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Review: The Mime by Tommy Tutalo

The Mime by Tommy Tutalo

The Mime by Tommy Tutalo is a fantastical middle-grade story about finding the power in your voice.

Eleven-year-old Florina is a neurodiverse girl living in Mexico, who will not speak, as she struggles to find a place in the ordinary world while taking refuge in her own wonderfully imagined one she draws in her precious sketchbook. With exquisitely inked illustrations by Mexican artist María Gabriela Guevara Sánchez showing young readers Florina’s adventures throughout, Tutalo has created an appealing narrative with fully imagined characters and motivations.

Florina lives in Oaxaca with her guardians the Mochados, who own the ramshackle Indigo theater, […]

Review: 2048: Demockracy (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore

Demockracy (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore

Author Peter Moore launches an entertaining series of standalone novels set three decades in the future with 2048: Demockracy, the starting point of The Covid Chronicles.

A conservative-leaning commentary on the cancel culture of today, and the slippery slope that progressive ideals can stumble down, this novel is written in the spirit of Orwell’s 1984 with caustic wit and a colorful cast of characters with names that summon visions of England’s past. In this iteration, however, Big Brother has been replaced by Mother, a character depicted as being drunk on their own “wokeness,” power, and societal control.

In this […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-09-12T17:01:30+02:00July 13th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Dystopian Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Brass (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore

Brass (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore

Steeped in steamy scenes and dynamic relationships, Brass is a wildly original novel from Peter Moore, the second part of his standalone series, The Covid Chronicles.

Delphine is the captivating protagonist of this steamy read – a fearless femme of the nocturnal economy, raking in duffel bags of dosh for her high-end erotic services. She keeps her income steady and her heart safe by avoiding emotional connection with her clients, but that begins to change when an Adonis-like footballer buys his way into her bed. He invites her to spend a week in Portugal on a pleasure cruise, to […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-09-09T09:08:03+02:00July 13th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Romance Book Reviews|

Review: The Reluctant Assassin (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore

The Reluctant Assassin (The Covid Chronicles) by Peter Moore

The exceptional and exciting life of the mysterious Delphine continues in The Reluctant Assassin by Peter Moore, the closing tale of his ambitious series, The Covid Chronicles.

A great deal has changed since Delphine’s dramatic exit from the world of high-class escorts, including being a mother of twins, but intrigue inevitably follows in her footsteps. After innocently offering her info-extracting services to one of her closest friends – and one of the most powerful men in England – Delphine is triggered by her past trauma and finds herself on the guilty side of a corpse.

Her instincts for self-preservation […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-09-08T16:41:41+02:00July 13th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Age of Magnus: The Fall of Man (New Era 1) by David Crane

Age of Magnus: Book One The Fall of Man (New Era 1) by David Crane

Author David Crane plunges readers into a future where humans have been all but eliminated in Age of Magnus: The Fall of Man, the first book of his New Era series. Detailing the rise of the supercomputer Magnus – from its “birth” in 2050 through its journey towards self-awareness and eventual domination of the planet – this is both a terrifying and wildly creative peek into a possible future.

Magnus was originally designed to help the first manned mission to Mars reach their destination, establish a colony, terraform the planet, and start a new human civilization. Unfortunately, a combination […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-08-30T11:11:13+02:00July 11th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Ancient Architect by K.S. Temple

Ancient Architect by K.S. Temple

Exploring new-age ideologies, ancient mysticism, and one man’s journey toward unexpected destiny, Ancient Architect: A Fictional Order Out of Chaos by K.S. Temple is a heady novel of self-discovery.

Initially spurred on by his struggle to find peaceful sleep, Emmanuel seeks out Dr. Madruga, who begins to reveal the truth about the subject matter of his dreams – and nightmares. Before her untimely arrest, he undergoes an unusual neurological study with the good doctor, during which it is revealed to him that he may be the second coming of Christ.

He takes this daunting news well, albeit jokingly at first, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-08-22T13:29:30+02:00July 10th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Visionary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Mundanity by Jonathan Carreau

Mundanity by Jonathan Carreau

Author Jonathan Carreau sends readers on an over-the-top journey into madness in his novel, Mundanity, an alien satire of human life as we know it.

When green-skinned Vince Patelo moves to the city of Mundanity for a new job, he isn’t expecting so much drama in such a dully named town, but such is the price of survival. While he blindly toils as an anonymous tool for an evil corporation, protesters rail against quadlithium mining, in an effort to save the environment, and a grifter politician in town is tapping into the power of social media to stir up […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-07-06T08:55:26+02:00July 6th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Satire Book Reviews, Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: FitzDuncan’s Fortune by John Spearman

Fitzduncan's Fortune by John J Spearman

With even more clever quips, narrow escapes, and noble gestures, author John Spearman continues Caz’s wild adventures in FitzDuncan’s Fortune, the fourth volume of this eccentrically entertaining series.

Fresh off an adventure that elevated his abilities and standing with the crown, Caz embarks on a quick task to outwit a blackmailer and restore the tainted honor of an old friend’s mother. The heart of this plot, however, involves the same assassin who Caz had recently captured, only to discover that his stepmother was the one offering the blood money. Trading his life for service to the crown, this skilled […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2022-08-19T11:31:17+02:00July 5th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews|