Showing posts with label arts and entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts and entertainment. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

Free Book Reviews (book reviews and interviews)


REVIEWED BY: Marguerite Zelle

MY RECOMMENDATION: YES

AMAZON SUBSCRIPTION LINK: Free Book Reviews, by Albert Robbins III

WEB ADDRESS: http://freebookreviews.blogspot.com/

BLOG DESCRIPTION: We write real synopsis and reviews of Amazon and Smashwords Indie Authors.

Simply send arobbins78 at gmail dot com an email with a description of your book and a place that I can find it. I will read that book and post my thoughts on what I thought of it. Do not be surprised if the book review takes a while to be posted. To become a reviewer for this blog simply send an email to arobbins78 at gmail dot com with your name, email and genre you like to read.
Author Interviews:
Email arobbins78 at gmail dot com with your name and email address and an interview form will be emailed to you.
Reviews:
Reviews are posted here, on Facebook, Amazon, Smashwords, Hubpages and Twitter. Also all posts are automagically added to yousaytoo and Zimbio.
*****Disclaimers*****
All reviews are the sole opinion of the Author of such review. All book prices are current as of publication of each review or blog post and may change at any time without notice.
Current Contests:
For the month of March (to celebrate ebook week) I will give one free ebook per week to followers of this Blog

MY REVIEW: This is one of those blogs that is more pleasant to read on the Kindle than on the web. There's lots of extraneous stuff on the webpage itself that causes it to take a while to load.

The reviews cover the gamut of genres. The reviews themselves are very brief, only a couple of paragraphs, but they give an idea of what the book is about, which is what a review is supposed to do, anyway. The real gems in this blog are the interviews with the authors.

Recommended.

Sample post
Death Has A Name
Synopsis:

Together with Detective Phil Dawson, Brodie Wade -- a psychic detective -- must summon all of his will to go head-to-head with a spiritual force known as The Truth to solve the latest string of gruesome murders. It appears that Dominick Fredrickton -- the Midnight Killer -- has returned from the grave. Can they stop Death before he is unleashed from eternal bonds?

Review:
Normally I'm not into paranormal or anything like that but I wanted to give this book a try. I read it in two days (which for me is very quick) and loved it. The way Brody struggles with his 'gift' is portrayed very real and I could really feel for the guy. The book has a nice plot as well. Maybe I must open more for this kind of books.

Where to find it:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/34088?ref=rjpalmer

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Bookgasm (arts & entertainment, book reviews)

I had attempted to set these to publish on the 22nd, but for some reason Blogger published them immediately and won't let me change the time or day on them! Sorry about any resulting weirdness. Just for the record, this is one of 3 reviews that should have been in your 7/22/10 batch of reviews!

REVIEWED BY: Ms. Cairo

MY RECOMMENDATION: YES

AMAZON SUBSCRIPTION LINK: Bookgasm, by Rod Lott

WEB ADDRESS: http://www.bookgasm.com/

BLOG DESCRIPTION: Daily book reviews and news, specializing in genre fiction (horror, thriller, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, action/adventure, Westerns), plus oddball nonfiction, humor, comics, graphic novels and entertainment.

MY REVIEW: This is an excellent book review blog. They review every genre. The reviews are extensive, averaging 500 words. There's more than one reviewer, and there are a couple of posts a day. Indeed, there are 16 reviewers, all male, so the books reviewed are male-centric.

But if you like reading detailed reviews before you check out a book, this is the blog for you.

RECENT POSTS:
--The Devil, by Ken Bruen
--Random Acts of Violence, by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray
--BULLETS, BROADS, BLACKMAIL & BOMBS >> Puppies and Rainbows
--Cryptozoica, by Mark Ellis
--Peepo Choo: Volume 1, by Felipe Smith

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Ms. Cairo writes several blogs including:
Seaborn: Oceanography Blog
Star Trek Report: Space Sciences
Topical Murder and Dated Death