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Book Review: Devil’s Bride by K.G. Isaac

October 10, 2017 3 Comments

Title: Devil’s Bride
Author: K.G. Isaac
Genre: Mystery, Erotic Thriller
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 3,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

A breathtaking mystical and erotic thriller that goes beyond imagination

Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schul, a reputable Jerusalemite matchmaker, is forced to take upon himself a ‘satanic’ assignment: finding a suitable human match for the Devil! He has exactly one year to accomplish the mission, or else his body and soul will go through the Seven Halls of Hell. Will he meet the deadline?

What happens when a Hasidic matchmaker is ordered to find a wife for the Devil?

The Rabbi embarks upon a frantic quest on the Devil’s characteristics and sexual preferences, so that he can find him a proper match. He is trying to find answers in both centuries-old and contemporary literature on Kabbalah, occultism, black magic, incantation, sorcery, satanic cults, devil-worship, and the like. Finding hypothetical insights insufficient, he makes up his mind to experience some of it personally. He meets with an African sorceress, takes part in a drugs-and-sex orgy in a German cemetery and witnesses a blood-chilling ritual performed by a Brazilian satanic cult.

Finally, the Rabbi succeeds in convincing two young Jewish girls to comply with his perverted plan, promising them a heavenly match, but firmly refuses to reveal any details about the chosen one’s identity. He then gradually prepares the girls for their superhuman challenge – sexually satisfying the Devil. The ‘training course’ includes exposure to drugs, perverted group sex, brutal rape, extreme BDSM sessions, and more. It is not long before the Rabbi finds himself living in his own dark underworld, where sin, lust and deviance become a hellish yet arousing routine.

Devil’s Bride is an exciting and gripping mystical novel that delves into the depth of sin, desires and spiritual transcendence. The twists in the powerful plot will leave you breathless up to the surprising climax.

In Devil’s Bride, the concept is quite awesome. Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schul, a reputable matchmaker, is forced to find a suitable match for none other than…the devil. He has one year to accomplish the mission, or his body and soul will be put through the Seven Halls of Hell. Rabbi emarks upon this seemingly impossible task, trying to find out the Devil’s characteristics and sexual preferneces. He searches for answers in all kinds of literature, the occult, even black magic, and even does some field research of his own–such as participating in an orgy, and witnessing a ritual performed by a cult.

He finally succeeds in convincing two young Jewish girls to comply with his plan, and then prepares them for their challenge: to satisfy the devil. The training course involves drugs, rape, extreme BDSM, and the likes, while the Rabbi himself ventures deeper and deeper into dark desires, becoming more and more like the Devil himself.

Some of the rape / drugs / BDSM parts were over the top for me, and I didn’t enjoy them all that much. I did like the concept, and I also liked the Rabbi’s own descent into madness and wickedness, and how he started to resemble his client–the Devil–over time.

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Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Halloween Fires

September 21, 2015 Leave a Comment

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Today I’m hosting the starter day party for the tour for supernatural thriller / horror / historical “Halloween Fires”. The tour runs from September 21 to October 19. I’ll review the book on October 16. Stay tuned for the review!

Tour Schedule

September 21st: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

September 21st: Promo Post @ Stormy Nights Reviewing

September 23rd: Guest Post @ Dark Treasury

September 24th: Book Excerpt @ Hollow Readers

September 26th: Author Interview and Book Excerpt @ BooksChatter

September 29th: Guest Post @ Crystal’s Chaotic Confessions

September 30th: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

October 1st: Character Interview @ Memories in a Box

October 2nd: Book Excerpt @ Books on Fire

October 5th: Guest Post @ Teatime and Books

October 7th: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

October 10th: Book Review @ Mommy Makes Time

October 13th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

October 15th: Guest Post, Book Excerpt and Author Interview @ Dormaine G’s Blog

October 16th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

October 19th: Guest Post and Character Interview @ Dannie Speaks

 

About the Book

25645780Title: Halloween Fires

Author: Val McMurray

Genre: Historical / Supernatural Thriller

The time: 1340

The place: Swan village, the estate of Sir Hubert Longhurst, on the banks of the River

Severn, and the city of Bristol in the south west of England.

