Category: Reviews

By R.S. Penney © June 3, 2024, Next Chapter ASIN: B0D62DV7FL Kindle Version, file size 1704 KB Jack and Anna are special agents with special powers, bonded with symbionts and out to save the worlds. The excitement suggested by that statement is present throughout the story. Once the action started, it rarely paused. It was…

The Spires Saga, Book 1 By Mortimer Langford © 2022, Next Chapter ASIN: B0BJZ3NYLY Kindle Version, file size 2693 KB What a fun story! Damian Spires is a smart-mouthed war mage who isn’t above skating the edges of legal magic for a variety of reasons—including poker. He’s pretty much prepared for anything that might crop…

Ancient Traveler Tales By R.W. Span © May 23, 2024 ASIN: B0D538DQSD Kindle Version, file size 484 KB From Ge’Odef’s tragic loss of his family at the hands of an invading species to his struggle against those same invaders, The Book of Ge’Odef narrates the journey of a farmer turned warrior turned war hero. Other…

Tales of Mystery and Woe By John Robert Mack © 2021 ASIN: B096WM8CNG Kindle Version, file size 6367 Wow… what a ride! Call Me Angel is a rollercoaster on two wheels. The action rarely stops. Neither does the snark. All the way through this book, while I was on the edge of my seat and…

By Toni Morrison Vintage Publishing (Reprint 2007) ASIN: B000TWUTYQ Kindle Version, file size 1375 kb; paperback 206 pages This was not an easy read, and I’ll probably be digesting it for a very long time. Toni Morrison done a splendid job of waving in our faces the horrific concept of beauty vs. ugliness, especially the…

Book 2 of The Projectionists Series By Tobias Youngblood © 2024, Riposte Press LLC ASIN: B0D42BSW2P Kindle Version Dragon Apostle is the second book in Youngblood’s Projectionists Series, and follows close on the heels of book one, Grave Covenant. In Apostle, Ridley is learning to live with the dragon inside him. Iris is trying to…

By Dorothy Louise Abrams Eastman Books And Publishing, © May 1, 2024 ASIN: B0CW1K33X6 Kindle Version, file size 1497 kb; paperback 473 pages This was an intriguing historical fiction novel set in Cumberland, Northern England, in the 12th century. The main character, Alain, is a youth fostered far from his home, to the circle of…

By Adrian Tchaikovsky Tor (©2015); Pan Books (©2016); Orbit (©2018) ISBN-13: 978-0316452502 ASIN: B07DN8BQMD Kindle Version, file size 2632 KB; Paperback 640 pages Let me just get right to the point. I loved this book. I cannot say enough good things about it. From the explosive opening chapter to the totally unforeseen twist near the…

By George Orwell 75th Anniversary Edition © 2017, Mariner Books ISBN: 978-1328869333 304 pages Winston Smith is a cog in the nation of Oceania, where the IngSoc Party rules everyone and everything, and Big Brother is always watching. There is no place you can go, no word you can say, no secret you can keep…

By Martha Wells. Tordotcom, Publisher. This is a delightful science fiction series which explores “human nature” in a non-human main character known as SecUnit. Told in the form of “diary” entries (only without the dates for each entry), these seven stories get the reader into the narrator’s head. We see/hear the action (and there is…