“Hurry and wait—that was the way of the Royal Navy.” For Lieutenant Joseph Duncan, the protagonist of Sailing Toward the Tempest by Kent M. Schwendy, things are much more complicated than that. The story begins in 1795 aboard HMS Fidelity, where Joseph serves as a...

Alan Champlin's Harry the High Versus Larry the Low takes place in a serene town. The weather is nice and sunny! Everyone's having fun. Harry the High, the superhero of sunshine, praises himself for a job well done. Out of nowhere, dark clouds begin to...

Emerald Drizzleweather Bogwater has an unfortunate name, unfortunate red hair, and an unfortunate tendency to rebel. When she escapes her small, dull, slow village (where everyone and everything is in shades of green) to see the world, she discovers something she wasn't bargaining for...a whole...

A Forever Family Living in the Big House by Sal A. Edwards is a story of sharing and living together. Now by sharing and living together, the author also includes animals. The book is an educational story where the world of children is opened up...

Dinosaur George and the Paleonauts: Episode One: Raptor Island by George Blasing and Mark Miller is an exhilarating and adventurous short story, introducing young readers to the concept of time travel, paleontology, and prehistoric animals and dinosaurs. Move over Jurassic Park; here comes Dinosaur George...

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...

Anna Belfrage’s In the Shadow of the Storm is the first installment in her new The King’s Greatest Enemy series. The setting is 13th century England. The novel follows the adventures, joys, and heartbreak of Kit … a beautiful young woman who is forced...

Wear Your Life Well: Lessons on the Journey to your Truest Self by Helene Oseen is an uplifting book that speaks about the importance of wearing your life well, and gives new ideas to improve one’s life in totality. The author’s personal stories will help...

It is supposed to be just an internet game, a tantalizing game you finish and feel like you have just come out from another world, only it turns out to be more than a game. It turns out to be a very dangerous experience for...

Talking Tales: The Bright Red Tricycle by Erica Graham is an adorable story that revolves around Ryan and his bright red tricycle, which loves riding every day. The tricycle had bright red paint that shimmered in the sun and he was the happiest tricycle in...

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...

My Brother’s Keeper is the first book in the series In The Care Of Wolves, a young adult thriller novel penned by author S. S. Bazinet. Catapulting the werewolf transformation genre into the modern age, we meet sixteen-year-old Theodore many years after his abduction by...

Zombie Fly is a short sharp work of horror penned for young adult audiences and was written by author Ray Cecire. Blending an unusual combination of horror and romantic comedy genres, this delightfully dark book follows the exploits of Katherine Siles, a nineteen-year-old chemistry student...

"Yes, I understood the natural world despite their horrific dispositions. I respected that they had only instincts to guide them. A simple purpose to fulfill: survive. But wasn’t knowing that fact what kept us from living in such a way? The fact that we knew...

Into the Darkness: A Journey into Schizophrenia by Darren Smith is his story after living with “schizophrenia” for the last thirty years. He has gone into the darkness many times but he always found his way back out. He had a fairly normal childhood in...

Phoebe Featherly pens an entertaining educational children’s book in What in the World is a Wild Pongo? Finneas McFarley has been given an assignment by his teacher to find out the species of a Pongo. He has no idea what a Pongo is, but Finneas...

Doubloon Cove: The Secret of the Templars' Satchel is the second book of the Doubloon Cove Series by Kelly Novak. It's 1992, and the Doubloon Cove gang, siblings Cindy and Jeffrey, alongside their friend, Steven, have arrived in Salem hoping to spend a parent-free weekend....

Out in the Rim, everything goes and your survival depends on you alone. In Smoke and Other Storms: The Revere Trilogy #1 by J.L. Delavega, we follow the Revere family headed by the matriarch Moira and her descendants. Having made a name for themselves in...

Ash Like Vengeance by J.L. Delavega is the second book in the Western fantasy Revere Trilogy. In book one, Smoke and Other Storms, the Revere family, an all-female criminal gang led by Moira "The Raven" Revere, survives on the Rim through smuggling, theft, and violence...

Aestrangel the Risen is an epic dark fantasy novel by Maria DeVivo. Aestrangel, the commanding general of Lucifer's Order of the Daimons, is haunted by memories of her time with Jake Parker. After defying Lucifer's orders, she becomes a captive in the Black Keep of...