#BookReview The Umbrella Maker’s Son By Katrin Leno #middlegrade @tbrandbeyond

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This is a fun and fast paced middle grade story about a young boy who is the son of an umbrellalla maker. Oscar lives in a place where it rains constantly and there are many different types of rain, that’s how much rain they get. So the umbrella business is always booming here.

The people of the city tend to buy cheap not well supported umbrellas just to get them through the day. The issue is they are breaking and just not good for the amount of rain they get. The people of the city would rather pay less then pay more for something that will last and actually work.

Oscar dad needs more help at his shop so his dad asks him to leave school to become his apprentice. Oscar doesn’t like this his passion is art not making and selling umbrellas.

In the story Oscar and his best friend Saige try to understand the weird weather in the city and other darkness that may occurcuring.

This was a fun lightheaded fast paced read I really enjoyed it.

Rating 4 ⭐

Synopsis

The Umbrella Maker’s Son by Katrina Leno
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Publishing Date: June 27, 2023
Synopsis:
From a critically acclaimed author comes a fantastical middle grade novel about a boy determined to
prove there’s more than just the weather behind his rainy town.
Oscar Buckle lives in a city where it’s always raining. And when it isn’t raining, it’s about to rain, so
the townspeople have learned to embrace it. Oscar’s father is an umbrella maker—appropriate for a
place where you can’t leave home without one!—but while Buckle Umbrellas are strong, reliable,
and high quality, they’re expensive . Because of this, people are buying from the competitor instead,
which is threatening Oscar’s family’s business.
To make ends meet, Oscar is forced to quit school and work in his father’s shop as an apprentice. But
when extraordinary events start to occur in their rainy town, Oscar becomes suspicious of their
competitor. Desperate to save his town, Oscar must enlist the help of his best friend, Saige, to
discover if there’s more than nature involved in their city’s weather.
Content Warning: Grief, loss of a parent

About the author

Katrina Leno was born on the East Coast and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of
seven critically acclaimed novels for young adults: Sometime in Summer, Horrid, You Must Not Miss,
Summer of Salt, Everything All at Once, The Lost & Found, and The Half Life of Molly Pierce. Her
eighth novel (and first middle grade) The Umbrella Maker’s Son, arrives June 27, 2023. She thinks
you are just lovely.

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Centuries ago ten powerful vampire gods first walked the earth; their blood
thirst knew no boundaries. The destruction of mankind was inevitable.
Recognizing their weakness, they selected twelve wise human beings to
transform with their godly blood. These twelve, known as The Old Ones and
The Council, govern The Ten. A blood lottery appeasing The Ten’s
hunger was set forth into the human world and passed down every fifth
generation, continuing into the present day.

All of Beth Ryan’s life a mysterious mist has watched over her; a
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Five years crawled by at a painfully slow pace for young vampire, Beth;
each year more agonizing than the next. The powerful unyielding spell which
masked Amon’s whereabouts showed no signs of weakening. 
Influenced by the binding ritual and Amon’s blood surging inside her,
Beth will stop at nothing, and risk everything, to find him and turn the
tables on Osiris, Isis, and Hathor.  In foggy streets of London, lives
are threatened by a new breed of hunter, and nothing is what it
seemed.  Beth once again finds herself surrounded by betrayal.  In
the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between Philippe and Amon
– knowing that her decision will change one life forever. But whose?

 

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Brandon Cass is not your average teenager. He has a taste for
blood—human blood. For sixteen years, he stumbled through life without
a hitch until the enigmatic aroma of blood awakened something dark within
him. Visions of a beautiful young woman with chocolate brown hair and ocean
blue eyes haunt his mind, yet her identity is a puzzling mystery.

His hunger for blood strengthens, and the cravings become too powerful to
control. No one is safe, not even his family. To safeguard all he once found
dear, Brandon sets out on a quest for answers. In an unfamiliar city, he
comes face-to-face with the beautiful young woman, confronts the dark force
which controls him, and learns what he must endure to reclaim his soul.

