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    The Q Review: Kittentits by Holly Wilson

    Imagine, if you will, that James Joyce and Hunter S. Thompson had a love child, and that it was a girl, and that she was living in 1992, keeping a diary, and also, she had a personal vendetta against punctuation. I learned about this book from my fellow author and friend, Roanna Flowers, during a conversation we were having about book cover design. She said she hadn’t read Kittentits yet, but she saw the cover and wanted it on a T-shirt. When I looked it up, I immediately concurred, then hopped onto my Libby app and found, to my great…

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    The Q Review: Fireflies and Zeroes by Liz Larson

    I found Fireflies and Zeroes by Liz Larson on Reedsy Discover. Since I like a good mystery/thriller, and I love music, a novel about one member of a popular pop-punk band disappearing just as they were about to make a comeback seemed like just the ticket. I’ll start with what I loved about this novel. First, Larson’s writing is technically very good. Tight, fluid, and easy to follow. I threw this thing back in just three days of light reading. Additionally, her character development is aces. I quickly got to know and care about all the characters in this book.…

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    The Q Review: The Line of Tepes (Book 1) by E.A. Williams

    I’ll start this review by saying that I am decidedly not a reader of vampire stories. Prior to this, I’ve read one vampire book, and only out of morbid curiosity. It’s not that I think books about vampires are universally bad – they’re just not my thing. But I know E.A. Williams, have interviewed her for a podcast, and have read a short story of hers (which I loved!) that was included in the Mixed Bag of Tricks anthology. So, I fired up the Kindle and got to reading this first installment of The Line of Tepes trilogy. The story…

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    The Q Review: Beneath a Sun Deprived Sky by Kara Lenore

    When I was young, science fiction was my favorite genre. When done well, this genre blends the reality of our humanity with places and things that stretch our imagination, making the (currently) impossible seem viscerally real. It’s been years – decades – since I’ve read anything that might qualify as science fiction. But Kara Lenore is an author in a co-op of Texas writers I belong to, and when she announced the launch of her debut novel, I decided now was the right time to get back to it. Beneath a Sun-Deprived Sky (Murasaki Press) takes place on another world…