{"id":4775,"date":"2015-03-19T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2015-03-19T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T04:18:12","slug":"hellfire-damnation-iii-by-connie-corcoran-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=4775","title":{"rendered":"Hellfire & Damnation III by Connie Corcoran Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: <\/strong>Hellfire & Damnation III<\/em>
\nAuthor: <\/strong>Connie Corcoran Wilson<\/a>
\nPublisher: <\/strong>Quad Cities’ Press
\nSource: <\/strong>The author in exchange for an honest review<\/p>\n

\"Hellfire<\/a><\/p>\n

As evidenced by the title, this\u00c2\u00a0book is the third short story collection in the Hellfire and Damnation series by Connie Corcoran Wilson. The unifying theme for the series\u00c2\u00a0is Dante’s nine circles of hell. It’s been a while since I had a chance to read a short story collection and this was a nice change of pace.<\/p>\n

The not so good: A few of the stories have abrupt endings as though the author was trying to stay within a word goal. At least one seemed to have excessive\u00c2\u00a0repetitiveness which\u00c2\u00a0kept jarring\u00c2\u00a0me out of the story.<\/p>\n

The good: The stories have an element of reality or truth as the starting point. This will give the reader a slight chill of recognition. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a fan of gore and this was perfect to read during my lunch hour. These stories aren’t overly long but aren’t too short either. The characters are varied in ages, backgrounds and circumstances. Some short story collections suffer from similar stories and each has enough differences to set them apart. I’m willing to read more by this author.<\/p>\n

Thank you to the author and Virtual Author Book Tours for arranging this stop on the book tour. Tomorrow’s tour\u00c2\u00a0stop is at Lisa’s Writopia<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0which will include her own thoughts on this short story collection.<\/p>\n

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About The Author<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Award winning author, Connie (Corcoran) Wilson (MS + 30) graduated from the University of Iowa and Western Illinois University, with additional study at Northern Illinois, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. She taught writing at six Iowa\/Illinois colleges and has written for five newspapers and seven blogs, including Yahoo, which named her its 2008 Content Producer of the Year. She is a member of ITW (International Thriller Writers), where she is a writer for their online newsletter, and a member of IWPA (Illinois Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Press Association, Chicago chapter), which awarded her its Silver Feather Award in 2012 and 2014, MWA (Midwest Writers Association), AWP (American Writing Program) and MWC (Midwest Writing Center), which named her its Writer of the Year in 2010. She has won numerous E-Lit awards, a NABE Pinnacle award, an ALMA (American Literary Merit Award), Lucky Cinda competition and two IWPA Silver Feather Awards (2012, 2014). Connie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third book in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Color of Evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d series, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKhaki=Killer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was just named a Page-turner of the Year 2014 by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shelf Unbound\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Digest magazine in its December\/January 2014-2015 issue!<\/p>\n

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