“Ruins of the Mind” by Craig A. Wright is a very well-conceived dystopian novel, set on a future Earth, decimated by a global virus, released from an Egyptian mummy discovered in the Sahara Desert. The evil spirit of that mummy was released at the same...

"Scandal in the Night" by Elizabeth Essex is a piece that gives the reader a glimpse into the life of a Scottish lass Catriona and the second son of a British noble, Thomas Jellicoe, and the life that might have been enjoyed if one...

Tales of the Booga Dooga Land: The Wormus, by Deepak Menon, is a creative children’s story with the kind of silliness that keeps a child’s interest. When the Wormus awakens from his hundred-year sleep, he begins to eat everything in sight. The Silver Dragon can’t...

The Sanctum was created to maintain peace and order among the magicals and to make sure that people are none the wiser about them. Ryker and Wyatt are two of the best warriors for the Sanctum. Their next mission is to find and eliminate the...

A Cry in the Night: The City of Lights' Dark Side by Mary S. Brown Durr is a murder story set in the Jim Crow era. It is based on the murder of a young civil rights participant. It is also the personal experience of...

The Immortal Empire series by Kate Locke is such an imaginative series! Xandra Varden, half goblin queen, thought that her troubles would be over once she accepted the Goblin Throne, and suddenly had the most vicious army in the known world at her beck and...

The minute Dane McArdle bumped into her as she was leaving the doctor’s office, her whole world began to change drastically. Sophia Armitage had some significant decisions to make about how she was going to handle her future and who was going to be in...

Secrets of the Dry Bones: Ezekiel 37:1-14 - The Mystery of a Prophet’s Vision by Susan Rohrer is an in-depth explanation of the passage of scripture about the valley of dry bones. On a spiritual level, Miss Rohrer is suggesting that each person must dig...

Bruce and the Road to Courage - (The Adventures of Bruce and Friends) (Volume 1) by Gale Leach is the story of Bruce who does not want to become a butterfly. Bruce is the butt of jokes among other caterpillars because of his fear of...

After The Final Rose Has Fallen (The Beyond Lost Poetry Series) by David Ash is a collection of poems that showcase the various moods of the poet. The importance of a woman's role in a man's life is another theme that has been covered in...

Over the past several months I've read many books that ranged from very badly written to excellent. Fortunately, the very bad were only 2% of the total and the good to excellent made up the next 97%. Division of the Marked by March McCarron exceeds...

Having read book one of The Fearless series (The Forest Bull), I knew going in that Mask of the Swan would be an exceptional read. This expectation doubled as Ring, Waleska (Wally) and Risa continued their chosen mission of eliminating immortals from our world, and...

Out of the Past is the latest in Renée Pawlish’s comic mystery series featuring Denver Private Eye, Reed Ferguson. In this tale, Reed is strong-armed – both physically and metaphorically – into baby-sitting the spoiled, brattish daughter of local businessman, Forrest McMahon. Reed’s charge, Stephanie...

In What's the Matter?, Renee Heiss and Gary A. Stewart bring to life something that is usually pretty boring: temperatures, the particles of matter, and other basic science tools. Ning, Ellie, and Priti are particles that are bent on saving their good friend Ice from...

In Behind the Teacher’s Desk by Chris Williams, readers follow Claire Hebert, a high school instructor, through the second term of a high school year. While Claire’s hours are filled with student requests, class preparation, instruction, hall duty, extracurricular activities, and more, she longs to...

In the middle of Indiana, tucked away outside of Indianapolis, sits a manor house where the Lake family lives. It's not your normal family. Grant Lake is the Keeper of the family, and an ani-shifter, a wolf precisely. But Grant has heard the call of...

Author Robert Peecher, Jr. offers his latest Jackson Speed story entitled Jackson Speed on the Orange Turnpike. He has done a lot of fascinating research which leads to an interesting story. However, his lead character, Jackson Speed, is not a main character you will like....

What happens when four party-girl best friends catch the attention of the underworld’s most powerful vampire? Vampire Cove – The Red Cliffs, book two of the White Light Chronicle by R.J. Truman follows the girls as they head for what they think will be a...

Rise of The Black Hand is the debut novel of US writer, C. J. Fella, and is the first in a series. The book is an effective mix of futuristic science fiction and old-school, hard-boiled detective fiction. The story follows the wise-cracking and rather violent...

Dancing on the Head of a Pen: The Practice of a Writing Life by Robert Benson is a sage blend of advice and inspiration. It reads like a conversation with the author himself as Benson delves into many aspects of his own writing life, from...