When I finished the novel The Van Helsing Paradox (The Clara Grey Adventures Book 1) by Evelyn Chartres, I had two simultaneous thoughts. One was “what a ride” and the other was “what was that ride?” Two reactions: one emotional, one logical. I listen with my heart over my head […]
Jo Macgregor’s The First Time I Died: Garnet McGee Book One is a mystery thriller about an amateur detective who returns to her hometown and may or may not have gained psychic powers after an accident there. The main character and sleuth, Garnet McGee, flees her town of origin after […]
Lisa Caskey’s third book in her The Farmed trilogy, The Cured, brings to a conclusion the events of post-apocalyptic United States circa 2085. In her first book, she described the devastating war which left only a few people alive, mostly in San Francisco. Residents live under a brutal regime while […]
The Legend of the Storm Sneezer: The Stormwatch Diaries #1 is the debut novel of Kristiana Sfirlea. Kristiana took pity on me, a struggling writer trying to navigate Twitter, and allowed me to read an early draft of this story. I thought her her pitch sounded “interesting.” I was wrong—her […]
The Independent wrote an article on October 18, 2018 entitled “Five Reasons To Stop Reading Fairytales to your children Now!” which is not only misleading but dangerous. I’m going to deconstruct their entire article with logic and then give you eight rebuttals in support of reading these stories to your […]
Brina Williamson’s The Pale Rose is a cozy mystery set in the 1940s in the spirit of the Thin Man movie series. One can almost visualize Myrna Loy playing housewife Amelia Humble, wife of detective Charles E. Humble. Amelia and Charles have the witty repartee that was so delightfully represented […]
I’ve read that in the times of Dickens, many books were written as serials and later published together as a book. One of the most famous of these is A Christmas Carol with each chapter entitled as a stave. I’m saddened that this type of publishing has gone the way […]
Marion Mavis’ The Supremacy Witch kicks off a series of fantasy novels in which witches travel around a fantasy world of non-witches called Nomystics. Light and dark witches exist in covens with the light witches ruling the people in the beginning. The witches are organized in covens and our main […]
Lisa Caskey’s second novel, The Mutated, is the second of The Farmed Series trilogy. A dystopian sci-fi novel set after a massive war called The Conflict has destroyed most of earth, the heroine Winnifred (Winnie) Kimball finds herself fleeing The Council in San Francisco on her way to a safe […]
The Relic Spell, (subtitled: Book 1 of The Phyrian War Chronicles) a novel by Jimena Novaro, is an urban fantasy which combines the high fantasy mysticism of magic casting with the horror adventure of monster-hunting. The start of series, Relic also works as a standalone novel. Set in the fictional […]