Running Out of Lies: A Mystery by Brian Beneventi brings us a coming-of-age story wrapped up in a five-year-old mystery. Shane’s father disappeared some five years ago, just not returning home one evening. Everyone, the police included, believed his father probably was having an affair...

In Raven’s Cry by Dana Fraedrich, Calandra is the youngest child in a noble family, including her Uncle Ducky, who dotes on her. While her brother will one day be a count, she prefers to live on the quiet fringes of court life, avoiding what...

Renegade: Black Dawn 0.5 by Mallory McCartney is a gripping YA fantasy with a strong narrator and very interesting characters. We enter Kiero, an empire that has experienced prosperity in past years, but that prosperity is about to be broken as a powerful and ruthless...

Rise of Howlers by Bob Bannon is a dystopian young adult novel set on the high seas. Around ten years previously a massive meteor shower struck the earth and, along with almost wiping out civilization, much of the earth’s land mass was forever altered and...

Rayven Choi: Chapter 1: Koreamerica by Shequeta Smith centers around the main protagonist the book is named after. The very first scene shows us that Rayven Choi is not kidding around when she shoots a man almost point blank. But who was he? At a...

Angel and Skip would never have expected their school dance to end in a confrontation with three masked men in the parking lot. They definitely wouldn’t have thought that one of those men would give them a case full of money and tell them to...

In Risen: The Battle for Darracia Book III, Michael Phillip Cash creates a complex and sophisticated setting in a planet that is almost devastated by war, and weaves a gritty tale of a people fighting impossible challenges to return to a life of normalcy. With...

Tiffany Brooks starts off The Shifting Reality Collection with Reality Gold. Reality Gold features Riley Ozaki, a high school student whose poorly thought out editorial goes viral and makes her a social outcast. To redeem herself, she joins a popular reality show that turns into...

Realm of Mindweavers is the first book in the Tales of Golmeira series. The story is about a young girl named Zastra. She is the daughter of the Grand Marl of Golmeira, which is like a king. In a world where “mindweavers” possess the ability...

Raptor by B.A. Bostick is a delightful fantasy story for young adult readers, a story that features the proverbial battle between good and evil. To be able to dominate humankind, demons have resorted to a more subtle kind of deception. They are disguising themselves as...