"Death Goes Postal" by Rosemary and Larry Mild is a really enjoyable and erudite mystery with some wonderful characters. Gentle, learned Professor Abner Fraume is brutally murdered in Bath, England, for the sake of some of Herr Koenig’s printing artifacts and rare manuscripts, but not...

Mindy Levy offers readers a candid look at her family. She readily admits that there are two important F words in her life, Food and Family. Mindy’s family is Jewish. Even though I had read about some of the Jewish holidays and traditions, reading this...

“As Darkness Falls” is a book that will stay with the reader long after they close the cover. Peter Matise has penned a haunting tale. Nurse Allison Reed was working the Emergency Room when the surgery team rushed to deliver the tiny baby girl; all...

"Children of the Knight" by Michael J Bowler is a book that will leave quite an impact on you, no matter whether you are a young adult or a pensioner. It is a story about how our society lets down the members who would need...

Tainted Gold by Layne Walker is a story about how things can go terribly wrong if you only care about becoming rich. A guy called Donny is the main character and he's not exactly successful, i.e. he loses one job after the other because he...

Peter is not just the boy who never grew up. In fact, he’s a young boy who has been treated badly. Tinkerbell, on the other hand, is not just a fighter as she’s always been known. Instead, she’s a flighty debutante with not much of...

The world of Richard Pacheco’s Perspectives is dark and compelling, much like a thriller movie where we squint to dim our vision rather than expose ourselves to the full impact of the scenes we know will come. The 20 poems in this collection are lean,...

From the opening poem of this collection (‘Geography’) you know you are in the hands of a cultured, knowledgeable and thoughtful poet. Richard Pacheco knows art is about ‘vanishing points.’ Artists, like poets, direct their audience, as Auden might say, even to the quiet corners...

Taliyah Russo thought her suburban life was the personification of perfection; unfortunately, like many times in life, appearances can be deceiving. When faced with an overwhelming secret that her family has been keeping from her, she needs to forget about her comfortable lifestyle in Long...

Scepter by Scott L. Collins is the story of Daniel and his younger brother Aidan. King Argyle's soldiers are on the move, taking parents and older children into slavery and forcing them to work in the mines. Having come of the proper age, Daniel knows...

I was pleasantly surprised to see Scepter: The Emerald of Phaunos by Scott Collins turn up on Reader’s Favorite list of available books. It hasn’t been that long ago since I read and reviewed the first episode of Scepter. This is a great YA story...

The Jodan Ju – The Upper Ten by Richard Smythe is an intriguing story that takes readers along with David Turner, a Vietnam veteran and a geologist, into the Australian outback. David Turner discovers that the Japanese company, Tanada Industries, is using strange Asians to...

In The Enclave by H.M. Clarke, Commander Katherine Kirk and her crew were in hot pursuit of Hyde when they received orders to pick up an ambassador and transport him to Junter Three. The VIP was a SID, her estranged brother Ambassador John Kirk. Hyde...

Riley Banks has finally gotten her big break and it comes thanks to her long-time crush and fashion designer extraordinaire Josh Braden. Fresh off the plane in the fashion capital, Riley is equal parts excited and nervous about flexing her design muscle for big city...

Eighth Circle by Theodore Jerome Cohen is the fifth novel by this author featuring the inimitable Detective-Inspector Lou Martelli, and it is every bit as captivating as its predecessors in the series. Sprinkled with numerous documented factoids, Eighth Circle will take you on a fascinating...

The Gallivan Legacy by Sable Lewis follows the story of the Gallivan family from 17th Century Ireland to present day New England. The Gallivan family are witches, each with their own abilities. In Ireland, Ida Gallivan fought against an evil that possessed her husband, trapping...

Lucy London is a bona fide genius, having been at university since the ripe old age of thirteen. Unfortunately, Lucy’s genius status means she doesn’t have the best people skills, which is a shame since she’s currently working in the peer counseling clinic in an...

This is How Much Oatmeal Loves You: A Collection of Stories is written by Stephen R. Wagner. The stories are prefaced by two introductions which serve to introduce both the author and the genesis of most of the stories. They were written, as the author...

The Ripper is a riveting horror story by L.A. Maldonado. Ripperologist Chelsea Reid gains clairvoyant vision after a brutal attack and warns a stranger in Whitechapel of her forthcoming murder. A tabloid hires Chelsea’s detective father, Matthew, descendant of the detective on the original case,...

As an orphan in a large group home, Franny Mireles contented herself with stories of fairies and make-believe lands. Imagine Franny’s surprise one day, on an outing in Highland Park, when she discovers a fairy trapped in a spider’s web. In Franny and The Land...