The story:

On All Hallows Eve, a satanic mass is held in the forest across the river Severn.

A girl is sacrificed and a young boatman dies.

A suspicious priest, Father Simon, the Sheriff of

Bristol and three Dominican Monks hunt the “Satanists”.

Their evil leader is the Dominus.

The Dominus is quite mad and plans revenge. The villagers will suffer.

In Bristol devil worshippers are tortured and burned.

The Dominus murders his partner and kidnaps a girl.

A black mass takes place. There is torture and death.

A battle is fought.

The Dominus flees.

The Lord of the manor holds a Manor Court to investigate the frightening events. Prisoners must be taken to Bristol for trial by the church.

They, and a rich treasure, must be escorted to Bristol.

Satanists in Bristol, plan to fight for the treasure.

There is a battle on the road. Many are killed, the treasure is lost.

A blacksmith and a small boy assist the Sheriff in an attempt to regain it.

Perhaps Evil has been overcome; however, Devil worshippers in Bristol plan another mass.

The Sheriff is lured away.

In the Glade of Stones the Devil may yet triumph.

Author Bio

As a child in England I loved to write stories. I have lived in Sydney Australia for over forty years. My children and grandchildren live close by. I worked as a trained nurse until retirement. Sadly, then, my husband needed nursing. Now I live alone and needed to follow my own interests. First a Book Club (all writers need to read), and I love it. Our discussions are lively and I have read many books that I would never have picked but for the club. It really widened my horizons. I also joined a Writers Group in Liverpool and have found great enjoyment and satisfaction in learning from the very different people in the group. I have been pleased to see several of my articles in print. We contribute to Freexpression Magazine (www.freexpression.com.au), which is edited by Peter Pike. His unfailing encouragement and that of Michael Norris, who read the first draft of this book (and believed in it) has been the impetus needed to goad me to finish it. The research was daunting, but I have always been interested in history, and I soon became immersed in the 14th century. How the people lived and their deeply felt superstitions and customs held me enthralled. There are, inevitably, mistakes. Please forgive them. I set out to write a rollicking good yarn, set in the south west of England, I hope that you enjoy it.

Links

Bookpal: http://bookpal.com.au/portfolio-items/halloween-fires/

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Fires-Val-McMurray/dp/1742845304

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/545821

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/halloween-fires/id1000016336?mt=11

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Book Review: Unholy Bargain by Travis Hallden Holt

September 6, 2015 Leave a Comment

UnholyBargain-510Title: Unholy Bargain

Author: Travis Holt

Genre: Supernatural Thriller

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 4 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

An assassin is at work—one of the best in the trade. His body turned to dust long ago, but his spirit roams the Earth freely, undetectable to the five senses. He stalks his victims waiting for just the right opportunity. Then, in quick succession, he possesses a human host and strikes down his quarry. For a century and a half he has served this way.

Deputy Sheriff Nate Barrington is riding the crest of a new relationship. Kaitlyn Spencer is beautiful, altruistic, enlightened—everything he’s not. She teaches classes in New Age philosophy at her growing school. Nate doesn’t share her spirituality, but the physical passion hasn’t subsided enough for him to care.

Nate’s nirvana quickly unravels when Kaitlyn’s life is threatened on two separate occasions. With no apparent motive or any evidence suggesting collusion, the police are stumped. Even more troubling to Nate, Kaitlyn is eventually convinced she is the target of unseen forces.

A hardheaded pragmatist, Nate isn’t prone to believe that spirits can possess people. As far as he’s concerned, Kaitlyn’s claims of perpetrators possessed by a spirit assassin are on par with comic book stories and have nothing to do with reality, and her esoteric, New Age mumbo jumbo begins to drive a wedge into their relationship. And why Kaitlyn? What secret is she hiding?

Even with the sheriff’s resources at Nate’s disposal, the odds for Kaitlyn’s survival are not in her favor. The true enemy is virtually invisible, and Nate’s conventional police tactics have no effect on the spirit world. Strikes come from anytime, anywhere, and from random, unwittingly manipulated people. Behind it all is a deal the assassin had made with the devil: send Kaitlyn Spencer to an early grave in exchange for a fresh start. For that, the assassin will stop at nothing to uphold his end of an Unholy Bargain.

