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Review: How the Water Falls by K. P. Kollenborn

How the water fallsHistory is dominated by people including everyday people. One of the benefits for authors of historical is the ability to bring to life fictional characters set into real life events. This adds a layer of accessibility right from the start and eases the reader into the wonderful world of history. K. P. Kollenborn’s novel How the Water Falls is a fabulous addition to the vibrant and turbulent history of South Africa.

Set in the final years of the apartheid era in South Africa, Kollenborn’s novel centers on two females. Joanne is a white reporter and Lena is a banned black […]

Review: IQ plus EQ: The Arrow and the Hoisting Crane by Feliciano Bantilan

IQ plus EQFeliciano Bantilan, a veteran stock investor and physicist by training, was struck down by Parkinson’s disease, leaving him unable to work. Lucky for us, however, he has turned his hand to penning exceptional advice for young people interested in approaching the stock market with a new kind of acumen: applying IQ plus EQ.  He says,

IQ refers to intelligence as commonly understood. EQ refers to emotion quotient, or, emotional intelligence. When someone presents you a math puzzle to solve, certain mental operations are set into motion in your brain. The capacity for solving such type of puzzles—we call IQ or

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2014-08-16T01:05:03+02:00August 15th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Decay by Mark Lingane

Decay by Mark LinganeDecay is the second book in the Tesla Evolution series by Mark Lingane, following on from the first book, Tesla. In the war-torn future, in the only known pocket of existence left for humanity, a war for supremacy between cyborgs with their technological dominance and humans, some with newly-discovered near-magical abilities, and steam-powered machinery comes to a boil and draws in the likes of Sebastian – a new recruit to the Steam Academy – as well as his friends and allies met during his journey. After a tiring battle claims countless lives and nearly destroys the last safe city […]

2022-04-28T07:33:45+02:00August 12th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: We’ll All Fall Down by John duVal

We'll All Fall Down Review*Trigger warning – this review contains extreme adult themes – NWS*

We’ll All Fall Down, by John duVal, has all the ingredients for a thrilling read: mobsters, murders, mystery, speakeasies, World War II, and a dysfunctional family. The story spans many years and the twists and turns never end. Klaus Altman, a mafia accountant, is being forced by the government to testify against the mob boss in Philadelphia. To keep the witness safe, his name is changed to Max Anders and he moves to upstate New York.

Galena Baldwin is fourteen and when she sees Max for the first […]

2014-08-08T11:30:34+02:00August 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Wounded by Ben Burgess Jr

Wounded ReviewSet in New York City, headliner stripper Samantha is a player – and she’s gay, beautiful, black and out. Seducing women all around her is her main pleasure in life, whether they are straight, bi or gay. But she can’t forget the abuse from childhood that rules her sexuality.

Dancing on stage felt second nature to me. As a child, I was forced to do so many horrible acts that dancing with my clothes off as a profession felt natural.

This very erotic women’s fiction is written by a man, Ben Burgess Jr, author of Monster, which told […]

2019-01-22T05:39:33+02:00August 7th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook by Helen Sedwick

SP-Legal-Handbook-Kindle-coverEach year more and more authors have opted to self-publish. Many of them probably read a how-to guide before venturing into self-publishing. There are many handbooks that are insightful, informative, and helpful. Yet, when a certain topic comes up, most of the authors say that they can’t give any advice since they aren’t experts. What’s the topic? Legal issues.

A lot of people don’t like to think about legal issues. Many more don’t understand or stick their heads in the sand and hope for the best. Helen Sedwick noticed that there weren’t any legal handbooks for self-published authors when she […]

Review: The Bird Room by Chad Hofmann

The Bird Room by Chad Hofmann“It’s too late for him too, said the man in a high-pitched voice, drooling in anticipation, like a dog with a bone. Eli stood frozen, his brain issued a hundred different commands that his body would not obey. The man let out bone chilling cackle and, with lightning quickness, sunk the blade of the scalpel into Eli’s left thigh. The pain hit Eli like a train and he was instantly brought back to reality. He looked over at the parrot, who was now calm and quiet. Its mysterious gray eyes connected with Eli’s, and he felt as if […]

2014-08-04T09:25:51+02:00August 4th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

Review: Tesla by Mark Lingane

TeslaA thousand years in the future, we follow Sebastian, a young teenager living in the quiet and rural remains of a pocket of civilization after an ancient nuclear apocalypse. As a strange sickness takes his father and consumes his mother, he is left in servitude of his selfish aunt and cut off from the brilliant mind of a teacher, sharing with him a love of near-legendary clockwork and steam power of the past. His luck changes – not all for the better – on finding an envelope addressed to him in a locked jewelry box, and a group of black-suited […]

2022-04-28T07:33:54+02:00August 1st, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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