Charming Selene by Dee King

Title: Charming Selene

Author: Dee King

Series: The Charming Series

Genre: Fantasy

Publisher:

My Rating: 1 Star

The writing in this book is pretty terrible, and so is the story. I'm not big into dumb romance stories where all the characters care about is hooking up with someone they are obsessed with, but since this book was free on Amazon for a few days, I decided I'd give it a try.

Honestly, Dee King desperately needs an editor. A better one, anyway. The issue might partially be because of how Kindle books are formatted, but the grammar, punctuation, and writing style are horrendous. The story could probabaly be enjoyable if it was written better, but all I can do while reading it is mentally rewrite it and pretend someday I will get the privilege of editing.

Selene is obsessed  with Alex. And she hates Sebastian. But then she agrees to go to Sebastian's house for the party he is hosting and doesn't seem to care much when Alex starts paying attention to her.

Then at the party, things get really weird, and Selene think she has been drugged. Alex, Sebastian, and Cali keep telling her things that don't make sense - things about her being some sort of goddess or "migades." I don't know what that is supposed to mean, but since this is a fantasy novel, I assumed that it would be made at least somewhat clean soon, since it seems to be a huge part of the story. But it's not. The connection or distinction between gods/goddesses and whatever this "migades" thing is has not been explained, though Mount Olympus was mentioned. Since I didn't recognize the term "migades" from my brie studies of Greek Mythology, I looked up the word. But "migades" is apparently not even a word anywhere on the internet.

I don't want to stop reading this book because Dee King is an independent author and I want to support her, but I don't know if I can force myself through the rest of it...

Deep Time by Trevor Baxendale

Title: Deep Time

Author: Trevor Baxendale

Genre: Science Fiction

Publisher: Broadway

My Rating: 4 Stars

I love how I can hear the voices of the Doctor and Clara while I am reading because they are such well defined characters with the connection to the show.

This story would make a truly frightening episode in the series, seeing how many characters died in horrific ways. (Moffat, make this into an episode instead of all the dumb stories you're making now...)

You have probably gotten the impression that I have some issues with the writing of the recent episodes in the series, and I think that has some influence on the writing of this book. The Doctor seems to no longer care about saving people as much as he did in the past, and doesn't even always care about himself. In this novel, when the clone, Jem, is suffering from her mental connection to the space ship, the Doctor does not seem to care that she is in pain and close to dying, and instead her keeps her connected for much longer than she is comfortable with, hoping to get information from her.

I don't understand why the Doctor has suddenly changed to this attitude. I know people have said that it's because he is older and more like the original incarnation of the Doctor, but going with the story line...he should be the happiest Doctor, considering he just found out that his planet and his people hadn't been destroyed after all!

Anyway...back to the book. I think it was written very well, despite all my complaints about how the Doctor's character is now portrayed. The story was exciting and I enjoyed reading it. I do wish that the characters had been more developed, however. It would have made their death scenes much more devastating and meaningful if we had a connection to them, or at least we saw their own connections to each other more drawn out. Overall, when the the book was over, I liked it much better than I thought I would.

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**I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.