The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Icarus Falling by Christopher Paul Meyer ★★★★
There’s an addictive quality to Meyer’s writing. He really knows how to turn […]
Review: Ashes and Asphalt by Trevor Halloway ★★★★
“I’ll bet you twenty bucks that you won’t mess with that old man by the bar.”
The large man looked to where his friend pointed. He noticed a few bikers around him and shook his head. “I’m not messing with bikers, bro.”
And so begins the rocking story of the Florida Gearheads – but when the fight gets heavy, old Billy Byrne ends himself up in hospital, his son Mike has to make his way to his side, memories of his childhood alongside his biker dad flooding back to him. But when Billy doesn’t make it, and Mike and his […]
Review: Fathers House by C. Edward Baldwin ★★★★★
The town of Duraleigh, NC, has had an astonishing turnaround. Once a den of iniquity, with drugs and sex workers on every corner, over a decade of work by county officials and local figures has seen major improvements in every category of crime each year ongoing. Touted as an epitome of what America’s cities can strive for, the movers and shakers of the town have unspoken rules and relationships to maintain their records, and one of them concerns a certain well-renowned home for under-priviledged boys.
“Uncle” Mayo Fathers seems by day to be nothing more than a kindly man concerned […]
Review: The Lord of Salamander by T.H. Alexander ★★★★
This coming of age story follows the adventures of Elijah Pendleton, a boy with a miserable home life, no backbone, and a host of unfulfilled hopes. He desperately needs to believe that more exists than the abuse of his distasteful aunts. When he first sees a strange cat in the backyard, he can scarcely imagine that its appearance will prove all his wishes to be true. Soon, Elijah is thrust into a new world of wiccans and […]
Review: Shattered by the Wars by Hi-Dong Chai ★★★★★
Shattered by the Wars, by Hi-Dong Chai, should be required reading. This powerful coming of age memoir is a story of love, faith, suffering, and sacrifice.
Hi-Dong Chai had to overcome many obstacles in such a short amount of time. During World War II, Korea was under Japan’s control. They imprisoned his father because he was a Christian minister who refused to bow down to the picture of the Japanese emperor. His brother volunteered for the Japanese military in hopes to save his father. During the Korean War, his father was taken away by two North Korean officers. He never […]
Review: City Times and Other Poems by Vihang A. Naik
Review: Mom On The Road by Allyson Primack ★★★
When Maggie Stevens turned forty, something unexpected happened. She went on the road as her son’s guardian, who was part of a Broadway show touring America. Maggie doesn’t know what to expect. What she finds is herself.
The most enjoyable aspect of this novel is Maggie. She’s neurotic, insecure, energetic, and entertaining. As she tells her story, she doesn’t hold back, including sharing her experience in a hotel bathroom with a vibrator. The reader is told everything that Maggie thinks and feels. […]
Review: The Haunted Trail by John C. Lukegord
At first impressions, The Haunted Trail seems to be a a smorgasbord of mismatched […]