INTRODUCTION

Hi everyone My name is Victoria Zumbrum, 40 years old, married 14 years with 1 son. This is my very first blog. So bear with me. I have always wanted to have my own blog. I have always loved to read. I enjoy getting lost in a good book.
I love becoming part of the story and characters. I am hoping to bring my love of books to my readers.

I love reading different genres such as paranormal, young adult, romance, romantic suspense, mystery, Christian fiction, some horror, etc. The list goes on. I started reviewing books a couple of years ago and have done reviews for different blogs and even some authors. I really have enjoyed reviewing books and I will continue to do so. If anyone is interested in me reviewing a book for them, please contact me. I still have a lot to learn regarding my own blog so bear with me. I welcome and appreciate all followers.

Friday, August 30, 2024

B.A. Bellec Pulse Book Tour and Giveaway

 


In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed at the world's biggest music festival…


Pulse

Book One

by B.A. Bellec

Genre: Dystopian SciFi Horror


In the year 2040, a mysterious creature is unleashed at the world's biggest music festival…


Bellec's descriptions are phenomenal, brutal, and heart-stopping. There were parts that made my skin crawl, but I couldn't tear my eyes away. . . I needed more!”

- Jessica Scurlock, Author of the Pretty Lies Series & Pulse Beta Reader

Pulse is a plot-driven multi-POV dystopian sci-fi horror thriller set in 2040, centered around a corporation, a creature, and a music festival. Think Fyre Festival, Black Mirror, and X-Files combined. The story deals with themes of capitalism, consumerism, business, politics, pandemics, climate change, activism, and technology while bouncing between a diverse group of characters sure to entertain almost anyone. The book is already being praised for its fantastic use of horror, engaging world-building, and genre-bending approach utilizing some screenplay-like formatting. This is the first entry in a new series with the sequel well underway.

B.A. Bellec writes with a unique, modern, minimalistic voice. He is the author of Someone's Story, his award-winning debut novel called a masterpiece by multiple reviewers. Never afraid of a challenge, Bellec switched genres to bring you this dark vision that simmered in his mind for years.


Awards:


IAN Book of the Year Finalist Horror (Nov 2022)

B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree (Apr 2022)

The Wishing Shelf Adult Fiction Finalist (Apr 2022)

Literary Titan Seal (Jan 2022)

Reader Views Seal (Dec 2021)

Readers’ Favorite Seal (Dec 2021)


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**Check out the author’s music on Youtube that is either inspired or tied to his novels!**



Pulse

Book Two

by B.A. Bellec

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic SciFi Horror 

The fate of humanity rests in the hands of a few.

Pulse: Book Two is the conclusion of B.A. Bellec’s dystopian sci-fi horror duology. This time around we are tapping into iconic stories like The Stand, Station Eleven, Cloud Atlas, Contact, and The Road to add elite and ambitious scale. Our chaotic journey picks up moments after the first book ends with action from the second you start turning the pages, but if you thought you knew where the story was going, leave your expectations at the door and ask yourself this one question: how would an autonomous droid defeat a monster?


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Someone’s Story

by B.A. Bellec

Genre: YA Coming of Age



In his literary debut, B.A. Bellec writes an endearing coming-of-age tale about a group of weirdos that find and save each other from the dark depths of their minds. Someone’s Story is literally Someone’s story, as in a first-person narrative of a teenager that calls himself Someone. As he struggles to find a new footing in a new space, we encounter the many ups and downs of modern teenage life, the difficulties that adjusting to adult feelings brings, and a few tear-jerking surprises along the way.

Littered with music, mental health, friendship, loss, meditation, advice, pop culture, and even inspiring an EP, there is so much nostalgia, inspiration, and depth here it is hard to absorb it all. Cozy up somewhere warm and enjoy!


Awards:

Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Young Adult Book of the Year (March 2021)

B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree (Apr 2022)

Readers’ Favorite Young Adult Book of the Year Finalist (Sep 2021)

Next Generation Indie Book Awards YA 17+ Finalist (May 2021)

Literary Titan Seal (April 2021)

The Wishing Shelf Red Ribbon (Feb 2021)

Shelf Unbound Notable Indie (Dec 2020)

Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Seal (July 2020)


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Bryan “B.A.” Bellec’s debut novel, Someone’s Story, won the Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Literary Award for Young Adult Book of the Year. Someone’s Story is a coming-of-age novel about teen mental health. One of the aspects that makes Bellec’s projects unique is he includes musicians in his novels and then he actually produces the songs as his book goes through the editing stages. You can find that music on his YouTube channel. His second novel, Pulse, was released in 2021 and has been receiving strong reviews. That novel is a genre flip with dark dystopian sci-fi horror peppering the pages. Pulse is the start of a new fictional universe Bellec will write in for years to come! 


