The Ceiling Man is a contemporary horror novel written by Patricia Lillie. Abby and her parents, Carole and Jim, lived fairly normal lives, that is, if being a young adult with autism can ever be considered fairly normal. Port Massassauga, Ontario, was not quite a...

The best feeling a reader and reviewer can experience comes from knowing in the first few paragraphs of a book that one is in the sure hands of a professional and skillful writer about to tell a rip-roaringly good yarn. Seamus Beirne is an exceptionally...

Deeply Flawed: The Zombie Apocalypse by Ro Ruffalo is the second book in the Jasmine Kincaid Mystery series. In this entry in the series, readers are introduced to Detective Jasmine Kincaid who has to save the city by stopping a deadly and sinister sociopath who...

I really enjoyed this book. I was attracted to Children of Covenant by Fred Howard by the brief description of the story, but I was still surprised at the depth of the contents. A Muslim man, Ismael Hagarson, is refused permission to buy a building...

Believe by Jo-Marie is the exciting story of Adi and her friends whose world exists in a forest. Adi lives in Maple Community, a small town inside a Sugar Maple tree in Vermont. One day they realize that there is a crack in the bottom...

Proud American: The Migrant, Soldier, and Agent by Sergio Tinoco is a first-person account of three distinct phases of the author’s life. Beginning his senior year in high school, Sergio realizes he wants to be the one to break the cycle of migrant work...

Set against the backdrop of the Christmas season, Milton the Christmas Moose by Steve and Jean Goodwin is a story of compassion, self-acceptance, and love. Milton the Moose loves Christmas and his entire family, along with him, counted down the days to Christmas every year....

JK Battaglia’s A Hope of Life features great characters, a great plot and powerful themes, including end-times, political intrigue, and a woman’s struggle to reconnect with the only thing that could give purpose to her life. Ashton Deveraux Forte has suffered so much in a...

I loved Broken Dolls by Tyrolin Puxty! I was first drawn by the strange cover; it had a sci fi-ish look, yet an innocence hidden in the form of a partial ballerina—a broken doll. Hmm, I thought. What could this be about? I was very...

One perfect word quickly comes to mind when trying to distill the effect of Theodore Jerome Cohen’s collection of short (truly short) stories in The Road Less Taken. The word is: Gripping. And I do not use that word lightly. I mean, utterly, sometimes devastatingly,...

Sara Flutterbye is a scientist and professor at the university in the big city. She has just moved into the city in Sara Flutterbye and the Spooky Woods by John Hallis. She goes to a little café, Birdie’s, and introduces herself as someone who studies...

Gramble Thyssen discovers just how small the world is when he begins to investigate the connection between organized crime and the Indian casinos in Miami in The Gramble Chronicles 1: Sophie’s Playlist by Michael Finocchiaro. This convoluted tale is told by numerous characters, each somehow...

Nothing is sustainable without effort and, with a relationship, often the time spent investing in it, and the other person, enhances and nurtures it. Over time people change, and so too does the nature of a relationship - they will grow and adapt, and sometimes...

Eden: A Novel is a family saga. It is a story that spans the years from 1915 until the present day. Eden is about a family that, like so many real life families, is dysfunctional, loving, and faces many ups, downs , happy times,...

I had the great privilege to review Theodore Jerome Cohen’s Book 2 of The Road Less Taken, and I mentioned there the primary descriptive word for his great skill at short story writing: Gripping. Actually, I may have said: Utterly Gripping. Having the honor then...

Earth Inherited: A Short Tale of Planetary Plague & Astronomical Affliction is a science fiction short story written by Justine Avery. In a matter of just five earth days, momentous world-changing events took place that most certainly merited the selfies Nathan took in that conference...

Neurosis by Anthony Carinhas is a riveting story about the great love affair between Christian Wall, a lawyer, and Gregory Collins, a high school student. They first meet while shopping and Gregory, being the more assertive one, asks for Christian’s number. A love story is...

Hearing Voices: An Isaac Blaze Thriller by Axel Cruise is the story of a man named Isaac Blaze. Some might call him crazy, some might call him a sociopath, but to himself, he is just Isaac Blaze. He has two voices in his head; one...

Confident Public Speaking: Being Heard Above the Noise by Rosemarie Barnes is an insightful book and gives good tips on how to have the voice of a great speaker so that you can be heard above the noise. The book deals with the different types...

Wow, wow, wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading the excellent new book by author Geoff Baggett, Partisans and Refugees: Patriots of the American Revolution Series, Volume 2. This book absolutely grabbed me from the very first pages and kept me obsessively...