4-LAN's Blog – January 2014 Archive (4)

The Lone Hero by DM Yates

Hello fellow members of The Book Marketing Network. For those of you that follow my blog, I thank you and am happy to provide you with another installment of What I Am Reading.

Today I am reviewing The Lone Hero by DM Yates. You can find Ms. Yates's page here on TBMN and follow her link to her website which will direct you to Amazon where you can sample the beginning of The Lone Hero.

The Lone Hero is a fantasy story of Einarr, a half…

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

As for my current reads-the book that I am most enthralled with is entitled The Alienist, by Caleb Carr. It is most akin to that Johnny Dep movie, From Hell. Only this story takes place eight years after the Jack the Ripper murders of London. In 1896 New York City is being plagued by a new serial killer. New York's finest are at a loss as to how to catch this monster. It is up to a small group of unlikely detectives, that include an alienist(…

Swords of Gehenna by D.R. Collins

In this Sci-Fi Western written by a member or our very own Book Marketing Network, the reader is submerged into an alien world of sword warriors native to Gehenna, human frontier settlers and a full host of other assorted races both alien and indigenous.

The opening chapter draws the reader right into the warrior ways of the Titavos people and introduces the main protagonists of Makaira and Thura. There are enough elements of…

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Science fiction of the dystopian variety is having a resurgence in popularity. The Hunger Games series is hugely successful: both book and film. When I was a kid, Logan's Run gave a more far future sci-fi glimpse into a society that appeared utopian on the surface, but soon shows that not all people are so willing to die at such a young age. And of course, the mother of all dystopian science fiction stories, 1984, in which society is constantly being…