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Christine Barker The White Wolf Saga Book Tour and Giveaway

 


 Maya's tale is not one for the faint of heart.


The Forgotten

The White Wolf Saga Book 1

by Christine Barker

Genre: Epic Paranormal Fantasy Romance  



 Maya's tale is not one for the faint of heart. Her people are ripped from their homes on their island and thus become refugees on their land. This tale talks about the brutal truths about being a prisoner of war. This tale has helped those who have difficulties facing their trauma and can slowly start their healing process due to the monstrosities Maya has gone through at the hands of a madman, Jericho.


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The Awakening

The White Wolf Saga Book 2  



Maya's tale is not one for the faint of heart. This is the second book in the series, showing how she has changed from the battered person she needed to be to stay alive and into a warrior for her people. She travels across the island in search of her people in the refugee camp and, along the way, discovers her soul mate, who helps her with her PTSS episodes. She has more to face before the Humans are rid of Nagule Island.


Kings, Queens, & Kingdoms, the Nagule Wolves led a prosperous life until one unfateful day, it all came crashing down, leaving the human wolf-shifters on the brink of extinction. Nagules are at war with Hunters, humans who want total domination of their kind.

A looming threat of Hunters awaits them, and it is up to one queen to fight and lead her people to survival.

Book One of The White Wolf Saga: The Forgotten begins the fantastical epic of love, war, betrayal, and survival.


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The Retaliation

The White Wolf Saga Book 3

  


 Maya's back with her final adventure. Rouge refugees have entered the fortified Fortress and have brought havoc and chaos to the growing population. Maya must do whatever is necessary to protect herself and her people from extinction, even if that means accepting Niju's help and possibly causing harm to her future lineage.


Meanwhile, the Hunters are plotting against the Nagules and will do anything to ensure they wipe out the Nagule population.


This is the final tale upon Maya's island in the White Wolf Saga. There are trials and desparate moves needed to keep their people alive. Does Maya have what it takes to keep her reign alive?



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 Christine Barker is a Christian, full time mom, a medical prior authorization specialist, and best friend of a fully supportive husband. Currently living in rural Ohio, her husband and two children help assist in taking care of the animals on their small farm. With her love of the outdoors, she always tries to find new ways to engage her children in playing in the dirt and making memories.

She grew up being told to pursue a career towards cooking, but ventured towards the love of reading anywhere she was able. During the elementary years, there was a section carved out for creative writing, and it was her favorite part of the day. A blank slate was carved each day for her imagination to grow in unexpected ways. When not writing, her favorite pastime is watching her children become more independent and learning new skills.



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Thursday, August 29, 2024

AK Nevermore Air & Darkness Book Tour and Giveaway

 


 Baby-daddy drama goes to Hell  


Air & Darkness

The Dae Diaries Book 2

by AK Nevermore

Genre: Urban Fantasy Romance


 After nine months of relative peace and now fully dae, Envy is four days past her due date and beyond ready for the damned kid to move out and get a job.

But when the warden for the wild hunt shows up with an offer she can’t refuse—well, not without plunging the planet into chaos—her impending motherhood takes a back seat.

Then incriminating photos surface, throwing her baby daddy's fidelity into question. In the midst of the ensuing drama, he disappears, forcing Envy to make a choice. Will she stand by him, or cozy back up to the man who held her heart way back in Biblical times?

Get ready, because when the truth comes out, even Hell will feel the fury of a goddess scorned.


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Flame & Shadow

The Dae Diaries Book 1 

 Half-daemon Envy Starr is destined to die on Midsummer’s Eve, still a virgin, on some crappy cult’s live-stream feed. With thirty days left to live, the chance to escape her fate and get some action compels her into her absentee father’s world of beautifully cultured cruelty.

Once there, she’s the object of a deadly game, slated to alter the Fae realm’s power structure. Worse, the rules keep changing, and everyone has an ulterior motive, including her dae-licious guide, Brennan. Under a geas he’s desperate to break, she can’t trust him, or herself.

Stupid Stockholm syndrome.

But unless she can come to terms with what lies in her heart, her unlikely survival will be a fate worse than death. For her, and the rest of Fae.


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AK Nevermore enjoys operating heavy machinery, freebases coffee, and gives up sarcasm for Lent every year. A Jane-of-all-trades, she’s a certified chef, restores antiques, and dabbles in beekeeping when she’s not reading voraciously or running down the dream in her beat-up camo Chucks.

Unable to ignore the voices in her head, and unwilling to become medicated, she writes Science Fiction and Fantasy full time.

She pays the bills editing, wielding a wicked hot pink pen and writing a column on SFF. She also belongs to the Authors Guild, is a chapter treasurer for the RWA, teaches creative writing, and on the rare occasion, sleeps.


