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Review requests are now closed until November 15th, 2014. Thanks for your patience!

Hi I'm Laura and I run www.blueeyebooks.blogspot.com! I almost any book as long as it isn't non-fiction. I accept R&R requests. If you have an interest in having me review your book, email me at lauraew333@gmail.com. You as the author get to decide if you'd like to do an interview to go with the review.

In my reviews I include:
-the book cover
-Blurb (from GR or the author can provide one)
-Links to GR, Amazon, Book Depository, and Barnes and Noble (the author can request another link)
-a review of the book (I block off things that are spoilery)
-a final verdict section J(a non-spoilery summary of what I thought)
-Any favorite quotes (the author can submit quotes if they want a certain one displayed)
-A quote that embodies the book or displays the message the best in my opinion

Here is a recent review I posted of The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King - http://blueeyebooks.blogspot.com/2014... (see the pictures and different colors with this link - the words are down below)



Amazon Goodreads Book Depository

Goodreads Blurb:
"In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has been the same since. More than twenty years later, the quest for the Dark Tower continues to take readers on a wildly epic ride. Through parallel worlds and across time, Roland must brave desolate wastelands and endless deserts, drifting into the unimaginable and the familiar. A classic tale of colossal scope—crossing over terrain from The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, The Talisman, Black House, Hearts in Atlantis, ’Salem’s Lot, and other familiar King haunts—the adventure takes hold with the turn of each page.

And the tower awaits....

The Second Volume in the Epic Dark Tower Series…

The Drawing of the Three

While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland is drawn through a mysterious door that brings him into contemporary America.

Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism."


Review:
After reading the Gunslinger, I was anticipating a deep read loaded with metaphors and all that. I wasn't disappointed! Stephen King put so much effort into his world to perfect every aspect and backwards reasoning line. I just love being inside the gunslinger's mind - he draws conclusions that seem obvious to him that I never see coming. It's quite humbling.

I liked The Drawing of the Three a lot more than The Gunslinger mostly because the way the two world's interacted was explored more and explained more as well. In The Gunslinger, I was confused with that whole thing. Going hand in hand with that, this book was so much easier to understand than The Gunslinger. It was more thorough and all of the gunslinger's conclusions were explained. It made it so much more enjoyable.

I also loved being able to see what others thought of the gunslinger. Up until this point, it's all been the gunslinger's POV but in this book, we get to see what The Three think of him. Speaking of which, I loved the whole idea of The Three and the doorways. And how the person's 'name' tied in with their character. It was all just so beautifully put together!

This wasn't an easy read for me. Sometimes it dragged and I often found myself checking to see how many pages I had left. It was good, but sometimes the stretches between the action scenes and suspense scenes were a bit much.

The Final Verdict:
A very well thought out and well explained read full of metaphors and the like. Sometimes it dragged but for the most part, I enjoyed it!
4 stars


Quotes:
“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.”


“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....”


“He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.”


“We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.”


“Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.”


“Where you think I’m goan?’
‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.”


“The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!”


“Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.”


“He walked out of nowhere toward nowhere, a man from another time who, it seemed, had reached a point of pointless ending.”

I would love to have you review my books and I am always open to doing an interview. What I information do you need from me in the email?

Rustin wrote: "I would love to have you review my books and I am always open to doing an interview. What I information do you need from me in the email?"

Hi Rustin!
I would need a copy of the book (any format works but mobi is preferred), if you want the review posted on Amazon, GR, or just my blog (or all of them), whether or not you'd like an interview (I know you mentioned that you'd like to do one but I'd appreciate it if you put it in the email as well - that way I keep things organized!), and if you have any time requests (when the post goes up). I usually post reviews to GR before they go live on my blog (I schedule around a week in advance) but I don't post interviews to GR.

Hi Laura,

I sent an email regarding the same, but it may have gone in your spam folder.

Thanks!
Chrystal

Hi Chrystal!
I just looked and I got it! I'm in the process of organizing all of my posts but I'll let you know within the next few days when I get my schedules all nailed down :)

Thanks Laura, sounds great!

