The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: The Dragon Who Feared Fire by Jeff Shevlowitz
Review: Butt Ugly by Jimmy Glenn
Butt Ugly is a story of “love and baseball.” It is the heart warming tale of the cantankerous Cole Catalpa Junior, born with a deformity to the face that is so hideous people stare and comment all the time. He proves his bullies wrong when he starts pitching his anger out on his father’s barn door with a baseball and this talent for throwing is encouraged by Cole Senior despite Junior’s indifference,” “I’ve got no taste for that game” I told him. ” Regard it as an assignment,” he insisted.” This eventually shoots Junior into the national leagues of pro […]
Review: Tilogos: A Treatise on the Origins and Evolution of Language by Sherman P. Bastarache
As a Christian with no other language knowledge past that of high school, and only English at that, he makes a grand statement with this work but sometimes he doesn’t seem to quite grasp the principle he tries to illustrate, maybe because he has not dedicated time and energy to formally studying the discipline in which he […]
Review: Secret of the Songshell (The Spectraland Saga) by Brian Tashima
When you pick up a fantasy genre book for teenagers, you expect Tolkeinesque trekking through rocks and meeting strange hybrid creatures, right? You expect lengthy descriptions of mountains, tunnels and pathways, yes? You expect charm, betrayal, adventure and friendship across species and a hero with the odds against him, don’t you? You get all of this in the first volume of this Saga by Hawaiian author Brian Tashima, but he adds some extra ingredients to make his writing unique.
Firstly, the touch of his Hawaiian culture comes through: There is a laid back, grass roots way that Tashima writes that […]
Review: Price of Justice by Alan Brenham
It takes a certain kind of mystery or crime thriller to hold my complete attention. The cookie cutter plot lines of James Patterson make me laugh every time I see him hanging out on the New York Times Bestseller list. I enjoyed the occasional Mary Higgins Clark or John Grisham back in my high school days, but even they don’t do it for me today. Thomas Harris has always been a fav, but he’s written all of five books in three decades. These days author Gillian Flynn has me screeching like a vamp crazed teen girl every time a new […]
Review: Cancelled by Elizabeth Ann West
The novel is very dialogue-heavy, giving it a sit-com […]
Review: Random Rationality: A Rational Guide to an Irrational World by Fourat Janabi
Janabi thankfully, given the subject matter, does not talk at the reader. It is written simply in the tone of a man at a dinner party, making profound use of his imaginary orange box. And the subjects are vast, uncomfortable, mutable […]
Review: My Trickster by Serafima Bogomolova
The story is told with dual and often overlapping points of view. We see the action from the point of view of Angela (La) alternating somewhat randomly […]