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With a new site owner and a battalion of chaotic ninjas (okay, maybe 3 on a good day), the blog shifts gears. We have a PhD in Pop Culture and we're not afraid to use it for content creation and world peace!

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7 Things

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Katie Hayoz is one of the most talented and brilliant indie authors who convinced me that Young Adult (YA) novels can have depth and complexity. She's truly very inspiring (and very funny). Katie tagged me for Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Read her 7 things here . The Very Inspiring Blogger Award is given by bloggers to bloggers.  Here are the rules:   1. Link back to the person nominating you for the award 2. Display the Very Inspiring Blogger logo 3. Reveal seven things about yourself 4. Nominate seven others to receive the award Okay.  So seven things about me that you won't find on my profile: 1. I'm a lefty.     2. I've become a polygamist...a book polygamist.  I read 2 to 3 books simultaneously. 3.  I found out that it hurts when a Kindle device falls on your face  while you read in bed. 4.  Soda sober. I haven't had soda in a year. 5. I write book reviews at night. 6. The blog...
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Is the world ready for a deadly Pirate-Ninja Alliance?

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A PIRATE-NINJA ALLIANCE?  Is the world ready for a Deadly Pirate-Ninja Alliance?  Is Kindle Ninja having a case of Pirate-envy? Did they really get along?  Read on...   EXT. PORT ROYAL. DAY. The skeletal remains of two pirates clad in their filthy buccaneer garb still hang from the gallows. There’s room for two more. Down below: A snarling brute puts KINDLE NINJA on chokehold. A GUNSHOT . The brute hits the ground. KINDLE NINJA turns around and sees IVORY SHEPARD . IVORY We should stop meeting like this, black-clad warrior. KINDLE NINJA It’s Kindle Ninja, but Kindle won’t be invented until 2007…   BEHIND YOU!!! IVORY ducks. A shuriken hits the would-be assailant right between the eyes. KINDLE NINJA (CONT.)   You're welcome!    IVORY Let’s cut to the chase. Why are you following me? [Continues to fight with a bunch of enemies while having this...
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See How They Run: Convincingly Evil

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See How They Run by Tom Bale   is what happens when regular folks get mixed up with a network of criminals so vicious, they wouldn’t think twice of committing a violent act if it suits their needs (or save their necks). Who would want to be in this kind of predicament? No one! But Harry and Alice French find themselves in such a sticky situation and they take the reader along with them. Just imagine the stress and exhaustion of being thrown into a bloody mess. Oh, by the way, there’s a baby tagging along. Crazy, huh? Though Harry and Alice are characters you’d easily empathise with, it’s the wicked bad guys that shine through. They are all convincingly evil! They are the kind of people you pray you don’t cross paths with in your lifetime. Although this a gripping story with non-stop action (physical and emotional), I feel that the writer held back on the resolution. It went to “safe” territory after treating the reader to one shocking event t...
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Episode 7: Conversations over Milk & Cookies - Wendy Storer

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Welcome to Episode 7 of  Conversations over Milk & Cookies  hosted by Kindle Ninja. What is this madness, you ask?  It's my way of supporting authors and writers from the  RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB . For the entire month of April, I will be featuring the fine women and men that make up the Board of RRBC.  We interact with them everyday, directly through tweets, or indirectly through re-tweets, but we don't really know much about them. Their personalities really don't shine through in tweets and re-tweets. In Episode 1,   We see the silly side of  RRBC Secretary MARLENA HAND   ( @mlh42812 ).   In Episode 2,   RRBC Spotlight and Incentives Coordinator  TERI GARRINGER  ( @TeriGarringer ) bares her funny side in 26 Questions. In Episode 3 ,   RRBC Membership Director  KATHRYN TREAT  ( @KathrynCTreat )   lets her hair down and plays the game of 24 Questions. In Episode 4...
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Escape From Zandell: Something Ominous Lurks

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In fantasy stories, Book #0 is usually the big set up with an even bigger cliffhanger; the characters are introduced and the fantasy world is established. Escape from Zandell  by Dale Furse  has managed to do that, but it was a bit of a confusing set up and it’s a challenge to keep up with the characters early on. But once you get to the second act, things start to make sense and you begin to understand the characters and their respective motivations just a little bit (there are still questions though).  One problem here is that it’s not clear (at least not to me) who the real main character is. It seems to shift depending on the circumstance. But  I like that there’s always this feeling that something ominous is lurking and any second, some character will die or will be in grave danger. It’s that kind of storytelling that piques my interest. Surely, it’s worth following the series, in the hope that this is just the start of something epic to come.   ★★★...
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