The Black Queen by Jumata Emil commences with a confrontation between Nova Albright and Tinsley McArthur over the homecoming queen campaign. Tinsley feels it is unfair because the school has introduced “quotas” and attempts to perpetuate white privilege by bribing Nova to withdraw. Ironically, it...

I’ll be honest here: I like thrillers but not every thriller, especially conspiracy thrillers, are easy to follow. So many are description-heavy when it comes to settings or they are overloaded with backstories on too many characters. The result? A plot that gets bogged down...

The Wallace House of Pain: A Novelette centers around Xander and his estranged father, Jim. S.M. Stevens uses this short story to introduce us to Xander and his uncomfortable dinners with his father and his second wife, Kathy. Xander and Jim don’t seem to see...

The Unmooring is a work of fiction in the historical and political fiction subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by author Ken Fireman. In this complex and intelligently-penned work, we follow the exploits of our protagonist, Michael McMaster,...

The Last Masterpiece: An Italian Renaissance Tale (The Master’s Protégé Trilogy Book 3) opens with Celeste Gabrielle in Venice to collect her sister Veronica from the convent where she has lived humbly for ten years and take her to her own home in Florence. Veronica...

The Lapone Sisters is a work of fiction in the impersonal drama and nostalgia subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by Barry Wilker. In this charming and highly enjoyable drama set largely in the summer of 1976, Wilker...

The Bookseller is a work of fiction in the historical, cultural, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Nikolai Gordonovich. In this gripping drama with much to say about Russia and the Cold...

The Other Shoes of Larry Martin: On Becoming Laurie Roberts is a work of fiction by Pavane Ravel in the interpersonal drama and political intrigue subgenres and is the second book in a continuing series. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience...

The Color of Acceptance by Carol Siyahi Hicks is the compelling narrative of a young woman’s journey toward self-knowledge. It is also a time trip through the sixties and early seventies, and I felt Gabrielle’s hopes, her dreams, her successes and failures, and her eventual...

The Sparkzgott Anthology by T.D. Holt is an amazing collection of vignettes, a series of short stories that will take you on a journey around the world, a journey of life, death, and humanity. An unborn child joins us on our journey as we visit...