SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
Uprush by Jo Barney
The book is incredibly delicately written in a sometimes almost onomatopoeic style […]
SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
The book is incredibly delicately written in a sometimes almost onomatopoeic style […]
Demethius Jackson is a […]
Life Discarded is the third book by D.E. Haggerty. Morgan, a thirty-something Midwestern librarian, marries Daniel, a handsome, successful accountant in a fairytale ceremony and feels certain she has finally got the life she could only dream of. But even before the wedding night has finished, Daniel’s friend, hunky fireman Eric makes her nervous about her choice of husband. Only a short time into their marriage, Daniel starts acting possessive and aggressive, meaning Morgan starts to re-evaluate her priorities — and her own safety– until a sinister truth about Daniel is discovered, leaving Morgan devastated and in no doubt that […]
A Patriot’s Act by Kenneth Eade is a tight, legal thriller and the second book in the Brent Marks series. When Ahmed, a naturalized US citizen of Iraqi descent is mistakenly held by the government and sent to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Brent Marks, a top Californian attorney, is hired by the accused’s wife to free him. But Marks is faced with the mammoth task of fighting against the American government in a world that has the power to make any evidence – or person – disappear rather too conveniently. He must beat the very system he believes in to […]
A living thing I am–a flower of
God’s earth. I see His flowers in the field;
The God that fashioned them created me.
Haight’s poems are reminiscent of the work of Louise Bogan and invoke the spirit of Hawthorne’s “The Ocean” with their all-encompassing breath of sea air and […]
“How far would you walk in your father’s footsteps to find the one who killed him?”
“To the ends of the earth,” he answered.
And the fire in his eyes said he meant every word.
It’s 1958 and Mark Maynard’s Barbados home life is shattered by grief when he receives a letter reporting that his father has been murdered in New York, USA. Vowing to find the killer with his family’s tearful blessing he takes to the streets of a country that doesn’t respect him nor the unmarried man of color that was gunned down.
It doesn’t take long for […]
The book is very intricate in the ways it is written, shifting narrative gears between multiple levels of storytelling and perspective at times. Like any story based on Greco-Roman sensibilities, both the abstract and tangible divine […]