Action and Adventure Book Reviews

A stormy night brings a shadowy figure to Professor Nicholas Holloran’s office, and with her comes an offer he cannot refuse. Blackmailed into accompanying the beautiful Captain Salisbury on an expedition, this unlikely pair and their even more unlikely crew set off after a legend even more old and dead than the Mostadic monk who lead them there: Shaifalway – the Well of Youth. Unfathomable adventures across the fathoms continue in the second novel of The Last Prophecy series.

Well-drawn and entertaining, The Last Prophecy is a steampunk adventure novella that takes  the dignified intrigue and high-flying exploits that come […]

The Power of Seventy by Gerard Colenbrander is a fun and adventurous tale about discovering treasure in the Congo. Jaco, Ralph and Rusty are men in their seventies who have a reunion after a long absence. With the knowledge of treasure somewhere in the African jungle, the three men try and retrieve the treasure by land, sea, and sky, in creative and innovative ways, and prove that seventy is still young.

The novel could be described as a somewhat-oxymoronic “relaxing adventure.” Though the stakes are high for the guys involved, and there’s plenty of action, it’s really a fun and […]