Welcome to my first Indie Book month of 2020! I’m kicking off this year right with a bunch of books that I have high hopes for, and I hope you enjoy these reviews.
A Bit of 2020 Reading Announcements
First, I’ve planned most of this year’s reading. If you go to my reading page here, you’ll see the entire year splayed out! You’ll also see there are 3 open spots for indie books, and you can go to my reading page and send a review request. There’s also a few July slots that I haven’t completely set in stone, but you have to be pretty convincing to get me to switch one of those. Also, even though the open slots are for October reviews, I will do Amazon and/or Goodreads reviews far sooner.
Speaking of Goodreads, I’ve made a new Goodreads profile that you can friend. It’s not well filled-out yet, but you can expect me to start rating and filling it up.
Because I’ve joined Goodreads and committed to giving star ratings, I thought I’d put those on the books I read this year. Present on my blog posts will be Discoball Snowcone ratings!
These snowcones will be given the same as stars. I am also giving old reviews ratings!
Soul Swallowers – D. Wallace Peach
I reviewed The Melding of Aeris by Diane back in April 2019, and I really enjoyed it. For that reason, I decided to see if her quality carries through to her newest series, The Shattered Sea! It seems to be a fantasy with soul-based magic, and I hope it carries similar tinges of darkness as Aeris did.
Amazon Link
What Words May Come – Kevin D. Parish
Kevin Parish has a WordPress blog that I follow. Not only does he write good poetry for his blog, he’s one of the nicest people out there. When he announced his book, I looked at the comments on his page and saw that he’d “delayed” publishing this book so his mom could get the first copy.
MY EYES DIDN’T TEAR UP AT THAT I SWEAR.
Anyway, I’m excited to read this book of poetry and see what Kevin publishes that could possibly be better than what’s already on his blog!
Amazon Link
Clara – Susanna Linton
I saw this advertised for free on Twitter, and I was like, “This person tweets well and seems nice. I’m going to read this first book in the series because I don’t think it will be bad.” Epic fantasy is usually right up my alley anyway.
Want to know something else?
She doesn’t use Amazon, and her system still works incredibly well with Kindle. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve downloaded it from Bookfunnel through a link on her beautiful website (which I am freaking jealous of).
Website/Bookfunnel Link
The Leftovers: Something from YOU?
Do you have a published book and a method of purchasing it that isn’t sketch as hell? I need indie books to read, and those slots will be opening before you know it! Let me know if you have something you’d like me to peruse!
See my old reviews here
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You’re the best, my friend! ;-)))
Aww, thanks!
Fabulous, I have sent you a friend request on Goodreads. I have read Soul Swallowers and found it to be very good.
I found your request! Yay! I’m not going to spoil what I thought of Soul Swallowers since the review is so close to coming out. 🙂
I’ll watch out for it. I enjoy Goodreads as a social media for readerholics like us.
I think I’m going to enjoy it!
I had added two of these books to my TBR pile, they look right up my street. 🙂
Oh yay! I’ve already read them, and I can say you probably won’t be disappointed!
March, I’ll contact you in March 🙂
Oooh, looking forward to it!
🙂
Now that’s a surprise and treat. I’m so curious to hear what you think of Soul Swallowers. Yay! Thanks so much for including it in your reading list, HRR. And I found you in Goodreads without a problem and “friended” you. It will be fun to see what you’re reading and get ideas… since I think we like many of the same kinds of books. You made my day to be sure. Thank you. And Happy Reading!
Well, the Amazon review should be up unless they decided to boot me or that I wasn’t legit. I won’t spoil the fun for people who come along to read next week, though!
Ah, yes, it’s there. I forgot that you’d already posted it and I’d already seen it. 🙂 And I’m pretty sure I thanked you then too – it’s old age setting in. If something didn’t happen yesterday, I can’t remember. The good part is I get to be all surprised and happy again. Lol. Thank you ❤