The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Killing an Idea: Exhuming Say’s Law by Rand McGreal ★★★★
In a similar approach to the 90s breakout hit The Wealthy Barber, the book is something […]
Review: Fractured Idols by Kevin Austin ★★★★
Sebastian Cartwright, an interior designer, lives in London’s super-rich Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. His colleague Magda, a Hungarian émigré, introduces Sebastian to her new friend Madeleine Armitage, a corporate wife. Madeleine irritates Sebastian right from the start. Magda’s lover Phillip, Viscount Brampton, invites Sebastian, Madeleine, and her husband for a long weekend in Spain. As soon as the long weekend starts, sparks fly.
The majority of this novella only has two scenes. The […]
Review: Death by Disputation by Anna Castle ★★★★★
Death by Disputation: A Francis Bacon Mystery (Book 2), by Anna Castle, is a clever historical fiction whodunit.
Thomas Clarady is recruited to spy on a radical group of Puritans at Cambridge University in 1587. Francis Bacon is his spymaster. The mission doesn’t start off well. Tom’s chief informant is found hanging. The university assumes the man killed himself. Tom is convinced he was murdered. Now Tom must figure out who killed his informant and spy on the radical group, especially since he believes the two are linked. Can Tom figure out they mystery before it’s too late?
This is […]
Review: Kai by Derek Vasconi ★★★★★
The disconcerting tale of Kai by Derek Vasconi follows the harbored Satsuki Takamoto, a girl living through a downward spiral of social exclusion, universal envy and ever-deepening depression; in comparison, Seul Bi Rissiello – a resident of Evanston, Illinois – is caring for the mentally ill as she strives for meaning in her life after the brutal loss of her parents in gruesome circumstance. Although unaware of each others existences, both girls live a seemingly poetic tandem of suffering as an unexpected thread ties their tortures together.
This book is quite an eloquent, yet biting read: the slow, creeping, eventually […]
Review: Ten Mistakes Made by Most Pulpit Committees by Don K. Clements ★★★★★
Review: Rotville by Bryce Bentley Summers ★★★★
In the year 2030, humanity is devastated by a terrifying plague that forces survivors into a life of cloistered fear. A quarantine is built into a city, known as Colloseo, where Colloseo Super Max Prison houses some of the worst examples of the surviving human race. When a military genius comes up with a new super-soldier program using these violent outcasts, twenty-year-old Dylan is inducted into a series of experiments to enhance his body and replace his mind. The plan goes awry, forcing one doctor to gift the former Dylan a chance at free will in order to save the […]
Review: Seeds of Hatred by Christian Nadeau ★★★
The lands of humanity are slipping into chaos. The Brotherhood of Khan reigns with an iron, tyrannical fist. The aristocracy displays hollow smiles and plots to regain lost power. The Fey lurk on the fringes, harboring centuries-old resentments. The Abraxans, servants of darkness, make ready to unleash a series of crippling attacks, while the Ezekans, cult of light, frantically struggle to weather the impending storm. Allegiances crumble, assassins eliminate targets, and fanatics burn it all. Behind the turmoil, ancients join the game. War is inevitable.
Into this bedlam of […]
Review: Identifying And Overcoming Fear So That You Can Get The Job You Have Always Wanted by Deloris Cook ★★★★
That is not a problem in Deloris Cook’s helpful and well-written manual Identifying And Overcoming […]