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Review: La Strada Da Seguire: The Road to Follow by Susan Toscan

★★★★

La Strada Da Seguire: The Road to Follow by Susan Toscan is an emotional historical fiction novel that sweeps you back in time.

Susan Toscan, inspired by her own family history, has created a breathtaking tale that takes place in Australia and Italy. In the 1930s, families in Griffin, New South Wales, are popping up in a farming district. Italian immigrants have moved in bursting with ambition, knowledge, and commitment. News from Europe, though, is unsettling. While many are still reeling from World War I it becomes clear that another war is on the horizon. Families will be torn […]

T B Markinson2016-04-06T03:49:52+02:00March 24th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews, World War II Book Reviews|

Review: Pages in the Wind by Sally Saylor De Smet

★★★★★

Pages in the Wind by Sally Saylor De Smet is a page-turning psychological thriller that grabs the reader’s attention right from the start.

Emily Quinn is detained at the San Francisco County Jail after the brutal murder of her father. She has no memory of the murder or of her past. Her mother hires a world-renowned psychiatrist to help Emily recover her memories and to aid in her defense.

While under hypnosis Emily recovers countless painful revelations and family secrets. Can Emily uncover the whole truth?

The premise of the novel promises a dark and gritty story. And the […]

T B Markinson2016-04-06T04:21:43+02:00March 24th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Psychological Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: The Emergence of One American Nation by Donald J. Fraser

In the divided political climate of modern America, it’s time to look back at the differences, and the similarities, to the early days of the truly United States of America. In The Emergence of One American Nation by Donald J. Fraser, the spotlight is on the days of the founding fathers, their concordances, their bitter disagreements, their unions, and their separations. A new Constitution, and a new country, is born from the ashes of disparity. The history is laid out in simple terms, within the wider context of the Revolutionary War, the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, and the […]

James Grimsby2023-06-30T17:21:55+02:00March 23rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: History Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Tut Clone Contracts by Jan Issaye Berkhout

★★★½

The year is 2020, and leading scientific minds work on their top secret project: the cloning of King Tut. With hopes of furthering their research, they happily engage in borderline practices, using fertility clinic hopefuls in their eccentric and inscrutable experimentation. Following early successes, the project is disbanded, and the clones are left to their own devices… but not for long. When the clones are brought together by the wiles of fate, they begin to realize the truth of their birth, and plan to live up to their birthright. A bizarre adventure to Egypt is underway in The Tut […]

James Grimsby2016-03-31T04:45:08+02:00March 23rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Just Love Everybody by Greg Ware

★★★★½

The year is 2031, and while technology has advanced every field of science, there’s still many mysteries to solve and theories to prove. Enter Dr. Jake Love: a renowned obstetrician, a specialist in delivery, childbirth, and natal care. Dr. Love isn’t just lucky in the name department either, as by some kind of happenstance he is granted the chance to spend just one day with anyone in history.

With great power comes great responsibility: who would you choose? Who should you choose? Of course, Jake has to aim for the most unimaginable target, and he just has to ask […]

James Grimsby2016-03-23T05:31:58+02:00March 23rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Visionary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Bodyguard of Deception by Samuel Marquis (Book 1 of the World War Two Trilogy)

★★★★

As the clock ticks down to D-Day, the Allies are secretly in a state of panic. The greatest secret the Allies had left to win the war with has been stolen by one of the top Nazi spymasters, en route to the Fuhrer as they scramble to form a plan to reclaim it. In Germany’s final days of Nazi rule, could this be the lifeline they need to extend the conflict by one more bloody campaign of resistance, or will the Allies swoop in just in time to save millions of lives? The world hangs in a delicate balance […]

James Grimsby2016-03-23T04:03:25+02:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews, World War II Book Reviews|

Review: Ghosts of Mateguas: A Mateguas Island Novel by Linda Watkins

★★★★

Karen Andersen could be envied. She has a loving husband, wonderful children with a new arrival to light up her life, and a home near the coast to ease her mind on days when the gray sets in. Yet there’s a secret pain that Karen carries with her, carried from another coast of a place she can never forget: Mateguas.

After the terrifying ordeals of her time there, Karen knows she has to return; it’s the only way to put down her torments for good. Will Karen do what must be done? Is her son doomed to be cursed […]

James Grimsby2018-10-16T09:21:56+02:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Horror Book Reviews, Paranormal Book Reviews|

Review: I Am Ed by R.A. Akerlund

★★★½

An intensely moving story of loss, survival, and brotherly love.

The prospect of losing a parent is a fearful part of every child’s reality as they grow up, but to lose both parents, as the nuclear family of brothers in this novel did, is something particularly tragic. Readers are given an intimate glimpse of teenage life through the eyes of orphans, and the resultant story is nothing less than heartfelt and inspiring.

When Fred, Ben, Steve, and Ed lose their mother, they are faced with a difficult decision: report her passing to the authorities and risk being separated or […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2019-01-22T04:36:49+02:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Young Adult Book Reviews|