Unholy Bargain is an unique, entertaining supernatural thriller about the spirit of an assassin who stalks his victims, possesses a human host, and then murdes his victims. Because he’s just a spirit, he can’t be easily detected, and the police is powerless to do anything about it.

Deputy Sheiff Nate is head over heels for his new girlfriend, Kaitlyn Spencer, a beautiful, lovely New Age philosophy teacher. When Kaitlyn’s life is threatened by an unseen force, with no motive or reason to kill her, which stumps both the police and Nate as he desperately wants to protect her – which can get a little tricky when you can’t see your foe. And while Nate will stop at nothing to protect the woman he loves, even if it means slowly coming to terms with how his down-to-earth view isn’t always spot on, the assassin will stop at nothing to kill Kaitlyn…

As you can see from my short recap, the synopsis is awesome, and the premise is refreshing and original. The author does an admirable job of making all characters have interesting personalities, even the villain. It’s definitely not just good vs. evil – it’s a lot more complicated than that, in fact.

At first, I struggled with seeing Kaitlyn and Nate as a couple since they didn’t seem to have that much in common, but the more I read on, the more I realized those differences were what made them work.

I’d highly recommend this book to all fans of supernatural thrillers. I didn’t think it was that scary, but it was definitely a pageturner!

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Book Tours: Starter Day Party for Unholy Bargain

August 3, 2015 1 Comment

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I’m hosting the starter day party for the book tour for supernatural thriller “Unholy Bargain”. The tour runs from August 3 to October 3.

Tour Schedule

August 3rd: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

August 3rd: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy

August 5th: Book Excerpt @ Dannie Speaks

August 6th: Book Excerpt @ Author C.A. Milson’s Blog

August 8th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

August 10th: Author Interview @ Compelling Beasts Blog

August 12th: Book Excerpt @ The Single Librarian

August 15th: Book Excerpt @ Undercover Book Reviews

August 17th: Book Review @ Mythical Books

August 19th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

August 21st: Author Interview @ BooksChatter

August 23rd: Book Excerpt @ The Book Daily

August 26th: Book Review @ Dannie Speaks

August 28th: Book Excerpt @ Books are Forever

August 31st: Book Review @ Ogitchida Kwe’s Book Blog

September 3rd: Book Excerpt and Author Interview @ SolaFide Publishing Blog

September 6th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

September 8th: Book Excerpt @ Bookaholic Ramblings

September 11th: Book Excerpt @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

September 14th: Author Interview @ Literary Musings

September 15th: Book Excerpt @ Books and Tales

September 18th: Book Review @ Bedazzled Reading

September 22nd: Author Interview @ Book About

September 25th: Book Excerpt @ Hollow Readers

September 28th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog

October 1st: Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness

October 3rd: Book Review @ A Fold in the Spine

About The Book

UnholyBargain-510Title: Unholy Bargain

Author: Travis Holt

Genre: Supernatural Thriller

An assassin is at work—one of the best in the trade. His body turned to dust long ago, but his spirit roams the Earth freely, undetectable to the five senses. He stalks his victims waiting for just the right opportunity. Then, in quick succession, he possesses a human host and strikes down his quarry. For a century and a half he has served this way.

Deputy Sheriff Nate Barrington is riding the crest of a new relationship. Kaitlyn Spencer is beautiful, altruistic, enlightened—everything he’s not. She teaches classes in New Age philosophy at her growing school. Nate doesn’t share her spirituality, but the physical passion hasn’t subsided enough for him to care.

Nate’s nirvana quickly unravels when Kaitlyn’s life is threatened on two separate occasions. With no apparent motive or any evidence suggesting collusion, the police are stumped. Even more troubling to Nate, Kaitlyn is eventually convinced she is the target of unseen forces.

A hardheaded pragmatist, Nate isn’t prone to believe that spirits can possess people. As far as he’s concerned, Kaitlyn’s claims of perpetrators possessed by a spirit assassin are on par with comic book stories and have nothing to do with reality, and her esoteric, New Age mumbo jumbo begins to drive a wedge into their relationship. And why Kaitlyn? What secret is she hiding?

