Contemplations by Lisa M. Gott is an anthology of short fiction and poetry. The first piece in this anthology is the poem ‘Broken’. It’s a frank evocation of loss and separation between two people. It is just a short poem, but it lingered in my...

The Dismal Tide by Michael A. Dibaggio and Shell Dibaggio is the second book in the East End Irregulars, super heroes patrolling the area to thwart would-be evil doers. The story begins with Evangeline getting the lead role in the school play, while Torrent and...

Honey Rider: A Novel is a novel of suspense written by Benjamin North Spencer. Henry Nighteen doesn't remember how or why he ended up in a hospital room with stitches in his head, connected by wires to machines and unable to move. His roommate, Jasper,...

Sam and Ally are best friends. They have a passion for a good mystery, or at least Sam does. And they seem quite good at managing to get themselves into predicaments whenever encountering a new mystery. After having just solved one mystery, the girls are...

Tainted Love by Erin Cawood is a story that touches on domestic violence shared by the protagonist — Faith McKenzie — through letters to her younger brother. In her letters, Faith describes the slow decay of her marriage as her beloved psychiatrist husband, Calvin, ten...

Away Boy by T.R. Simms is a comic series that revolves around Sheridan Beneke who is from Oklahoma. He daydreams a lot - his mother calls it wandering and his pastor calls it drifting away, but Sheridan can't control what he calls lost time. He...

The Summer Solstice Enchanted by K.K. Allen is a young adult fantasy about a young woman's secret. When Katrina is fifteen, her mother dies and she is taken to Apollo Beach. There, she discovers the legends about her ancient Greek ancestors. The Summer Solstice is...

Double Trouble: Short Story Collection by DM Wolfenden contains three short stories. The first story is about Carly, a young woman who was kidnapped by the man who killed her family, and is now being held for his murder, but they can't find the body....

Suzie the Suitcase is a fun children’s picture book written by Nita Losoponkul. It tells the story of Suzie the Suitcase’s experiences as she travels by airplane to yet another exotic location, far from home. Inside this exciting adventure story, we meet Suzie the Suitcase...

Unforgettable You is a contemporary romance novel by author Heatherly Bell. The central plot focuses on Diana, who arrives at a familiar crossroads in a lot of women’s lives where she decides that she’s gone off men for good. Abandoned by her fiancé, Diana moves...

Evil lurks everywhere. For Suraj, evil is George, the lab assistant who didn't want Suraj to have access to the labs to catch up on his school experiments. Suraj had been sick for some time and he had missed a lot of school. Working in...

As a vegetarian, it’s difficult to plan unique meals and provide something different for my family every day of the week. But 30 Days of Daal: Simple, Healthy Daal Recipes from India has a remedy for that. Opening with an index of recipes and an...

Curse me Not by Elizabeth Fisher follows the crime procedure format, but with a paranormal twinge. Elzetta Swan is a bodywasher, a woman who cleanses curses from people’s auras. When her latest case leads her to the captain of the police, she finds more than...

In an interesting second installment in the Super series by author Palladian, Super: Underground continues the story of protagonist Lex and her friends. Lex isn't quite the same as she was before her adventures in the first book, Super: Origins. The drugs that she'd been...

Grumble Bluff by Karen Bessey Pease is a young adult coming of age story. Katherine Anne Kirby can't connect with her family and she's bullied at school. If there is one place that she does enjoy, it is Grumble Bluff, a forested area with a...

Royal Deception by Denae Christine is a young adult fantasy about characters who can change their body parts into weapons. Thirteen-year-old Prince Symon comes from a royal line of blade shifters, meaning he can shift his arms into swords. But when mermen kill his younger...

BreadCrumb Trail (The Yellow Hoods #2) by Adam Dreece is a young adult fantasy that incorporates fairy tales into the mix. Steam engines arrive for the first time in a world where fairy tales are actual world events. A secret society, the Fare, decides to...

No, I'm Not Drunk!: Taming My Parkinson's With Humor, Music and Charity is a non-fiction collection of memoirs written by Alan Jackowitz. The author found out he had Parkinson's Disease on the day before his fiftieth birthday, and had celebrated his seventh anniversary of that...

When I picked up this book, I was enticed to read more by the description on the back. S.T.E.A.M.: Island Under Siege is set during World War II. Hitler is still alive and he has sent his troops to take over the island of Malta....

Melanie Hemingway has introduced a new species in her book, Call of the Quintar (The Life-River Saga Book 1). Galvanites, a microscopic race, have a gift that enables them to merge into newborn humans. They have been using their gift to save human babies; however,...