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Review: Maji by L.M. Meier

Maji, The Untold Adventure of the Men of the East is a fictionalized tale which will remind many readers of the Christian story of the three wise men seeking out Jesus in Bethlehem. However, the story is much more than a quaint retelling of this treasured event. Instead, it is a look behind the scenes at not only the journey of the three wise men, but also a coming of age tale about Zebedeo, a young Maji in training who accompanies the men on their journey. It is Zebedeo who drives the plot of the story as he must make […]

Review: Song at Dawn by Jean Gill

Historical thriller/love story set in Narbonne just after the Second Crusade. 1150 in Provence, where love and marriage are as divided as Christian and Muslim. On the run from abuse, Estela’s musical talent finds a patron in Alienor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the finst troubadour of the age, Alienor’s Commander of the Guard. Weary of war, Dragonetz los Pros uses Jewish money and Moorish expertise to build that most modern of invntions, a papermill,drawing the wrath of the Church down on his head. Their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of […]

Lela Michael2014-05-19T22:33:19+02:00January 2nd, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Truth About Us by Dalene Flannigan

The Truth About Us is about three women and how one vicious act led to another, changing the arc of their lives forever. Erica, Grace, and Jude probably looked like typical Canadian college girls living the good life — roommates in a townhouse Erica’s father owned, free to study or party, able to plan for their futures. But a book about normalcy would hardly be worth reading, and you want to pick up Truth About Us.

It takes nothing from the wonder of this book to say that The Truth About Us is about secrets and betrayal on many levels. […]

Elaine L. Orr2014-06-19T18:02:04+02:00December 31st, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Literary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Chasing the Runner’s High by Ray Charbonneau

If there’s one thing Ray Charbonneau understands, it is runners. In Chasing the Runner’s High he may claim that he isn’t sure what a typical runner is, but if the proof is in the pudding, not only is Charbonneau a true blue, died in the wool, run in the sun, rain or snow runner, but he talks the runner’s language. And it sounds like heaven.

At least it does until you remember how hard it is to get yourself out the door after bout of laziness during the holidays.

I picked up Charbonneau’s “Chasing the Runner’s High” sometime before the […]

Daniel Burton2011-12-28T14:01:46+02:00December 28th, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Sports Book Reviews|

Review: Shark & The Wolf: Predators and Prey by Daniel D. Shields

I would classify this as a sci-fi thriller. The science fiction genre allows us to go anywhere we want and create anything we can imagine. Mr. Shields has successfully created an alternative earth where animals have been genetically altered to be human while retaining, to various degrees, their animal appearances and nature. Mr. Shields works this throughout the novel, giving them very human appearance and attributes, but never too much!

The story follows Shark and his friends. Shark is a completely believable character. An expert billiard player (read that great-white pool shark) who embarks on an adventure to help his […]

Boudica Foster2011-12-27T13:55:48+02:00December 27th, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Digitally Divided Self by Ivo Quartiroli

This book begins with blurbs from some very heavy hitters, and some of my favorite writers, on the subject of new media – writers like Douglas Rushkoff and Erik Davis. Erik Davis, in particular, writes on the more-esoteric take on the rise of technology, in books like Techgnosis. It could help to have some familiarity with esoteric spirituality before approaching this book. It would also help to keep a very open mind. The basic premise is that by having our heads lodged in the materialist world of the web and the tech we use to navigate the web, we […]

Henry Baum2014-06-19T18:03:58+02:00December 23rd, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Dancing with Duality by Stella Vance

Once in a while you stumble across a person who’s actually lived the life some have fantasized about but never had the courage to pursue. Stella Vance is one of those. She’s lived and worked in several countries all over the globe, enjoyed searching through myriad philosophies and religions of life, and experienced love in a number of satisfying, if not all permanent, relationships.

In Dancing With Duality: Confessions of a Free Spirit, Vance tells the story of her life decade by decade, but not from a lofty vantage point, glossing over the darker elements. Neither does she write […]

wanda carruthers2011-12-23T13:53:46+02:00December 21st, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: New Age Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Patient Zero by Jim Beck

Just when I thought that the zombie subgenre had reached a saturation point, Jim Beck comes along with Patient Zero and proves that a clever idea can take an old idea and provide fresh flesh for hungry readers.

No pun intended.

Beck spins a simple story that is veined with strands of Frankenstein and moments of tenderness and melancholy. Bob Forrester is a man with a problem—a brain tumor. The recipient of an experimental procedure, he finds himself facing a second chance at life. Within just a short time, however, that new life becomes a mixed blessing, with side effects […]

Daniel Burton2019-01-21T09:38:59+02:00December 13th, 2011|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Horror Book Reviews, Zombie Fiction Book Reviews|