By Maia Kobabe and Phoebe Kobabe Oni Press, © 2019 ISBN: 9781549307515 Paperback 240 pages Reading age: 18 years and up I loved this story. In these pages, Maia—who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and now uses the Spivak pronouns e/em/eir—tells eir story of gender confusion from childhood to adulthood. It was touching, enlightening,…
Author: DremaDeoraich
Enemies Domestic
By John DeDakis © July 3, 2024, Speaking Volumes, LLC ISBN-13: 979-8890221537 Print Version, 336 pages Enemies Domestic follows Lark Chadwick through her new assignment as White House Press Secretary, a job she never wanted, but accepted anyway in order to help her friend, President Will Gannon. From the very start, her early-term pregnancy is…
Jack And Anna: New Scourge Rising
By R.S. Penney © June 3, 2024, Next Chapter ASIN: B0D62DV7FL Kindle Version, file size 1704 KB Jack and Anna are special agents with special powers, bonded with symbionts and out to save the worlds. The excitement suggested by that statement is present throughout the story. Once the action started, it rarely paused. It was…
An Elf With No Name
The Spires Saga, Book 1 By Mortimer Langford © 2022, Next Chapter ASIN: B0BJZ3NYLY Kindle Version, file size 2693 KB What a fun story! Damian Spires is a smart-mouthed war mage who isn’t above skating the edges of legal magic for a variety of reasons—including poker. He’s pretty much prepared for anything that might crop…
The Book of Ge’Odef
Ancient Traveler Tales By R.W. Span © May 23, 2024 ASIN: B0D538DQSD Kindle Version, file size 484 KB From Ge’Odef’s tragic loss of his family at the hands of an invading species to his struggle against those same invaders, The Book of Ge’Odef narrates the journey of a farmer turned warrior turned war hero. Other…
Precious Resource
As an indie author who also works a day job, I stay busy. All. The. Time. I jokingly say that’s a good thing. That it keeps me out of trouble. But in truth, I often feel overwhelmed with all the things on my to-do list. I race from task to task, careening through each day…
Call Me Angel
Tales of Mystery and Woe By John Robert Mack © 2021 ASIN: B096WM8CNG Kindle Version, file size 6367 Wow… what a ride! Call Me Angel is a rollercoaster on two wheels. The action rarely stops. Neither does the snark. All the way through this book, while I was on the edge of my seat and…
The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison Vintage Publishing (Reprint 2007) ASIN: B000TWUTYQ Kindle Version, file size 1375 kb; paperback 206 pages This was not an easy read, and I’ll probably be digesting it for a very long time. Toni Morrison done a splendid job of waving in our faces the horrific concept of beauty vs. ugliness, especially the…
Dragon Apostle
Book 2 of The Projectionists Series By Tobias Youngblood © 2024, Riposte Press LLC ASIN: B0D42BSW2P Kindle Version Dragon Apostle is the second book in Youngblood’s Projectionists Series, and follows close on the heels of book one, Grave Covenant. In Apostle, Ridley is learning to live with the dragon inside him. Iris is trying to…
Witches of Fawsetwood
By Dorothy Louise Abrams Eastman Books And Publishing, © May 1, 2024 ASIN: B0CW1K33X6 Kindle Version, file size 1497 kb; paperback 473 pages This was an intriguing historical fiction novel set in Cumberland, Northern England, in the 12th century. The main character, Alain, is a youth fostered far from his home, to the circle of…