 

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LAURA DALEO is known for capturing vampiric persuasion in her Immortal Kiss
series. This book takes an interesting spin on the Egyptian pantheon, from
which vampires originated. At present, she is working on Once We Were
Witches, the fourth book in the Immortal Kiss series.

Immortal Kiss, Bound by Blood, The Vow, The Vampire Within, The Soul
Collector, and The Doll are among her published works.

She grew up in San Diego, California, and currently lives with her two
dogs, Rose and Cooper, in Tucson, Arizona.

 

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It Should Have Been You, Book 2

Gay, Multicultural, Romance, Suspense, 2nd Chance Romance

Date Published: June 30, 2023

Publisher:  Changeling Press

 

Reed Barton is a millionaire who can have anything he wants, except the one
thing he desires most. His first love. He’s spent years trying to
recreate the night they met in a San Francisco bathhouse. The image of the
beautiful Filipino man who took his virginity is never far from his
thoughts.

Reed’s life is turned upside down when his long-lost love reappears
— and not in a good way. Joseph Castro is not quite what he seems. Time and
experience have changed both men, and there’s no going back. But
maybe, together, they can go forward.

 

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Reed Barton had last minute jitters about going to the bathhouse. The men
might be old and creepy. His visit might get back to his family. The list
went on, but they were just excuses, soon cast aside in favor of discovering
what he’d been missing.

Nineteen, almost twenty, and still a virgin. He had little experience with
sex. Educated at authoritarian male boarding schools, there wasn’t
much time for fooling around. Lessons started early and finished late, and
afterwards the boys were kept busy with homework, sports, and dinner until
bedtime. Still, he’d witnessed a few incidents. He’d seen one
boy sucking another’s penis in the bathroom. At the time, Reed had
been appalled, but titillated as well. He pictured himself on his knees,
forced to suck another boy’s cock, and longed for the reality, but no
opportunity presented itself.

In college, Reed felt the inexplicable draw of chemistry, but only toward
other men. To his family he presented a picture of heterosexual
“normalcy” but in fact, he took to visiting a bar where gay men
hung out. He engaged in several hurried blowjobs in the bathroom, but
nothing more. One of his nameless encounters told him about the bathhouse.
Bathhouses had once been a rite of passage for gay men, but many had closed
through the years. Somehow, this one had survived and Reed was determined to
take advantage of whatever it had to offer.

The taxi deposited Reed in a downtown Frisco area known for muggings. Many
of the buildings were abandoned and there were no signs or addresses.
Confused, Reed questioned the driver. The man pointed down an alley and held
out his hand for the fare.

A few working streetlights cast eerie shadows as Reed entered the back
street. He felt uneasy, but the sense of danger excited him as well.
He’d always been tempted by the forbidden.

A sudden downpour pelted Reed with stinging drops. He picked up his pace,
ignoring the beer cans and fast food containers underfoot, and spotted a
heavy wooden door with a small sign affixed to it that read Rock Hard Gym.
Relieved, Reed pushed the door open and entered a small foyer.

A young man sat behind a window. He scrutinized Reed carefully before
selling him a membership. “Do you want a locker or a private
room?”

“A locker. I don’t know how long I’ll stay.”

“Fifteen for the membership. Five for the locker.”

Reed exchanged a twenty-dollar bill for an ID card, a white towel and a
plastic wristband with a locker key.

“There are condoms and lube in the locker room.” The clerk
buzzed Reed through another door.

The heady scent of sex intoxicated him. He didn’t care that the
floors were old and slippery with water and body fluids. The lockers were
rusty and the walls badly in need of paint, but Reed couldn’t see past
the naked male bodies.

Men stood, sat, and lingered in stages of undress, manspreading on changing
benches, tiny towels intentionally parted. Reed found it hard to look away
from the smorgasbord of flesh so openly exposed.

While searching for his locker, he became aware of the lingering looks he
attracted, but none of the men appealed to Reed, not even in the dim
lighting. He wanted to explore and he made quick work of undressing.

Wrapping the towel around his hips, Reed left the locker room. There was a
gym, small and ill equipped, but a gym nonetheless. Reed bypassed it.
Straight ahead he encountered an area where men of all ages and sizes, naked
except for their towels, stood around and watched gay porn. He watched the
film for a few minutes, then he moved on, entering a series of corridors
where men prowled the hallways looking for acceptable partners.

