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Review: Weeping Water by J.T. Ruby ★★★★

Weeping Water by JT Ruby is an epic novel about cryonic suspension – freezing something with life-threatening injuries in order to heal them when there are significant advances in medical technology. It follows Annie, who dies in a plane crash in the eighties, and Elliot, who dies in a car accident in the nineties, as they try to piece together their lives after being unfrozen. Spanning many generations and covering cryogenics from every angle, Weeping Water is a fast-paced and thought-provoking read.

Like the best of science fiction, Weeping Water poses a number of interesting questions about advances in technology. […]

SPR2019-01-22T15:38:49+02:00January 8th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Illuminarium by Truth Devour ★★★★

Illuminarium, by Truth Devour, is the creative and thought-provoking first installment in the planned five book Soliloquy’s Labyrinth series.

Harper, a forensic psychologist, discovers a book while hiking in a redwood forest. The book isn’t normal and Harper feels compelled to read it. York, the author of the book, describes the horrors he lived through during his stay in a sanitarium many decades ago. York is struggling between good and evil and Harper is glued to the pages. But is the book only a book or is it more? And why did it present itself to Harper?

This fantasy […]

T B Markinson2016-01-06T05:43:18+02:00January 6th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Urban Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: The Healthy Habit Revolution by Derek Doepker

We all have habitual behaviors we wish we could jettison: biting fingernails, interrupting spouses, eating candy bars while watching reality shows. And of course there are many behaviors we don’t have that we wish we did: regular exercise, healthy meals, daily writing, perhaps? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could make those desired behaviors as habitual—as easy to do and as hard to avoid—as the troublesome ones?

Well, it’s not exactly easy, but if you follow the program Doepker sets out in this slim but thoroughly packed volume, you’ll almost certainly see changes. Everyone has something they’d like to do […]

Cate Baum2019-02-11T09:28:20+02:00January 6th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Health Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: The Midnight Land: Part One: The Flight by E.P. Clark ★★★★

The Midnight Land: Part One: The Flight by E.P. Clarke When Krasnoslava Tsarinovna, younger sister to the Empress of Zem’, wishes to be let free to explore the world, her wish is unexpectedly granted when an Imperial soldier approaches the kingdom for support in exploring the Midnight Land; the land beyond the sun-line. The young royal volunteers for the mission, and unexpectedly, is allowed to join. Soon picking up the somewhat more casual moniker “Slava”, Slava and her companions venture into the unknown in The Midnight Land: Part One: The Flight by E.P. Clark.

The story of the unhappy princess of an exotic land is nothing new to fiction, of […]

James Grimsby2016-01-05T09:10:15+02:00January 5th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Dodger’s Doorway by Alessandro Reale

★★★½ Dodger's Doorway by Alessandro Reale

In many ways, Dodger is a typical teenager. He suffers from bullying at school, struggles to fit in, and tries to act like he doesn’t care about trouble at home. But Dodger is slowly drowning under the stress. What’s worse, he knows he could make things better if he would only stand up for himself, but Dodger cannot summon the courage to face his fears…until he stumbles upon a magical portal to the alternate realm of Storyworld, that is.

Dodger is pushed into the unsettling role of hero in a world of magic and mayhem where fairy tales have […]

Henry Baum2016-03-04T03:51:30+02:00January 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: Masque (The Two Monarchies Sequence) by W.R. Gingell

★★★★½ Masque by W.R. Gingell

Masque by W.R. Gingell is a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” yet an engaging fantasy all its own, adding an intriguing murder mystery to the mix. Lady Isabella Farrah, an ambassador’s daughter, stumbles on a murder scene at the ball – one of her best friends has been killed. The investigation is led by Lord Pecus, the “Beast,” who wants Isabella out of the investigation. When her father is implicated in the murder, she decides to be held in his place at Lord Pecus’ manor, where she’s intent on solving the murder, and freeing Lord Pecus from his […]

Lysa Grant2016-03-04T03:52:05+02:00January 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Mystery of the Moonfire (Book 2 of the Spectraland Saga) by Brian Tashima

★★★½ Mystery of the Moonfire by Brian Tashima Life can be weird sometimes when you’re a teenager, but not as weird as seventeen-year-old Joel Suzuki. He’s a pretty average guy, he’s in a band, just got a record deal, he has some good friends, and he has (mostly) fond memories of living in a weird place called “Spectraland” too – a world apart from the Earth he’s living on now. They might have stayed memories, too, if an old friend hadn’t have come to one of his gigs to deliver grave news about the fate of his old home: not only is his clan in trouble, but […]

James Grimsby2016-03-04T03:52:40+02:00December 31st, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: Dissident (Forbidden Things #1) by Nikki McCormack ★★★★★

Dissident: Forbidden Things Book One by Nikki McCormack is a rollicking epic fantasy novel.

Indigo has great power, but her country, Caithin, has placed severe limitations on the use of ascard, which can strengthen, heal, and create. It can also destroy. Indigo, an orphan from a disgraced family, is engaged to an abusive and jealous man and is afraid to leave him because of her tenuous situation in society.

Yiloch, the prince of Lyra, wants to overthrow the mad emperor, who is also Yiloch’s father.

When Indigo and Yiloch meet their lives change as well as the fate of […]

T B Markinson2016-01-12T08:44:10+02:00December 30th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|