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Cover Reveal: Tucker’s Time Machine Telescope by Robin Bennett

Posted on April 9, 2025 inCover Reveal

Today I am helping in the cover reveal for the children’s book Tucker’s Time Machine Telescope by Robin Bennett. This book is aimed for children ages 7-12 years old and is out May 4th!

Book Description:

Thomas Tucker (or just Tucker to everyone who knows him) is walking innocently down the street when he is attacked by a chicken and falls down a hole. Unlikely as it sounds, this is how he ends up finding the Time Machine Telescope.
Unfortunately, Tucker seems to attract chaos and bad luck the same way that someone standing on top of a mountain waving a metal pole will eventually attract lightning and a free Xray.Can he survive killer robots, Tudor kings, dinosaurs … and Kylo Hens long enough to complete his Time Machine Wish List?

  • GET RICH
  • HAVE FUN!
  • GET MUM AND DAD TO SPEND LESS TIME ON THEIR MOBILE PHONES

There’s only one way to find out…

 

 

 

Now….. What does the cover look like?????? Keep scrolling to find out!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here it is:

Pre-Order Your Copy here:
Amazon US
Amazon UK

About the Author:

When Robin grew up he thought he wanted to be a cavalry officer until everyone else realized that putting him in charge of a tank was a very bad idea. He then became an assistant gravedigger in London. After that he had a career frantically starting businesses (everything from dog-sitting to cigars, tuition to translation)… until finally settling down to write improbable stories to keep his children from killing each other on long car journeys.

Robin plays most sports. Poorly.

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ALC Review: Remote: The Six by Eric Rickstad

Posted on April 7, 2025 inReview

Remote: The Six
Series: Remote #1
Author: Eric Rickstad
Narrator: Ari Fliakos
To Be Published: April 8, 2025
Audiobook: 8 hours 34 minutes

Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: March 10-21, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars

Book Description:

A serial killer is rampaging across the country, tying families to chairs–arranged in puzzling tableaus–then murdering them, without leaving a trace of evidence.

FBI Special Agent Lukas Stark has been hunting the Tableau Killer for eighteen months but is always two steps behind in a maze of dead ends. He has no understanding of why the killer stages the scenes so meticulously or chooses entire families. Burning out, Stark is forced to take on a new partner, Gilles Garnier.

Garnier, an odd loner with a vague past, claims he’s a remote viewer who “sees” people, places, and events far away–remote–as if they’re right in front of him. Stark knows this sort. Cons. Wannabes desperate to worm their way onto a sensational case. Stark dismisses his new partner as a fraud … until Garnier precisely describes a new Tableau Killer crime scene from hundreds of miles away.

As Stark and Garnier track the Tableau Killer across the country, they start to believe they finally have the advantage. But Garnier’s ability to remote view fails him and leaves him ill and weak. Then Stark realizes how the killer has stayed ahead of them all this time. The reason is more terrifying than either man can fathom.

They face a killer who may be unstoppable, and stand at the abyss of a conspiracy so ominous, it shakes their reality to the core.

Jessica’s Review:

This novel is released tomorrow, and I am sharing my review with you today!

The Six is the first in the Remote Series with the second book scheduled to come out July 8th.  The Six is about a serial killer, the Tableau Killer, who graphically kills families. This is a dark and could be a disturbing book to some readers because the Tableau Killer does kill children. The Tableau Killer has been killing for eighteen months and Special Agent Stark grudgingly ends up with Gilles Garnier, a partner with a unique ability. And together Stark and Garnier track down and try to hunt down this killer before he tortures and kills another family.  All while uncovering many secrets.

Stark is our main character and he is a very flawed and unlikeable person. He has been working this case for sometime and is also estranged from his family. We see both Stark’s professional and personal lives. I was leery of Garnier for most of the book, but he did eventually grow on me.

The main story is solved with The Six, but the ending also leads into the second book in the series which as of now is scheduled to be released on July 8th. I might just be interested in continuing this series. Especially seeing that the narrator for The Six Ari Fliakos returns to narrate the second book in the series: The Five. I really enjoyed his narration, Fliakos definitely added to the ‘creepy factor’ of this novel for me!

The Six is my first novel by Rickstad, and I may find myself looking at what else he has written!

Pre-Order Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK 

 

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My March 2025 Reads

Posted on April 1, 2025 inMonthly Reads

It’s April 1st, so it is time to share what I read in March!  It was an ‘off’ month: I was on ‘staycation’, my stepfather passed away after years of being sick, and work has been chaotic! I listened to three audiobooks and read one on kindle, so I feel I accomplished something!

Here are the books in the order that I finished them:

Incidents Around the House– Josh Malerman- Audio- 4 stars
The Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride- Joe Siple- Kindle- 4 stars
Remote: The Six– Eric Rickstad- Audio- 4 stars
The Stranger in Her House– John Marrs- Audio- 4 stars

All of the books I read or listened to in March received 4 stars, and it was difficult, but I did pick a ‘favorite read’. I could not pick a ‘least favorite’ read.  My ‘favorite read’ was Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. It was just creepy, unique and I enjoyed the child’s perspective! The audiobook really helped to bring the novel to life!

What did YOU read in March?

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