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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The Husband Chair by Nick Bannister Book Blast



This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. The author will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.



Our hero: Bone tired. Lost. Desolate. A man pushed to the outer limits of his very being. His struggle: Satisfy the need to rest whilst still supporting his beloved in her hour of need.

While his wife negotiates a seemingly endless list of fashion stores in her quest for perfection, her loving husband must stave off the weariness that visits each partner in a shopping spree with their significant other.

Fighting hunger, rising frustration and the mental fatigue associated with tracking credit card usage, will he ever find peace? And honestly, can he just go and sit down for a minute...


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Awake! Sun is shining, it’s Saturday morning.
I sit up in bed with some stretching and yawning.
My beautiful wife, the love of my life,
Looks terribly grim and it signals a warning...

I ask her, “My darling, what troubles you so?”
She goes on to tell me her tale of woe.
“I’ve booked a girls’ dinner but I’ve nothing to wear!”
And now I must prepare for what she will declare.

About the Author:



Nick Bannister: Nick & Terry are long-time friends & first-time author/illustrators. Each has their own vast experience with husband chairs, as both are happily married.

Both reside in Brisbane, Australia.

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Monday, August 26, 2024

Karen A. Wyle The Decision Book Tour and Giveaway

 


 A Berlin policeman makes a potentially life-or-death decision.

Why?

What made the difference?


The Decision

A Novel of Germany

by Karen A. Wyle

Genre: Historical WWII Fiction



A Life of Contradictions, and A Moment of Truth


It is autumn of 1938, in Hitler’s Germany, in the capital city of Berlin, perhaps a month before the devastating anti-Jewish violence of Kristallnacht. Three Jewish boys have received new bicycles — because their family has, with difficulty, arranged to leave Germany, and they will not be allowed to take much cash with them. Two of the boys are experienced bicyclists, but the youngest is less so. On a downtown street, the latter’s lack of skill causes an accident. And the traffic policeman on the scene wears, just visible under his uniform, the brown shirt of a member of Hitler's storm troopers.

What did the policeman do? The answer is known, because the preceding paragraph describes an actual event. But why did the policeman make the choice he did? What life did he live that led him to make it? And what happened to him, while the boys and their family escaped, lived, and thrived? This novel imagines possible answers to these questions. In doing so, it takes the reader into the heart of the experience of wartime, and the repercussions of such conflict for years thereafter.

"The Decision both stands out from the crowd as an important examination of how attitudes are changed and friendships buffeted by clashing ideologies, and lends [itself] to classroom or reading group discussion about all kinds of subplots intrinsic to a complete understanding of the Jewish and German experience." Midwest Book Review


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Karen A. Wyle was born a Connecticut Yankee, but eventually settled in Bloomington, Indiana. She now considers herself a Hoosier. She is an appellate attorney, photographer, and mother of two.

Wyle's thoughtful and compassionate fiction includes SF, historical romance, historical fiction and fantasy. She has also collaborated with several wonderful illustrators to produce picture books. Relying on her legal background, she has written one nonfiction resource, explaining American law to authors, law students, and anyone else interested in better understanding the legal landscape. Wyle's voice is the product of a lifetime spent reading both literary and genre fiction. Her personal history has led her to focus on often-intertwined themes of family, communication, the impossibility of controlling events, and the persistence of unfinished business.


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Gail Koger Stilettos & Gunpowder Book Tour and Giveaway

 


 Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride full of spicy romance and hijinks-fueled action that will have you laughing uncontrollably!


Stilettos and Gunpowder

Deputy Gemma Stone Book 3

by Gail Koger

Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance 


 My name is Gemma Stone. I’m a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy and not only must I deal with the sweat-soaked misery of the Arizona desert, I get to respond to a bunch of crazy 9-1-1 calls all day long. Like a parakeet up a tree, or a car accident where a tractor trailer full of fireworks is hit and the 4th of July comes a bit early.

But some days crime takes a deadly turn. Police cars are suddenly blowing up. Detective Sergeant Dante Delgado, the love of my life, was assigned to track down and stop the bomber. Am I worried? You betcha. There’s a madman on the loose and he is very, very good at making bombs.

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, the Feds think I’m in cahoots with an Iraqi warlord who deals in stolen antiquities. Ichabod, my murderous ex-dance partner, escapes from prison and I’m suddenly in everyone’s crosshairs.


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Howdy. My name is Gail Koger and once upon a time I was a 9-1-1 dispatcher. Too many years of wild requests, screwy questions, bizarre behavior and outrageous demands have left me with a permanent twitch and an uncontrollable craving for chocolate. I took up writing science fiction romance to keep from killing people. So far, it has worked.


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