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Review: A City for the Dying by Mark Samojedny

No doubt the kick-ass reluctant-hero-with-a-tortured-soul in this debut novel will achieve rock star status with readers. But let’s not leave the author out of the limelight. In his debut crime thriller Mark Samojedny kills it with mechanical craft, weaving metaphor and mysticism into the action in a mean, lean style guaranteed to leave the audience screaming for an encore.

The title sets the mood for us. The cover artwork shows a city turned on its side—a spiffy, enticing vision complementing the story elements. The internal design echoes the cover. The front matter doesn’t bother with chapter titles or a contents […]

Lela Michael2014-05-19T22:02:01+02:00March 5th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Literary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Blue Fall by B. B. Griffith

Blue Fall: The Tournament: Volume One is B.B. Griffith’s first novel. I am always a little hesitant to read someone’s first novel as one doesn’t know what to expect. However, the book’s description intrigued me:

There was a time…long ago, when whole nations, entire races of people, pinned their hopes and futures on individual warriors. Whole wars were won and lost on the outcome of a single battle between heroes. Entire countries were moved. Empires rose and fell…”

In Blue Fall, that time has come again.

A routine investigation throws a hapless insurance agent down the rabbit hole, into

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T B Markinson2014-06-19T17:57:35+02:00March 2nd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Men's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: No Exit by Julie Harris

No Exit by Julie Harris focuses on the story of Rebecca Miller, who happens to be one of the most gifted psychics this world has ever seen. Not only can she occassionally read minds, she also predicts future events, sees glimpses of people’s past and has a connection with an Angel guide named Emmanuel. She can heal the injured, wounded and even the dying. In one instance, she even manages to return from death herself. But naturally, all these gifts come with a very high price. Her own father is afraid of her and has been ignoring her for years. […]

Majanka Verstraete2014-06-19T17:58:20+02:00March 1st, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Michael’s Reward by Mario Bernheim

Exceptional doesn’t even closely describe Michael’s Reward. In this thought-provoking, memorable book we meet Michael Whiley, God, and Lucifer. It’s a modern retelling of the Book of Job.

Michael has every material possession possible – a beautiful home, a boat, a lucrative job where he makes millions with bonuses every year, and a wonderful family. Can his faith continue if he loses all this opulence?

God thinks so, and He does not doubt Michael’s loss of faith if all his worldly possessions disappear.

Lucifer has a different opinion from God, but God gives him the go ahead to test […]

Silver's Reviews2014-05-09T21:52:00+02:00March 1st, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Christian Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Fourth Awakening by Rod Pennington and Jeffery A. Martin

Awakening – an event that has an intense change on humanity. So much so that it hits a 10 on the Rector scale in human evolution. When humans progressed from “hunting and food gathering tribes” to “agricultural homesteaders” – that was an Awakening. While not occurring overnight, an Awakening can take centuries to complete but the effect is dynamic. There have been three Awakenings so far.

Penelope Spence was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist in her younger days. But she made a choice – to pursue a home and children over a very promising career. Now the kids are grown […]

Boudica Foster2014-05-19T22:08:54+02:00February 29th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics by Jeffrey A. Zilahy

A Cultural Paradox: Fun in Mathematics by Jeffrey A. Zilahy “What did the number zero say to the number eight? ‘Very nice belt.’” Okay I admit that this is a corny joke. But did you know that the number zero did not make an appearance in history until the 6^th century AD? In fact, the Chinese didn’t create a symbol for zero until the 13^th century. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am not a math whiz. I have to use a calculator for simple computations. So why do I feel smarter when it comes to understanding math? Simply put, I read Jeffrey A. Zilahy’s […]

T B Markinson2019-01-23T12:38:19+02:00February 28th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Science Book Reviews|

Review: All Storms Pass by Luke Benoit

today I will ask myself what would I be

without anything? ALL OF IT…

what would I be worth if it were all

just stripped away leaving me just

with me and I had to be just who I am?

Page 531

Someone once told me that reading poems was like looking into the poet’s soul. Luke Benoit’s All Storms Pass: The Anti-Meditations consists of meditations that inspire, challenge, and guide the reader to look into their own soul and to find his or her true self. Benoit is a Certified Life Coach and a Certified Professional NLP Hypnotist. He […]

T B Markinson2014-05-19T22:12:04+02:00February 21st, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: The Queue, A Novella and Warriors, A Trilogy of Plays On Aging by L. Michael Hager

I approached this book warily. After all, fiction and playwriting are such different forms, why put the two together? Fiction is designed to pull you into a world, and a published play requires you to imagine seeing a stage and, despite the stage directions, you forget that a stage is there or that the script is really meant for actors. Ideally, the characters and actions are so intriguing, you forget all the artifice. It’s a difficult form to get right for readers.