In They Call Me Alexandra Gastone, a young adult thriller by T.A. Maclagan, all seventeen-year-old Alexandra Gastone wants to do is graduate high school, get into Princeton, and work for the CIA like her grandfather. At least that's what her cover as a spy entails....

Meaningful Omissions by Anne McNeely is a romance novel. I loved it. I loved it because it didn't read like I expected a romance novel to read. There were no exaggerated cliché characters. Romance didn't dominate the narrative. Life dominated the narrative. The life of...

Underneath: A Merfolk Tale (The Under Series Book 1) by M.N. Arzú is a mermaid tale like no other. This deservedly award-winning novel begins as a half-drowned merman with a deep gash in his tail washes up on the coast of Maine. The comatose merman...

My Lonely Room by John A Vikara was really an unexpected treat. When I read it had to do with gangs, I was prepared to not care for it. The first thing I think of is violence and death. It turned out to be a...

A work of historical fiction, Brotherly Love: A 19th-Century Irish Romance by Lorna Peel tells of the love affair between Catriona Brady, the young widow of a former champion fighter who died a violent death, and Michael Warner, the handsome and desirable brother of the...

In Lorna Peel’s A Summer of Secrets, the heroine, Sophia, daughter of a former coal miner, has returned from London to her hometown in Yorkshire to take up the job as a tour guide at Heaton Abbey House, formerly a Cistercian monastery. The hero, Lord...

As children grow, they change. One thing that changes is their eyesight. Some children have considerable trouble seeing things clearly, but, not having seen things clearly before, they don’t realize that something’s wrong. So, when Freddy continually comes home from school with a headache, no...

Jorie and the Gold Key by A.H. Richardson is the sequel to Jorie and the Magic Stones; the book would appeal most to children and young adults that enjoy fantasy books and who have read and enjoyed Jorie and the Magic Stones. The setting of...

If you’re looking for a lightweight, cosy read, don’t pick up The Warrior by Phillip Davidson. On the other hand, if you like books that challenge your beliefs and invite you to question life, morality, religion, duty, honour and man’s purpose here on earth, snap...

Fans of the TV series Criminal Minds are going to love Chaos by D.J. Schuette. In fact, some of the characters in this thriller will immediately bring to mind those members of the BAU fans have come to love e.g. Chaos’ autistic boy genius, David,...

The Amazing Snowman Duel: Snowman Paul Book Series, Volume 5 is a children's picture book written by Yossi Lapid and illustrated by Joanna Pasek. There's a new snowman in town, and he means trouble. Bill was pretty proud to show off his new friend, Snowman...

Wow! Just, wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading The First Lie, which is Book One of the Selkie Moon Mystery Series by author Virginia King. This book gripped me from the very first page and kept me obsessively reading it all...

Old Mr. Higgins asks the Mysterious Six to investigate some strange lights he has seen along the cliffs at the back of his property in The Little Giants as the Mysterious Six in the Supernatural Great Escape by Lynette Harrell. The six friends agree to...

In The Apprentice and the Vortex by Alister Laurence, you are immediately drawn into the plight of Boglin, the best wizard in Glamaddon, and his wizard-in-training apprentice, Drek, and their realization of Hingebutt's universal spell of lethargy. Not only are Boglin's plants dying, but a...

Inside an Anxious Mind is a book of prose and poetry, written by C.A. Boone. Each poem deals with different parts of the day, such as morning, noon and night, as well as the many things which cause a person to feel anxious. The poems...

No one can hurt you unless you give them the power to hurt you. This seems to be the core message of I AM: Kicking Down the Walls of Silence about Sexual and Mental Abuse by Brenda Hammon. The book is a memoir that is...

Mended Wings: A Flicker's Tale is a young adult coming of age novel written by Timothy Imhoff. Flicker's life ended when she was sixteen. Young, athletic, popular and good in school, the pretty blond cheerleader, who was planning on college, never really survived the accident...

Wow! Just, wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading the debut book by author Gretchen Jeannette, The Devil Take Tomorrow. This book is a roller coaster ride of a read, full of action, adventure, historical intrigue, and yes, even a bit of...

Food for Love by Erin Evans is a humorous tale of love and food! They say that to get to a man’s heart you should aim for his stomach, but for Cordelia McKellen that simply isn’t true. You see, she comes from a gastronomic family,...

The instant one gets past the nearly bloodless clinical opening of The Atheist and the Parrotfish, a most surprising novel by Richard Barager about a doctor and his transgender patient, the relentlessly engaging storyline grabs you by the privates and refuses to let you go....