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Review: Bewilderments of the Eyes by Theresa Sopko

★★★★

Bewilderments of the Eyes by Theresa Sopko is a fascinating and heartfelt exploration into the crippling effects of depression.

Twenty-year-old Quinn Aldredge just wants to take back control of her life, but depression holds her captive. Can she find a way with the help of friends and loved ones to come to terms with her illness?

Mental illness, even in today’s world, is mostly a taboo subject. Sufferers, more often than not, feel ashamed. Those who aren’t afflicted, struggle over how to support loved ones or even how to broach the subject. However, thousands of people in the world […]

T B Markinson2016-05-13T04:43:24+02:00April 25th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Parched by Andrew C. Branham

Parched by Andrew C. Branham is about one family’s desperate struggle for survival in a sun-blasted future.

The opening scene of Parched largely sets the tone for the remainder of the book – water is incredibly scarce, people are desperately afraid, and the basic foundations of humanity are disappearing. This post-apocalyptic novel by Andrew Branham is set in a future Earth where the sun has swollen to a red giant, wreaking havoc on the planet’s geography, drying up the water, and baking the human species to the edge of extinction.

As is the case in many apocalyptic novels, movies, or […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2019-02-11T07:01:47+02:00April 25th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Cold November Rain by Nicole Warren

★★★★

Cold November Rain by Nicole Warren is an entertaining romantic suspense novel that explores the difficulty of trusting another in love when one hasn’t overcome the demons of the past.

Charlotte, after her husband died, moved on quickly, but it ended in disaster. As a consequence, she’s shut herself off from the world, fearful that her past will catch up with her. After a hiking accident, Emmett comes to her rescue. He’s kind, loving, and full of life. Can he help Charlotte out of her exile and teach her to love again? Or will her secrets destroy any chance […]

T B Markinson2016-05-13T04:33:22+02:00April 19th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Romance Book Reviews|

Review: The Struggle by Lincoln Gordon

The Struggle by Lincoln Gordon is a non-fiction work on the conformist attitude many people have about race and religion – especially in the African American community, of which author Lincoln Gordon is a part. He laments the ideas he found growing up about how one should behave as a person of color. A man who has lived his life by the beat of his own drum, Gordon’s The Struggle can be seen as something of a philosophical manifesto about identity in a multicultural society, as Gordon implores us to live by the rule that we’re all part of one […]

Naka Jackson2019-02-11T09:43:55+02:00April 15th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Religious Book Reviews|

Review: The Adversary’s Good News by Israfel Sivad

★★★★

The Adversary’s Good News Israfel Sivad is a surreal, philosophical novel about Christian Michael Anderson who decides to end his life. He’s got the noose ready and aims to go through with it until he has a change of heart at the last minute. Fortunately, he’s rescued from his attempt by a mysterious stranger named Evius, who informs him that he has, in fact, died.

This leads Christian on an odyssey through the underworld, where he meets gargoyles, demons, a drug-dealing Tinkerbell, but most of all begins to confront the demons within himself.

Sivad is an erudite and ingenious […]

Henry Baum2016-04-27T01:23:26+02:00April 14th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews, Literary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: God in My Head by Josh Grisetti

God in My Head by Josh Grisetti is an honest and occasionally irreverent look at religion and the existence of God.

There has been a growing market for “spiritual tourism” books in recent years, particularly as religion once again comes to the forefront of our political and cultural attention. God in My Head, an unexpectedly poignant memoir from Josh Grisetti, doesn’t follow the traditional pattern. Rather than buttressing and confirming what many people already believe about religion and the existence of God, Grisetti recounts his bizarre story with a number of controversial elements, a fair bit of humor, and […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2019-02-11T09:43:45+02:00April 14th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Religious Book Reviews, Spirituality Book Reviews|

Review: Edge of Infinity by Larry Don Garcia

★★★★

Edge of Infinity by Larry Don Garcia paints a portrait of the world far into the future: the Earth has been subjected to devastating earthquakes, fossil fuel is now obsolete, and religion is on the wane. Jefferson Alvarez is sent on a quest throughout the galaxy, which ends with him finding answers to questions about God and faith – questions that have been long since abandoned by many on Earth. His answers will begin an upheaval for the human race greater than any that has come before – one that will change humanity forever.

Garcia’s novel has no shortage […]

Henry Baum2016-04-29T11:42:32+02:00April 11th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Stratosphere: The Birth of Nostradamus by Brian Cox

★★★★

The Stratosphere: The Birth of Nostradamus by Brian Cox is a complex sci-fi epic depicting a chilling future.

In The Stratosphere, readers are welcomed into a bleak and dangerous future where humanity’s desire for an alternate reality has led to the complete demise of organized society. The book taps directly into recent growing fears regarding technology’s rampant rise by depicting our corrupted world far in the future, turning our modern molehill anxieties into futuristic mountains of prophetic prose.

The Stratosphere is an alternate reality platform where people can live out their every fantasy, be whoever they want, become […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-21T06:40:03+02:00April 8th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|