June 30, 2019
West bEgg: The World’s New Power Elite by Mari Reiza
Tinged with wry humor, highly engrossing… Through the lives of four protagonists, West bEgg offers a lurid, hilarious look at corporate culture and its miseries. Luca, Anna, La Revolucao, and Carolina joined the corporate world to realize their dreams…
June 29, 2019
All the Lovely Pieces by J.M. Winchester
A good beach read… It’s been nine years since Drew Baker left her billionaire husband and the toxic relationship she shared with him. Continuously on the run with her ten-year-old son, Drew moves to a small town to find…
June 28, 2019
Caro M, by Mari Reiza
Seductively readable, deliciously engrossing… Set in Italy and France, Caro M, explores the hurricane-like-devastation love is capable of bringing in one’s life. A simple act of falling in love deeply affects the lives of three women, compelling them to…
June 27, 2019
The Killer You Know by A. M. Taylor
A fast-paced formula thriller… It’s been ten years since Ethan Hall went to jail for a murder he never committed. The murder changed lives of many people in the small town of Twin Rivers, and Ethan’s family had to…
June 25, 2019
Elemental Links: Steel and Magic Book 1 by M.A. Leon
A thrilling start to the series… Elemental Links follows two teen brothers’ quest to master their hidden powers and fight the evil that threaten to destroy their world. Louie, an adept: an individual gifted with elemental magic, is forced…
June 24, 2019
Reinventing Hillwilla by Melanie Forde
A remarkable page-turner… A moving exploration of relationships, family dynamics, and notions of home, the final installment in Hillwilla Trilogy is a definite hit. It’s been five years since Beatrice Desmond settled on her llama farm in Seneca County,…
A stunning literary memoir… Set against the backdrop of West Coast, Night People, the first installment of the engrossing, intimate memoir, traces the first three of six years in the life of young members of a rock-and-roll vocal group…
June 22, 2019
A Burning in The Darkness by A P McGrath
Deeply moving, highly engrossing, this emotionally resonant tale will appeal to every book lover… Set in hustling London and war-torn Liberia, this poignant, deftly plotted crime story probes the conflicting concepts of forgiveness, revenge, faith, and redemption. Haunted by…
June 21, 2019
Paranoid by Lisa Jackson
A quick airplane read… Twenty years after Rachel Gaston accidentally killed her brother, Luke Hollander, during a teenage game with her friends after someone replaced her toy gun with a real one, someone from the past returns to haunt…
June 20, 2019
Honour the Dead by John Anthony Miller
Perceptive, perfectly paced… a brilliant whodunit! Miller’s insightful, well-plotted fifth murder mystery is set in Lake Como, a quiet, serene town in Italy. Psychiatrist Joseph Barnett, a WWI veteran, is struggling with PTSD when Penelope Jones, wife of Alexander…
June 19, 2019
Strange Cars in the Night by Eric Keegan
A sophisticated debut… Keegan’s debut collection takes cars as its inspiration for quirky fun and terse, stark verse. The poems in the collection are both fun and contemplative and not only pay homage to cars but also revel in…
Intense and evocative… Deeply engrossing and poignant, Woodard’s third in Shakertown Adventure series is designed to take the reader on a though-provoking journey through a time in a small southern town in America when personal dreams and misfortunes were…
June 17, 2019
Relentless Alien Eyes by Nina Hann
An intriguing sci-fi story… When a blinding, white light hits Margaux and Byron one fine day and leave them wiped off their memory of the time, they barely know that the strange phenomenon will impact their lives forever. Unaware…
June 15, 2019
Bitterwood Commons by Marieke Mitchell
A gripping tale… Mitchell interweaves tangled history of people and places and explores the way lives of real people can evolve into the stuff of legends over time in her engrossing time-travel historical debut. Tragic death of Emma Barker’s…
A story that grips and won’t let go… In this stellar debut, the first in Chronicles of Avilésor, War of the Realms series, Noe brings forth an enthralling paranormal story that readers will find it hard to stop reading…
June 13, 2019
Permanent Position by Sid Stark
Riveting… total fun! Stark takes a quirky, humorous look at the gritty backstage of higher education in America in the third installment of Dr. Rowena Halley series. Rowena is in Charlotte, North Carolina for a semester long teaching position…
June 12, 2019
The Race at Valli Ha’i by Jim Hamilton
Utterly absorbing… Hamilton brings the sequel of The Goddess of Gillani with more of intrigue and fanciful chaos that fans of the series relished in the earlier books. It’s been more than 5000 years since Cassiopeia Evanland initiated a…
June 10, 2019
The Curse of Raven’s Rose Keep by Gregory Downey
Intriguingly dark and satisfying… Gregory Downey beautifully blends seduction, suspense, and supernatural in this intriguing paranormal romance. Garrick, a mighty warrior, is back to his feudal lands after years of fighting for the king. He meets lovely Angela, a…
June 8, 2019
The Book of Danzel: First Quarter by T.K. Lipps
Brilliantly written, darkly humorous, and original, The Book of Danzel is a must read… Depicting the first of four marking periods at Anchor Academy, the provocative and timely “The Book of Danzel” explores the underlying vulnerabilities of teenagers in a…
Vivid and original… Myron Clifton puts forth a fascinating mythological thesis about life’s emergence in Her Legend Lives in You. He presents the idea that life is created by mother goddess: God in a female form, opposing the argument…