Mishap & Chaos by M.M. Shelley
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Mishap & Chaos is the second in a trilogy of novels by M.M. Shelley that takes place in the Hawaiian islands. Kana’i is the grandson of the fire goddess Pele whose cousin Kye was adopted by his father so they were raised essentially as brothers. Twins Tatiana and Grasiella are trying to figure out what happened to their suddenly missing grandmother.

With Kana’i being Pele’s grandson, he has enormous power coursing through his veins, but isn’t the only one with such power. As it turns out Kye has tremendous power of his own, powers that the uncle of Kana’i has serious concerns about. But this uncle has also been listening to the island witch who may or may not be the most reliable source of information.
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I had the opportunity to review the young adult novel, Farsighted in November as well as interview its author Emlyn Chand. Now for the new year she is hosting a fun reading challenge. Many of us have now heard of these reading challenges that bloggers, reviews, and readers participate in. Well, this one isn’t asking its participants to read new books, but to re-read old favorites. Especially those from ones youth. So I’ve decided that I’d like to participate. Each month for this year long challenge I’ll (try) to post about whatever book(s) I’ve decided to cozy up with once again.

I’ll start with one I was talking to my sister about just the other day when I was looking at this old mug that says “Dad” on it along with a lot of qualities that dad’s have. I then told her that I remembered getting the mug from a thrift store in early elementary school when I had gone for a walk with one of his co-workers on one of the summer days I went to work with my dad.
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Review: Mind Over Matter by S.J. Clarke
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Mind Over Matter by S.J. Clarke is about a divorced woman whose daughter, Sabrina, was kidnapped 3 years earlier. Rebecca McKenney has a vision of Sabrina now, appropriately older. She is convinced that her daughter is in fact very much alive and goes to see the FBI agent in charge of the case years earlier.

Dan Cooper is the former FBI agent who was the lead on Sabrina’s kidnapping case and because of a possible mistake he made 3 years earlier he agrees to help Rebecca pursue looking for her daughter now. He doesn’t believe in Rebecca having any sort of psychic vision. As Dan and Rebecca begin to dig through all the old leads they start to find a very sinister conspiracy that goes back decades.
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The Curse of Gremdon by Ciara Knight
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

The Curse of Gremdon by Ciara Knight is an adult fiction novel about warriors Arianna and Tardon that takes place in a world where marriage is forbidden. As an elite male warrior, Tardon is basically given anything and everything he wants by the omnipotent Elders. The entire kingdom is forced by the Elders to live within the palace walls because of a curse that turns people into horrible monsters.

The extremely controlling Elders do not allow anyone to threaten their regime and vilify anyone who does dare to pose even a hint of a problem. When the Elders run out of a magical elixir, Arianna and Tardon are charged with venturing to the Tree of Life and risking the very real possibility of contracting the curse.
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I am sorry I haven’t posted a lot lately. On the one hand, I am becoming stronger and stronger physically with the help of my awesome physical therapists. On the other hand, I haven’t been feeling well at all as my GI system and migraines have been acting up a LOT lately. I have digestive problems including IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) that affects my large intestine, chronic nausea (I love crystallized ginger), and GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease).
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