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VanWest: The Present

I'd enjoyed reading Kenneth Thomas' scifi adventure novel VanWest: The Past, so I was excited to receive the sequel, VanWest:…

4 years ago

Hunters: Book 1: The Wanderers’ War

Hunters: Book 1 The Wanderers' War by Caity Schmidt Depending on who you ask, teenage Jacquelyn “Jac” Torres either had…

4 years ago

Why The Secrets?

Why The Secrets?, by Athalia Monae, is a family story about lies and trust, and ultimately what makes a family. …

4 years ago

Regalia

Regalia, by Maurin Lee, is a sweeping fantasy in a beautiful setting. References to the different languages spoken across the…

4 years ago

Shadow Talker: The Magic Detective School Book 1

Shadow Talker: The Magic Detective School Book 1 is the newest novel by Sergei Katz, the author of The Changing…

4 years ago

City of Stars

City of Stars: Book 1 of The Infinite Chronicles, by Nye Teza, is an engaging fantasy story of love and…

4 years ago

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Jon Wiener and Mike Davis is a detailed and scholarly…

4 years ago

The Changing World: Origin

In The Changing World: Origin, when reclusive data analyst Dave is offered a chance to beta-test an upcoming MMO game,…

5 years ago

Win The War For Money And Success

Win The War For Money And Success: Enhance Your Investment Return and Retirement Income, Reduce Taxes and Create a Sizable…

5 years ago

The Five Acts of Diego Leon

In The Five Acts of Diego Leon, Leon was born in a small Mexican town, but quickly makes his way…

5 years ago

Laughing In The Dark

Long-term besties Franny, Jude, and Anna face life and death in Susan Swartz's novel Laughing In The Dark. The women…

5 years ago

The Job Seeker And The Coach

The Job Seeker And The Coach is a non-fiction guide to improving the job search, but told as a story.…

5 years ago

Black Indian

Shonda Buchanan's memoir about family and ethnic identity, Black Indian, is an upsetting account that still reads like fiction, where…

5 years ago

Born Slippy

Tom Lutz’s Born Slippy is the story of an amoral manipulator and  the kind-hearted workingman who probably comes closest to…

5 years ago

Gold, She Spins

Gold, She Spins, by Avery Maitland, is a remixed Rumpelstiltskin adventure. I loved the world here, a slightly twisted fairy-tale setting.…

5 years ago

Planting Wolves

Planting Wolves, by Neda Disney, is a collection of linked short stories. "Planting wolves" refers to releasing small groups of…

5 years ago

The Ghosts of Asteraceae

The Ghosts of Asteraceae is a scifi adventure. Kade is a rare natural-human in a world of perfected vending-machine babies.…

5 years ago

Money Matters

In Brian Finney's novel Money Matters, Jenny agrees to help her coworker look into a missing person. What she thinks…

5 years ago

Of Myriad Paths

Of Myriad Paths by Saal Baraan is a collection of poems about illness, injury, addiction, and recovery. Each one focuses…

5 years ago

Copper Sky

Most of our stories and images of mining towns are about men, so I was intrigued by this novel about…

5 years ago

Sells Sea Shells

There’s a feeling of resignation that never quite hits hopelessness here. Ismail is bad at selling, he knows he's bad…

5 years ago

Tales From The Warming

I really wanted to like this collection of realistic-future short stories.  I’ve enjoyed the changed climate setting that sets the…

6 years ago

Elastic Girl

Elastic Girl, by Olivia Rana, tells the story of Muthu, a young girl born into poverty and sold to a…

6 years ago

Summer’s Complaint

Summer's Complaint was described as a medical investigation, but I found it was much more of a family memoir. I…

6 years ago

The Girl Who Knew Da Vinci

From my review on OnlineBookClub: ...in the present day, aspiring curator Angela Renatus finds herself dreaming about da Vinci every…

6 years ago