#ShareAReviewDay – Hunting Mariah by Janice Spina

/ Marcia Meara

This afternoon I’d like to welcome Janice Spina, who is sharing a review of her novel, Hunting Mariah. Hope you enjoy this one, and will share it with the Immediate World. Thanks!

REVIEW:

4.0 out of 5 stars Riveting & Fast-Paced Thriller!
By Annika on 23 April 2018  

Hunting Mariah is a riveting and relentless novel that had me hooked from the very beginning. A serial ‘school killer’ is on the loose and the book begins with the gruesome details of his first victim and her death … and his particular macabre desire to mark them.

Whilst the author successfully albeit uncomfortable reaches inside the killer’s mind, the book’s main narrative centres on the young woman Mariah and for an unknown reason she is key to the killings.

For a large portion of the book, Mariah finds herself in a health facility and with the help of Dr. Roberts is gradually recalling the details that led to her admission. Her amnesia is slowly and tantalisingly broken and the book is mainly told through her recollections of the past, as well as through immediate events surrounding the doctor and her school counsellor Tony, whom she has fallen in love with. Whenever solid foundations seem to have been laid, they are shaken up and no one is quite who they seem!

This fast-paced novel is darkly sinister and menacing, at times macabrely violent. The intensity is balanced by the gentle awakenings of Mariah’s memory, her sweetness and innocence and the protective and loving support around her.

BLURB:

An insane killer, obsessed with blood and death, seeks revenge with those he perceives wronged him. He is now on the loose. His next victim may be Mariah. During his rampages he writes macabre poems for his victims.

Mariah has lost her memory. Will she remember what has transpired in her past? Can Mariah escape the deadly killer’s grasp? Will she finally be safe? Will the killer be apprehended?


Author Janice Spina

Janice Spina aka J.E. Spina is an award-winning author with twenty published books ranging from infants to adults and in multi-genres. She has been writing since the age of nine. Janice always dreamed of being an author but did not realize this dream until after she retired from an administrative secretarial position in a public school system in Massachusetts.

In 2013 she published two children’s books, followed by three more children’s books and one novel in 2014, two children’s books, and two middle-grade/preteen detective books 1 & 2 in 2015 and one novel, a children’s book, and Book 3 and 4 of her MG/PT series in 2016 and a short story collection, children’s book and a MG/PT detective series book 5 in 2017, and two children’s books and the sequel to her first novel were published in 2018. She is working on a MG/PT/YA mystery series for girls that will be published in the summer of 2018. Her husband, John, illustrator and cover creator, is working on illustrations for Janice’s first fairy tale which she hopes to publish later in 2018. A YA fantasy needs to be edited and will be published as a series in 2019 and beyond.

Janice submitted an article to an anthology collection by author Kristina Stanley and published a short story in The Writers Newsletter. Janice’s books have won a total of eleven book awards – seven Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, one Mom’s Choice Awards, two Reader’s Favorite Book Awards an Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal, and a Silver Medal from Authorsdb Cover Contest.

Her goal is to write for all ages and encourage children to read which will cultivate a love of reading and carry them throughout their lives.

Janice’s motto is Reading Can Give You Wings to Fly. Soar with Jemsbooks.com. Her logo is Jemsbooks – Books for all ages. Her husband, John, illustrates all her children’s books and creates the covers for all her books.

Janice plans to write more children’s books, middle-grade, young adult fantasy and novels over the next few years. As the author says, “There is always another story running around in my head just waiting to be written down.”

Janice’s hobbies are crocheting, exercising (walking, hula hooping to keep in shape), and reading, reviewing books, blogging, traveling, going out to the movies and dinner with her husband, and spending time with her five grandchildren who are her inspiration to write.

Buy Hunting Mariah HERE

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50 thoughts on “#ShareAReviewDay – Hunting Mariah by Janice Spina”

  12. Fascinating – all the books Janet has written, and her wish to write for all ages. Children’s books to this latest adult book, which sounds very “adult” with such a sinister character. All that – and hula hooping. Great fun.

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  16. Well, you had me intrigued from the moment I saw the 4* review. You have 5* reviews and so it was fascinating to see you pick a lesser rated one. I’m greatly tempted to add this to my TBR pile (which is now taller than I am) but in the meantime I’ll recommend it to my adult daughters who have pretty much the same tastes as me. I’ll keep the details and promise to read it when I can. (I’m also interested in your children’s books and will have a browse through them, too.) Good to see a face and bio to go with the literature!
    Trish

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    • Thank you so much, Trish! I hope you and your daughters will enjoy it. I hope you enjoy my children’s books too! They have life lessons that encourage children to respect elders and each other, be kind to one another, accept differences, listen to your mother, and believe in yourself. 🤗

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