Pete Marsh is your everyday fellow, you know, life, love, girlfriend, boring job at a bookshop. Oh, he does have an imaginary friend named Albert, but doesn’t everyone? The way Book of Spells author Bill Lucas put it: So one day you inherit a bookshop. It turns out […]
Author Frank Okolo doesn’t offer much of a description to The Contractor: “An unpredictable U.S. president. Trumped by the Russians. And a terror group. The Secret Service has reason to be afraid. No one survives the Contractor.” Still, it’s obvious what his point is: opponents of the […]
Screw the Devil’s Daiquiri by Rayme Michaels is a strange brew of young, angry man angst and schizophrenia. The author knows this, as the preview runs: “When womanizer, and possible schizophrenic, John Hazel, is suddenly offered a serious job promotion by the CEO of his company, David Wall, under […]
Those who would read of Fantasy and Myth shall be entranced by Music And The Tree Who Loved Her. Sure, that’s a strong start to a review, but if you love a work of fantasy, the story presented by author J. A. Bennett is top notch. What I […]
Patrick Kanouse is an author who knows where he wants to go with a story, and The Clearing begins in medias res with immediate, significant action, and pulls the reader along with the sometimes reluctant characters. The protagonist, Dean Wallace, a divorced, former New York City detective, finds […]
Kerrie Noor’s novel, The Downfall of a Belly Dancer, arrived on Kindle November 19, 2016. It runs 231 pages – that’s about 2870 sections on my Kindle Fire. This is a quirky, funny account of a troupe of women dancing through their friendship’s familiarity, and their life’s uncertainty in their […]
John A. Heldt is the prolific author of American Journey, a series of books dealing with time travel and the mysteries they could present. Class of ’59 is the fourth offering, putting modern day Mary Beth McIntire on a collision course with Mark Ryan, who just happens to reside […]
Robert Masello’s World War II epic, The Einstein Prophecy reads a bit like Indiana Jones, not quite as campy, not quite as cute, but it carries the same time frame and involves a college professor lured into the action by an ancient sarcophagus that everyone wants, especially the […]
John A. Heldt is an imaginative writer. He takes us on a visual tour of his character’s surroundings and floods our senses with colorful descriptions. Some of which are important for later reference. I was very intrigued by the main question of the story, which is: what would […]
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