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Review: The Song That Seduced Paris by Cindy Irish ★★★★★

The Song That Seduced Paris (The Bel Homme Quartet Book 1), by Cindy Irish, is a sexy, stylish, and heartwarming romance.

Teddy Wilson, an American music mogul, knows what it takes to be successful. When he enlists four gorgeous male singers, combining opera and pop, he believes the group will be a worldwide phenomenon.

Gabriel Grenier is an accomplished French singer and celebrity. Yet, he’s bored and lonely.

Annie Morgan, an American music teacher, recently suffered a great loss. Aunt Harriet recruits Annie to be Teddy’s executive assistant. Annie gets more than she bargained for. When she meets Gabriel, sparks […]

T B Markinson2022-10-21T11:53:47+02:00November 12th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Romance Book Reviews|

Review: The Flight of the Mayday Squadron by Steve A. Madison ★★★★

The Flight of the Mayday Squadron The Flight of the Mayday Squadron is a high-octane conspiracy thriller about an epic battle between good and evil. The North American Order is a nefarious group with origins all the way back to the Roman Empire, and have been responsible for everything from the rise of Hitler to the JFK assassination. Their goal is to create a feudal utopia, and it’s up to a group of pious combat veterans to put a stop to a plot that is centuries in the making.

In order to talk about this book, it’s important to understand the author’s intention from his biography […]

Henry Baum2015-12-18T07:04:35+02:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror Edited by Joshua Viola ★★★★★

Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror by Joshua Viola and Steve Tem Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror is a horror anthology put together with the collaboration of authors Joshua Viola and Steve Rasnic Tem along with a multitude of contributors, all with a central theme of bad dreams. As elaborated in the foreword, the essence of nightmare could almost be described as pleasant, whereas a night terror – or a “nightmare unhinged” – is a far more potent, deep fear that the collection hopes to evoke.

It must be said that, strikingly, the cover and overall book layout and presentation is darkly gorgeous, even down to the perfect new-gothic style fonts. […]

James Grimsby2015-11-23T05:47:38+02:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Horror Book Reviews|

Review: Katya: A Mystery and Romance by Jon Martell and Jamie McCormick ★★★★

Katya: A Mystery and Romance, by Jon Martell and Jamie McCormick, explores the depths of personal secrets.

A woman’s body is discovered inside a medieval tower in rural Germany. A detective unaccustomed to investigating suspicious deaths attempts to piece together the clues. He starts to wonder if the events leading to the death go back thirty years and takes place in Germany and America.

What happened in the tower? And are people in today’s world allowed to have secrets?

This mystery is a curious twist on the genre. Officer Max Forscher is a small town policeman and he’s perfectly content […]

T B Markinson2015-12-04T06:32:29+02:00November 11th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Mystery Book Reviews, Romance Book Reviews|

Review: Nine-Tenths of the Law by Glenn H. Mitchell ★★★★

Nine Tenths of the Law by Glenn H. Mitchell is a pulse-pounding noir novel that takes a serious turn for the dark. The center of this tale is Detective Ben Ricci, a fair mess of a police detective with a drug-addled past and drug-addled wife. Continuously under suspicion for his bad behavior, Ricci becomes embroiled in solving a horrifying crime in which a young man has been disemboweled with supernatural underpinnings – taking him to investigate an immortal mannequin, a family of witches, a book on the occult, and the murderous spirit of a dead child. Part crime fiction, part […]

Henry Baum2020-12-23T05:52:26+02:00November 9th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Crime Fiction Book Reviews, Horror Book Reviews|

Review: Cnut: Rise of a Viking Warrior by Kyle Miller ★★★★

Cnut: Rise of a Viking Warrior by Kyle Miller follows Cnut as he grows into a young man and trains to be a warrior in the British Isles after his mother Astrid, a shield maiden and the daughter of a jarl, leaves the Norselands to come to Wessex after falling pregnant. The storytelling is something like the style of Ken Follet – a lighter historical read that does not focus so much on true history and fact as the character’s journey. Detail of Cnut’s warrior training by his friend Rolf, and his foray into romance with Hild — and into […]

Cate Baum2015-11-02T05:46:43+02:00October 30th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Cats of Rekem by C. L. Francisco ★★★★

The Cats of Rekem, by C. L. Francisco, is a thoughtful story about Jesus and his followers told from a feline perspective.

This is the third book in the Yeshua’s Cats series and it opens with the characters from A Cat Out of Egypt twenty-five years later. In the Nabataean city of Rekem there’s religious and political discord. Tikos, Zaidan, their daughter Hinat, and their faithful cats are placed in a dangerous situation when Yeshua and Mari appear before and after the Resurrection. Yeshua makes a request: help save Paul of Tarsus. Can they and what will the consequences […]

T B Markinson2015-12-17T08:27:01+02:00October 30th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Candlelight in a Storm by Naveen Sridhar

Candlelight in a Storm by Naveen Sridhar

Candlelight in a Storm by Naveen Sridhar is the historical biography of his wife. Born during World War II and fleeing the violence there, later fleeing communist regimes as a teenager, and traveling the world, meeting her husband in Berlin, her story is at once colorful and harrowing. John F. Kennedy came to Germany and said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” signifying that Germany did not need to be forever tarnished with the legacy of the Nazi party, and there was a generation of Germans looking to establish peace and freedom in the country. Candlelight in a Storm is the ode […]