Looking for love can be deadly…

You know how it goes.

You go out, hoping to meet someone.

You wade through your fair share of brainless automatons, lifeless bodies, and ravenous undead, good at passing as human.

The more you go out, the less hope you feel and the colder your body gets.

But you keep at it.

All you need is one beating heart to match your own before yours stops pumping altogether.

How hard can it be to find one living, breathing human in a city full of bodies?

Dating.

It’s hungry business.

About the Author

Maria DeBlassie, Ph.D. is a native New Mexican mestiza blogger, award-winning writer, and award-winning educator living in the Land of Enchantment. Her first book, Everyday Enchantments: Musings on Ordinary Magic & Daily Conjurings (Moon Books 2018), and her ongoing blog, Enchantment Learning & Living are about everyday magic, ordinary gothic, and the life of a kitchen witch. When she is not practicing her own brand of brujeria, she’s reading, teaching, and writing about bodice rippers and things that go bump in the night. She is forever looking for magic in her life and somehow always finding more than she thought was there. Find out more about Maria and conjuring everyday magic at www.mariadeblassie.com.

Usually, I'm not a fan of short stories, but I'm happy about my decision to read this book worth it. Love always being one kind of challenge. The struggle is real. How you try to sustain in the real world what more in a zombie world. I can feel the frustration of the narrator, how devastated she after her searching always found a dead end until when she wants to give up she finally sees the light.

Stay alive or being a rotten dead body

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Author: Carly Rheilan

Format: paperback

Page: 126 pages

Sometimes the perfect pregnancy is less than skin deep...A young man watches as a heavily pregnant doctor is stabbed in the street. He sees the knife, swinging down into that rounded belly, again and again, deep to the hilt.A few minutes later, the doctor has gone. Nobody believes what the man has seen.For Ana, the doctor, the incident is problematic. Back home, she peels off the damaged pretense of her pregnancy, a beautifully crafted garment, padded and slung across her abdomen. And she begins to realize that a story she has crafted with even greater care, is about to unravel.

A dark and haunting book that would make your breath coming in gasps. The Birthrights is a book full of art. The beginning of this book alone has already begun with a thrilling situation. Being stabbed and then disappear without blood? I feel like adrenaline in my body is working twice as hard as I read this book. The excitement, the complex story line seems juggling perfectly. I prefer not to comment on character developments or analyses of the characters in this book. What I can say is, the main character is beyond the expectations of my mind.

A perfect book that educates about mental illness Which is often not taken seriously as physical health. It's a new genre for me. I pretty much like it

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 During Maddy Holt’s senior year in high school she interns for veteran journalist, Elliot Kruger. They quickly forge a close bond; however, after the death of his wife Bebe, Elliot abruptly disappears. Distraught and searching for answers, Maddy stumbles upon clippings detailing Elliot’s years as a wartime correspondent, threatening notes he’s penned, and a cryptic list of names; the first of which died mysteriously day’s earlier. Convinced he’s embarked on a killing spree, ever obstinate Maddy jets off to Italy. Arriving in Trieste she is met by Grant Stanhope (a family friend), but not in time to prevent another murder. Using Elliot’s notes as a guide, Maddy and Grant race across the former Yugoslavia to Belgrade. But powerful unknown forces are at play and they are forced to flee in the dead of night. Frightened, and not knowing where to turn, they head to the only place they can hope to find answers; a bucolic Bosnian village; Bebe’s hometown. There, they discover the shocking secrets behind the men Elliot is pursuing. The assumed identity of the final man on his list. And in a deadly race against time to stop history repeating.

The starting of this story with a very mysterious notecard that being left by Elliot Kruger to all his enemies. The background of a scene in this story is back and forth about the war that happens in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the current time. I was shocked when the author sometimes describing the methods of torture that they used during the war including rape, torture and abuse. It also involves discrimination against Muslim people there. Muslim people are not allowed to go to school just because they're Muslim, and many of them being forced by the citizen to move out from their house and a lot of vandalism happens during that time. of   I'm battling with myself either to continue to read this book or just give up because I can't stand reading the truth about how they been treated during the wartime but in the end, I glad I finished it.

