Book Review: Melodies of Love

Book Description:

After her teenage romance with now popular music star, Aristar, ended in a disastrous heartbreak twelve years ago, Adaora finds herself thrust back into his life when her financial firm is employed to organise Aristar’s finances. She has a fortress built around her heart and finds it hard to trust. Can she forget the bitter past and allow love to find her once again, or is the past enough to shatter her dreams of happily ever after forever? Ikenna, one of Nigeria’s highest-paid musicians, is finally at the top of his game. He has fame, more money than he could ever dream of, and the life he has always wanted. He seems to have it all, but something is missing. In spite of all the women who persistently threw themselves at him, the one person he can't seem to forget is Adaora. He has manipulated events to bring her back into his life, but will he be able to convince her to give them another chance, or will the bitterness of the past destroy their chance at happiness?

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#FridayFeature: Meet The Author - Ufuomaee

Hello all,

It's Friday again, and today, for our #FridayFeature we get to meet the inspirational Ufuomaee.

Let's get to know her in 10 questions below.

1/ What’s your name (Pen name if different), and what does it mean?

My full name is Ufuoma Emerhor-Ashogbon. Ufuoma means Peace and Ufuomaee is just my name and initials before marriage. I also go by Ufuoma E-Ashogbon.

Same Cover... Different Books

Hi readers,

What do you think about two or several authors with the same book title? I love it, because authors are geniuses and can create completely different stories with same title.

Now how about book covers? It’s not an issue, but it doesn’t excite me like similar book titles.

So I was searching for books with a similar title to my short story “Finding Love” for book cover inspiration, then I came across the below by Sharon Cummin. I was surprised because I knew that I had seen the cover before.

It's the same cover image and font colours as "Don’t Call Me Baby" by Betty Byers. It was a book I read in 2014 (see review HERE); an amazing book and cover.

In fact, I was so in love with the book then that I thought the author may be paid a model that looks like her lead male character to take the picture, lol. I loved the cover and the story, and it was one of my best fun reads of the year.

Seeing the second book cover just reminded me that I have to not only be creative with my covers, but also never use photos of random people online, whether stock-free or not.

They are being sold to anyone, so chances are that a lot of covers or ads or flyers would have the same look. After promising myself never to use book cover templates, I went ahead and used one from Canva. I never go to Canva for templates, but the first time I did, I saw 50% of the book cover templates from authors on Okadabooks, and it got me worried. I've put up a couple of them here. "Cheat" is a romance novel and "Malice and the god of many faces" is supernatural. I wonder why the use of a lobster as the cover image. That's a lobster, right?

Some of the storylines/genres of two authors using the same book cover template are different, so I wonder why they use the same style for the cover. Could it be that they just want something nice for the cover to attract readers, or do the covers actually relate to the story? I don't know.

The cover template I took from Canva is for my upcoming book titled "Like Never Before," and I’m sure that more than 100 other people have access to it, but the cover was so lovely and was perfect for the genre and storyline. I changed the font style at least, but never again.

Generally, I do get images or objects online, but I manipulate and use them to create something different, just to be unique. I saw a few other books with similar cover, and then the highlight of them all, as below:

#FridayFeature: Meet The Author - Karo Oforofuo

Hello all,

It's FriYay (just in case, Friday and Yay), so we get to meet another author today for our #FridayFeature... it's none other than the interesting Karo Oforofuo.

Let's get to know her in 10 questions below.

1/ What’s your name (Pen name if different), and what does it mean?

My name is Oghenekaro Oforofuo. But Karo for short. Oghenekaro means God first. Oghene - God. Karo - First, while Oforofuo means - thoroughly Clean. I don't have a pen name.

Book Review: Hers To Tell

Book Description:

Born with OCA1b, Cara Ella Smith couldn't be more different from her sisters. The need to move far away from family lands her in Miami, where she becomes a writer. Her first novel indirectly aids Detective Abram Jonah in the arrest of a vile human being, and she becomes a target as a result. On the day of her 8th book signing event, she is almost run down by a vehicle, which she narrowly avoids because she is pulled away from the road by a dashing hunk, Jet Meyer. There is a nagging fear that tugs at her. Jet is hiding something. He skillfully evades personal questions that Cara asks him. Cara is plagued with anxiety and nightmares from her near-death experience, but deep down, she knows that her distress has more to do with Jet than the incident.

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#FridayFeature: Meet The Author - Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Hello all,

You know what day it is already, so let me present today's lovely #FridayFeature author... Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku.

Let's get to know her in 10 questions below.

1/ What’s your name (Pen name if different), and what does it mean?

I don’t use a pen name. And my first name means star.

Short Story Preview: Not A Word

Hello readers,

I hope you all are doing great, and welcome to the beautiful month of March!

Since I have a lot of interesting short stories I have written over the years, some of which have been accumulating dust on my laptop, I decided to share some more while waiting for the 'something big' that's coming.

Not A Word - available on pre-order and to be released on 3/3/18

Unfortunately, this one isn't free, like the others, but you can get it for as low as 50 Naira from Okadabooks and 99 cents on other international platforms... I promise you it'll be worth it.

Short Story description:
Dare suspects his wife of cheating and seeks counsel from his friends for a solution. He comes up with a plan to catch her red-handed, but what he discovers is way more than he expected.

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I have also added a free preview below. Enjoy! Share! Comment! And please get a copy :)