Book Review: Dead Medium

Book: Dead Medium
By: Peter John
Genre: Fantasy

I got a copy of this on my Kindle for Christmas, and very happy as I'd been waiting for a chance to get it. This book was worth the wait. There were a few typos but nothing glaring enough to knock any points off. Formatting was good, the plot was meaty, it wasn't too fast or too slow. I was very pleased by how rounded all of the characters where and delighted to find out how May Trump was connected to Chloe. I'm glad that we don't learn it until the end of the book. I also adored the bit of an epilogue done from the POV of Mr Kibbles, which revealed why no one else ever saw her cat. I highly recommend this book.

Book Review: On Writing

 Book: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

Genre: Memoir/How to

 

I found this to be very helpful and inspirational. Particularly helpful to me is his recounting of how think his rejection stack was when younger and what, to him, writing is about. I rarely dog-ear books and have been known to hiss about it. This one is temporarily dogeared until I can get some tabs made for sections that I will be referencing often. This is part memoir, part off-the-cuff advice, part glimpse into one writer's process, part inspiration fodder, part reminder that writers are people too.