Friday, June 30, 2017

The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1, 2

Title: The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 1, 2
Author: Kore Yamazaki
Rating: 4/5

Description: Enter the Magician's Apprentice

Her name is Chise Hatori, a penniless orphan troubled by visions. Sold as a slave to an inhuman mage, she is about to begin a strange new life, filled with magic, fairies, and other beings of a fantastical nature.

My Sweet & Short Review: So far a good story and characters are interesting!

Twinkle Stars v.1-2

Title: Twinkle Stars v.1-2
Author: Natsuki Takaya
Rating: 3/5
Description: In a small town in the countryside, close to the sea, a young high-school girl lived alone with her cousin.
When life seemed to her too painful and too sad, she contemplated the sky and was refreshed by looking at the stars.
But one night in spring, she met a boy who sealed her destiny. . . .
My Sweet Short Review: Not as good as Fruits Basket but an Oh k story I guess!

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft

Title: A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft
Author: Deborah Blake
Reviewed for Netgalley
Out: 10.8.2017

Description:
Connect with your witchy self every day using small, easy, and fun practices. This book features quick and meaningful ways to integrate witchcraft into your daily life, inspiring you to take your magick to a new level whether you're a beginning or experienced practitioner.

Deborah Blake guides you on a journey through the Wheel of the Year, providing witchy wisdom, affirmations, spells, questions to ponder, and much more. From connecting with nature to connecting with deities, A Year and a Day of Everyday Witchcraft explores a variety of modern Pagan practices to help you get more in touch with your personal path of witchcraft.

My Short and Sweet Review:
More Wiccan Info which is good to have if your into that sort of thing... not anymore but good source of information!

The Witching Hour

Title: The Witching Hour
Author: Silver RavenWolf
Reviewed for Netgalley
Out: 10.8.2017

Description:
The Witching Hour—that moment when every fiber of your beings says, "This is the time to do the magick, the ritual, the enchantment for what I need." It could be dawn, a misty twilight, or the deepest, darkest inky night. It's a time when all of your being urges you to get up, get moving, and get working! Confidence that you can easily step from the problem at hand to the success that you desire seething around you. And you know, to the depths of your soul, it is time for magick! The moment of your own power has matured!

This is a book of magic—formulas and techniques for working with herbal blends and powders, techniques for connecting to the ultimate oneness of universe, inspiration for deepening your magical work and seeing your intentions become real changes in the world.

My Short and Sweet Review: A quick look thru of the newest Wiccan Books is always a good time in my life, years ago I was really into this but times have changed... but that doesn't mean I won't stop checking them out. Nice Book!

Monday, June 26, 2017

Supermarket Sabbats

Title: Supermarket Sabbats
Author: Michael Furie

Reviewed for NG

Description: (found on the book's site!)

Celebrate the wheel of the year and the Wiccan sabbats with recipes, spells, and rituals prepared using items commonly found at the supermarket. This book features a complete year's worth of magical items and practices; all the needed ingredients are at your local store and just as effective as rarer ones.
Organized by season, Supermarket Sabbats focuses on seasonally relevant spells, recipes, and formulas as well as a full ritual for each of the eight sabbats. Michael Furie combines ancient knowledge and traditions with twenty-first-century methods, providing you with the best of both worlds. Discover prosperity magic cleansings, blessings and banishing of negativity, and more, that builds upon the energies of the sabbats.

My Short and Sweet Review: I was more into Wiccan when I was younger but this book was interesting because you could find ingredients in your very own supermarket in your neighber and not look like a goober getting them. Because when I was young I would get the looks... I live in a very christian town where Wiccan Shops don't survive so this was a really good book to look through and read and next time I'll be ready! This book is going to be out to pick up on Oct 8th so get your own copy!

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Corliss

Title: Corliss
Author: V.C. Andrews
Rating: 4/5

Reviewed for NG

Description: Book One of the Girls of Spindrift. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, here begins a haunting new series featuring highly intelligent teenage girls who struggle to survive a specialized high school and find their place in a world that doesn’t understand them.

Such is the burden of being brilliant.

Corliss is not like the other girls at her Los Angeles high school. Incredibly intelligent, shy, and a loner, she has difficultly in fitting in. What’s worse, a clique of girls is out to get her because she’s not down with their games.

On the night of a school party, her refusal to take drugs with the girls leads them to take matters into their own hands—spiking her drink. Quickly, Corliss’s entire life is turned upside down and no one—not even the handsome valedictorian who had agreed to go out with her—looks at her the same way. Just when she’s wondering if she’ll be able to return to her high school, someone mentions a new place: Spindrift. Could that be her way out?

Note: The four Girls of Spindrift e-novellas together form a prequel for Bittersweet Dreams—available now!

My Short Review: Good girl tries to get back at bad girls but things go wrong and she must leave her home to protect her family against these nasty girls!