Relentlessly paced and deftly plotted… Larsen’s gripping erotic suspense series blends an affecting coming of age tale with a twisty, heavy on foreshadowing plot that’s slick with scorching hot romance and teenage drama. In the first book in the series,… Read More ›
Month: October 2020
Redefining Normal by Justin Black, Alexis Black
Brutally honest, often sad… A courageous chronicle of abuse, recovery, and success. This absorbing account by two young authors who, as adolescents, entered state’s fostering system is a gutsy account of fragility, abuse, and redemption. With a childhood marred by… Read More ›
The Alternative History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by M.D. Missaiel
A sentimental but honest SF tale… Saul Brutus, a fossil fuel lobbyist, and Speaksall, his partner in the futuristic Greco-Roman world, take readers on an exhilarating journey in Missaiel’s assured and eloquent debut, which mixes history, time travel, and quantum… Read More ›
The Human Snare by Rick Wood
Splendid… Deeply stirring and elegiac. Wood combines stunningly shot photographs with his own odyssey of travelling around the globe to tell the story of world’s decimation of wildlife in this beautiful and devastating yet hopeful account. Wood began his journey… Read More ›
Book Endings – A Call Numbers novel: Loss, Pain, and Revelations (Call Numbers, #2) by Syntell Smith
Riveting and complex… wholly entertaining. Set in 1994, this dynamic, deeply engrossing second installment in Smith’s Call Numbers series continues with Robin Walker’s story as he struggles to find his own place in world while trying to cope with his… Read More ›
The Elixirist: A Novel by Avraham Azrieli
Utterly compelling… A sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike. The lands of ancient Israel supply the backdrop to Azrieli’s fascinating and deeply intriguing latest, which explores a young man’s path to self-discovery and enlightenment. Determined to win the… Read More ›
Beyond The Surface by Trisha Ridinger McKee
Emotionally intelligent and gripping… McKee’s this rich, moving, and thoroughly stunning novel is a forceful and resonant portrayal of a woman who must face the demons from her own past to better her present and future. The seemingly content life… Read More ›
The Algerian Hoax: A New Michael Vaux Novel by Roger Croft
First-rate… A finely polished amalgam of conspiracies and intrigue. In Croft’s latest in the Michael Vox series, the relentless cycle of conspiracies and double dealings follows the former journalist Michael Vaux in Marseille, France, where he is on a top-secret… Read More ›
The Young by Nicholas John Powter
Thoroughly intriguing and lightning fast… In his engrossing debut, Powter takes readers on an exhilarating journey to a magical fantasy land where history has dwindled into myth, the peace and quiet is gradually becoming the thing of the past, and… Read More ›
Of Love & Of Betrayal (The Seven Keys of Hildegard Book 2) by David Dupuis
An intriguing, suspenseful conspiracy thriller, written elegantly and with vivid details… Gripping, meticulously researched, and full of surprises, Dupuis’s second installment in The Seven Keys of Hildegard series reveals the anarchy that lurks in shadows as the ancient keys inevitably… Read More ›