Other than needle-pricked fingers and scissor cuts, it's hard to imagine the fine art of sewing as being a dangerous occupation. Then again, millions of young people continue to slave away in sweatshops all over the world; so a story like the one about an...

Finding out that your best friend apparently committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the university you both go to is not the way to start a Monday, least of all for Alexandra Neve, who has the feeling that her friend Irina Anderson did...

Great. A great book. A great mystery. A great series. That’s the best I can do to describe Ruby Heart: The Neve and Egan Cases Book 2 by author Cristelle Comby. It follows the story of private investigator Alexandra Neve and her business partner, the...

Ilia Rose spent two centuries hunting Sol, the one who’s responsible for turning her and her friends into vampires. When Ilia receive the news that Sol is returning to her hometown and that his men have been seen prowling around, she and her friends swear...

Collection: A Daisy Hunter Story by Marianne Sciucco may be a short story, but it is one that stays with you long after you have finished reading it. In fact you will want to reread the story again just to make sure that you did...

John Patrick Kennedy’s The Descended series continues with Book 2, Scorn of Angels. Nyx, Queen of Hell, lies broken and continually tormented in a box at the bottom of the Lake of Fire, put there by her lover, Tribunal, the Son of God. Nyx’s daughter...

Weresisters by Jade Clark and Shelley Stoehr is an action-packed young adult paranormal read. The book is divided into two sections following two different characters: Kyra and Selene. The first half follows Kyra, a 16-year-old girl who cannot recall anything from her life before the...

I loved the premise of Balancing Act (The Santa Monica Trilogy Book 3) by Jill Blake. When reading a romance, you definitely want a hot and heavy love interest from the very first pages, and an old rivalry (of two attractive people who are obviously...

The Sweetheart Deal is a lovely romance novel which portrays the relationship between Ellen Hamilton and John Adair. Ellen and John were romantically involved years ago; however, they broke up. She thought that he was only after her money as she was a principal shareholder...

Bogeyman 101: A Guide to Bogeymen Around the World is a children's collection of fables written by Karen Hokanson Miller. The author is a former teacher who decided to write stories and her audience, comprised of kids, suggested monsters as the best thing to write...

In Contact Us: A Jake Corby sci-fi thriller by Al Macy, two alien craft approach Earth. One hovers ominously near the orbit of Jupiter while the other descends boldly into the atmosphere and commences to encircle the planet from pole to pole. Within days, seventy...

A Kiss Before Strangling by Douglas Sandler is a psychological thriller about a killer who wants revenge against the cops whom he thinks killed his fiancee, but all is not what it seems. The story was creepy in a good way. I liked how there...

Every parent’s worst nightmare comes true in William Mark’s gripping new police thriller, Lost in the Darkness. When Detective Curtis “Curt” Walker’s son, Josh, is kidnapped, he leaves his entire life behind to search for his only son. While he’s desperately looking for leads on...

The Game Is Playing Your Kid: How to Unplug and Reconnect in the Digital Age by Dr. Joe Dilley confronts a perennial problem: how to keep children away from playing recreational electronic games while the parents want them to study and get better grades. This...

I thought Faraway by R.K. Kline and Daniel D. Maurer was a great story. Kline and Maurer offer a glimpse into the life of Kevin, a teenage male prostitute. The story takes place near St. Louis, Missouri, in the seventies and tells how Kevin got...

Mia Mitns has crafted a unique, out-of-this-world science fiction story in Naya's Invasion, which is the second book in the Fall Invasion series. Death and terror open this story as Naya lures James Smith to his death with an apparent promise of sex. Yet,...

Genesis Unzipped is a non-fiction religion and philosophy work written by Lucio Licciardello. The author presents the results of his research into the links between science, speculation and history, and the Book of Genesis. He shows parallels and correlations between the words of the bible...

The Magic Straw Hat by Karen Jonice Bricker is an exciting story that will take young readers on an adventure, along with Caitie Faye and her great-grandmother's straw hat. The story connects three generations of family and conveys the message of family bonding in a...

Mustang Summer by Mr. Leif N. Gregersen II is a collection of short stories. He begins with his take on Hitler, an entirely new look at one of the most fearsome despots of all times. He examines the blow-cold, blow-hot attitude of a gentleman called...

Teddy Cool Cleans Up by Paul Merry and Jan Merry is the delightful story of Teddy Cool who lived in the Land of One Hundred Hillsides. He was someone who always handled his problems very well. There was a Soap Mine where he lived and...