Even with the sheriff’s resources at Nate’s disposal, the odds for Kaitlyn’s survival are not in her favor. The true enemy is virtually invisible, and Nate’s conventional police tactics have no effect on the spirit world. Strikes come from anytime, anywhere, and from random, unwittingly manipulated people. Behind it all is a deal the assassin had made with the devil: send Kaitlyn Spencer to an early grave in exchange for a fresh start. For that, the assassin will stop at nothing to uphold his end of an Unholy Bargain.

Author Bio

Travis Hallden Holt is a former U.S. Navy surface warfare officer and veteran of the Persian Gulf War. He’s worked the past twenty-two years in the corrections side of law enforcement, first in the prison system, then in the streets as a probation officer. He spent three years supervising felons in a south Atlanta neighborhood ranked the ninth most dangerous neighborhood in America, where one in every twelve residents becomes a victim of crime each year.

For years, his interests were in weaponry (both small arms and large scale), warfare tactics, hand-to-hand combat, criminal justice and unsolved crimes. But life has a way of molding perspectives, and Travis came to realize the physical world known to the five senses didn’t have all the answers. It scratched the surface at best. Accordingly, Travis’s interests shifted to supernatural phenomenon, spirituality, the mysteries of life, the invisible world beyond our five senses and the forces that lie therein. He’s still a peace officer, but one who has mingled with psychics, mystics, mediums, energy healers, shamans, gurus, artists and denizens of the “underground.”

Travis is the author of Unholy Bargain, a supernatural thriller published by Blood Moon Publishing. He resides in Atlanta, GA.

Links

http://www.travishalldenholt.com/

Amazon (Kindle): Amazon (Kindle)

B&N: B&N

Kobo: Kobo

Apple: Apple

Double Dragon Publishing: Double Dragon Publishing

Paperback: Lulu

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Book Review: Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

July 23, 2015 Leave a Comment

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19874243Title: Broken Monsters

Author: Lauren Beukes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 3 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half-boy, half-deer, somehow fused. The cops nickname him “Bambi,” but as stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?
If you’re Detective Versado’s over-achieving teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you are the disgraced journalist, Jonno, you do whatever it takes to investigate what may become the most heinous crime story in memory. If you’re Thomas Keen, you’ll do what you can to keep clean, keep your head down, and try to help the broken and possibly visionary artist obsessed with setting loose The Dream, tearing reality, assembling the city anew.

I’m still struggling to review Broken Monsters and it’s been a few days since I finished it. In truth, the book isn’t bad, and if it were up to writing style alone, it deserved more than three stars. Lauren Beukes is an excellent writer, and knows her craft.

However, books are about more than writing style. There’s also plot, and that’s where the book drops the mark. In theory, the plot is great. A murderer connects the upper half of a boy to the lower part of a deer, and that’s only the first murder he commits. The murders grow increasingly more strange, and one of our main charcter, Gabriella Versado, a detective with the Detroit police department, has to solve the case. In theory, it sounds good. There’s also a connection with the art community, and the city of Detroit is described in great detail, giving the book more credibility and causing a better writing experience.

Then the book warps from a murder mystery into a paranormal thriller, with the mention of doors serving as gateways. Now I’m the first person to admit I love police procedurals that morph into paranormal thrillers, but here it just totally unraveled the plot. No longer were we hunting for the killer, we were trapped in a paranormal nightmare that read more like a bad acid trip. Instead of enhancing the plot, the paranormal aspect weakened it, and the murders suddenly lost most of their importance.

Then there’s the characters. Gabriella is all right. She’s your stereotypical struggling working mom who also happens to be a detective, divorced and unable to have a healthy love relationship with anyone except her daughter. Said daughter, Layla, a teenager, gets a POV too and turns out to be a major part of the plot. Next up is TK, a homeless man who we don’t really learn all that much about, and Jonno a struggling author turned film maker who is a despicable human being and does everything to become famous, even if it means not giving vital evidence to the police. Each of those characters also seemed to have a subplot going on, and that took a lot of the focus away from the main plot. I don’t mind a few subplots, but we just got too much of those here. The many characters made it hard to connect to one. I could connect with Gabriella somewhat, and if the whole book had been from her POV, I probably would’ve liked it more.

