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Review: Abednego by Devanye Hansen

★★★★ Abednego by Devanye Hansen

Abednego: Book 1 of the Guardians Series by Devanye Hansen is a mythical adventure through forbidden love and the unseen world around us.

The fascinating world of Abednego centers on the drama of the Pegasi, Fae, Guardians, Hunters and keepers engaged in an otherworldly power struggle. This novel is an ambitious and exhilarating ride through a fantastic new realm, replete with action, romance, mind reading, betrayal, suspense, and a fair dose of humor. The depth and complexity of the story is impressive, and the author, Devanye Hansen, has an obvious talent for world building within her deep well of […]

2016-04-25T10:20:23+02:00April 25th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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Review: Girl Soldier by T.R. Horne

★★★★½ Girl Soldier by T. R. Horne

Girl Soldier by T. R. Horne is a page-turning action and adventure novel with heart.

Rain Wilson grew up in a small Colorado farming town. Her mother left ten years ago, but Rain never stopped loving her. When Rain learns that her mother is missing, she realizes that she doesn’t know everything about her father and mother. The young woman sets out to find her mother. Can Rain handle the truth, lies, and the forces who don’t want her mother found?

The prologue of Girl Soldier makes a few things clear. Rain is compassionate and respects life. Yet, she’s […]

2019-01-22T05:55:31+02:00April 25th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , , |
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Review: The Adversary’s Good News by Israfel Sivad

★★★★ The Adversary's Good News by Israfel Sivad

The Adversary’s Good News Israfel Sivad is a surreal, philosophical novel about Christian Michael Anderson who decides to end his life. He’s got the noose ready and aims to go through with it until he has a change of heart at the last minute. Fortunately, he’s rescued from his attempt by a mysterious stranger named Evius, who informs him that he has, in fact, died.

This leads Christian on an odyssey through the underworld, where he meets gargoyles, demons, a drug-dealing Tinkerbell, but most of all begins to confront the demons within himself.

Sivad is an erudite and ingenious […]

2016-04-27T01:23:26+02:00April 14th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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Review: Just Love Everybody by Greg Ware

★★★★½ Just Love Everybody: Father Time is running out on Mother Nature by Greg Ware

The year is 2031, and while technology has advanced every field of science, there’s still many mysteries to solve and theories to prove. Enter Dr. Jake Love: a renowned obstetrician, a specialist in delivery, childbirth, and natal care. Dr. Love isn’t just lucky in the name department either, as by some kind of happenstance he is granted the chance to spend just one day with anyone in history.

With great power comes great responsibility: who would you choose? Who should you choose? Of course, Jake has to aim for the most unimaginable target, and he just has to ask […]

2016-03-23T05:31:58+02:00March 23rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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Review: Bodyguard of Deception by Samuel Marquis (Book 1 of the World War Two Trilogy)

★★★★ Bodyguard of Deception by Samuel Marquis

As the clock ticks down to D-Day, the Allies are secretly in a state of panic. The greatest secret the Allies had left to win the war with has been stolen by one of the top Nazi spymasters, en route to the Fuhrer as they scramble to form a plan to reclaim it. In Germany’s final days of Nazi rule, could this be the lifeline they need to extend the conflict by one more bloody campaign of resistance, or will the Allies swoop in just in time to save millions of lives? The world hangs in a delicate balance […]

2016-03-23T04:03:25+02:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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Review: I Am Ed by R.A. Akerlund

★★★½ I Am Ed by R A Akerlund

An intensely moving story of loss, survival, and brotherly love.

The prospect of losing a parent is a fearful part of every child’s reality as they grow up, but to lose both parents, as the nuclear family of brothers in this novel did, is something particularly tragic. Readers are given an intimate glimpse of teenage life through the eyes of orphans, and the resultant story is nothing less than heartfelt and inspiring.

When Fred, Ben, Steve, and Ed lose their mother, they are faced with a difficult decision: report her passing to the authorities and risk being separated or […]

2019-01-22T04:36:49+02:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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Review: The Perihelion by D.M. Wozniak

★★★★½ The Perihelion

The Perihelion by D.M. Wozniak is literary, character-driven science fiction at its best. Set in 2069, The Perihelion comprises a world where there are hybrid humans with 1% animal or insect DNA, called 99ers. The novel follows the lives of six different characters in an approaching apocalypse, the Perihelion: “The point in the path of a celestial body that is nearest to the sun,” in which the world is melting down both physically and mentally.  This is an epic, uniquely inventive novel about big ideas that should hopefully get a lot of attention.

An apocalyptic scenario sounds like well-trodden […]

2019-03-07T09:26:07+02:00March 10th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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Review: The Man in the Blue Fez: A Birth of an Assassin Novel by Rik Stone

★★★★½ The Man in the Blue Fez: A Birth of an Assassin Novel by Rik Stone

In 1973, in the harsh eternal winter of Siberia, Jez Kord silently leaves his wife and comrade Anna behind in what was once a death camp built under Stalin’s rule.

Without a word to anyone else, he treks across the unforgiving plains that span beyond the militarized fences of the complex, determined to prove himself fit for duty; his mission-to-be: destroying the military corruption caused by the drug and flesh operations of local crime lords and the brutal machinations of the mafia. However, his task is hindered by friend and foe, leading to a desperate escape from Siberia for […]

2016-03-10T10:02:27+02:00March 10th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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