The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Wonderboy by Tom Conyers
The year is 1975, and Jack Bennett is living with his parents and older brother in the Adelaide Hills of Southern Australia. Despite their problems, his family are good enough company most days, if not very trendy or well-off. Still, secretly, his greatest pastime remains make-believe, despite burgeoning adolescence threatening to dull his creative spark. When a new teacher and a fast friend begin to encourage his imagination, old wounds begin to open up in the adults around them, and his relationships and ideas start to change. Rumors spring up, arguments break out, and there’s something about Jack that just […]
Forty Bibles and Forty Dictionaries is an autobiographical account of the lives of author Hae-Lyun Kang and her family: Korean, Catholic and middle-class, living in Sydney, from 1970 to the present. With an obsessive mother, a hard-pressing father, unusually-humored sisters, and a brother who fired two shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in January of 1994, Kang describes from her own perspective how she and her brother both grew into becoming who they are, and what may have lead her brother to the infamous circumstances in Sydney.
The Iron Golem by Christian Page is the first book in the Monster Squad series, an adventure tale of vintage superpowers for the children and young adult audience.
The Second Crack, by Chelo Diaz-Ludden, is a thrilling read, keeping the reader on edge until the final page.
Skylark, by Ruthie Morgan, is an intense, haunting, and beautiful story about love, life, and loss.
Ephemeral is the second in the Everlast Duology, which is the follow-up series to Richard Bard’s wildly successful Brainrush Trilogy.
The Bleaklisted Books is a sarcastic and original book that tells how one cat really feels about literary masterpieces.