Sometimes even amongst the Gods one feels an outcast. Circe was born a Goddess never to be one of them it seems, for what she lacked in titanic cruelty and supernatural powers she made up for in an empathy alien to her kind. Maybe she was just too human, she did sound like one after…
Category: Historical fiction
Book Review: “The Book Of Harlan” by Bernice L. McFadden
The book that taught me a truth that I suspected but never knew for sure. A time period that my mind is too young to fathom, because while growing up, war was a topic for the history books. Although nowadays, social media has made a willing or reluctant witness of every single individual owning a…
Book Review: “The Crown’s Game” by Evelyn Skye
Russian magic…Two words that probably don’t take centre stage together very often, it is however what first attracted me to this book. Unfortunately it did not quite live up to my expectations. I think it was a very ambitious novel with a lot of promise but it just failed take off. That said, it is…
Book Review: “The Next Together” by Lauren James
You tell me “Crimean War”, you tell me “Chemistry”, you tell me “Siege of Carlisle” and by now I have already rolled my eyes 10 times and you have lost my attention. I will however award the respect that is due to those topics, because even if they may not be my cup of tea…
My stop on the Prentice & Weil blog tour – “The Book Of Pandemonium” trilogy
Hello everyone, Please help me welcome Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil to Chouett.com authors of “The Book Of Pandemonium” series. Here you are introduced to a dark magical world with a devil worshiping society prospering through time in London in the 1500s. Elizabethan London: a teeming city of traders and thieves, courtiers and preachers,…
Book Review: “Under The Udala Trees” by Chinelo Okparanta
Seeing love through the eyes of a child. As I look back on this novel, the intensity of first love and its innocence is what comes through the most. At the tender age of 11, Ijeoma’s childhood is cut short. Soon abandonment becomes all but a too familiar constant in her life. Abandonment from Nigeria,…