When I finished reading The Music of Women which author Vincent Panettiere subtitles, “A Stream of Subconsciousness,” I felt as I did after my first rollercoaster ride—“What the hell was that?” Well, first things first—the plot. Charlie Forte is a successful novelist who grows up...

If The Art of Love (& Loathing) by Stephen Daniel Ruiz were an academic treatise, it might be called: A Study in Cynicism. But it is not. Nor, as might be suggested by this inauspicious opening, is it gratuitously heavy-handed in its mordacity. Quite the...

The Virgin and The Kings by Patricia Looper is the story of a young girl as she is forced to grow up a little too quickly due to her circumstances. Abishag knew that her future was not hers to make but for her father to...

Nicole Wachell’s The Right Amount of Brilliance follows the story of two prominent professors in California: Jake Washington and Sebastian Barnabas. The two men meet and discover that they are twins who were separated at the age of three. While they try to understand and...

J. E. Mooney's The Siren of Good Intentions: No Path Leads Where You Think It Will is an adventure novel set in 1978 in Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. American Victor Byrnes has just finished a Peace Corps project along the Senegal River. In Dakar,...

The Surgeon's Wife by William H. Coles is an audiobook that explores the complicated relationship between two medical professionals in New Orleans. Clayton Otherson has been Mike Boudreaux’s mentor and the man who brought him on board. Clayton is getting old and his practice as...

The Letters From Lincoln Bee is a work of fiction in the interpersonal drama, slice of life, and inspirational fiction sub-genres, and was penned by author Thaine Chase. In an enticing novella-length drama with plenty of intrigue, our titular character takes center stage as he...

The Reflections of Queen Snow White by David Meredith is a look into the life of Snow White after her Happily Ever After. With Prince Charming dead, Snow White has lost the love of her life and she finds no solace in anything. Now ruling...

In Guglielmo D’Izzia’s novel The Transaction, the protagonist narrates his own story in a semi-hypnotic voice, describing his Kafkaesque venture into a remote Sicilian village, presumably as an agent to purchase a property. It’s a rough trip described in minute detail by a voice without...

The Lines Between Us is a work of fiction in the historical, family drama, and contemporary mystery sub-genres, and was penned by author Rebecca D'Harlingue. Combining the seventeenth and twentieth centuries via the passage of time, letters, and diaries, this is an enthralling story about...