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Review: Spiritualized by Victor Levine ★★★★

SpiritualizedSpiritualized is a raucous rock and roll mystery, part of Victor Levine’s Spec Time Trilogy series of books, which follow the exploits of Jon Cells, an aspiring rock star (based on a real person and real musician). Spiritualized acts as a kind of prequel to Vaporized, taking place four years before, over four days in 1978. This novel covers everything from coke deals, to cow mutilations, to New Age Buddhists, to rock stardom, to Hollywood filmmakers, and more in this spirited and literary epic novel.

As in Vaporized, the city is a character all its own. Whereas in […]

Review: Black & White & Dead All Over by Anna Castle ★★★★★

Black and White and Dead All Over

What happens when the Internet service provider in a small town spies on his clients’ cyber-lives and blackmails them for gifts and services?

Murder and mayhem abound in Anna Castle’s cozy mystery novel Black & White & Dead All Over.

Penelope Trigg is new to Lost Hat, Texas. She’s opened a photography studio and has a few clients, some friends, and has started dating a sexy and successful man. Everything is going well. That is until she submits nude figure studies of her boyfriend to a contest. Penny receives an email blackmailing her. If she fails to comply, the […]

2015-11-24T06:32:23+02:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: A Crash Course In American Law by J. Ryan Jones ★★★★★

A Crash Course in American LawI was laughing—I mean snorting tea out through my nose and onto my Kindle screen laughing—before I even got to the first page. Please don’t let the title turn you off this book. Listen to the subtitle instead. This is not a dry law textbook; it’s not even a juicy law textbook. But still you will learn a lot about law in the most entertaining way. In each chapter of this delightful little book, author J.Ryan Jones discusses one legal case—everything from personal injury cases to criminal cases to employment discrimination cases — to, well, some even weirder things.

Many […]

2019-01-22T15:46:31+02:00May 27th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Mythborn II: Bane of the Warforged by V. Lakshman ★★★★★

mythbornIIMythborn II: Bane of the Warforged is an epic, dark fantasy and the second installment in V. Lakshman’s Mythborn Trilogy, following the events occurring in Mythborn: Rise of the Adepts.

In Mythborn’s world, the realms of Edyn and Arcadia are two sides of a cosmic coin.  Edyn is a land of physical rules and the home of the mortal races, while Arcadia is a realm of myth – the abode of angels, demons, and legends.  The angels and demons of Arcadia – known as Aeris – are the product of the mortal races of Edyn – created and sustained […]

2017-03-24T10:32:07+02:00May 27th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

Review: The Prince: Lucifer’s Origins by J. M. Erickson ★★★★

The Prince: Lucifer's OriginsThe Prince: Lucifer’s Origins is a science fiction, coming-of-age adventure tale by prolific independent author J. M. Erickson, whose list of past releases include the award-winning Birds of Flight series.  The Prince follows Sergeant Marcia Devin and her scrappy squad of combat veterans – disillusioned members of the royal army who are burdened with a dangerous, career-ending mission for disobeying questionable orders.

That mission is providing safe passage for the young prince Victor Venture IX of the royal family – whose radical opinions have drawn the hostility of the rest of his monarchical relations.  In an attempt to stymie Prince […]

2017-03-24T10:32:45+02:00May 22nd, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: The Muses by N. L. McEvoy ★★★★

montague manorThe Muses: Escaping Montague Manor by N. L. McEvoy is a curious blend of fantasy, adventure, science fiction, and thriller that makes for an entertaining read.

When Sarah and Nickolas McGuire’s parents are seriously injured in a car accident in Colorado, they are whisked away to Australia to live with their great aunt Vivian, whom they have never met.

They are shocked when they meet their aunt, who is young looking and extremely unpleasant. They soon learn that she is a scientist who conducts secret experiments in her lab. They don’t trust her, but they can’t figure out why.

While […]

Review: Not in God’s Name by Paula Fouce ★★★★★

Not in God's Name by Paula FouceMuch of the commentary surrounding recent terrorist attacks and threats might lead one to think that religious hatred is a new thing. But in fact violence and hatred in the name of religion have been around a very long time, perhaps as long as religion itself. Or at least as long as the monotheistic Abrahamic religions. For many Americans, religious violence seems to have recently arrived on American soil, but that is a bit ingenuous as well. From the Salem Witch Trials to the Sikh Temple massacre in 2012, the United States is no stranger to hatred and violence that […]

2017-03-24T10:35:06+02:00May 20th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: The Test by B.A. Sherman

The Test (The Greg Dorn Series Book 1)The Test by B.A. Sherman is the riveting novel of a good cop gone bad, and the first in the Greg Dorn series. Greg Dorn is a good-guy cop working in a small town, reducing traffic accidents by 35% and generally loving every minute of his job. He’s also the victim of a tragic history: his mom and sister died in a car accident when he was young. When Dorn decides to move to the big city – Denver, Colorado – things take a turn for the worse. He sees road rage and bad behavior wherever he turns, and a […]

2018-02-28T04:19:30+02:00May 12th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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