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Review: The Children of Cain: House of Dvanaesti by David R. Bishop & J. Scott Cordero ★★★★

Gabriel Hawthorne never chose an easy life – his days investigating some of the filthiest secrets, personal and political, have marked him out. But every man has his limit, and when Gabriel stumbles onto the biggest skeleton in human history’s closet, he must find a way to survive.

Hunted by legendary beings many call “vampires” and held in prison-sanctuary by a mythical cult of information, will Gabriel wriggle out of this ancient struggle alive or be just another victim of the longest war of human history? Knowledge is power in The Children of Cain: House of Dvanaesti by David R. […]

James Grimsby2015-10-10T06:06:03+02:00October 10th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Vampires Book Reviews|

Review: A Season of Transitions by R.M. Gibson ★★★★

Set in New York during the late 60s, A Season of Transitions by R.M. Gibson follows single father, Cam Gordon through his career and parenting episodes while maintaining a full dating life.

This book is presented to the reader with a fairly clinical analysis with a prologue in the form of a letter from the author to the reader mentioning “women’s lib” (in quotation marks as if it was but a fancy) and voting for “blacks”, setting the tone for the rest of the book: a pretty sterile, white, male perspective of the social aspects of 1960s and 70s America.[…]

Naka Jackson2015-10-27T08:33:15+02:00October 9th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews, Men's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Finding Lucy by Tess Morrison ★★★★

Finding Lucy by Tess Morrison is a really delicious read for lovers of romance with a spark of something different – packaged beautifully with a pretty cover. I’m always a fan of a full moon in a design, and here the moon reflects the fact that the book centers around the aptly-named Moonlight Bay Camp For Kids in Butternut Creek, and one of its counselors, Lucy Mitchell.

Lucy has been working at the Camp for a very long time, and when Ian Flynn turns up with his macho ideas and city tastes, all she can think of is how to […]

Naka Jackson2015-10-30T05:23:25+02:00October 8th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Romance Book Reviews|

Review: A Force of Nature by Dan McEwen

★★★½

A Force of Nature by Dan McEwen follows Canadian PR superstar, Claire Chandler, as she takes a long weekend in idyllic Bay Harbour. There she meets a number of mysterious and colorful characters. Most mysteriously, she’s shadowed by a ghostly white wolf and the victims of a murder, and she’ll soon solve a decades-old mystery, as well as get into a romantic tryst with enigmatic pilot and treasure-hunter, Tom Katz.

A Force of Nature is the type of book that works on a sentence by sentence level – McEwen is an interesting, eloquent writer who clearly loves his subject […]

Henry Baum2016-03-04T03:57:31+02:00October 7th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews|

Review: Momster by Laura Jensen-Kimball

★★★★½

Momster is a delightful and instructive children’s book about the value of listening and doing your chores – the main value is not turning your mom into a Momster: a screaming, clawing beast with cloven feet and a dragon’s tail.

In spirited rhyme, Momster begins with a boy standing in a playground warning the other kids about the terrible Momster. When his mom asks him to help with the groceries, “It didn’t sound important so I finished the cartoon- Mom called a few more times and then she barked like a baboon!” things escalate from there. Eventually the boy […]

Lysa Grant2016-03-04T03:58:06+02:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Children's Book Reviews, Parenting Book Reviews|

Review: Awaiting the Doomsday by Paul Slutsky ★★★

Awaiting the Doomsday Awaiting the Doomsday is an alien invasion story with an intriguing premise: a second sun suddenly appears in the sky. Astrophysicist Alan Norton makes the discovery that the object has a trajectory unlike any planet. Norton, along with other worldwide scientific leaders from Russia and Japan, among others, is tasked with contacting the craft to understand its motives.

Obviously a civilization that could travel through space is highly advanced, and so potentially dangerous. Some just want to nuke the thing out of orbit immediately. Norton must stem the paranoia in order to save the human race from a self-created disaster.[…]

Henry Baum2020-05-06T03:47:35+02:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Cold Beer and a Hot Dart by Brandon Wolfe

★★★★½ Cold Beer and a Hot Dart by Brandon Wolfe

Cold Beer and a Hot Dart is the inspirational memoir by Brandon Wolfe as he travels from his comfortable home in Washington to the wilds of Australia, Polynesia and beyond, battling disease, cannibals, prostitutes, drug use, and other nefarious problems, as well as having the time of his life. A restless soul at heart, Brandon Wolfe is also a spirited storyteller, making Cold Beer at once a page turner and a moving meditation on finding your place in life.

Wolfe’s own summary of the novel is a very good indication of what you’ll find in the book:

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Henry Baum2016-03-04T04:19:55+02:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Bully by Emme Dun

★★★★★

Bully, by Emme Dun is an intelligent and aptly-timed legal thriller.

Based on true events, Bully kicks off during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The discrimination and hysteria surrounding gay parents resulted in many being treated as second class citizens. By 2008, Joanna Crawford, now an elected family court judge wants to atone for her treatment of her own father, a gay man. Lisa White, a lesbian mother, finds herself in Crawford’s court and their children become political pawns.

First-time author, Emme Dun, has penned an important and fascinating legal thriller that will captivate […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T15:38:03+02:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Legal Thriller Book Reviews, LGBTQI+ Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|