When you have jumps in time and place, and even the protagonist isn't sure where he is and whether he is dreaming or not, only one thing can save the story. That one thing is good writing. Guy’s Odyssey by Seth Bleuer is a very...

Is your family considered open and transparent, closed and full of secrets, or living in a sea of avoidance and regrets? Each family has a special dynamic and code that they live by. These elements may begin in childhood but transcend well into adulthood and...

The Feral Sentence by Shade Owens is a collection of four novellas that constitute an excellent read for fans of young adult thrillers. The stories feature an exciting setting with characters that are memorable. It’s a futuristic work that deals with resilience, creativity, and the...

A delightful opening to an epic fantasy that features gods, dragons, and compelling characters, Deity's Soulmate by Angelina Kerner is a brilliant story that will find a comfortable home with fantasy fans who adore mythology. Meet Gardenia, the daughter of Athena, a dare-devil kind of...

Assassin's Blood: Epirus, Book 1 is a science fiction novella written by H.A. Osborne. Laoise Rek was not at all like her sisters or her mother, Minara. The Barga were a matriarchal race, and Minara had been training her two elder daughters to take over...

What a joy to pick up a book by a writer who really knows his craft! Daniel Side is that writer, and A Lesson in Revenge is a perfect example of the art of writing. While the genre of A Lesson in Revenge is thriller...

Stepparenting the Grieving Child: Cultivating Past and Present Connections with Children Who Have Lost a Parent by Diane Ingram Fromme is a comprehensive and informative guide for step parents facing one of the most heartbreaking of challenges. The book begins with Fromme's own experience with...

Looking Out From The Inside is a memoir that makes readers look into the life of Tressa Mitchener and the wrong choices she made while growing up, and living in a world filled with spiritual darkness. Her challenges and struggles helped her emerge with spiritual...

A husband is shot and murdered in front of his house, and the killer is walking free in the thrilling sleuth mystery, The Big Weekend (A Stella Reynolds Mystery) by Libby Kirsch. Stella is covering a story live at a home, where a mother...

Sanctity of Season by Carla Cilvik is a collection of enlightening and inspiring poems. Carla Cilvik provides poetry for each season of the year and a small collection of miscellaneous poems to round out the book. The poetry is heartfelt and her appreciation of nature’s...

The Crows of Ticklewick by Phaishonne Danzie is a charming story about a family of crows. The family consists of the parents, and two young crows named Toolie and Forteist. The father is concerned that they may not survive the big freeze, and they have...

All in: 101 Real Life Business Lessons for Emerging Entrepreneurs by Bill Green is a non-fiction book with strategies and tips on how to become a successful entrepreneur and build a thriving business. Bill Green draws upon his own experience in the business world to...

A death in the Cobble Cove's library causes consternation in the small town's inhabitants in Written in Stone (Cobble Cove Mystery #3) by Debbie De Louise. The morning after a book signing at the library, John McKinney receives a strange email. It is a veiled...

Stone City by Beverly Jenness is another gripping entry, the second installment, in the From Earth to Terra series. Set 200 years from now, readers are introduced to the group of colonists, now settled in a new world (planet) after surviving upheavals in nature, including...

When Durvious leaves his home to pursue a life of adventure, he has no idea just how soon his adventures will begin. An encounter with a forest of enchanted, sentient trees with homicidal tendencies leaves him badly injured. He liberates Fergusson, the son of a...

In Olympian Heartbreak by Andrya Bailey, the author has taken the normal romance novel to a different level by infusing love, romance, danger, violence, and greed. The main characters are Sabrina, a history student, and friends Curt, Robert, and Jane, all students like her. Dr....

Warren Alexander's Cousins' Club is a backhanded ode to growing up Jewish in the 50s/60s in Brooklyn. But this isn't gauzy nostalgia; fingers are sliced off, people die, the innocent are punished and the guilty crushed, often in brutally appropriate ways, and hilariously. The premise...

Don't Disconnect by Tiffany Campbell is an inspirational romance that is multilayered, entertains and motivates. Dominic “Kole” Sommers has been away since she was eleven. But life hasn’t been all milk and honey for her. She’s had her challenges to face, living far from home....

The title Launching Sheep by Sarah Angleton continues: And Other Stories from The Intersection of History and Nonsense. The volume is comprised of eighty-six informative, fascinating and entertaining articles taken from the author’s weekly blog, which were published over a period of more than four...

Crazy in Love is the story of Anna Flint and Matt Harper, two programmers who spend years sharing a cubicle wall and trying very hard not to crush on each other. Anna is a mess, but she is also completely wonderful. She collects can, as...