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Demon Copperhead Book Review
The word that kept popping into my mind as I listened to this book was “relentless.” Demon Copperhead is the first-person narrator in this modern retelling of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield—itself a fictionalized telling of Dickens’ life.
A Psalm for the Wild Built
This Hugo Award-winning novella is a balm in an increasingly shrill world. This first in the Monk and Robot series…
Book Review: The Great Alone
The characters were rich and true to themselves (as frustrating as that was.) Alaska herself is a glorious character in all her brutal wildness and raw beauty…
Book Review: Selfie by Will Storr
The ancient Greeks obsessed over the idea of a perfect man (yes, always a man with the Greeks) who believed that fate was centered on the individual to the exclusion of other cultural forces (like, say, being a woman…
Book Review: Euphoria by Lily King
Beautifully written and sometimes jarring, this is a great read that challenges the reader to step out of the world as they know it…
The Lost City of the Monkey God A True Story
The Lost City of the Monkey God is a true adventure as gripping as fiction. In it, Preston recounts a 2015 expedition into the remote Mosquitia mountains of Honduras to find the legendary Ciudad Blanca—the White City, also known as the City of the Monkey God. In indigenous and local stories, Ciudad Blanca is the magnificent city where ancestors fled to escape Spanish invaders, and is now long-buried under tropical overgrowth.
About Kristine
Kristine Madera is a #1 bestselling Amazon author, novelist, hypnotherapist, and pro-topian with a passion for helping people better themselves and the world. Informed by global travel, teaching abroad, and a stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Kristine believes that everyone plays a part in imagining and creating our collective future.
Volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Calcutta inspired her novel, God in Drag. She birthed her upcoming novel, The Snakeman’s Wife, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Papua New Guinea.
Read the first chapter of God in Drag HERE
