What an interesting book I just finished! The Gatekeepers of Democracy, a new work of fiction by author Bill Lewers, provides a peek into an aspect of the political process that many readers might not be familiar with; that of the work of an election...

The Jilted Bride: A Footnote to Cinderella’s Happiness is a fairy tale romance novel written by Kristen Reed. Demetria has had her heart broken all too many times. As the daughter of Lord Aurelian, the Duke of Isidor, she understands her purpose in being wed...

The Great Learny Journey is a mixed media interactive book for children, written by Erin Slabonik and illustrated by 21 illustrators whose ages span from 4 years to 14 years old. The contributors were attendees at the author's Great Learny Journey Workshops, and they were...

The Truth About Family by Victoria Ichizli-Bartels is a no frills, very directly written story about a young man from the Ukraine during World War II. He is looking back on his life and trying to find the family he was separated from, but doesn’t...

The Big Mistake Club is a novel written by Donna Walo Clancy. Five teens, each with horrific backgrounds, attend the funeral of their beloved friend and comrade, Anna, who had killed herself after constantly being told she was nothing more than a disappointment to her...

What has faith got to do with love? Can two people with extremely opposite beliefs love each other and make it last? You’ll find a surprising answer to such a dilemma in the exciting novel The Sinner’s Club by DW Plato, an engaging story laced...

In The Lily Year by L.H. Anderson, life has a way of throwing you a curve ball. It happened with Lily when she was very young. As you can expect, it turned her life around and took it the other way. She was living, but...

The Great War by Dawn Knox is an ambitious undertaking that recounts 100 stories, each told in exactly 100 words, on the 100th anniversary of WWI. At precisely 10,000 words, the book is a quick read, but the scenes that Ms. Knox’s sparse, yet vividly...

I thought The Runaway by Jo Barney was a good book. The story follows the lives of several different characters, all connected in some way. The two main characters are Ellie and Sarah. Ellie is a tough, older woman who is obsessed with cleaning graffiti....

The Cold, Bending Light by MW Griffith is a gripping murder mystery. Young women are disappearing, their bodies found dumped, and tests reveal that they have been injected with lethal doses of a chemical that many states use in executions – just not the state...

The Ghost Princess by M. Walsh is an interesting novel that takes place in an entirely different reality. Katrina Lamont was once considered a chosen one, but is now a resident of the Graylands (a neutral area where people who don’t wish to be found...

Wow! Just, wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading The Swanhawk by author Alexandra Collard. Unique, unusual and highly readable, this book will hook readers from the very beginning and keep them obsessively turning the pages until the very end. Follow the...

The Mighty is a stunning opening to the Druid’s Guise series by Michael J Sanford, a book that will entertain and surprise young adults and adult readers alike. Wyatt, a fifteen-year-old kid, is sent to The Shepherd's Crook because he isn’t normal. Everyone thinks he...

The Reading Promise by Troy Kent is an adorable story of Daniel and his mother, Katherine, who used all her money to buy food and clothes for the baby. She felt sad knowing she could not buy any fancy clothes and toys for her son....

Suspenseful, thrilling, and action-packed are apt words to describe The Coin by Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra, a mesmerizing story with great potential to have readers utterly captivated. It all starts with a coin, a mysterious, coveted coin, but what is the value of a coin that...

The Book of Hours by Maria Elena Alonso-Sierra is a psychological thriller, full of suspense. Lightning never strikes twice, but psychopaths do. Arnold Wickham is an art dealer with no scruples, and he has his eye on the main prize – a new piece of...

Erie Energy is the first book in The Ghostlands saga written by C.N. James and Amy Joy. Anastasia misses her boyfriend, Uz. It had been two years since he and his entire family had been traded by Erie Energy to the Sydney Corporation, due to...

Welcome to a future where nothing is as we expected. Polar reversals have the Earth itself unsteady, as a new leprosy plague threatens the human population. Instead of progress, humanity has brought war, disease, and uncertainty to our future. Ariadne is seeking to find the...

The people of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are well known for their bright colors. They paint their houses in bright colors, and their doors and window frames stand out with bright colors. These Atlantic Canadians are also revered for their folk art. A leisurely...

In The Dragon’s Staircase, former FBI agent Alexa Kyndall is called in to consult on an old case that still gives her nightmares. She’d convinced herself that she’d killed the vampire doctor Julian Frederick, but a new string of brutal murders shows just the opposite....