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Review: Brood 17: The Grooming of Misty Dawn by SE Reynolds

A haunting spree of psychological horror, Brood 17: The Grooming of Misty Dawn by SE Reynolds is a visceral and graphic plunge into psychosexual trauma.

Misty Dawn McCafferty is being held in a mental institution after ritually sacrificing her boyfriend, claiming that an insidious infection was to blame for her burst of brutal violence. Although Misty was discovered by the police in a pool of her partner’s blood after a halfway successful murder-suicide, she insists that her cicada-derived infection is what drove her to homicide. Ivan, a forensic psychologist working on the case, has two weeks to decide between insanity […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2025-03-25T14:47:17+02:00March 25th, 2025|Categories: Book Reviews, Latest Book Reviews|Tags: Horror Book Reviews|

Review: The Green Living Guy by Seth Leitman

A timely graphic novel about the need for living sustainably to preserve the future, The Green Living Guy by Seth Leitman is an accessible introduction to protecting the planet.

Supported by a team of eco-warriors around the world, the Green Living Guy helps communities and individuals understand the impacts and opportunities of sustainable living. From making shifts in your individual life and purchasing sustainable products to the large-scale changes in energy generation and international attitudes towards the environment, this is a quick, colorful, and broad review of what we need for a greener planet.

Reminiscent of Captain Planet and his […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2025-03-24T13:24:20+02:00March 21st, 2025|Categories: Book Reviews, Latest Book Reviews|Tags: Children's Book Reviews, Comics & Graphic Novels Reviews|

Review: The Drax (Rangers of the Realm Book 2) by Ron Blacksmith

A second galaxy-spanning thriller in Ron Blacksmith’s Rangers of the Realm series, The Drax is a riveting second installment.

When a distant starship of colonists sends out an emergency signal for aid, Captain Mik Rogan and his illustrious crew of Rangers aboard the Rockne are the first responders on the scene. The carnage they find leads them to a much more dangerous culprit than common space pirates – an unknown enemy with advanced weaponry, possible bioweapons, and a seemingly impenetrable underground base. The unwitting colonists had been looking for a fresh start, but they tragically chose a star system inhabited […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2025-03-10T16:37:22+02:00March 10th, 2025|Categories: Book Reviews, Latest Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Marriage Seed by Lionel Moses

A hopeful, practical, and enlightening view on finding joy and fulfillment in relationships, The Marriage Seed: How to Cultivate the Relationship You Desire and Deserve by Lionel Moses takes readers on a reflective and revelatory journey for both themselves and others.

As opposed to many relationship guides that start from the premise of partnership and work forward from there, this holistic guide to relational health begins long before any first dates are taken or commitments are made. Beginning with self-awareness and a personal inventory of one’s desires, needs, and limitations, the book lays the foundation of self-acceptance and self-love, before […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2025-03-07T18:01:08+02:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: Book Reviews, Latest Book Reviews|Tags: Relationships Book Reviews|

Review: Failure to Thrive by Katharine M. Sweet

A tender and emotionally charged second-chance romance, Failure to Thrive by Katharine M. Sweet is a cozy reminder that a new life of love can be found in unlikely places.

Following his release from prison after accidentally assaulting a cop, Russ wants nothing more than to keep his head down and get back on track, beginning with his job in the hospital cafeteria. When his first day is delayed by the sight of Aster Reign and her son Liam in obvious distress, his instinct to help them entangles him in their lives. It isn’t long before his generous nature leads […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2025-02-14T15:09:51+02:00February 12th, 2025|Categories: Book Reviews, Latest Book Reviews|Tags: Romance Book Reviews, Women's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: I, No Other by Yarrow Paisley

A disturbing but entrancing collection of stories, I, No Other by Yarrow Paisley is a post-modern plunge into the psychological fringes of human nature.

The narrative voices in this collection represent a shocking breadth of humanity, and the dark extremes of the psyche – a compendium of obtrusive thoughts made flesh, of dark fantasies and nightmarish realities that most readers would prefer to deny. A leering predator with the silver tongue of a scholar, an obsessed madman mentally escaping the bars that hold him; a man slowly builds himself into a pipe, only to experience a Kafka-esque transformation as he […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2025-02-03T19:55:13+02:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: Book Reviews, Latest Book Reviews|Tags: Short Stories Book Reviews|