Toto's Tale: The Wizard Was Odd Trilogy by Peeky (AKA) Bob Moyer is The Wizard of Oz from Toto’s perspective. A twister takes Toto and Dorothy away, dumping them in Oz where a couple of days is the same as a year in Kansas. Uncle...

Ashes Like Bread: A Biblical Novel of Lamech and His Two Wives by Jean Hoefling is an incredibly imagined Christian fiction tale with a strong anchor in ancient biblical times. A highly recommended rendering of the gift of prophecy and its perils. Set against the...

The Great Angel War by Larry Gerovac is a broadly imagined telling of what happened in the heavens before mankind was created. In the book we hear the story as it is being told by an angel named Raphael to the last prophet, a man...

Flame and Form is the opening novel in the Draghans of Firiehn series by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson, a story that transports readers into a completely different and exciting world. A novella-length story and a breezy read at that, it is a romance with powerful paranormal...

Heroines of Avalon & Other Tales by Ayn Cates Sullivan transports readers into the time of legend and revisits deities and legendary female characters linked to Welsh and British mythology. In this book, the author shares her insights and her journey to discovering her past,...

Character, plot, and realism are among the things that get me reading a book. Dusties (Dusties Series Book 1) by Brett Murrell has all these elements expertly woven into the story. I felt pulled into the narrative in just the same way one would...

Nila: Water by Daniel G Linsteadt is a spellbinding opening into a fantasy series, a tale with great originality and that features themes with strong appeal to environmentalists and advocates against climate change. Meet young Seth, torn between a devastating illness and strange dreams —...

Conspiracy, magic, and a world threatened by a powerful enemy are some of the aspects that make Exodus in Blush by Nicholas Rem a must-read for fans of epic fantasy. The story is set against the backdrop of an imaginary period in humanity’s evolution, a...

Metaphase: Beauty in the Chaos by M Street took me by surprise. Metaphase is the second novel in M Street’s Mitosis series. In this installment, readers are given a flashback to Piper’s literal infancy and, soon afterward, it picks up where the first novel left...

Time Blade: Age of Jeweled Intelligence by P. Christina Greenaway is the story of Sky Hunter, a young man who is living in California and trying to find himself and his direction in life. He is living in this world, but he knows that he...