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Review: Roots Entwine by Victoria Bastedo

★★★★

Doing one small thing can make a world of difference, if it’s the right thing.

Roots Entwine by Victoria Bastedo is an entertaining and heartfelt young adult fantasy adventure.

15-year-old Joaquin is different. When just a baby his family decides to keep him hidden from the people in town. Joaquin can hear a man’s heart beating a half a mile away. He can see in the dark. His smell is enhanced. But his gift comes at a price, including severe pain and near-coma sleep. Even death is possible if overused. Joaquin is a Phoshat. Kallum is seeking people to […]

Review: Fast Track to Glory by Tomasz Chrusciel

★★★★½

Fast Track to Glory: An International Action Adventure Thriller, by Tomasz Chrusciel, is a taut adventure that doesn’t allow the reader much time to breathe.

Nina Monte, a professor of History of Religions at the University of Padua, is unexpectedly summoned to a secret meeting with three European officials. They want Nina to verify the authenticity of an ancient artefact, however, during the meeting she isn’t provided with much information, but she’s promised a “gift” to her university. The gift convinces her to push aside her doubts.

Alessandro Pini, a hotelier, seeks the man who was with his […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T15:08:15+02:00February 10th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Detour Amour (Detour Paris Series Book 3) by Jack Dancer ★★★★★

Detour Amour, by Jack Dancer, is the stunning conclusion to the Detour Paris series.

Tucker Blue is not playing Mr. Nice Guy anymore. The woman he loves is still being held captive and his enemies have pushed him too far. Tucker wants to destroy them, but he’s an advertising guy, not Rambo.

Tucker turns to unconventional means to out his nemesis in an attempt to rescue his princess. Will his plan work? And at what cost?

The main ingredients of the series thus far has been humorous unpredictability and crazy escapades. This series is creative, entertaining, and cringe-worthy. After […]

T B Markinson2016-01-13T11:17:47+02:00December 27th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Detour Allure (Detour Paris Series Book 2) by Jack Dancer ★★★★★

Detour Allure: Detour Paris Series Book 2, by Jack Dancer, is an action-packed adventure with numerous twists and turns that’ll make the reader’s head spin.

Book two picks up right where book one left readers hanging.

Monica and Tucker are coming to terms with their situation. To complicate matters, their budding relationship is being pulled in many different directions by their friends, enemies, and some unknown sources.

Insecurities arise. Two of their companions are missing. Tucker doesn’t know who to trust or what’s going on. Then something awful happens. Can Tucker pull himself together to save the day?

This […]

T B Markinson2016-01-12T10:19:11+02:00December 17th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Mystery Book Reviews, Suspense Book Reviews|

Review: Detour Paris by Jack Dancer ★★★★★

Detour Paris, by Jack Dancer, is a laugh-out-loud romance with a dollop of intrigue.

When Tucker Blue meets Monica Reyes there’s a spark. Tucker has recently reentered the dating world and he’s discovering that the life of a mid-life bachelor is equally exciting and complicated. He’s about to fly to Barcelona with Ebba, his flight attendant girlfriend. However, a last minute passenger kicks Tucker off the plane and now he and Monica are stranded together in the US.

Tucker concocts a crazy idea of catching a flight to London and then taking trains to Barcelona. Even though his girlfriend […]

T B Markinson2016-01-12T10:20:28+02:00October 21st, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Romance Book Reviews|

Review: A Force of Nature by Dan McEwen

★★★½

A Force of Nature by Dan McEwen follows Canadian PR superstar, Claire Chandler, as she takes a long weekend in idyllic Bay Harbour. There she meets a number of mysterious and colorful characters. Most mysteriously, she’s shadowed by a ghostly white wolf and the victims of a murder, and she’ll soon solve a decades-old mystery, as well as get into a romantic tryst with enigmatic pilot and treasure-hunter, Tom Katz.

A Force of Nature is the type of book that works on a sentence by sentence level – McEwen is an interesting, eloquent writer who clearly loves his subject […]

Henry Baum2016-03-04T03:57:31+02:00October 7th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews|

Review: Blind Thrust by Samuel Marquis ★★★★

Blind Thrust by Samuel Marquis A Blind Thrust is the term that describes an earthquake that occurs on a fault that is hidden from view – these sorts of earthquakes can be the most destructive – and here Marquis uses this as a metaphor in his thriller mystery of the same name, in the vein of Dan Brown, but instead of religion we get science, and instead of Langdon we meet a protagonist in the form of geologist Joe Higheagle, a man passionate about his work, and the environment.

Are the blind thrusts across the Front Range in Colorado the result of fracking, or something […]

Cate Baum2019-01-22T15:09:30+02:00September 7th, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Lost in Pain (Legend of Hollow Wood #1) by J. J. Dice ★★★★

Lost in Pain: Legend of Hollow Wood Book 1, by J. J. Dice, is an exhilarating fantasy adventure that pits good versus evil.

Jack wakes up in an alley standing over a dead body. That’s just the beginning of his troubles. The body suddenly disappears and Jack can’t remember anything, including who he is. He befriends a waitress and learns that his uncle is wealthy. He experiences visions that are truly terrifying and alert him that not only is he in grave danger, but so is his new friend.

Evil warlock Teiwaz has escaped from the realm of Farion […]

T B Markinson2015-09-28T08:00:36+02:00September 3rd, 2015|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Fantasy Book Reviews|