The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Saving Grace by Ann Grant
Grace and her husband, Rob, have been married almost ten years and have two sons and a daughter. She’s a high-earning corporate lawyer and he is a […]
Review: Points To Ponder: Pathways to Self-Discovery by John D. Mosley
Written in the Kahlil Gibran style, the book is separated into several themes, including how to make your life better by best action, simplifying goals for focus and how to be aware of those around you and how to cope with diversity in the modern world around us, including what we eat, how we treat each other and how we deal […]
Review: 5 Core Methods Of Innovation by Sanjeev Sharma
Sanjeev Sharma, a New York-based consultant and US citizen who moved from India in the 90’s, gives […]
Review: You Are Not A Planet And Other Stories by Sean Manseau
Bijoux grotesques flank classic modern Gothic and stripped fairytale prose to reveal a universe not content to exist, but to thrive with crafted language […]
Review: Hannah Singer, Celestial Advocate by Peter G.
In life, Hanna Singer, protagonist of this unique fantasy, was a rare individual: a medieval atheist. After she dies, she finds out just how wrong she was. As it turns out, the Christian villagers who had tried so hard to convert her didn’t have it quite right either.
In the afterlife, Hannah becomes a Celestial Advocate, someone who argues the cases of souls petitioning for admittance to Heaven. The concept alone is falling-off-the-chair funny, and the book lives up to that promise, with slapstick, puns, and wry cultural references scattered throughout. The Archangel St. Michael is a delightful trickster, with […]
Review: Spitting Image by M. K. Mattias
In the novel Spitting Image, by M. K. Mattias, the main character can’t stay out of trouble. Simone Darling is terrified of flying. After her father plunged to his death when he fell out of a helicopter, Simone never wants to step foot onto a plane. Also, she’s afraid of America, especially Miami. Her fear of Miami is extreme. Simone, who lives in Sydney, Australia, never wants to visit her mom in Florida. Never.
That is until Simone’s stepfather offers to pay her $80,000 to restore some of his paintings. She’s an art restorer. At the time, she isn’t making […]
Review: The Life and Times of Car Johnson by Rebekah Webb
The book is presented in first-person, as though the character is dictating. During the first few chapters, I thought I was reading a transcript of a stand-up routine. In the beginning I was thinking, this is decently written comedy but when does the story begin? Surely a “life and times” includes a story?
I hung in with the book because the material has a flow. I felt I was […]
No Time to Cry by Vera Leinvebers
When her family flees her childhood home in Riga, Latvia, toward the end of World War II, Lara embarks on the journey that, by its end, robs her of her brother, her beloved animals, her education, her music, even her voice; in short, the war “had stolen my childhood from me.” Interrupted with very rare episodes of kindness, […]