The Shadow Constant by A.J. Scudiere is a fascinating story which may, in fact, be rooted in historical fact. Scudiere has created characters as varied as any like number of real people, and placed them in a situation which, although certainly not common, is as...

When the world-wide war stalemate causes other military equipment manufacturers to fail, Acme remains flourishing. The company aids near bankrupt industries with loans, buying unrealized technological innovations, and providing jobs to the once dying city of Corinth. The company utilizes its massive repository of technological...

Fate (Sacrifice) by A.C. Heller is the story of Chasca Leon who is brought up in foster care. She leads a normal life and then gets kidnapped. She is such an ordinary person that she is unable to understand why she has been kidnapped. The...

J and K Christmas 2013 by A.M. Torres is a compilation of Christmas related poems and short stories which capture the magic, essence, and joy of Christmas. There are some beautiful pictures of the season that is magical and enchanting to readers, especially for those...

The Scholar, the Sphinx and the Shades of NYX (Scholar and the Sphinx, Book 1) by A.R. Cook is a fantasy novel for younger readers (children and teenagers, maybe also really young adults) which combines the real world with a world that lies behind a...

Neria thinks she is just a normal high school student, except that she has weird dreams. Her mom thinks they should talk to the priest at school. Neria The Future Demon Huntress reveals that what she really is, much to her disbelief, is a demon...

The Gen-E Project by A. Marie Zellmer is a novel of two generations, engineered around genetics alteration, who are struggling to keep the controversial research secret and out of the hands of Russian underground agents. Just at the point of scientific success, Dr. Becca Samone...

David’s Song by A.R. Talley is a very engaging read. Life for Jeremy and Annie was no longer a joy: it was a battleground. He felt he was always treated as second best. She felt he no longer cared for or about her. No matter...

Tomris: October 1942 by A. Yavuz Oruc is a story many of us can relate to, where a young girl has a dream of being a fashion designer. The difference is her dream is taking place during the early years of the Turkish republic. There...

Powerful Prayer Progression for Prayer Warriors is a book that gives readers steps on how to pray in a way that gets through to God, resulting in answered prayer. Author A. Ty Cook gives us 8 Elements of Prayer Progression that will help readers to...

What could be more fun than a collection of cat-themed short stories when you're a dyed-in-the-wool cat lover like me? Felinity, a collection of "flash fiction" brought together by Sammy H.K. Smith, doesn't disappoint. The book's contents were selected out of an avalanche of 500-word...

Will and Diana Kincaid seem like your typical suburban couple. He is an accountant while she is a cop. Both of them fit in within their neighborhood, have made the acquaintance of their neighbors and even begun to develop friendships with others. But they have...

In Neb the Great: Shadows of the Past, author A.K. Frailey offers the last in the Deliverance Trilogy. Not having read the first two books of the trilogy, I did not feel at all disadvantaged in reviewing this book on its own. The book is...

As a child, Alex was in the car when her parents were killed. She was saved by a voice and a vision that only she could see. She ran from her small home town and the memory of that vision, but fate has brought her...

Dark Genesis is a speculative fiction novel by A.D. Koboah and the first book in the Darkling Trilogy. It starts off in present day New York, but soon stretches all the way back to the early 19th century, to the life of a beautiful slave...

For Nicky is the story of Nate and Elizabeth, but also their siblings, Nicky and Aubrey. Nate has spent much of his life protecting his brother from bullies and those who would treat him differently due to his disability. Nicky is grateful for his brother’s...

The Angel of Elydria is the first volume of A.R. Meyering's young adult fantasy series, The Dawn Mirror Chronicles. Penelope Fairfax is a young woman who lives with her mother, Paulina. When she's not attending college, she helps out her mother at Willow Street Wonders,...

Sarah Wilkes doesn't know how to live in a world without her twin sister. Lea's murder has sent her into a spiral of depression and Sarah can't concentrate on college or anything she used to be interested in. She's desperate, desperate enough to allow a...

The Scholar, the Sphinx and the Fang of Fenrir by A.R. Cook is the second book in the series The Scholar and the Sphinx, and tells the reader what happened to David (the scholar) and Acacia (the sphinx) after their exciting adventures in Book 1....

The Book of Orm was entertaining and unique. The field of the mythological and fantasy genre is flush with fruit of a similar nature, but Orm and the other short stories within the total Book of Orm were one in a million. A.J. Dalton was...