TE Scott’s The Song Journey is a fascinating and well-written story about the unique transformative power of music that transports the heroine into past events. Julia MacAllistair, with her talent for singing, is the image of her great-grandmother Jules MacAllistair - a famous singer who...

AJ Aaron’s The Hawk, or Other Worlds is an entertaining science fiction mystery novel. Dave leads an unexciting life with an unexciting but stable job and not much money. He’d like things to be better, and wonders if he should have worked harder at school...

Soul Caller by Ana Peters initially appeared to me to probably be some obscure story about some obscure country. Then, as I turned the pages, the story grew to the stature of a colossus straddling the world, and slowly gripped the very core of my...

The Bracelet by Todd W. Cheney has Michael Alex, an expert mechanic, receiving a package which contains a bracelet that can grant any wish. Not very convinced about its ability, and to check this, the first wish he makes is for a colleague to have...

Twisted by Kennedy Obohwemu, the story of Mofe Esiri, follows the brilliant and handsome author as he falls prey to the seductions of Nollywood actress Daisy Igho. Mofe’s life had been charmed, he had money, success, fame, and the love of his childhood sweetheart, but...

Sweeping. Beautiful. Striking. I could go on, but one word descriptions of a book, especially one as wonderful as The Notorious Dream of Jesús Lázaro, would not suffice. This masterful work by author Terence Clarke follows the titular artist, Jesús Lázaro, on his journey to...

Trespassers by Saul Delino is a story about how someone’s past can come back to haunt them. When Vincent Wright was a teenager, he, along with his friends, made a mistake. Years later he is disabled and trying to live his life in spite of...

The dynamics of life within the Beltway come alive in The iCongressman: The Michael Bennit Series Book 2 by Mikael Carlson. Michael Bennit, a former Green Beret and history teacher, his staff made up of his former exceptional high school students and his girlfriend, a...

A sweet but spicy journey from seed to table, The Life and Dreams of Pimientos de Padrόn by Katherine Anne Lee is a fascinating telling of this spicy Mexican dish. An interesting hybrid of poetry and prose, Katherine Anne Lee starts us off in the...

The Garden of Unfortunate Souls by Eddie Mark opens with the mayor's tearaway son Audwin crashing into the home of Bible-bashing single mother Loretta Ford and her unfortunate son Shadrack at three in the morning. While the boy's dad wants to keep the potential scandal...