Category: Reviews

By Barbara Kingsolver © 2009, HarperCollins ASIN: B000QTE9WU Kindle Edition; File size 2370 KB When Orleanna’s fiery Baptist husband, Nathan Price, takes her and their four daughters to the Belgian Congo on a mission trip in 1959, none of them can foresee the tragic consequences of his ill-fated decision. The nation is already poised on…

By Carmen Baca ASIN: B0BM3PFKRJ Paperback, 233 pages, © 2022 Fourteen-year-old Bella is bored. A visit to her grandmother’s ranch in New Mexico leaves her with nothing to do in the evenings, so she climbs into the abandoned attic in search of a book. Instead, she falls into a photograph in an old album. She’s…

By Julee Balko GenZ Publishing ISBN: 978-1952919459 Paperback, 276 pages. © July 20, 2021 Serena’s mother is dead. Her husband, dad, sister, aunt, everyone expects her to react in a certain way to this transition, but her difficult relationship with her mother complicates Serena’s grief, making it difficult to express or share with her loved…

By Theophanes Avery © 2020 ISBN: 9798678763990 266 pages When Thetis learns from the soothsayer that her newborn Achilles is doomed to die in battle, Thetis thinks she can outwit the Fates by dipping Achilles in the River Styx, which renders him invulnerable. But as he gets older, she begins to doubt her solution, and…

(Presence Unknown, Paranormal Investigators, Book 1) By Maia Strong © 2021 ISBN-13: 978-0-9884004-5-0 312 pages Todd’s familiar with ghosts. He already has one in his vintage VW Beetle, and another in his house that steals his spoons. When the spoons in his coffee shop also disappear, Todd is convinced to call Ben and Frieda from…

By Harper L. Carnes © 2022 Print ISBN: 979-8-9862274-0-5 Ebook ISBN: 979-8-9862274-1-2 (Available September 13, 2022; cover forthcoming) Seventeen-year-old Seth’s haunted past shapes his brooding present and feeds the nightmares that still trouble him almost nightly. But when he meets Gabriel, a beautiful man several years his senior, things start looking up. Seth finally believes…

By Leslie Kain Atmosphere Press ISBN 978-1-63988-407-0 Ebook. © 2022 Mirror twins Devon and Gavin are raised in a household where men are tough, where their father believes Devon will always be a winner and Gavin will always be a loser. After years of his abusive indoctrination, Devon and Gavin believe it, too. Devon joins…

Book One of the Scribes Series By Dylan West Pickle Jar Press ISBN: 979-8-9859831-0-4 Paperback, 334 pages. © 2022 Forced to flee her homeworld as a child due to world-shattering earthquakes, Mallory now lives on Planet Daishon, where earthquakes are unheard of—until a big quake shakes the very foundations of everything she takes for granted,…

By Duncan Eagleson Pink Narcissus Press ISBN: Kindle, 372 pages. © 2014 Bay City is haunted by a supernatural serial killer the newsfeeds have named “The Beast.” City Boss Micah Roth calls on the Railwalkers—a shamanic Order trained in both clerical and warrior skills—to champion his cause and return the city to some semblance of…

By Claire North Redhook, an imprint of Orbit/Hatchett ISBN: 9780316399623 Paperback, 432 pages. © 2014 Harry August is dying for the eleventh time. Every life, he’s reborn in the same year, at the same place, by the same mother, with all his prior memories intact. No matter how he lives his life, world events unfold…