Something for Bebe is a thrilling and complicated story of a revenged for a wife named Berina (Bebe) by the main character which is Elliot Kruger. Elliot is dying and he has been planning to kill all the men who ruined his life before he can go in peace. He started with writing a note to all his enemies and also sending a clue to his protegee, Mandy about what he gonna do. The cruelty of the army during that period of time and knowing that we don't have the power to help or to stop them from their action really breaking my heart. Well at some point I would agree with Elliot which take revenge on his own, at least something to do other than accepting the fact the bad people living their life as usual as nothing would impact them from the past.

This book involves a lot of graphical descriptions of situation that makes me take a time to breathe. I would say I'm offended with the words and the way they treated us as Muslim in this story but if the author didn't put the real situation in this book how would we know to feel the pain that they have to go through that time. Bosniak woman who was forced to watch as her neighbours were exiled, family members are killed or separated from her, she also being tortured and raped while being imprisoned and her child being forced to watch it otherwise they will beat the son until death. The cruelties have to be stopped. Unfortunately, the predators evils are gone without being punished. Where is the justice that we're looking for?  
 

Something for Bebe is a heartbreaking, thrilling adult book that teaches us about justice and hopes. Overall i give ⭐⭐⭐over⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“As a debut novel, Colony is too good to be true.” Reedsy Discovery

“Colony is a brilliant novel that ticks all the boxes for a fast-paced and intelligent read. Benjamin Cross is able to create intrigue from the first page…” Readers’ Favorite

“Deliciously terrifying. Cross is a talented new voice.” #1 bestselling thriller author Avanti Centrae

About the Author:

Benjamin Cross has an M.Phil. in Landscape Archaeology from the University of Oxford. He’s been lucky enough to explore some of the world’s most spectacular ancient sites; from the temples of Cambodia to the Andean cloud forest cities of Peru; from the burial sites of the Tibetan plateau to the Maori strongholds of New Zealand.

He is now an Associate Director of Heritage and Archaeology at a national consultancy and is a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. Colony is Benjamin’s first novel and it was written whilst he worked full-time as a professional archaeologist.

 Media links:

 Website: https://www.benjamin-cross.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenCross_author

A remote, mist-shrouded island in the Russian Arctic. A team of international scientists are hard at work. Amongst them, Doctor Callum Ross, Professor of Archaeology, makes the discovery of a lifetime: a prehistoric ice mummy, preserved for thousands of years by the sub-zero temperatures. Only, whoever it was didn’t die of natural causes… As Callum races to unravel the mystery, a terror plot leaves him and his colleagues stranded on the island. And they are not alone. Someone – or something – is stalking them. As the arctic mist descends and the death toll rises, Callum finds himself embroiled in a nightmare fight for survival, involving submarines, cyber warfare and Spetsnaz. A secret has awoken on Harmsworth, a secret so ancient it’s been overlooked by time itself. And nothing can prepare Callum for the terror that survives, deep within the island’s heart. An edge-of-your seat action thriller that will appeal to fans of James Rollins, Clive Cussler, Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler.

Well as a fan of Dinosaurs. I would definitely love anything that related to it and the moment they start talking about dinosaurs, I feels alive! (you know like the anime character, who have shiny eyes when they're excited. Yes! that's happens to me) and I have to admit that after reading the blurb my main attraction to read this book when they mentioning about ice mummy.  

Callum as a main character in this story is perfectly imperfect. Every action that we take has consequences. In Callum's life, his dedication to work has cost him his family. One after one tragedy happens starting with missing people, explosion of their boat. accompany with something mysterious that hiding in the mist that stalking them during the journey, do they stay alive until the end?

Even though it contain some cliche part when the antagonist wants to destroy the mission and have a double agent inside the mission but I still enjoy reading this book. Colony is a fast-paced book with a Russian Arctic background. Benjamin using his expertise in landscape and archeology describing about Callum's  journey in this book and the last 100 pages really make me blows my mind. You won't believed the appearance of the baby monster! in this story. 

Chapter by chapter you will be served by the unexpected scenario. You will be dealing with suspend all the time. The plot development really make me hooked to this book even though it stated about 383 pages but you won't feel burden reading this book. 

Overall I give

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