A Colloquy on Books

This review was requested by the author. After Cain is banished from Eden and goes to the east to live in Nod, that is the last time Nod is mentioned in the Bible. Where is Nod? Where did the people who inhabit it come from? What did Cain do there? Lailah, Cain’s wife, tells the story of Nod from it’s genesis all the way to Cain joining them. Lailah is the first person to meet Cain outside of his family and her perspective will shed new light on the story of Cain and Abel like never before. When I was approached by J.M Stephen asking me to read this book, I was a little worried that this book would deal heavily with religion given that it features characters from the Bible. Thankfully Nod does not deal with religion a great deal but someone who knows nothing about the topic will likely be confused. I would have been confused by this book too, if I hadn’t read East of Eden in high school. Anyone who is familiar with the basic story of Adam and Eve as well as the story of Cain and Abel s...

This review was requested by the author. Tessa was just a regular girl living her normal life until the government took her away from her family at the age of fourteen. They took her and trained her mind and her gifts, honing her into a blade. She can look into other people’s minds. When a critical mission requires the best of the best, Tessa is called in. In order for Tessa to complete the mission, she will have to use her cultivated gifts like never before. Her loyalty to the service and her loyalty to the young woman that she has fallen in love with will be put to the test. The government turned her into the best but now will they be able to stop her from doing what she wants? When the author of this book contacted me and asked if I would be willing to review this book, I was excited. Once I read the blurb of the book, I was even more excited because this kind of sci-fi story is right up my alley. It sounded like Breaking Sky but with mind-reading which meant that I had to get my h...