Catch-Up Quickies 16

First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In my latest attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I …

Spotlight: James Litherland, author at Outpost Stories

Today I am bringing you a peak into the back catalogue and new releases of prolific author James Litherland. James has three series available at the moment - one complete trilogy and two ongoing sagas. So, let's have a look at them! Miraibanashi - 3 novels of espionage and revolution in a dystopian future Japan …

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café – Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)

*I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author, Picador – Pan Macmillan and NetGalley. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop …

Centenary Separation – James Litherland

  *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*   Blurb:  Six separated Travelers, each facing trouble of their own. A malfunction of the supposedly fixed master time-travel device sends Matt and Page to 1912 San Francisco—only days apart, though …

Dark Side of the Museum – Randy Attwood

  *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*           Blurb:  A pinch of paranormal. A dash of time travel. A deliciously outrageous look at the inner workings of an art museum.         …

Millennium Crash – James Litherland

  *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*       Blurb:  When it all goes sideways, they keep going on. Everything goes wrong when the first research expedition from the future lands in the summer of 2000 in …

Swan Girl (Rifters #2) – Isa Briarwood

  *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*   Blurb:  Cate and Angus barely managed to escape from The Village, a way station for accidental time travelers. In order to save Angus’s life, Cate had no choice but to …

A Right Proper Murder – Pearl Goodfellow

  *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*   Blurb:  They’ve defeated a crazed warlock… ...turned an irate dragon to stone. Now they face the Victorians. Can the cats get out of this alive? The Infiniti find themselves in …

Hamartia – Raquel Rich

  *I received a free ARC of this book with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*     Blurb:  Grace’s nine-year-old son, Jordan, is dying. First, the Metagenesis disease will tear his soul from his body, and then it will kill him. Desperate for a cure, Grace agrees to …

Taurok’s Vengeance – J. D. Lakey

  *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author.  The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*   2018 B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree Blurb:  Five hundred years of war have just come to a bloody end in one great catastrophic blast. Who won? Taurok is not sure. It was not …