If you like paranormal thrillers or just plain strange murder mysteries, I’d recommend to give this one a shot. It’s not bad, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea either.

 
 

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Book Spotlight A Whisper of Crows

April 25, 2015 1 Comment

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Whisper of Crows

WOC_REV2_cover copyBy Jameson Hesse

Genre: Supernatural Thriller/Horror

Published Oct.2012

A supernatural thriller that questions the nature of reality, and explores the fine line between sanity and insanity. This novel does contains extreme violence, profanity, steamy sex.

Book Synopsis:

Kanaan James is a disturbed teenage boy obsessed with his childhood friend, Abigail Caulfield. A horrible car accident leaves Abigail stricken with amnesia and Kanaan, desperate for for her attention, convinces her they are soul mates, running from the law. In the midst of a passionate love affair, while hiding in an old abandoned house in the woods, Kanaan is forced to test the bounds of his own humanity.

Author Bio

HesseJameson Hesse is an American writer/filmmaker/musician. He grew up in a small town outside Harrisburg, PA. Jameson presently lives in Los Angeles with his sons. His critically acclaimed Novel, Whisper of Crows was released in 2012, and he has directed and acted in several short film and commercial projects.  Recently he released a short film in which he directed and acted in called Father Mud, which is currently the Official Selection of several film festivals around the world.  Jameson is currently directing the feature film Lazarus Rising. He also has several other film and book projects in various stages of development.

www.jamesonhesse.com

https://twitter.com/JamesonHesse

https://www.facebook.com/WhisperOfCrows

Find Whisper of Crows on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1FOSD5c

Book Trailer:

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Book Review: The Hexed (Krewe of Hunters #13) by Heather Graham

August 2, 2014 Leave a Comment

18812409Title: The Hexed (Krewe of Hunters #13)
Author: Heather Graham
Genre: Paranormal Mystery, Thriller

Age Group: Adult
Rating:3,5

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

A place of history, secrets…and witchcraft.

Devin Lyle has recently returned to the Salem area, but her timing couldn’t be worse. Soon after she moved into the eighteenth-century cabin she inherited from her great-aunt Mina—her “crazy” great-aunt, who spoke to the dead—a woman was murdered nearby.

Craig Rockwell—known as Rocky—is a new member of the Krewe of Hunters, the FBI’s team of paranormal investigators. He never got over finding a friend dead in the woods. Now another body’s been found in those same woods, not far from the home of Devin Lyle. And Devin’s been led to a third body—by…a ghost?

Her discovery draws them both deeper into the case and Salem’s rich and disturbing history. Even as the danger mounts, Devin and Rocky begin to fall for each other, something the ghosts of Mina and past witches seem to approve of. But the two of them need every skill they possess to learn the truth—or Devin’s might be the next body in the woods…

In The Hexed, a murder takes place that is an almost exact replica of another murder that took place thirteen years ago. Craig Rockwell, a new member of the Krewe of Hunters, was the one who discovered the first body, a friend of his. He can hear voices of the deceased, and that’s what brings him to the Krewe of Hunters, and what got him to find his dead friend in the first place.

Devin Lyle has returned to the Salem area just when a woman gets murdered nearby the cabin she inherited from her great-aunt. She’s an author who writes about the witch trials, and witches in general. When Devin is being led to a third body, and there’s some connection to the Salem witch trials and the murders, she can’t help but get involved.

The two “detectives” unravel clues from the past. The friends of Craig’s past are questioned, and old friendships are tested. Add in ghosts, and I’m sold.

At least, I thought I’d be. And the plot is pretty decent, I’ll give you that. I liked the tie-in between the witch trials, the murders and the ghost. I wasn’t too fond of the characters though – both Craig (or Rocky, as he calls himself) and Devin are paper-thin characters, with no real personality. Whatever personality they do have, never develops throughout the book. The writing wasn’t spectacular either, but it was good enough.

All in all, I did enjoy the book, and particularly that it focused less on romance, and more on plot.

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Book Review: The Unholy by Paul DeBlassie III

March 13, 2014 1 Comment

9780865349599-Perfect w modern.inddTitle: The Unholy

Author: Paul DeBlassie III

Genre: Psychological / Paranormal Thriller

Age Group: Adult (18+)

Rating: 4 stars

Purchase: Amazon

Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.

