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Review: EXTENDEDCOMPANION by William Krasinski

EXTENDEDCOMPANION review Captain Wilek and other ABC captains have been around for quite some time and they know more than most that breakthrough technology is fantastic. That is until the technology becomes dated. Wilek and the others have survived other attempts to “retire” them. However, Earth is making a comeback and wants to conquer the Off Worlds. Can Captain Wilek survive this latest challenge? His own crew might be his undoing. Wilek is forced to accept a new mate and some of the recruits are bitter. How can he manage them and fight Earth simultaneously?

William Krasinski’s EXTENDEDCOMPANION is an intelligent and […]

T B Markinson2014-07-14T08:59:22+02:00July 14th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Stolen (The Collectors Book 1) by S. M. Yair-Levy

Dylan Prescott’s life hasn’t been easy. Her parents died in a car accident. A boy in middle school played a nasty trick on her. During her childhood she’d been the victim of pranks and rumors.

Then Dylan starts college and hopes she can live a normal life.

Tristian Stewart changes all that. He’s mysterious, handsome, and totally out of Dylan’s league. So she thinks. But will Dylan want Tristian once she learns the truth about him. He’s a Soul Collecting Demon. And, as it turns out, Dylan is also a demon.

Poor Dylan. She just can’t catch a break. But […]

T B Markinson2020-02-21T07:15:54+02:00July 12th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Paranormal Romance Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: Lights of Valencia by Michael Pilcher

Lights in Valencia Review Oliver, a twenty-something American ex-pat, escapes into Valencian culture while he prepares for the local celebrations of Fallas with his Spanish girlfriend Maria. But bad memories of his childhood back in the US are harder to escape than he thought.

Lights of Valencia is a treasure on various levels. The fact it is written by a young man who has lived in Valencia and had similar experiences means that the writing comes from first-hand reflections crafted into fiction. This kind of book will always be sturdier and deeper than those pieced together through third-hand research, and it makes all the […]

Cate Baum2014-07-08T17:36:51+02:00July 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: International Fiction Book Reviews, Romance Book Reviews|

Review: A Specter’s Journey by Ekin Odabas

A Specter’s Journey starts in the middle of a hellish gunfight, as our hero Jackie Clarke blasts his way through the streets to rescue his kidnapped wife, Melody. What a great beginning! Instead of the boring start many use, of their hero waking up in bed, or contemplating life over a coffee, Odabaş throws his readers into the action, immediately gripping his audience and seducing with language. Onomatopoeic writing employed at the off, Odabaş opens with a choice of phrase that colors reading in an unusual and sometimes exciting way.

The reader can smell, see, hear and sense, […]

Cate Baum2014-07-08T12:08:51+02:00July 8th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Crow Creek by Thomas Drago

Crow Creek Review Apart from a few suicides over the past couple years, the small North Carolina town of Crow Creek is of little note to anyone outside of its residents – friendly, well-acquainted – and while sad news will always rock a community, life goes on for the people within it. That is until the day a sinkhole swallows up a mother and child along with half a football pitch of land, and some residents suddenly have a reason to think that their private suspicions might have common ground, as strange as it may be.

Starting out slow and small, Crow Creek[…]

James Grimsby2018-11-08T13:14:52+02:00July 7th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Crime Fiction Book Reviews, Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Killing Paradise by Andrew Esposito

Killing Paradise Review This debut novel by Andrew Esposito is the fictionalized story of historical events of the late nineteenth century Hawaii. Loss of habitat due to a proliferation of coffee and sugar plantations, as well as the introduction of non-native species, are speeding the extinction of many of the birds native to the Hawaiian islands. Two rival museums are completing with astonishing greed and ruthlessness to collect specimens of these birds before they are gone forever.

Underneath the basic events are deeper questions of the benefits and potential harms of collecting. This adds texture and depth to the book. The personalities of […]

Avery Hurt2014-07-07T15:20:29+02:00June 27th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: International Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: 30 Days by G.R. Case

30 Days by GR Case is a dark vengeance thriller following ex-military Marcus Freling, an honorably discharged young veteran, enjoying a quiet life in his Harlem neighborhood with his beloved sister Diane and teenage niece Tonisha, both of whom he has dedicated himself to looking after as their only other family. Their peaceful lives are shattered when Troy, a local drug dealer, lets an execution remorselessly claim the fourteen-year-old Tonisha as collateral damage. Ripples spread through their fear-stricken community as Detective Steve Rodgers takes on the case, falling short of each snuffed-out witness and missing leads. Marcus’s anguish turn to […]

James Grimsby2019-01-23T12:53:19+02:00June 26th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Crime Fiction Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Future Prometheus II by J.M. Erickson

FP2-WEB “Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, says the epigraph for J.M. Erickson’s novel Future Prometheus II, explaining J.M. Erickson’s trilogy title, Future Prometheus.

In Future Prometheus II , we catch up with black ops Lt. Jose Melendez and his team. After attempting a cryogenic experiment to save mankind that was meant to last for just a few […]

Cate Baum2018-03-16T09:56:02+02:00June 24th, 2014|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|