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Book Review: Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky by Kwame Mbalia

October 15, 2019 by motifink

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he’s going to spend on his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: african american folklore, book review, Kwame Mbalia, mythology, NetGalley, Tristan Strong Punches A Hole In The Sky

Author Interview: Johanna Nield

September 11, 2019 by motifink

Hey Guys! I have had the most amazing pleasure to conduct an extended Quick Five interview with author Johanna Nield. Author of the New Beginnings series, Ms. Nield is excited to share the re-release of her series, after self-publishing, with the UK publising company Cranthorpe Miller. Y’all I cannot tell you how great this interview was. To be able to dig deep wth Ms. Nield about changing from self-publishing to sponsored publishing, to find out more about her as a […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adult Fiction, author interview, Johanna Nield, New Beginnings, romance

Quick Five© with Joanna White

June 26, 2019 by motifink

Name: Joanna White Who is Joanna? A lover of Stars Wars and a fan girl at heart. Books: Hunter (Valiant #1), Forgotten (Valiant #0.5) and Shifter Buy: Amazon and Barnes and Nobles Sometimes great things just happen to fall into your hand. Such as an interview you didn’t know you wanted to do. Meet Joanna White, Christian author of the Valiant series. Joanna has been an author all her life and wrote her first book at 10 years old. Impressive […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: author interview, Joanna White, quick five, shifter, ya

Goal Check: Mid Year

June 6, 2019 by motifink

Back when the year first started, I wrote a post about my goals for the year. If you don’t remember it, you can take a look at it here. Being that it is June which is halfway through the year, I wanted to touch base with those goals and hold myself accountable to them. And also provide you all some transparency :) Instagram Goals Back in January I had 242 followers. Six months later, I have 302 followers. My 2019 […]

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Faeries and the Books that Stole My Heart

March 11, 2019 by motifink

I love books about faeries. It is almost guaranteed that if your book is about faeries, be is a war, a romance, friendship I will read it. What sparked this post was actually a conversation I had with my sister. She thinks faeries are creepy and much more scary than the boogieman in your closet or the monster under the bed. And thinking about it she has a point. We are talking changelings, goblins, tricks for giggles and just murder […]

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Book Review: A Real Kind of Love by Bella Jay

February 17, 2019 by motifink

Avelyn Russell didn’t do love. Never did, never wanted to and as far as she was concerned, never would. She lives her life proud to hold the title as the ‘break up queen’ and for never letting love get her caught up in being an advocate of false hope fairytales. But her extreme methods to avoid love are put to the test by the one person able to tap into her cold little heart and Avelyn has no clue how […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: #1), african american author, Arc, Bella Jay, black authors, Black Love, book review, Four Letter Word, romance

End of an Reading Era

January 9, 2019 by motifink

it’s the end of an expensive and beautiful relationship. Its truly a sad time for me. And its completely you and just a slight bit of me. So, I have decided to stop reading Sandra Brown books and to be honest it kind of hurts that I have made this decision because we have a long relationship. When I was, I would say 14 and reading Cosmopolitan magazines, behind my parents back, I came across my first Sandra Brown book. […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adult Fiction, end of an era, envy, mirror image, sandra brown, slow heat in heaven, the crush

2019 Goals

January 4, 2019 by motifink

Alright. So I will bite. Seeing everyone create their 2019 goals and their excitement may actually give me something to look forward to. Instagram Goals I currently have 242 followers. My 2019 goal is to get 500 followers. With that being said, I would need to post more. At this point in my life, I can committee to twice a week. Either on a Sunday, Weds or Saturday beginning the first week of Jan. Instagram is an abyss for me. […]

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What Tanya Wants: November 2018

November 3, 2018 by motifink

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Daughters of the lake, fantasy, Firefly, Girls of Paper and Fire, new book releases, ya

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