John Staughton, Senior Reviewer

Introspective, exhilarating, and haunting in equal measure, Unleash The Fury: A Storm of Vengeance on Eastern Sands by Joseph Paul D’Aquisto is a Far East vigilante thriller with a layered and fast-paced storyline. A retired detective who never truly laid down the badge puts himself squarely in the midst of a mob war in Sri Lanka, where he nobly defends the oppressed women and common folk of a small struggling town. Wrestling with his own vicious ghosts and navigating the twisted ethics of survival and street justice, John’s story fearlessly gazes into the unswept corners of human nature. While the […]

A fourth-wall-breaking spree of vigilante action and international rabble-rousing, Saving Maria by Truant Memphis is a surreal tale of unsung heroes fighting fearlessly for the masses. When a priceless art collection is stolen in a daring daytime heist, the case is taken on by the Electric Medicine Men, a ragtag cabal of clandestine antiheroes, including Littlethumb Brooks, the monk-like artist in mourning who created the pilfered paintings. Laced with wry wit and off-kilter, unpredictable prose reminiscent of Tom Robbins, this farcical novel is both strange and sharp, touching on everything from grief, geopolitics, and societal oppression to kung-fu monkeys, Hitler’s […]

A grim but masterful work of dark fantasy, A Queen in Blood (Warriors of Spirit and Bone Book 3) by Nick Snape is the emphatically impressive next installment to this sprawling and imaginative saga. Desperate to save her realm from a sinister blight spreading through the land and overtaking innocent souls, Queen Erin must turn to an unlikely ally, with the full horror of the Fleshmaster’s forces pushing through the thinning veil to Brandshold. A voracious dragon of the veil is intent on devouring the spirits of The Seven House leaders themselves, unless Laoch can overcome his grief and harness […]