Eclectic Unicorn's Book Reviews

  Forbidden: A Red Riding Hood Retelling by Adrienne Woods Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance This is not The Little Red Riding Hood we grew up with.  Supernatural races—vampires, werewolves, witches, you name it—all exist. Eighteen-year-old Rue Chaperon and her family belong to an elite hunting society, the S.H.A—Supernatural Hunting Association—and what the Chaperons hunt best are werewolves. When a new hunting group convinces the Chaperons to team up with them and try a different approach to hunting the supernatural by taking out the Alpha, it sounded like a great idea. Taking out the Alpha meant they'd eradicate the entire race. Piece of cake, right? But nothing is ever easy when you're a hunter. A Little Red Riding Hood retelling with a spin that will make you believe not all fairytales were meant for children. Add to Goodreads Amazon * Books2Read * Firequill Publishers Adrienne is a USA Today Bestselling author. She’s been in love with books all her life and knew at the...

If the writing genie comes to my door?   I'm sure that my hopes and dreams are all authors' hopes and dreams. So I think this might be a fun post to write. I don't think it's going to be a long one, but fun nevertheless. If the Writing Genie would come to my door, grant me three wishes for my writing career, what would I choose, and why? First of all, to make marketing super easy and super fun. Okay, it is fun most of the time. Still, it takes up a lot of time to thoroughly do marketing plans for all of your books. Let's face it. If we do not do marketing, nobody will know about the book that we had written. So that would be my first wish to make marketing easy. Hahaha, and less time-consuming. My second wish...to never run out of fantastic ideas. You need terrific ideas to write books, and sometimes I get one hell of an idea, but the story just doesn't want to come. I do not want that. I want fleshed out ideas and know what and how to write the story as it shou...

  Darkbeam Part I The Beam Series Book 2 by Adrienne Woods Genre: Dark Fantasy PLEASE NOTE THAT IT’S A DARK FANTASY AND NOT FOR YA Everyone in Paegeia knows that only one Rubicon dragon lives at a time. If more than one, they will destroy Paegeia and eventually the rest of the world as they crave that constant power for dominance. Blake Leaf is this era’s Rubicon, and is destined for great things if his darkness can be won. Darkbeam Part 1 follows the story of the Rubicon and how he tries to keep his beast, the darkness, at bay. Add to Goodreads Get it FREE from Firequill Publishing! Darkbeam Part II The Beam Series Book 3 Please note that this is not for YA Audience like the Dragonian Series Everyone knows the Rubicon is predestined for evil, and the alpha dragon does nothing to change their opinions of him. What they don't know is that he harbors a secret, a secret that can set him free, but also trap him forever. Refusing to give in to that which can lead him to a path of freedo...

  My first ever completed manuscript, how you felt about it then and now.   I started to get the idea of becoming a writer at 29. It was about eleven years ago. My mother told me that I was thirteen when I said to her that I want to become a writer. I completely forgot about that, and I kid you not when she asked me then what my surname was going to be, I told her Woods. It's incredible how things stuck in the back of our sub-conscience for so long and become part of our decisions when we make them. Jumping forward again to my twenty-nine-year-old self. Firebolt was my first completed manuscript. Although I didn't get an agent for it, I got a publisher. My experience with the said publisher was terrific at the beginning. Still, as the year progressed, it became a nightmare, but this is not what this blog post is about. My blog post is about my first manuscript, called Firebolt. It took me three years, yip, three whole years to write it. I've learned the most about...