King Neptune's Delite by Gita V. Reddy is a cute story for children set against the backdrop of the sea. Maya, along with her brother Satish and two friends, Raju and Jacob, collected smooth pebbles, driftwood and seashells for Moosa who owns a curio shop,...

Planet Ethos is at war with the mysterious, reptile-like enemy known as the Splicers. Their only successful defense is the Prime Initiative. All newborns with the compatible genetic code are injected with the Prime Stimulus. Each child that survives the stimulus develops an extraordinary ability...

Second Chances by Lincoln Cole is a story about journeys of self-discovery. It opens with a meeting held at a school in a white suburb that a judge has ruled must accept children bused in from a black neighbourhood. Lakeisha, a black widowed mother of...

Ripples Through Time is Lincoln Cole’s story of elderly Calvin Greenwood as, recently bereaved of his wife Emily and feeling he has no more to live for, he looks back over his life from childhood, through growing up years, marriage, parenthood and into older age....

Celeste Chaney's In Absence of Fear takes readers into a safer future. Marus Winde is a senior algorithm architect working for the State on the Isle. He is married to Shey Vanguard and they have a son, Cade. The Isle is a sanctuary which has...

Nani is a young girl and badly injured when she is brought to Dr. and Mrs. Miller, missionaries in an isolated part of Brazil. Nani doesn't know who she is or anything about her past. The stranger who brought her tells the Millers that he...

Tryouts for Ben by Jean M Cogdell is a cute storybook for children where they find themselves relating with the woes of the main character, Benjamin Wade Marshall, who spends too much time playing video games. His parents want him to get out of his...

Artemis Ravenwing, the rightful heir to the throne of Blackwen City, struggles to accept her dhampir heritage as she plots to confront Arlina, who murdered her mother to usurp the title of Mistress of Blackwen. Artemis and her allies are heading to Westyron, a human-run...

Lady of the Loch by John C. Ryan is a fast paced historical novel. Paden is betrothed to a man she has never seen in her life. But her father thinks he is the best match for her and she accepts the decision like any...

Life changed dramatically for Dana Montgomery, the main character in The Glass Ball, after her father died. Her mother succumbed to the offer of help from his brother, who moved into their home to help support them. This was a dramatic life changer for little...

When the description for the book asked, "Have you always been beating yourself up and saying that you are not good enough or that you have failed your loved ones, yourself and the society?," I knew I had to read NLP: Simple Neuro Linguistic Programming...

Love Lost is a book of poetry by Ivan Veljanoski. It’s a beautifully written book of angst and love for a woman. At just thirty-eight pages, it is a very quick read. Each page contains one poem. In just a few words on each page,...

Jessie Low Gan’s book, Misty, is set on Earth, but Misty herself has been trained by the government of Tetris from when she was eight years old. She is now fifteen and determined to do her part in banishing the forces of evil from the...

Liun Frec by Jessie Low Gan is the story of three very different young kids who stand up and make a difference in the world. Misty is the star child. She is going to become the best soldier in the Tetris army and there is...

The Darkness Hunter by Christopher Valen is the sixth novel in the John Santana series featuring Homicide Detective John Santana. The Darkness Hunter is told in two parts, titled Then and Now. Then starts off when Santana is called to investigate the murder of a...

Death Calls by K.K. Weakley is a dark fantasy about people with strange powers in different countries, such as Ireland and the United States. Victor Wright is a homicide detective with the gift of necromancy. His partner and seer, Joe Savage, has spent years...

Oh Brother!: A Nico and Tugger Tale by Kimberly Sentek is a delightful storybook for children that revolves around Nico and Tugger, two dogs. Nico was the only dog in the house till Tugger was brought home. Nico thought Tugger acted like a baby. He...

Grumble and Tumble: A Nico and Tugger Tale by Kimberly Sentek is a delightful story of two dogs and how they look at the world. Tugger wants Nico to wake up and play with him but Nico wants to stay in bed. He has already...

I’m going to start this review by giving Future Prometheus by J.M. Erickson the highest praise I think anyone can give a book. I could not put it down. There are a lot of characters in the Future Prometheus series and I found myself caring...

The Death of Death by K.N. Parker deals with the upcoming death of twelve-year-old Tabitha Wilkinson, who is visited by a death guide to be told she will be moving on to the next realm two days from then. Tabitha is curious about the guide...