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Review: A Stalker’s Journey by John C. Lukegord ★★★

Content warning for violence, drug abuse, and sexual abuse, including that of minors.

In Iowa, 1983, when Curtis Ware is driven off the road while escaping from the scene of a drug theft, he is hospitalized for horrific injuries and charged for his crimes based on traumatized, rage-filled, drug-induced testimonies. Released after a single harrowing year in a correctional facility, he quickly grows an impressive rap sheet before moving east, to the quiet Riverside, Maine in 1990.

As the papers begin to report a surprising crime wave for the small town, first with robbery from an unmarked taxi, then with […]

James Grimsby2015-09-10T07:46:00+02:00August 18th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Hattie’s Place by Katherine P. Stillerman ★★★★★

Hattie’s Place by Katherine Stillerman is a touching historical fiction novel set in the early 1900s in South Carolina.

One week before her graduation from Greenville Female College, Hattie Robinson receives a disturbing letter from her fiancé Will Kendrick. In the letter, Will breaks off their engagement citing a mysterious complication.

Hattie is devastated. She decides to take a position as an elementary school teacher in Calhoun, South Carolina. She boards with a prominent attorney and his wife and their four sons.

In Calhoun, Hattie tries to rebuild her life and to make a new place for herself.

All too […]

T B Markinson2015-08-11T04:59:16+02:00August 11th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Declassified Events: Predator Island (Volume 1) by Fouad Kazan ★★★★

Declassified Events by Fouad Kazan Declassified Events by Fouad Kazan is an action-driven science fiction/horror novel about cruel and unusual experiments being conducted at a research island – think The Island of Doctor Moreau – but the hybrid creatures are being turned into weapons. Criminal Chris Hopkins is stolen out of prison and taken to the aptly-named Predator Island. Hopkins must struggle to navigate this horrifying environment. He doesn’t just have to escape the creatures, but becoming one one of the creatures himself.

Chris Hopkins is a compelling central character. Convicted of murder, he’s not exactly a good guy, which actually makes the island seem […]

Henry Baum2015-09-10T06:30:10+02:00August 10th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Horror Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Priest Whisperer by Stefan Emunds ★★★★

The Priest Whisperer by Stefan Emunds, is spiritual fiction that delves into deep subject matters, such as how does one explain the unexplainable, and whether reality is actually “real.”

George Mykal Ferluci is a priest who lives in Philadelphia. One afternoon, he experiences a vision that shakes his reality. The vision has such a profound impact on George that he begins to question his very existence and world view.

What to do? How do I get to the bottom of this? I couldn’t think of anyone I could ask for help. I was worried people would call me crazy. I

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T B Markinson2019-01-22T15:45:09+02:00August 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Visionary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Lessons From The Edge of Life by Kyle Garlett ★★★★★

Kyle Garlett Kyle Garlett is a four-time cancer survivor, and a survivor of the many illnesses caused by the cancer treatments he has taken off and on since his first cancer appeared when he was a junior in high school. Lessons From The Edge of Life, however, is not a cancer memoir. (I understand that he has written a story of his cancer experience, and though I have not read it, if it is anything like this book, it is a well-written and captivating read.) This book, though, is so much more than that. Here Garlett’s cancer is used only as […]

Cate Baum2015-09-09T08:11:03+02:00August 6th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Shadows of Us by L. N. Nino ★★★★

Shadows of Us: A Novel by L. N. Nino In the gated community of the financial elite that makes up the Commonwealth of Richford Isles, William Schoenhausen, a naïve teenage heir to the Bernhard Schoenhausen fortune and legacy, begins a new term at the prestigious Richtown University. Looking for a way to show himself as worthy, mostly through a cunning scheme of odds and academic adulation, his easy-street plans are quashed when the school’s most popular girl, Julia Rechstaadt, happens to enrol in the school’s least popular course, an enrollment chosen as key part of Will’s scheme of flattery.

When every boy with intentions on Julia follows in their […]

James Grimsby2015-09-03T11:10:56+02:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Literary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Give Me Your Answer True by Suanne Laqueur ★★★★★

Give Me Your Answer True, by Suanne Laqueur, is in a word: outstanding.

Three years after Daisy Bianco survives the Lancaster shootings and is abandoned by the love of her life, she’s on the brink of completely destroying her body and soul. The only way she can escape her mental anguish is by cutting her own skin to unleash the pressure and guilt.

John “Opie” Quillis, an old friend reenters her life just in time. Daisy finds a therapist who helps her delve deep into her own thoughts and feelings to search for a safe passage to overcoming past […]

T B Markinson2015-09-04T09:22:59+02:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Romance Book Reviews|

Review: Lily’s Story by Don Gutteridge ★★★★★

Lily's Story Lily’s Story, by Don Gutteridge, shows the power of teaching history through the eyes of one woman.

Lily, born in the backwoods of Lambton County, Ontario, enters the world in 1840. Frontier living isn’t for the weak. But life has much more in store for Lily. During her long lifetime she witnesses the rise of railroad rivalries, the discovery of oil at Petrolia, the Prince of Wales’ grand tour in 1860, the Underground Railroad sending liberated slaves to Canada, the Riel Rebellions, the birth of a nation, World War I, and the influenza pandemic. Over the decades, she marries […]

T B Markinson2021-01-20T06:15:12+02:00August 4th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews|