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Indie Books better than 50 Shades of Grey

OK, so some might not like the idea of grinding 50Shades into the dust, but there are better books out there and enterprising PD Allen has created 3 lists thus far on Amazon to prove it to you...and every book on these lists is well worth a read!

Here they are:

Part I: http://www.amazon.com/lm/RFXL25QK3NXQB

Part 2: http://www.amazon.com/lm/R172M2VR65IREC/

Part 3: http://www.amazon.com/lm/R356BP1SZQW2XG/

Take a look!

Adam's Calendar

The kind of history that serves to inspire!


Older than the Giza pyramids
Older than Stonehenge
A 75,000 year-old stone calendar - In the cradle of humankind.
A new discovery of an ancient circular monolithic stone calendar site in Mpumalanga has proven to be at least 75,000 years old, pre-dating any other structure found to date. Southern Africa holds some of the deepest mysteries in all of human history. What we are told is that at around 60,000 years ago the early humans migrated from Africa and populated the rest of the world.
Who were these first humans? What did they do? And where did they disappear to?
It estimated that there are over 100 000 ancient stone ruins scattered throughout the mountains of southern Africa. Artefacts that have been recovered from these ruins show a long and extended period of settlement that spans to over 200,000 years. The most spectacular examples of these ancient ruins are RIGHT HERE within walking distance. Modern historians have been speculating about the origins of these ruins, often calling them ‘cattle kraal of little historic importance’. The truth of the matter is that closer scientific inspection shows that we actually know very little about these spectacular ancient ruins. It is a great tragedy that thousands have already been destroyed through sheer ignorance but forestry and farmers have now started to protect these ruin. Adam’s Calendar is the flagship among these ruins because we can date this monolithic calendar with relative certainty to at least 75,000 years of age based on a number of scientific evaluations. Adam’s Calendar also presents the first tangible evidence of consciousness among the earliest humans in the ‘Cradle of humankind’. The site is built along the same longitudinal line as Great Zimbabwe and the Great Pyramid. It is also aligned with the rise of Orion’s belt some 75,000 years ago.

This is possibly the only example of a functional, mostly in-tact monolithic stone calendar in the world.
The founder of Adam’s Calendar, Johan Heine, observes as the shadow of the setting sun on the summer solstice
21 Dec. As the sun sets the shadow slides off the edge – only to resume its path back to the opposite edge where it stops on the winter solstice, 21 June.

The most constant of friends...

True.

Zauran by Poppet (review!)

Zauran by Poppet

Ok, so I started reading Zauran…and then life got in the way. This weekend I sat down and read it from the start in two sittings- an early morning shift, and the rest later at night. Folks, you have to read it as a piece, because Zauran is a mile-a-minute tale! Fast-paced with action and laced with astonishing eroticism- you will find, like me, you can’t stop reading. But, to place the cherry on top of an adventure of a read, Zauran also contains supernatural stuff that will blow your mind, and if you haven’t yet read the first two books in the Pravus Series, reading Zauaran will make you go back to discover what you missed…and it will force you ahead into the Neuri Series to discover what comes next.

Don’t miss out!

Zauran available here

Beautiful Bridges

On reading

On writing

Something Seen: Ireland

The Emerald Isle: beautiful!

Something Seen: Stick shapes

The Black Cat Analogy

Murderers Sky : Review

PD Allen's Murderers Sky

Murderers Sky begins innocuously enough- a priest summoned to a mother’s home, the local sheriff giving him a ride- but all is not as it seems. Overhead the sky is sickly and ominous and there are rumours of a terrible massacre out in the desert.

We come to know this priest with the soul of a musician and we travel with the sheriff into the jaws of hell. We meet a mother trying to help her challenged son- a boy who paints prophetic images of doom. We follow two boys who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnesses to terrible atrocity. We meet a woman about to give birth, the only survivor of a holocaust.

And then there are those with ulterior motives. Drug smugglers and people peddlers, soldiers without conscience, and their leader, a creature from the darkness. And the first inkling of what and who caused the changes to the atmosphere comes to the fore; this is long-term manipulation. And what, pray, is up at that church raising a safe house?

Every character is well-rounded and the tale flows with ease, holding the intense interest of this reader.  Woven into and throughout is the ages-old struggle between what is good and what is evil- an enlightening experience in this silent, hot and dry context.  A well-structure tale; PD Allen is a born storyteller.

I recommend Murderers Sky to anyone who enjoys depth in characters, a strange adventure, science and the supernatural- these factors are cleverly woven to form a tapestry that appears normal…yet isn’t. My only gripe is that Murderers Sky ended too soon! But the stage is set, and we know our characters now…and I cannot wait to read the next volume:  Dæmon Sky. May it be soon.

Available here

Grab your copy! A 5-star read!