Fat Dreams by Idris Ostrovsky is a novel about an aging man’s journey towards self-discovery and self-love. I thought the theme and the atmosphere of the story would be very grim and dark, but it was actually very positive. Although the pace of the novel...

Meet Tommy who loves to help his Mommy in the storybook Mommy's Precious Helper by Hollie Day, and he will show young readers how to do it. Tommy is always by his Mommy's side and she loves the help he provides. She says that he...

Rebels and Thieves by Russell Williams is a crime thriller with a lot of merit, from the deft plotting to the ingenious handling of characters and thematic development. The conflict starts with the struggles of an investment company and quickly escalates into a terrorist threat...

Indian Summer: A Tale of Lust, Murder and Class Division (Earl Town Book 1) by C. James Brown is a gritty crime novel. Earl Town, small town ex-cop turned private investigator, works out of his apartment in South Boston. His workload includes rather mundane tasks...

Sheriff Clay Finnes wasn’t sure what was happening in the normally sleepy community of Bulwark, Georgia. Outside of town, a foul-smelling green lake had appeared seemingly overnight and covered the road near J.B. Stratton’s cabin. Travelers in a Ford Fusion had attempted to drive through...

Hidden Gems: Quest for the Great Diamond is an educational action and adventure novel for children and preteens written by Hagop Kane Boughazian and illustrated by Joel Sigua. Gemstone was a small village located next to the Jeweled Forest, a stunningly beautiful woodland retreat where...

Cora by Sharronne McNeil is a Christian story set in a small town in the US Southern States. Cora Mae has had a difficult life. As a child, she had to deal with the many forms of abuse dealt out to her by her parents...

Rabbit: Chasing Beth Rider by Ellen C Maze is perhaps the only original novel I have come across after reading the Harry Potter series. The thrill, the mystery and the suspense of the chase had my heart racing and wanting more. I enjoyed how Beth...

Author J G Harlond takes us back in time to 17th century Europe in her political thriller By Force of Circumstance (The Chosen Man Trilogy Book 3). Ludo Da Portavenere has certainly led an adventurous life. High-born but illegitimate, Ludo has been a corsair, a...

There is a lot of end time literature on the market and it is interesting to notice the inconsistencies in the interpretations of the biblical message of the revelation. In The Message for the Last Days: Biblical and Historical Understanding of End Times by KJ...

In Jan Turk Petrie’s Until the Ice Cracks, it’s the winter of 2068, and a massacre in a criminal-infested zone by a rogue agent－a ‘decoy’－sends the authorities on a cat and mouse chase, including putting the governor’s job on the line. Inspector Nero Cavallo and...

Ten-year-old Kasandra Cortez is not too happy about moving all the way to America from her home in Brazil in the storybook Magic Charms: The Adventure Begins, Book One by Louise Marie Miller. Her parents think America has better schools and jobs and their mother...

Kasandra and her sister Maria had moved from Brazil to Hartford, Connecticut and they have settled well into the new place and their new school, MaryEllen Bay Middle School. Kasandra and her friends, John, Shakira, and Darling, have been recruited to Animal Guard, a secret...

Fraught is a work of immersive Christian science fiction and fantasy penned by author Kerry Nietz and forms the second book in the DarkTrench Shadow series. Following on from the events of Frayed, we return to the world of the debuggers after ThreadBare has broken...

Bloodlines by Mariah Hayes is a fantasy with a fascinating setting in the kingdom of Galatia. King Richard is murdered by his own mother, and the queen, Lydia Galatianti, finds herself running for her life. She is determined and desperate to protect the child she...

Gazelle in the Shadows by Michelle Peach is an enthralling tale of adventure and espionage set in the mid-90s. Elizabeth Booth is a student of Arabic at Durham University, someone who loves to travel, obsessed with the desire to visit legendary places. When the opportunity...

The Hope of the South falls into the historical fiction and contemporary action sub-genres and this engaging adventure was penned by author Bruce Thomas. Interweaving mysterious plot threads from past and present, much of the action concerns the end of the American Civil War, and...

Curious 14-year-old Wade Cullen and his 13-year-old sister, Mira, investigate an abandoned house in their neighborhood that once belonged to a wealthy planter in the mid 19th century. While exploring the upper floor, Mira sees a bloodied ghost of a woman. Scared and determined never...

In Murder At 221 Beacon Hill by D. Howard Armstrong, advertising executive Maggie Matheson was supposed to spend a beautiful holiday weekend with her fiancé, Edward Myers, in his Long Island mansion on Christmas night. Instead, she found him brutally murdered. His untimely death leads Maggie into...

Don't Be Home for Christmas by Richard Wickliffe is a modern suspense thriller following lead character Kyle Colbert, a Santa tie-wearing Manhattan executive who, as it turns out, is about to get the Christmas shock of a (potentially shortened) lifetime after he heads home to...