I was quite impressed with Steven Weaver’s The Vault: A Journey of Discovery as I found it an unexpectedly well-written story with distinctive characters, realistic dialogue and a fairly solid plot. While the book is targeted to a younger audience and contains a lot of...

In Captured Lies: Book One of The Caspian Wine Series written by Maggie Thom, Bailey was successful in her adult life. This was a far cry from her pitiful childhood, which mostly consisted of constantly moving from house to house, town to town. All her...

Beyond Life (The Afterlife Series Book 2) by Deb McEwan is a suspenseful fiction story with a fresh take on the afterlife. What really happens when we die? Beyond Life is the second book in The Afterlife Series and takes us deeper into the lives...

The Tall Tall Giraffe by Le'Marqunita Lowe is the cute little story of Ringo the giraffe. Ringo is very tall and he finds it impossible to play indoors. James comes up with the idea that they should play outdoors, have a picnic on the grass,...

Court Out (A Netball Girls’ Drama) by Deb McEwan is a gripping tale that will intrigue young female readers and those who want to explore the emotions women can hide beneath the surface. It’s a story of friendship, lust, greed, and betrayal. The reader is...

An Alien's Guide to the Human Species by Deb McEwan introduces readers to the aliens of the planet Largo. The Terries love watching TV, and especially reality shows are a huge hit. When planet Earth is discovered, the species which regards itself as the most...

Beyond Possession examines the question we all ask ourselves. What happens in the afterlife? Deb McEwan has cleverly intertwined many sub-plots throughout the book, but the main plot is around the accidental death of Claire and Ron. Claire dies in a car crash with a...

Vengeance: A Romantic Suspense Thriller is book two in the Tip of the Spear series by Belle Ami. It is an intriguing, beguiling tale that begs for superlatives to qualify it. A well-plotted and beautifully written story that features terrorists, a powerful Mossad agent, and...

In The Girl Who Knew Da Vinci by Belle Ami, Angela Renatus is an art historian plagued with dreams about Leonardo Da Vinci, Giuliano Medici and his mistress, Fioretta Gorini. When the dreams become more vivid, she starts to wonder if they are really...

The events of Individutopia by Jocelyn Nicholas Sheldon take place in the year 2084. The world has turned into a paradise for individualism. There is no more society. Everyone is his or her own best friend – literally - because you can buy holographic versions...

Life is hard for 24-year-old Truly Alaney. She works three jobs to keep living in an apartment owned by a horrible landlord and to pay for her psychiatric consultations. She has trouble sleeping and suffers from nightmares. She has no memories of her childhood. When...

Between Friends by Elsa Miles captures the moment when Jordan finally sees Tessa for the woman she is. Though they fought more like brother and sister, this initial spark of interest grew into a fully-fledged wildfire that threatened everything they built their friendship upon. Regretting the...

Neola: A Fight For Freedom, penned by author Steven Weaver, is a work of fiction in the action and adventure genre. It is aimed at young adults and contains only some mild scenes of violence. The book follows the life of Brad: a young man...

My Day As Regan Forrester is a work of fiction in the women's literature genre. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Misty Urban. The book follows Beth Barony after she makes a wish for a more exciting...

Victoria Wattiaux has created a tale of magical discovery with the novel Terralena. Divided into four parts, the beginning of the book depicts the mass refugee crowding caused by the Mertonian Army destroying villages. Part One features Elmond, a mystic healer, leading a family through...

A Glimmer in the Dark by Samman Akbarzada is a touching and sometimes tragic look at her life as a refugee from Afghanistan. She writes about her pain, suffering, and fleeting happiness. Her poems have no names only subgenres to describe her story in this...

A movie buff's must have, It Came From the ‘70s is a book you have been waiting for. With over 45 movies produced in the 1970's, this book is one you will cherish for years to come. The ‘70s era brought such films as Rocky,...

The Daddy Diaries by Paul Kemp chronicles a year in the life of the father of two active young boys. “What started out as a way to chronicle my sons' younger years for their later enjoyment,” he writes, “evolved into a way to vent my...

Herve Jaubert begins "Boston Fracture" with a description that made me want to fly to the Caribbean and scuba dive. In my mind’s eye I could see the blue waters, the colorful fish swimming by, the coral reefs, and the bubbles floating to the surface...

"Nightmare at Emerald High" by Joana James is a novel dealing with a theme that in all actuality could be happening to our teenagers today even though they do not realize it. Malcolm Drake is an excellent student in school, raised only by his father...