Review: KANSAS KEEPER by Ann Omasta and Callie Love

 

A widowed grieving father and the birth mother that has come back to take his child away. That first chapter really draws you in with this interesting premise. It’s not long before this turns into a sweet reunion and a love igniting.

 

A sweet and loving short story!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: SWING VOL. 2 by Matt Hawkins

 

The couple’s swinger lifestyle goes on. And sexy images they are. Now that they wanted to stick to this lifestyle, they needed to find the right couple to do it with. The first swap was a huge success and, oh, so hot! But perhaps they two weren’t as cool as they claim to be. Funny how the little girl walks on her parents having sex on the couch.

 

Hot and sexy! More, more, more!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: SUNSTONE Vol. 3 by Stjepan Sejic

 

The imagery was very erotic and artistic. I liked the use of blank space and the angles of the panels, but I couldn’t get the story or read the text.

 

Rating: 2 stars

Book Blast: MEAN CUISINE by Wendy W. Webb

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Wendy will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Beluga Stein is taking a cooking class and it's a real killer. This time she's traded her signature loud muumuus for ill-fitting chef attire, including a toque the size of her ego.

A well-liked chef is found dead and it's up to Beluga and her feline familiar, Planchette, to investigate. There's no recipe to follow, only the hope that her erratic psychic ability will hit the spot. Is a supernatural entity stirring up trouble, or something far more dangerous?

Beluga and Planchette can't stand the heat, but there's no way out of this kitchen while murder is the main dish.

Read an Excerpt

Beluga Stein’s Diary

Such a day.

And while Chef Pernod tried mightily to restore order with an impromptu lecture on the differences between Grande, Classic and Nouvelle cuisines, I’m afraid the distinctions were lost when the frozen body was wheeled past us to the waiting ambulance.

The sight of such a spectacle took a toll on the chef as well, I should add. Fortunately for me there was no mention of Planchette in the kitchen, but for the rest of us the chef’s well-practiced lecture took a sudden nosedive into a stream-of-consciousness series of French words. I think I heard her say that a traditional kitchen brigade had positions with names sounding something like “poisoner,” which is rather ominous if you ask me, and “chefs who party,” which might warrant further investigation if things start to get dull. Or one finds herself in immediate need of hors d’oeuvres and a tropical cocktail.

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Review: Cooking school might be the way to go even if you couldn’t even cook an egg. That was one place psychic detective Beluga knew would be free of murder.

I enjoyed the humorous and witty quips. Beluga was a rotund, klutzy, and quirky character wish snarky charm, a hearty appetite, and solid smarts. The cooking school also seemed to have its oddball characters including a slew of tater-tots and a drill-sergeant chef. The last thing anyone expected during the tour was to find a dead body in the freezer.

Right away, Beluga’s inquiring mind starts questioning the case and lures the reader into it. What happened to the dead chef?

The reader will surely enjoy following Beluga and Tanya’s wacky and harebrained antics. At some point, it seemed like that was all we were doing however. The whole time you’re just following two crazy broads. It didn’t seem like we were focusing too much on solving the mystery. Perhaps I was just too used to following a certain pattern in a traditional cozy mystery. Perhaps a paranormal mystery follows an eclectic path. I liked the lightness and the humor, but, as far as a mystery goes, I thought that could’ve been better and more focused.

A fairly nice read.

Rating: 3 stars

About the Author:

Wendy W Webb (aka one of the many Wendy Webbs) has published dark fantasy short stories and novels, co-edited anthologies, and has had productions of stage and radio plays. After a hiatus as a doctoral student of emergency management and as a disaster responder, she welcomed the return to fiction with The Wild Rose Press writing the gothic Widow’s Walk, and two updated books in the Beluga Stein supernatural-humor-murder mystery series, Bee Movie and Mean Cuisine. Sunbury Press under the Milford House imprint published the paranormal, travel, “memoir,” Eye of the Gargoyle. She adores her husband; two dogs, one of which turns on iTunes whenever Wendy leaves her office; dry red wine; theatre; and travel as long as she doesn’t see anymore ghosts!

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Spotlight: SASQUATCH, BABY! by Bethany Browning

Genre: Humor

Summary: You've never seen a custody battle like this. After her posh Napa Valley friends expel her for committing an unspeakable betrayal, trustfundian underachiever Tabitha Eggs retreats to the redwood forests of Del Norte County, California to drink herself to death. But when she stumbles over two decomposing corpses near her new home—among a growing list of other frightening, unexplainable experiences—she's convinced that walking into a raging wildfire is preferable to whatever waits in the woods. Her plans are foiled when she’s kept alive by a curious Sasquatch (who adores salad dressing and is overjoyed by luxury body wash), and they create a bizarre and everlasting union.

Author Bio: 

Bethany Browning lives and works in a redwood forest. Her debut horror novella, Sasquatch, Baby!, and the first in her cozy mystery series, Dead Spread, are both available in eBook and paperback. Plus, War of the Wills, a film she co-wrote with George Dondero, is watchable on Amazon Prime. Her award-nominated short fiction can be found in Halloween Horrors, Stories We Tell After Midnight, The HallowZine, Mudroom, JAKE, Filth, Esoterica, Flash Fiction Magazine and dozens more. For more information and to read her short stories and other published work, visit bethanybrowning.com.

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Purchase links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sasquatch-Baby-Bethany-Browning-ebook/dp/B0C4ZNY2HH/

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