Hi Laura. I just sent you an email for a review request. Thanks for your consideration. C.J. Anaya

C.J. wrote: "Hi Laura. I just sent you an email for a review request. Thanks for your consideration. C.J. Anaya"

Thanks C.J.!

Hi Laura, email was just sent. Let me know if you need anything else.

Rustin wrote: "Hi Laura, email was just sent. Let me know if you need anything else."

Thanks Rustin!

Hi Laura,

I just sent you an email to request a review.
Thanks for your offer!

-- H.S.

H.S. wrote: "Hi Laura,

I just sent you an email to request a review.
Thanks for your offer!

-- H.S."

Thanks H.S.! I'll get back to you in the next few days!

Hi Laura! I just sent you an email for a book review request! Thanks for the consideration!
~Katie

Katie wrote: "Hi Laura! I just sent you an email for a book review request! Thanks for the consideration!
~Katie"

Thanks Katie!

Hey everyone! I'm hosting a giveaway on my blog for H.S. Stone's Keep Your Enemies Close!

Excerpt from my review:
"A very interesting book with an old concept turned on it’s head. I loved reading about both Jonathan and Lia’s pasts and was quite happy when they didn’t immediately have a ‘connection’. I also loved learning about the different lifestyles and Standard Protocol. I am a bit shifty on how similar both races seemed although not having little green people for aliens is definitely a good thing in my book.
4.5 stars"

The giveaway ends on February 6th (Friday) and is International!

Read the rest of my review and enter the giveaway here!

http://blueeyebooks.blogspot.com/2015...

Laura are you taking new submissions?

eBook wrote: "Laura are you taking new submissions?"

They are closed for the moment but will be open again on the 15th of February!

I've emailed you! Thanks so much

Laura. We spoke extensively and I never heard back about whether you did the final review on "Warzone: Nemesis." I understood you were in the middle of website issues, and it may have 'fallen between the cracks.'

Best regards, Morris

Morris wrote: "Laura. We spoke extensively and I never heard back about whether you did the final review on "Warzone: Nemesis." I understood you were in the middle of website issues, and it may have 'fallen betwe..."

Hi Morris. I am so sorry about that. I've had a sort of technological failure (I have no idea what it is with me and electronics...). My computers hard drive was wiped and my kindle randomly stopped working. Please don't think this is any excuse and you're right - things did get crazy (and still are). I am, in fact, working on the final review along with a bunch of others. Rest assured, it will get to you within the next two weeks! Thank you so much for your patience and I am truly sorry.

Krystine wrote: "I've emailed you! Thanks so much"

I got it Krystine!

Thank you, Laura. Are you also intending on posting your review on Amazon as well?

Oh, BTW. This may be of some curiosity to you. I am spending this year breaking from my own writings, to editing and restoring old classics in the public domain, and offering them free of course, in both eBook, epub and PDF. My first project was the 1917 original copy of "The Curse of Capistrano: The Mark of Zorro," available for free download off my website. I am wrapping up my production of Jack London's, "The Sea Wolf" this week. I expect I will restore and offer back in the public domain at least 5 classic books this year. My next project will be "White Fang" or "Call of the Wild."

my site is http://www.morrisegraham.com

Best regards, Morris

Yes I am!

I'll check it out! I haven't really read all that many classics aside from the really popular ones like Brave New World, 1984, The Iliad, and The Great Gatsby.

Looks like I had better check my classic projects out more carefully. I was drawn to "The Sea Wolf" because it was a very detailed and richly descriptive sea tale, and I love old sailing ships. Something in the back of my mind about what the book was trying to say kept bugging me. Then I remembered Jack London was an atheist and a strong advocate for the socialist party politics in California. The it hit me...this book was a "preach piece" for London's secular humanists philosophies. I have decided to withdraw from finishing this project and will carefully consider what I intend to restore and edit in the future. But be assured, I intend to edit approximately 5 classic pieces this year.

Best regards, Morris

I'm excited to read more diverse classics! Do the ones you love: it's more interesting that way!

Thank you. I will shop around. I think maybe "The Count of Monte Cristo" will be my next work. Did you check out The Zorro work on my site? One of the things I am going to add to all of my restorations is a Glossary of terms in the back. Will keep you posted.

Morris

I'm just about to! Thanks!

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