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Review: Taking Flight By Stephen Tritto

When Anthony Bartolo, a successful product manager loses his high-powered job in New York, a turn of events propels him to post-war El Salvador and a head-on collision with cultural differences, leaving him in danger of losing his life – and his marriage – as he uncovers a secret about his friend nobody saw coming.

This is a big read, set in both New York’s well-to-do Hempstead crowd, going onto El Salvador. As Anthony discovers he is socially outcast from the industry that he had dedicated his life to, his wife and friends seems to disengage also, until he realizes […]

Cate Baum2014-05-05T21:32:18+02:00October 22nd, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Men's Fiction|

Review: No Man’s Land: The Beginning (Book One of the Hyde’s Corner Trilogy) by J. B. Bergstad

J. B. Bergstad’s first novel, No Man’s Land, begins in 1947 with Tom Burks, grandson of Selmer Burks, leaving his hometown of Hyde’s Corner, Oklahoma to join the army. Then the story goes back to 1877 and takes up the tale of the settling of a wilderness known as “No Man’s Land,” the founding of the town of Hyde’s Corner, and the trials and tribulations of Selmer Burks—trials and tribulations that lead, inexorably and quite horribly, to the situation in Hyde’s corner in 1947.

Selmer Burks is born to a ranching family recently settled in what was then the […]

Avery Hurt2019-01-22T17:47:06+02:00September 13th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Historical Fiction, Men's Fiction|

Review: Border Field Blues By Corey Lynn Fayman

The second book in the Rolly Waters Mystery series, this detective novel by Corey Lynn Fayman sees the detective hired to track down the perpetrators of damage to the protected preserve of least terns at the Mexican border with San Diego, at a time when Border Field State Park separated Mexico from the US with a chain, just by the Tijuana bullring instead of the fortified double wall that now exists.

A thoroughly-researched work, this story pops with the sort of detail only garnered through living it (the old adage “you couldn’t write it” stands true) and gathering information of […]

Cate Baum2019-01-22T17:47:37+02:00September 13th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Detective Fiction, Men's Fiction|

Review: Monster by Ben Burgess Jr.

This first novel by poet and spoken-word artist Ben Burgess, Jr. chronicles the love life of Ken Ferguson, a young man who responds to being dumped by a self-centered, materialistic girlfriend by giving up on love and instead devoting himself to pursing as many meaningless sexual conquests as he can manage—and he manages quite a dance card. Ken starts out as a very nice guy, but as he tries to keep himself from feeling any emotion, seducing and bedding women becomes almost a game to him. He gradually turns into a very different sort of person, the monster in the […]

Avery Hurt2019-01-22T17:49:12+02:00June 16th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Erotica, Men's Fiction, Romance|

Review: Guilty of Honour by Tony Mead

Ben Stone has mastered being at the wrong place at the wrong time. His worse instance of bad luck yet – being framed as the murderer of the regional magistrate’s son – is what puts the book’s main plot in motion.

The chase is an intense one. Dogs and men alike are hounding him, and to make matters worse, the weather is absolutely terrible. Even as Ben is running, he knows escaping will mean never seeing his aunt, uncle, and the girl he was falling in love with behind. Then again, it’s perhaps a good thing Ben got away from […]

Tiffany Cole2019-01-22T17:51:08+02:00February 25th, 2013|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Men's Fiction, Thriller|

Review: Golden State by David Prybil

If you took a poll asking people the capital of California my guess would be that not many people would know the answer. If you continued by asking how many of them have visited the capital city of California, I think even less people would answer in the affirmative. Books and movies that take place in California play up Los Angeles, Hollywood, and San Francisco. Not many feature Sacramento, unless the action revolves around the Gold Rush. For those who haven’t guessed yet, Sacramento is the capital of California.

Given the lackluster appeal, why did David Prybil set his novel […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T17:54:15+02:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Literary Fiction, Men's Fiction|

Review: Butt Ugly by Jimmy Glenn

Butt Ugly is a story of “love and baseball.” It is the heart warming tale of the cantankerous Cole Catalpa Junior, born with a deformity to the face that is so hideous people stare and comment all the time. He proves his bullies wrong when he starts pitching his anger out on his father’s barn door with a baseball and this talent for throwing is encouraged by Cole Senior despite Junior’s indifference,” “I’ve got no taste for that game” I told him. ” Regard it as an assignment,” he insisted.” This eventually shoots Junior into the national leagues of pro […]

Cate Baum2014-05-09T21:33:33+02:00October 24th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Men's Fiction, Sports|

Review: Voodoo Gold by James H. Jenks

Imagine that you are nearing forty with a wife and kids. Now, envision that even though you aren’t a professional soldier, you’ve signed up more than once for the Army Reserves. The first time you signed the dotted line was to pay for school. Then you resigned to help pay the bills after college. What may have seemed like easy money has now landed you in the middle of a war.

Voodoo Gold, by James H Jenks, chronicles SSG Jenks’s (same name as the author) time in Iraq. Jenks doesn’t like to complain. He’s the guy who always tries […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T17:55:54+02:00September 18th, 2012|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Men's Fiction|