It's the apocalypse! Ash clouds and earthquakes are wreaking havoc everywhere, with people left homeless and resorting to the survival of the fittest for their basic needs. Sixteen-year-old Sera Donner and her crippled twin brother are caught in this horrible mess and have to fight...

Mead Mountain by B.K. Dell tells the story of Riley Ellison, a most unusual church pastor. Ellison is not afraid to spend time with drunks and prostitutes, and he’s convinced that God has instructed him that in two weeks he should exercise mustard-seed size faith...

The Underminers by A.C. Thompson opens with an alien court in another galaxy, where two criminals are sentenced to exile on Earth for the rest of their lives. Then, the story shifts to a suburban southern California high school, where the arrival of a new...

In The Yellow Balloon by Marty Martins, following on from The Blizzard, Chet and Melanie continue their loving relationship, and their promise to keep pure until their wedding. Chet has the engagement ring waiting to place on Melanie’s finger, but a misunderstanding results in a...

There is much wisdom and humor in Tom Hoffman’s final installment of the Orville Mouse Adventurer series: Orville Mouse and the Puzzle of the Sagacious Sapling. But it’s hard to tell the difference. “Sophia says the things you’re used to never seem weird.” “Anyway, how do you...

In Axillon99 (A LitRPG novel), Matthew S. Cox wasted no time putting readers right into the action where we follow Fawkes, Dakota Marx’s alter ego in the popular multiplayer online game Axillon99, doing her solo mission in the opening chapter. With clear-cut prose and plenty...

The Dan Diaries is the first book in The Beyond series written by D.D. Marx. Daniel Sullivan is driving while talking on the phone with his best friend, Olivia Henry (Hank), when it happens. On impact, Dan screams out Olivia’s name before being torn away...

Bobby Sterling vs. Truth by Alex Mueller is a thrilling YA science fiction adventure. Bobby Sterling was looking forward to a summer playing hockey until his plans quickly change. He's teleported to the moon where he meets Professor Bink and is given the opportunity to...

Mythical Doorways: A Fellowship of Fantasy Anthology is a collection of eleven short fantasy stories written by The Fellowship of Fantasy authors, H.L. Burke, Lauren Lynch et al. I enjoyed the stories in this collection which are all different yet share the same theme of...

Kiss My McCracken: And other original tales in the life of Winston Weston by Ernest S. Martin is a collection of ten stories following its titular protagonist in hilarious detail through his most memorable life and times. Shared in vignettes, Weston becomes a fully fleshed...

The Juniper Sawfeather Trilogy by D.G. Driver consists of Cry of the Sea, Whisper of the Woods, and Echo of the Cliffs. In Cry of the Sea, an oil spill drives Juniper's activist parents into action, but her life changes drastically when they pull mermaids...

Faith is a bit of a pampered princess, but she does have compassion for those beneath her and she is quite capable of doing many things for herself, like dressing herself and doing her own hair and taking care of her own rooms. As the...

Crime Interrupted by Chuck Morgan is a Buck Taylor novel. Durango, Colorado is the target of a Mexican gang, shattering the peace and putting lives in danger. Buck Taylor is a senior officer with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, called in to assist the Durango...

Crime Delayed: A Buck Taylor Novel by Chuck Morgan is a compelling crime novel set in Aspen, Colorado; a tale of murder and a gritty investigation, filled with twists and surprises that set the reader’s heart racing. It all starts with a wildlife ranger who...

Granny JJ is always right and in the story The Granny JJ Adventures: Guyana’s Daily Detective (Volume 1) by Joshua Cartwright, readers are introduced to her where she lives in a little house surrounded on three sides by a bush in Soesdyke, Guyana. Granny always...

Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by Linda Gartz was inspired by the true events of Chicago around the time of the Civil Rights Movement and by family memorabilia she stumbled upon after the deaths of her parents. Redlined...

Fast Faces by Jonni Good is subtitled Unleash Your Creativity With a Friendly Lump of Clay and certainly lives up to the latter claim. Jonni Good has come up with a brilliant idea to encourage one to take up a lump of clay and have...

With her mother lost at sea, and her father’s sudden death when she was only ten, Eleanora and her older brother, Ben, became prisoners of their evil step-mother, Cecilia, as well as the object of contempt to her step-brother and sister. Eleanora had a dream...

Stronger Together by Michael Stone is the story of two women who might be family, but their bond might be more than familial. Nicci Bleu is in Tahiti and trying to find herself, especially after discovering that she might actually have a family. While her...

Fateful Decisions by Trevor D'Silva is a historical novel set against the backdrop of WWI in 1915. The novel explores the ills of the time and readers will be interested to notice the place of women in the early part of the 20th century and...