The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: The Ituni Experience by Forbes Skinner
Review: Legacy of Leadership – Zenon C.R. Hansen by Steve Myers
Zenon Hansen was an all-American enterpreneur with motivational skills who became the president of Mack Trucks, one of the biggest trucking companies in America. Starting off as an Eagle Scout, he won a badge that led him to give his life to the Boy Scout movement. Pitched by writer Steve Myers as an inspirational read for young adults who need a guide to take action into adulthood, this book is a detailed biography of an obviously very personal hero for the author.
Filled with photos and factoids on Hansen, as an historical document of 20th century America in the throes […]
Review: Tweeting Da Vinci by Ann C. Pizzorusso
But this is no dry book about rocks. This is a book about finding, among other amazing discoveries, the real Underworld, a stairway to Heaven and the fountain of youth. Pizzorusso looks at how geology profoundly affects the civilization that […]
Review: The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky by David Litwack
The novel starts out with Helena Brewster. Her father recently passed away and in an attempt to feel closer to him she decides to sit near the ocean where he used to take her. While there she sees Jason Adams, someone from her childhood who she was close to at some point, but they lost touch.
One day, Helena is waiting for Jason to run by and when he does moments later a boat crashes into the […]
Review: Mystery and Misadventure – An Old Acquaintance by M.D. Hall
Mystery and Misadventure – An Old Acquaintance by M.D. Hall – a sequel to Mystery and Misadventure, though largely independent – is a collection of fictional short stories where things are not quite as they seem. Each short tale focuses on characters who find themselves crossing from the world we know into their own unusual circumstances ranging from the strangely uneasy to the horrifically bizarre. The thirteen stories are told to us by the mysterious and eccentric ‘S.P.’, a figure whose conversations are logged in the book alongside each individual tale, providing a commentary and a puzzling context for […]
Review: Faraday by Mark Lingane
Continuing from Book 2 of the Tesla Evolution series – Decay – Faraday further tells the story of a war between cyborgs and their technological dependence and supremacy, and the humans relying on their final aces-in-the-hole in their steam-crafts and near-magical abilities in the Dystopic wasteland that houses the last surviving knowable life on Earth. Our hero Sebastian – though young and still but one of many – is dead, his allies scattered, and all is lost as the war comes to a shuddering halt… until a strange breakdown of security in a cyborg stronghold fails, and a desperate gathering […]
Review: The Warrior’s Beckoning by Patrick Howard
Review: Alethea by Jesse Arnold
Alethea Cooper considers herself a practical and average high-school girl, if a world-class gymnast on her way to the Olympics. Sixteen and already focused on her career, her life takes a hard turn as a car accident leaves her wheelchair-bound. Through her slow and painful discovery she begins to learn that there’s more to life than just her career as an athlete, but also love, the joys of youth, and hideous green monsters that only her emergent superpowers and the unwanted guidance of an overly-knowledged doctor can keep at bay.
Nobody ever said growing up was easy.
In general, Alethea[…]