Happy Bloggerversary to Me 2024

 

Thirteen years ago this month, I was *forced* to create a blog as part of the requirements for a class I was taking while working on my Master's of Library Science. Dr. Karin Perry was my professor then at Sam Houston State University, and she gets the credit (blame?) for opening the floodgates that resulted in my having a platform to share my opinions on the books I was *forced* to read, along with those that were read for pleasure. Quite often, the books were one and the same. (Check out my 2019 Lone Star Listens interview with Dr. Perry.)

Nine years ago today, on July 23, 2015, my first post published as a blogger for Lone Star Book Blog Tours. It was an author interview with Texas Author Lisa Wingate and promoting her then latest book, The Story Keeper.  Both our careers grew by leaps and bounds from there (hers not in any part due to my post, and mine having much to do with that post). 

It was in January of that next year that I was hired as the blog tour coordinator for LSBBT, and just a few short years later, I bought Lone Star Literary Life and let my bookish passion truly take flight. I poured all of my time and energy into LSLL, and I am proud of what I built there. But the irony was that despite my world being all about the books, I didn't have much time for blogging, and I didn't have the time to read unless I was reading with my ears. Good thing I adore audiobooks.  

And now, after nearly 1200 posts on my blog, I'm back where I started (minus studying for a degree) as a blogger, and it feels like the perfect place for me: retired-ish and slowly starting to just READ BOOKS and share by love for them with anyone interested. 

Happy Bloggerversary to me! 

Boone: A Deep Series Prequel ~ Audiobook Review

 

BOONE: A Deep Series Prequel

written and narrated

by NICK SULLIVAN

Publisher: Wild Yonder Press

Genre: Action-Adventure

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: May 27, 2024

HALL WAYS BLOG: AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: I absolutely loved getting the backstory of Boone from when he was a boy on up to meeting Em.  This prequel provides readers familiar with the books of The Deep Series not only a wider lens to Boone's life, but it adds more layers to his character and allows for a few ah-ha moments. 

While the story is interesting and well-narrated (as always) by the author, so any adventure lover can enjoy it, I think the value of BOONE is in what it provides for faithful series readers. I'd say this prequel works especially well any time after the 3rd or 4th installment. 

I am still behind by a novel or two on the series, but listening to the prequel has me ready to return to the sparkling waters, sparking romance, and spectacular adventures of The Deep Series novels, which I highly recommend. 

HALL WAYS BLOG'S OTHER REVIEWS OF BOOKS IN THIS SERIES:

Book One, Deep Shadow

Book Two, Deep Cut

Book Three, Deep Roots

Book Four, Deep Devil

Book Five, Deep Focus

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Born in East Tennessee, Nick Sullivan has spent most of his adult life as an actor in New York City, working in theater, television, film, and audio books. After recording hundreds of books over the last twenty years he decided to write his own. Decades of scuba diving and travel inspired the Caribbean Dive Adventures. The first book in this series, the best-selling Deep Shadow, is set in the island of Bonaire. Deep Cut picks up on the little Dutch island of Saba. For more information on this series, visit www.deepnovels.com

And for something completely different, visit zombiebigfoot.com to learn about his first novel, Zombie Bigfoot, which was #1 in Horror Comedy on Amazon.

Nick has been recording audiobooks since 1994 (starting on reel-to-reel) and has been listening to them even longer. He has narrated over four hundred fifty titles in nearly every genre.

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