Category: Reviews

By Maxine Blake Illustrated by Jo Titman @2023 MaxineBlake.com ASIN: B0CN3CDZWR Kindle version: file size 2956 KB Paperback, 240 pages. What an interesting and fun peek behind the curtain into the world of teaching and educators! Author Maxine Blake shares some stories—hilarious, awkward, surprising—from her teaching days. Some tales come from her own experience, some…

By Kathy Brandon Illustrated by Jennifer Kasitz © 2023, Munn Avenue Press ISBN: 978-1960299307 40 pages This is such a fun book for the little ones in your life! The story itself is told through the eyes of a young child. While my first reads on this Nonna story and the previous one made me…

By Dylan West © 2023 Pickle Jar Press ASIN: B0CH5L623Y Kindle version; file size 3015 KB Paperback, 430 pages. Scribes Aflame is the second book in the Scribes trilogy, and continues the story of Mallory, Rain, and Boxer, the Scribes foretold in the Book of Books. The adventures and trials they began in book one…

A Psalm for the Wild-Built By Becky Chambers © 2021 TorDotCom ASIN: B08H831J18 Kindle version; file size 3476 KB Paperback, 151 pages. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy By Becky Chambers © 2022 TorDotCom ASIN: B09CNFL3W7 Kindle Version; file size 5020 KB Paperback, 152 pages It’s years after The Awakening, when robots gained sentience, and were…

By N.J. Gallegos © 2023 Winding Road Stories ASIN: B0C7LJ7XRB Kindle version; file size 1658 KB Paperback, 340 pages. Heart failure looms in Casey’s imminent future, while she awaits her turn on the transplant list for a new one. Her deadbeat husband can’t be bothered to help her manage her sociopathic 6-year-old or keep watch…

By C.J. Cherryh © 1994, 2004, DAW ASIN: B006JHXPDW Kindle version; file size 927 KB Five centuries after humans, lost in space and desperate for a world of their own, land on the planet of the atevi, and nearly two centuries after the War of the Landing, atevi and humans share an uneasy peace. With…

By Tobias Youngblood © 2023, Riposte Press, LLC ASIN: B0C9W7SPTV Kindle version; file size 2817 KB Ilyana is an insectile shapeshifter with a dangerous interest in humans. Ridley is an amateur boxer with a death wish. Iris is a knife-wielding nine-year-old on a mission to find her father. Separate characters, each with their own goals,…

By Paige Ewing © 2023, City Owl Press ASIN: B0C4ZJH81L Kindle version; file size 1350 KB Even though spider-kin Liliana sees the past, the future, and into men’s souls, she can still be surprised. After all, no one wakes up wondering if they’ll be accused of murder by a werewolf. This was a great read,…

By Tobias Youngblood © 2023 ISBN: 978-1959649014 Paperback, 196 pages When dire wolves enter the vilskje’s idyllic valley and kill one of their youths, Siv the Seer and his apprentice lure and trap the pack, killing its leader and scattering the other wolves into the forest. The vilskje clan are ecstatic at their victory, but…

The three books of this trilogy—Refuge, Aftershock, and The Bereft—tell the story of the Vennan delegation sent to Tradepoint Station, a meeting and trading place for all sentient lifeforms. Their mission: to demonstrate the arts, trades, music, dance, and crafts of their beloved world, Venna. While most other races that visit Tradepoint rely on technology,…