The Kingdom Thief is a delightful young adult fantasy by Alisse Lee Goldenberg. All in all, it is a fun and upbeat adventure, but it starts from a pretty depressing scenario. What happens if your parents are terrible and you and everyone around you are...

The Borman Factor: A Nick Borman Thriller Book 1 is a compelling read by Robert Lalonde, a well-crafted detective story that will grab the attention of fans of Robert Ludlum and Lee Child. When a member of the powerful Piermont family, a journalist, gets murdered...

The Roman's Woman follows the story of Gio, an exceedingly wealthy man who is in the midst of a horrendous scandal involving his ex-wife and a sniveling excuse of a cousin. His company becomes a benefactor of sorts to Sofia's research and, when he meets...

The ABC's of Living Your Vision: A Motivational Book for Children Ages 5-13 by Sheronda L. Barksdale is a useful tool for children and encourages them to have a vision of their own for their future. Mrs Lane asks her grade 5 students about their...

The Rat Collector by Chris Yee is book one in the Age of End series. It opens with one man standing barefoot on an ice-encrusted cliff, looking out over a snow covered plain, waiting for the approach of his childhood friend Saul. His name is...

The New Love Triangle: Your Practical Guide to a Love-filled Life! by Allen Vaysberg is an excellent guide to make positive transformations in anyone’s love life. Love is the foundation of everything in life and for all those who feel a void in their lives,...

The Killer Inside (Detective Jessica Daniel Book 1) by Kerry Wilkinson is a spellbinding and suspenseful murder mystery. A woman's body is found in Manchester, locked inside her home. The woman's friend had reported her missing two days prior to the discovery of the body....

A man doesn’t have a clue who he is when he wakes up in the sand outside of Las Vegas. But as time passes, he finds himself living out the most wonderful six days of his life … again and again. Because each time disaster...

As the first entry in the Gateway series, The Calling by Louise G White, holds huge promise of a wonderful ride for fans of contemporary young adult fantasy. Carolyn’s mother and brother have gone missing, escaping through a hole which appeared on their kitchen wall....

Samantha Wolf is back and she and her friends are getting into more trouble in The Haunting of Eagle Creek Middle School by Tara Ellis. Now that the mystery at Covington Ranch has been solved and Cassie has been reunited with her sister, things have...

The Deadly Art of Deception: Caribou King Mysteries, Book 1 is a murder mystery novel written by Linda Crowder. Caribou King loved her hometown of Coho Bay, Alaska. She was the proud proprietor of The Broken Antler Gallery, a relatively high-end art gallery, and loved...

I listened to The Seadog: Paines Creek Beach Book 3 by Aaron Paul Lazar on Audible. The instructions were clear and easy to follow. The checkout and downloading of the book was flawless; the narrator, Gwendolyn Druyor, added an authentic New York dialect for the...

The House On Galloway Rd by Adele Frances is a young adult mystery novel about a pair of twins who are trying to help their mother overcome some trauma that happened to her when she was young. Their mother, Bobbi, is always facing some sort...

The Beast of Tsunam: Rev Smalley: Galactic P.I. Book 1 is a detective story told in the classic pulp fiction style of the thirties. But it just happens to take place in the far future. Reading as much as I do, I have come across...

The Woman In Black (Detective Jessica Daniel Thriller Series Book 3) by Kerry Wilkinson is a sensational murder mystery thriller set in Manchester, England. Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel is called out to a crime scene that has no body and no blood. There is only...

The Secret Santa Romance: Love and Marriage Book 1, a novella written by George H McVey, is definitely a fun read. Jolene Faraday and Randall Herrschner met as very small children. Their friendship grew into their teen and young adult years, and despite very different...

I took my time reading The Pursuit: Citizens of Logan Pond Book 3 by Rebecca Belliston because I was intrigued by the story, especially by the intense drama. The story follows Carrie Ashworth. She swore to protect her siblings and find the safest place for...

I have been reading a lot of novels based on Norse mythology this month. I like them. I like the war. I like the doom and gloom attitude of Norse warriors. The Oath Breaker by Alaric Longward met all my expectations about stories centered around...

The Painted Pony is the first book in the Magical Adventures & Pony Tales series, written by Angharad Thompson Rees. Stargazer is a pony that lives on a carousel. He feels excitement during the day, as children scramble to score a ride on Stargazer’s saddle,...

The Chocolate Labradoodle Caper (A Damien Dickens Mystery Book 3) by Phyllis Entis is a fabulous sleuth mystery set in the 1980s. On their slightly misrepresented honeymoon cruise, Damien and Millie befriend Barbara, a psychiatric nurse. Never expecting to see her after they disembark from...