A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, the Unholy is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.

In The Unholy, Claire Sanchez is the daughter of a curandera, a medicine woman. At age five, she sw her Mom getting murdered by an evil creature in the woods. Growing up, she’s never been able to shake the memory of that fateful night. She decided not to take up her heritage and become a medicine woman. Instead, she works as a psychologist and tries to help people in her own way.

On the other hand, we have the villain, Archbishop Anarch, who is the leader of some kind of cult. Anarch is truly wicked – he has no problem killing others when they stand in his way, or convincing people to kill themselves when he stands to gain money from it. His followers are tightly in his grasp, and he abuses his power at every turn. The only one who has some form of control over him, would be his mother. But Anarch is convinced what he’s doing is right, which makes him one of the worst kinds of monsters.

When the evil Archbishop turns his eye to Claire, she has to rediscover herself and her heritage to find against the powers of darkness, to protect herself, and the people she loves.

The theme of the novel is pretty basic, good vs. evil. But the author takes that theme, twists it around, comes up with intriguing characters who often walk the balance between right and wrong, and takes things to a whole new level. Anarch would be completely evil, in the eyes of most, yet in his own point of view, he is not. He knows his actions are wrong, but justifies them in the name of the greater good. There’s action, suspense, a hint of romance, and definitely enough darkness to share around in this book.

The writing style is very descriptive, almost poetic. On the downside, that means it’s a bit wordy at times. Once you bite through that though, and start focusing on the story, then the book becomes really intriguing.

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Book Tours: Starter Day Party The Unholy

March 1, 2014 1 Comment

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I’m hosting a starter day party today for supernatural thriller “The Unholy”. I’ll be reviewing the book on March 13. Meanwhile, you can visit the other tour stops.

Tour Schedule

March 1st: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

March 3rd: Promo Post @ The Single Librarian

March 4th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

March 5th: Character Interview @ Hollow Readers

March 7th: Book Excerpt and Guest Post @ Loup d’Argent

March 9th:  Author Interview @ Rainy of the Dark

March 10th: Book Excerpt @ 365 Days of Reading

March 11th: Promo Post @ Bookish Madness

March 13th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

March 15th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Gazette

March 17th: Guest Post @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

March 18th: Book Review @ Hollow Readers

March 19th: Author Interview @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

March 21st: Book Review @ Endazzled Reading

March 22nd: Book Excerpt @ Forever Book Lover

March 23rd: Promo Post @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

March 25th: Character Interview @ The Book Daily

March 27th: Book Review @ Forever Book Lover

March 29th: Guest Post @ Endazzled Reading

March 30th: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog

March 31st: Promo Post @ The Reading Guru

April 1st: Book Review and Excerpt @ Pretty Little Pages

About The Unholy

9780865349599-Perfect w modern.inddTitle: The Unholy

Author: Paul DeBlassie III

Genre: Psychological / Paranormal Thriller

A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, the Unholy is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.

Author Bio

DeBlassieCMYK4x6419F1233Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D., is a psychologist and writer living in Albuquerque who has treated survivors of the dark side of religion for more than 30 years. His professional consultation practice — SoulCare — is devoted to the tending of the soul. Dr. DeBlassie writes psychological thrillers with an emphasis on the dark side of the human psyche. The mestizo myth of Aztlan, its surreal beauty and natural magic, provides the setting for the dark phantasmagoric narrative in his fiction.  He is a member of the Depth Psychology Alliance, the Transpersonal Psychology Association and the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Links

website: http://www.pauldeblassieiii.com/
facebook https://www.facebook.com/theunholy.deblassie
twitter https://twitter.com/pdeblassieiii
blog http://pauldeblassieiii.blogspot.com/

Buy a copy of The Unholy on Amazon  http://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Novel-Paul-DeBlassie-III-ebook/dp/B00F8OEH70/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392232920&sr=8-1&keywords=unholy+paul

Buy a copy on B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-unholy-paul-deblassie/1116061527?ean=9780865349599

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Book Tours: Guest Post for The Goddess and the Great Beast Tour

December 15, 2013 Leave a Comment

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I’m hosting a guest post today by Adrian Gross, author of supernatural thriller “The Goddess and the Great Beast”. Welcome to my blog, Adrian, and thanks for sharing this intriguing guest post with my readers. Without further ado, I’ll leave the word to author Adrian Gross.

