Legacy of Dragons: Resurgence by T.D. Raufson is an urban fantasy. Dragons were imprisoned for 1500 years and Nethliast, a powerful dragon, thinks it’s time humans were enslaved instead. His army of partials (part human, part dragon) does his bidding and infiltrates the White House,...

City of a Thousand Spies is Book 3 from The Virtuosic Spy series by Kathryn Guare. Conor McBride is a famous violinist who uses his occupation as a cover for his spy missions. He and his girlfriend, Kate, accept an assignment in Prague to help...

Effie Kammenou writes with confidence in her debut novel Evanthia's Gift: The Gift Saga Book 1, where we follow the story of a Greek-American family through the life of Anastacia Fotopoulos. In a story spanning three generations, we get a glimpse of life in Greece...

Jelly Bryce: FBI Odyssey is #2 in a trilogy by author and veteran police office Mike Conti. The trilogy charts the life and times of real life law enforcement hero, Delf A (“Jelly”) Bryce. Apparently the unusual nickname originated as “Jellybean” because of his penchant...

Since My Name is Tookie by Chariss K. Walker is aimed at young adults, and is a story of early childhood sexual abuse, readers need to be sure they can handle the material presented. While there is no doubt in my mind that there are,...

Scott Archer Jones’ A Rising Tide of People Swept Away takes us right in the heart of Albuquerque’s less privileged class where we meet a series of curious characters, one as thought provoking as the other. Gerald Matthew Roger (GMR), a ten-year-old boy, escapes from...

Lightning Strikes Twice: Discover the Private Face of Public Universities by Mac O’Shea is listed as fiction-drama, an engrossingly, exciting, and entertaining read, the first story in the Ivory Tower Trilogy. It’s a tale that explores man’s contact with his humanity, the idiosyncrasies of those...

Ages of Suffocation: Remembered Dreams by Uzo Amaka breaks down the life of Oma into three different portions. The story starts off with background information about the treatment the girls received from their stepmother in the absence of their father. The sisters led very abusive...

I thought Follow the River Home by Corran Harrington was an interesting story. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the life of Daniel Arroyo. Daniel lost his baby sister at a young age and never got over her death....

Something strange is going on at Crescent City Medical Center and no one seems to know what it is. From the strange voodoo practices that suddenly start occurring in the very rooms of patients to the slew of malpractice claims against one of the most...