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Not What You Expected, But What You Need. As is often my norm when getting ready to write reviews, I had a look through the existing ones first. And so many were so critical of this book claiming it was effectively a bait and switch and had too many characters.

Now, I'm a man that can have and has had a dozen different books going, and can easily track

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Action Packed Finale. This book picks up moments after the ending of Book 2 (C

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Not So Excellent, But Enhances The Discussion Anyway. Up front, this book had its cool moments in that it quoted from a decently wide range of pop culture for its opening chapter quotes and even at times inside the discussion itself - you

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This week we're looking at a (mostly) delightfully dark tale that has so

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[UPDATE January 6, 2021] I originally wrote the below post around Easter 2020 or so. At the time, this book was supposed to release in June 2020. Then, thanks to COVID, it got pushed to January 5, 2021. Where it was still going to be a Featured New Release post. Then I came in to actually publish that post and found out that the book's release had been pushed back *again* to February 1, 2021. Where I already had another book ready for that week's Featured

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Solid Romance That Does What It Must. With this particular book

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Nothing Technically Wrong, Readers May Hate It Anyway. This is one of those books by a master storyteller that is at

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This week we're looking at an amazing examination of the science of the human voice. This week we're looking at

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For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid Book 1 of a potential new superhero fiction series. For this blog tour, we're looking at We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen.

This is a book that feels very much at home with the kind of superhero world the CW's Arrowverse has built out - and indeed this world could fit in right alongside that renowned universe.

Here's what I had to say about it on Goodreads:

My First Foray Into Superhero Books. As much as I've read scifi for literally decades, this is actually my first foray into the actual superhero fiction genre. Yes, I've read a few comic books in my day and am a big fan of most of the major franchises, but this was my very first superhero fiction novel. And y'all, I found it quite compelling - even as a 38 yo married male reading about two people closer to that Young Adult / New Adult category. While the Arrowverse inspirations for this project were quite clear in so *very* many areas, Chen still managed to create an intriguing and interesting story that could plausibly hold its own against any of those shows - and maybe even be better than some of them. This book definitely feels like a Book 1 for a potential new series, and this reader for one would be down for that. Very much recommended.

Below the jump, we have an excerpt from Chapter 3 of the book along with all of the relevant information from the publisher. :)

Chapter 3

Jamie stopped, catching himself. He’d gone too far this time. Close eyes, deep breaths, count to five, and then open eyes to see the damage.

Damn it. He’d really done it. He looked at the grout brush, then the lines between the countertop’s tiles, then back at the brush. Yes, he’d gotten the coffee stain out, but he’d also scrubbed too hard, wearing away some of the grout.

Twenty minutes ago, he’d arrived home, throwing his cashfilled backpack on the futon cushion. It landed with a thump, startling Normal out of her cat tuffet next to the window. And though he stopped to give Normal a calming pet, his instincts took over, starting with a meticulous cleaning of the litter box, t

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Forgive the Low Star Reviewers, For They Know Not What They Do. Apparently I had a *completely* different experience with this book than most of the other ARC readers, because while this thing wasn

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