeen year-old Icelyn Brathius, must descend and face the horror that wiped out civilization centuries ago.

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March 1, 2022