The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: The Coalition by Samuel Marquis ★★★★
Marquis knows his stuff: the interworkings […]
Review: Banehunter: A Vereldan Tale by Greg McLeod ★★★★★
Something dark stirs off of the coast of Marillin, and soon it will threaten the entire world. As the Wards weaken and the people of the Vales are constantly thwarted in their efforts to push back the darkness – or even merely survive it in many places – only the last of the rangers can hope to put the Bane back into order.
Banehunter: A Vereldan Tale is part of the Vereldan series: fantasy set in the classically-styled world of Vereld. The series also encompasses King of Dreams: A Vereldan Tale and Godhead: Book I of the Aldariad (the latter […]
Review: Next of Kin by Melissa M. Garcia ★★★★
Lake City isn’t accustomed to multiple murder investigations. When Will Stellar, a homicide detective, is called to a crime scene he’s shocked to discover the victim is a childhood friend. But the bigger jolt is the mounting evidence connecting the victim, a suspected prostitute, to the Lake City Police Department. Stellar has to walk a fine line.
When a vigilante, named the Coyote, appears in Lake City, Stellar and his team now have multiple murders to solve. […]
Review: Killing Juggernaut by Jared Bernard
It’s the 23rd Century as determined by the human “common era.” The last human alive is writing his final memories. We follow the story of those that came before: 21st Century ecologist Zara Dimitrov leads a fateful charge into a new era of conservation; 22nd Century’s Mashechka McGuigan, whose father’s passing leaves her with the duty of the gravely important Mission for Earth; Patrick Nelson, who now records humanity’s final fall from grace at the end of our era. A warning for the future and an extrapolation of our present, Killing Juggernaut by Jared Bernard delivers an ecological ultimatum.
The […]
Review: Intelligent Design II: Apocalypse by J.M. Erickson ★★★★
Taking place in the years following the events of Intelligent Design: Revelations, the earthlike society of Terra – nestled, shrouded by technology, in our very solar system – prepares for disaster. As the people of Earth have only now come to realize, Jupiter is about to ignite into a star, destroying all life on its surrounding planets. As former MIT-turned-Terran Andrea Perez tries to hide Terra from Earth with her supreme knowledge of technology, Martian Master Architect Janus calculates the trajectory of disaster, and German Christine Reich prepares her all-female squad of Epsilon Team Six to save the people […]
Review: Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey
★★★★½ 
Embracing the Wild in Your Dog by Bryan Bailey teaches the important and eye-opening lesson that dogs are, and will always be, part wolf. Though owners may anthropomorphize dogs and see them like little humans, they have inherent wild instincts at the core, and this knowledge will enhance every dog owner’s relationship with their dog, as well as how they approach training.
What makes Embracing the Wild such an engaging book is that it’s not only a book for dog owners. I’m not currently a dog owner myself, and the book is a fascinating look into dogs’ true nature, […]
Review: Tales For Your Monkey’s Mind by Steve Michael Reedy ★★★★
The book is sort of like the anti-Roald Dahl. In Roald Dahl’s stories, the external world is sinister and depressing, until you start looking at the magic underneath. In Reedy’s stories, the opposite is the […]
Review: Squirrel Days by Dustin Costa ★★★★
The novel is madcap at times, hardboiled at others, and then absurdist sci-fi […]