Guest Post: Shamans

When people talk about shamans (I always want to say shamen but I know this wrong on so many levels) one tends to think of Siberian spirit-walkers, whacked out on some kind of poisonous mushroom, lost in an utterly alien world of elemental forces those of us rooted in the modern one can’t hope to understand. I propose, however, that shamans have been right there with all of us in every civilisation and tribal society throughout human evolution. In addition, I say they walk among us still.

Shamans are holy people; spiritual people; seers, prophets and visionaries. They are not uncommon, though we are not all shamans. Not all religious people are shamans, but all shamans are religious in the broader, spiritual sense of the term. Jesus would have been a shaman, as would Mohammed, Francis of Assisi, William Blake, even John Lennon. They take many forms because they speak to many different people in many different ways. We are all spiritual people but we are not all well-suited to the practicalities of accessing our spiritual side. That is what shamans are for.

This brings me to my point. As the world, particularly the West, has become a less overtly religious place, so spirituality has evolved into different forms. Many of us have no need for a church or an organised hierarchy telling us how to commune with the divine; we have discovered other media. For some of us that medium is rock’n’roll. For us, the musician, usually the singer, is our shaman.

The shaman is a conduit, opening pathways between the divine and the mundane. The shaman does not choose this path. He (or she) is chosen. The power is too great to be borne alone, so he must share it with his people. The shaman surrenders himself to the power. He turns off his consciousness, banishes his inner critic/censor, and loses himself in the moment, the force, the zone, the groove. He becomes the spiritual servant of his people, enabling them to access indefinable truth through him.

The rocker is shaman to those who rock. There are many shamans ministering to many congregations. The key is that they surrender themselves to the inexplicable. You cannot be a conscious, reasoning, ‘in control’ shaman. Rockers demonstrate this perfectly. One does not have to be ‘out of control’ to be trans-rational; it is a complex balance.

This is why rock and roll has been, and remains, such a powerful force in contemporary life. Although it has been infiltrated and corrupted by businessmen, many authentic rock bands continue to plough the furrow to which they feel drawn and they keep on being joined by younger generations alienated by the emptiness of the capitalist experience. Going to work, making money and buying things have their place, but they won’t get you closer to God, gods, divinity or eternal truth. Losing yourself in the pure ecstasy of a stonking rock gig just might…if the band’s on fire…that is, if the shaman holds open the elusive doorway to the spiritual mysteries just long enough for you to catch a glimpse of what’s on the other side. It’s a glimpse worth catching.

The Goddess and the Great Beast

TG&TGBeyesslim2Title: The Goddess and the Great Beast

Author: Adrian Gross

Genre: Supernatural Thriller

1942: a bored British soldier in Baghdad; a beautiful Babylonian Goddess; a sacred marriage unconsummated.

Five years later, in a dreary post-war London, the Goddess must be satisfied.

Can anyone save her demobbed consort from eternal torment?

Or eternal bliss?

Can he save himself?

Does he even want to be saved?

And what’s it got to do with the ‘wickedest man in the world’?

Author Bio

Author NorwayAdrian Gross is a British writer. Some bits of him used to be Irish and some others were once Hungarian. He lives close to Glastonbury and likes to bang his little heavy metal head whilst drinking chewy real ale!

He has endured many terrible jobs, including adrenaline-junkie motorcycle courier, record shop dude-with-bad-attitude, and air traffic control disaster limitation assistant.

When his aching bones and throbbing hangover allow, he plays football (soccer) and rides bicycles up and down the Mendip Hills.

Links

Website: www.adriangross.co.uk

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Goddess-Great-Beast-ebook/dp/B00D7EJOMG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1370721031&sr=1-1&keywords=adrian+gross

Amazon (UK): http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Goddess-Great-Beast-ebook/dp/B00D7EJOMG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1370720382&sr=1-1&keywords=adrian+gross

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