The whole premise of True Blackjack is that if you take the time to learn the game of 21, you’ll want to be able to exercise your craft “without being detected.” Author Ron Johnson tells a powerful story about the heady craziness that goes with winning thousands of […]
Anne Kelleher has been writing and publishing for 20-years, but at this point, she has come full circle from the mass market paperback crowd of her first book (Anne Kelleher Bush – Daughter of Prophecy). That novel centered on a dystopian fantasy world with well-defined but complicated rules, […]
The Fallen Body is a good, cozy mystery with a legal sidebar to enhance our enjoyment. First-time author Stone Patrick offers up some small-town Texas flavor, but leaves us hanging occasionally on fairly important things, like the disappearance of someone very close to the protagonist, Taylour Dixxon. Dixxon […]
The author of Sex, Lies, and a Charter School, Dikombi Gite, has a mission to his writing. He presents his work as a novel, although he alludes to changing the names of characters “to protect the innocent ad the guilty.” Once we gain entry to his world there […]
Reading involves travel, and if you aren’t from Australia, Propositions, by Tania Joyce, will give you a chance to feel and learn a bit about the “Land Down Under.” The writing isn’t defined by its involvement with the country, but an exotic backdrop always helps. In this romance […]
Reading transports us to another time, another place and another world when the author has the necessary gifts. Fortunately, new author Emily Kendricks does have some straight-forward writing ability. The words don’t come drifting from the page magically, but her intentions are always clear. In Kendricks’ novel The […]
This isn’t a new novel. Grisham penned this 15-years ago, but his work stands easily against the winds and fortunes of time. That’s the best thing about great literature, it may get bumped to the back of the bus, but the best stories last forever. If you are […]
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