As one person commented on Zap Tales' blog, “I honestly don’t know where to begin.” The Fourth Side: A Prison Odyssey zapped me too…and how! When I began reading, I knew I was about to enter a world I knew only from movies and TV...

In her novella Kept, Theresa Jacobs offers readers a tale of desperate humans fleeing a dying Earth on enormous spaceships. The story opens seven years after one of the ships, Gaia, has crashed-landed on Kepler, an unexplored planet. The survivors are kept alive by a...

In Running Away to Home: A Young Adult Novel by Reni Bumpas, I believe the title says it all. Adolescents have been on similar quests for generations and not all are fortunate enough to find their way. When Maggie makes the decision to flee from...

Aging Out is a coming of age novel for young and new adults written by L. Lee Shaw. Soosie, Adam and Myron would be “aging out” of Pitison House within six months, an event that would occur on their eighteenth birthdays. Before that was going...

The Girl Without Magic by Megan O'Russell is the first book in The Chronicles of Maggie Trent. Maggie awakens to darkness in another world where she's greeted by an unfortunate new reality under the power of the Siren. Then she meets Bertrand who tells her...

How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Friggin' Days by Megan O'Russell is the tale of Bryant Adams. Bryant has received many lectures for daydreaming which tends to get him into trouble. He's just a normal teenager with divorced parents and a best...

The Inflatables by Sara Gurule is a delightful Christmas story about Santa's secret army. Christmas is everyone's favorite time of year. Everyone except Old Man Tubbs. He doesn't have any decorations or holiday cheer. He's been on the naughty list since childhood and now holds...

Girl of Glass by Megan O’Russell is a young adult dystopian novel about what it means to be human. Magnolia “Nola” Kent is a young woman who has lived in the Dome her entire life. When a riot on Charity Day gets out of hand,...

A quick look at the cover of Sister-in-Law by M.R. Morgan does and doesn’t give you the full picture of just what goes on between the covers. Sure, it’s obvious the plot involves the White House and sex, but if you think this is going...

Andrew Geczy, the author of Adrift Homeless Season One "Rebirth", has let loose all the fantasy arrows from his incredible quiver of imagination in one go! Setting the story of a tyrannical revolutionary, Suma Davi, in a dying planet named Rommeria, Geczy exhibits superb skill...

Tragedy sets the stage for the lives of four young Appalachian country children in Sarah’s Song by Vicky Whedbee. As they flee their burning farmhouse where they realize their parents have died, they are forced to make their way across the cornfield to where they...

The Good Fight by Dan E. Hendrickson mainly tells the story of a hero’s daughter, Danielle Edwards, as she struggles to deal with tragedy and heartbreak. Danielle’s father, mother, and grandmother are killed in a mysterious plane crash. Danielle has always worshiped her father, whose...

Things He Hadn't Told Her by Vicky Whedbee is a love story with a twist. This novel follows the story of three people and how their lives mesh. Cole and Chad have been best friends for almost all of their lives. Cole is a big,...

Carissa's Law by Misty Boyd begins with eighteen-year-old Carissa Schultz, the protagonist, in the parking lot of the university, pondering on very serious questions. Born with a rare condition known as spina bifida, she’s been through a lot of challenges. But now, on the threshold...

Beyond Boundaries by Helen Parry Jones is a profound and thought provoking book that provides an emotional tool not only to deal with death and grief, but also to embrace all the energies around so that there will be an increase in spiritual growth, fulfillment,...

Think.Laugh.Cry. in 100 Pages by William Baga is an interesting collection of short stories, drama, and reflections, a cross-genre kind of book designed to offer pure entertainment to readers. The book features three different stories; “Isaac’s Apple Phi,” “Take Two” and “Let Nature Decide.” Each...

Year of the Flu by Millys Altman is the author's account - as reported to her by her own parents - of the 1918 influenza pandemic that ravaged the globe, affecting over five hundred million people worldwide. Narrated by Altman herself, the novella takes us...

Hey Buddy, I’m your Body! by Agnes Deglon is an educational and insightful book and is the first in the series of Kids' Questions about Life. The book gives readers an introduction about life and how to take care of themselves. The book opens with...

Camilla of Grayville is a wonderful story of social interaction, written by William Baga and illustrated by Donna Secour. Hidden within the gray walls of a town called Grayville, the inhabitants hide behind their phone screens and ignore all that takes place around them. One...

In The Third Kind of Magic (Crow Magic, Book 1) by Elizabeth Forest, 12-year-old Suli Wing wants to apprentice as a wise woman. When she accidentally used magic on a girl who bullied her brother, her grandmother sent her to another village to train with...