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The book initially moves quickly between the Pacific Theater in World War and various U.S. time periods, people, and places. While it was at times difficult to discern which character was thinking or speaking, the author and his readers […]
OK, that doesn’t exactly happen in Falling into History—among other things, the plant doesn’t walk; it glides. However, Peter Fleming’s time-traveling tale is about a sentient, super-powered plant transporting itself and two human companions through time and space, and an eighteenth-century London pub is one of the stops in the book.
The story is a sequel to Fleming’s Falling to Destiny. The plant, named Hymoliga Eight, travels with Kim Hawthorne, a “space ethicist” from the near future, and narrator Ishmael Starbuck, an oft-befuddled, amnesiac Australian […]
Interesting start to a book about Lazrina/Maya, who finds herself dead and speaking to her spirit guide Zachariah. From this point on, Lazrina/Maya finds herself in a place where she must now revisit all her past lives and live through the lessons each one has to teach her. This is the place between lives where she will review her past and learn her lessons.
She has four lives reviewed in this book; Ancient Egypt, Sparta, Ireland/Viking Invasions and England at the time of the Black […]
The plot, if that is the word, of Peter Menting’s Elvis Cream is quickly told: Ali Hasheeshee, a wealthy fundamentalist sheik in the Emirate of Quais, wants to go to the United States to convert its population to Islam, but unfortunately he is a dead-ringer for America’s most hated terrorist enemy, Osama Al Osama. Meanwhile, a nearly bankrupt company in Muleshoe, Texas, run by a family of 1950s-‘60s music aficionados needs an infusion of capital. When a New York advertising executive tries to improve the sheik’s U.S. image by making him resemble Elvis Presley and then introduces him and his […]
Pointer learns that the eternal battle between good and evil does exist, and his assigned job is to keep Victor Anson alive. Once Anson had been one of God’s most avid followers, but has fallen away from the faith. Now he is God’s Anti-Christ. And Justin was going to be […]
First, Bambi Harris is no stranger to writing. She has done much research on history and the paranormal and it shows in this series. She is from Australia and lives now in the US. She also does Creative Writing Classes. The woman is well versed in the creative writing process and has self published her books with iUniverse.
So, I come across her second book, Ghost Retrieval and Cappuccino. Well, anything to […]
The novella begins by introducing the titular monolith of the book, a gargantuan bull from Kansas whose moniker quickly evolves from “Son of Carleton” to the ironic “Carlito,” to “Big Carl” and finally, to the ultimate compliment: “Carlos the Impossible.” By the time he’s been drafted for […]
The “Earth Cleansers,” who have taken responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, send messages to eight powerful governments with the pronouncement that they believe the population of Earth must be decimated for the survival of the planet. Christmas Day is just a sample of what is to come on the Ides of March. Each country must […]