The Secret of Trail House Lodge: A Sophie Collins Mystery, Book 2 by Madge H. Gressley is for young adults. Fifteen-year-old heiress Sophie Collins and her friends explore an abandoned lodge and become curious after seeing a particular guest entry in the registration book, and...

The Case of Dr Dude: A Michaela McPherson Mystery is a private sleuth mystery written by Judith Lucci. Michaela was enjoying her retirement from the police force and had finally opened up Biddy’s Irish Pub in honor of her parents. She still remembered sitting in...

The Demon Pool by Richard B. Dwyer is a supernatural/paranormal novel. The novel follows Jim Demore. He was a U.S. Marine once, but now he works as a Florida Highway Patrol Investigator. He has no idea that he will encounter an ancient demonic power. Turns...

I’ve been fortunate to have read for review a string of top-notch novels for Reader’s Favorite the past several weeks and The Drift by David Maxwell earned its way to the top of that list. In this stunning science-fiction thriller, the town of Crystal Falls...

The Ripper Awakens (A Hera Hunter Mystery) by Ellie DeFarr is a spellbinding mystery about Hera Hunter, a female Private Investigator. Going back to her childhood summer vacation home to find some peace after the death of her close friend, Hera stumbles into a murderer....

The Legend of Oescienne continues with The Ascending by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson. Book 4 starts in the Hrunahn Mountains of the west, where Boriahs, servant of the Crimson King, reluctantly has to report to his Master about his failure to capture Jahrra and her dragon...

The Tooth Collector Fairies: Batina’s Best First Day is a charming story about a somewhat clumsy little fairy named Batina. Batina, along with her friends, the very smart Lainey and the very short Lulu, have just graduated from Tooth Collector school! Today is their very...

The Bucket by DJ Cattrell is the story of a ten-year-old girl named Rachel who has a magical metal bucket with glass jewels that, when pressed, can call forth miniature versions of whatever animal she is thinking of, whether it is ordinary like an elephant...

Zoe stands on the parapet of a bridge, preparing to jump. The opening of The Inbetween by H.K. Thompson takes us immediately into the heart of the action. Zoe has lost her beloved husband days after their wedding and, feeling that she can’t go on,...

The tides of politics are ever changing and this is not so different throughout the centuries. After the Elizabethan era, the Stuart kings represented a time of great unease. Those who frequented the Royal Court were always on their guard as to what they said...

The Last Leaf is a children’s book written by William Baldwin and illustrated by Liesl Bell. On the first day of spring each year, new buds and leaves sprout on the branches of the Great Oak Tree. As the buds blossom into shiny green leaves,...

Some people call it ‘survivor’s guilt’, that violent sense of abandonment from reality, that robot-like functioning in a world that carries on, the survivor forever feeling guilty for having survived when all around him or her have died, have been sacrificed. The generation that followed...

The Cats Who Crossed Over From Paris: Inca Cat Series Book 1 by R.F. Kristi is the adorable story of Inca the Siberian cat and her furry family. The family consists of her brother, Fromage, who loves cheese, and her sister, Cara. They move to...

The Tower by Lynn Yvonne Moon is an honest and painful read that gives an excellent insight into the minds of children who think that ending their life is better than being a torment to their parents and friends. They are not sure of how...

Every once in a while, a book surprises me. I mean really surprises me. It’s difficult to do because I grew up in my mother’s library and I read a lot of books. In The Night the Sky Fell by Stephen G. Levy, I was...

The Biography of Prophets is a non-fiction Christian Biblical Study and Prophecy work written by Javon Rahman Bertrand. Bertrand is an author and apostle of the Restoration of Love Deliverance Center. He begins his study of the prophets with an examination of what a prophet...

The Emerald Isle Princess And The Silver Tiara by Beverly Banfield revolves around thirteen-year-old Morgan who likes the sun and bare feet and not rain and rubber boots. Morgan and her family are moving, along with her beloved goldfish. The new house was big, but,...

I read the first book in this series. I loved it and waited eagerly to see how the story would unfold. I was a little worried that maybe the tale would lose the exciting pace or that things might get bogged down and become boring....

I was mentally transported into strange and exciting places, encountering powerful and deadly characters in The Speaker, the second book in The Vaelinel Trilogy by Andi O'Connor. One reads nonstop, and once the last page is turned, it feels like waking up from a nightmare...

Aloysius Wachter was a simple twenty-something who was encouraged by his mother to set aside his aspirations as a hacker and wannabe graphic novelist to get a real job. As a high school dropout living in Chicago, his choices were limited, until his cousin came...