He passed door after door, some closed, many open. Grunts echoed from the
shadows. Reed caught glimpses of men grinding and thrusting. Moans filled
his ears. Hushed words, frightening and thrilling. Blood rushed to
Reed’s dick. It was electrifying to be surrounded by so much
sex.

Reed stepped around men who didn’t care about getting a room. Heart
pounding, he watched them giving blowjobs or having anal sex in the hall. A
few invited him to join in, but he wasn’t ready — yet.

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Gale Stanley grew up in Philadelphia PA. She was the kid who always had her
nose in a book, her head in the clouds, and her hands on a pad and
pencil.

Some things never change.

 

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#BlogTour Coffee at the Beach House Hotel By Judith Keim #bookpromotion #bookblitz @rabtbooktours

Contemporary Romantic Women’s Fiction

  Date Published: June 27, 2023

   

  Ann and Rhonda continue to deal with guests at The Beach House Hotel on the

    Gulf Coast of Florida, including Bobby “Bugs” Bailey, a star

    player in the NFL. At the Vice-President’s suggestion, Bobby’s

    coach has sent him there to work to help adjust his behavior after

    Bobby’s life of fame gets out of control. There’s no one better

    to handle someone like that then soft-spoken Ann and outrageous Rhonda, who

    declares it’s time for Bobby to wake up and smell the coffee.

  Tina Marks, the movie star Ann and Rhonda helped earlier, arrives with her

    two children and, Sydney Harris, her nanny who Tina has taken in after a bad

    family situation.

   

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Dream Dancer

Kerrion Empire Book 1

by Janet Morris

Genre: Epic SciFi Fantasy Adventure

The universe called. She answered.

Everything you’ve seen or read till now took you only to the brink . . .

Neither pure fantasy, nor straight science fiction, nor earthbound dynastic saga, Dream Dancer is a stunning amalgam of all three. It is a family saga with the epic appeal of Dune and the action and excitement of Star Wars. It is a saga of love, power and treachery that will appeal to men and women equally; full of action, compulsively readable and quite unlike anything being published in the realms of fantasy today.

The heroine, Shebat, is a remarkable girl from Earth. She is brought to the vast empire of the Kerrion family by a renegade son; named as its future ruler on a whim of his autocratic father; abducted to the slums where the Kerrions’ slaves drug themselves with powerful mystical sorcery; and finally rescued to take part in a great rebellion. She falls in love with one brother but marries another and becomes more Kerrion than some born to the name. A magical seductress of men, passionate in her lust for power, Shebat moves among those who control the destinies of millions, for whom treachery and betrayal are as easy as murder. Set in the timeless future on a primitive, savage Earth and on the sophisticated habitats of deep space, Dream Dancer is the first volume of a three-part saga.

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Best selling author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. She wrote the bestselling Silistra Quartet in the 1970s, including High Couch of Silistra, The Golden Sword, Wind from the Abyss, and The Carnelian Throne. This quartet had more than four million copies in Bantam print alone, and was translated into German, French, Italian, Russian and other languages. In the 1980s, Baen Books released a second edition of this landmark series. The third edition is the Author’s Cut edition, newly revised by the author for Perseid Press. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.

Janet says: ‘People often ask what book to read first. I recommend “I, the Sun” if you like ancient history; “The Sacred Band,” a novel, if you like heroic fantasy; “Lawyers in Hell” if you like historical fantasy set in hell; “Outpassage” if you like hard science fiction; “High Couch of Silistra” if you like far-future dystopian or philosophical novels. I am most enthusiastic about the definitive Perseid Press Author’s Cut editions, which I revised and expanded.’

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Date Published: March 13, 2023

Publisher: MindStir Media

 

This wonderful rhyming story about two little girls born as twins and the
magic of that special bond and their magnetic love that lasts forever.
Whether together or apart, they can see, sense, and feel each other’s
feelings hardwired to their hearts. The colorful illustrations bring a
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