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Review: Reason for Existence by Richard Botelho ★★★★★

The people of this land are a strange people, yet they possess a perseverance all their own, a perseverance like the hills themselves, unflagging and contrary to the evidence clearly in plain view.

Reason for Existence by Richard Botelho is an exciting sci-fi thriller that leaves a lasting impression.

When David Jordan, an extraterrestrial human in appearance, agrees to help U. N. Secretary General Nicholas Straka resolve an escalating nuclear crisis, he also learns he must defuse a horrifying plot to exterminate humanity by a hostile race of beings who despise human culture. In Reason for Existence, David Jordan […]

Review: Tricaillin by Steve Galley

Content warning for some violent and sexual content/nudity.

Tricaillin is a new graphic novel from Steve Galley, set in a post-apocalyptic society dominated by industrial overlords and torn apart by the horrors that sprung from an old war. A secret society works tirelessly for freedom, and they require help from beyond the pale to win it; meanwhile, a mysterious woman makes her way to answer the call. She must defend and assist the downtrodden and fend off the sterile tyranny of Fivecorp, all to cleanse her soul. The strange and the powerful must fight for their own ideas of order, […]

James Grimsby2020-02-21T06:32:02+02:00February 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Apocalyptic Fiction Book Reviews, Comics & Graphic Novels Reviews, Post-Apocalyptic Book Reviews|

Review: Stripping Down to the Bones by Merry Clark ★★★★

Either you get a job, get married, and have kids, or you go to Hollywood. Or you join a cult. It appears there really aren’t that many options in life after all.

Stripping Down to the Bones: A Memoir by Merry Clark is an honest, engaging, funny, and heartfelt read.

This memoir is about a woman who grows up in the Midwest. She’s attractive, educated, funny, and caring, but she can’t seem to find her place in life. Her story takes place at the University of Michigan, Colorado, Los Angeles, and the backwoods in Michigan. During the course of the […]

T B Markinson2016-02-10T10:34:44+02:00February 3rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews|

Review: The House Guest by Deborah L. Norris

★★★★

The House Guest by Deborah L. Norris follows the life of Maggie Davis, a middle-aged widow living in a large Victorian home in 1950’s Nebraska with her daughter. The house also doubles as a bed and breakfast, so new boarders come in and out who gather around Maggie’s kitchen table for conversations about life and the latest gossip. As Maggie is still recovering from her husband’s tragic death, she has a lot to contend with in her own life, but she’s also a keen observer of her visitors. A scheme to swindle Maggie out of her property leads to […]

Lysa Grant2016-03-04T02:39:49+02:00February 3rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Historical Fiction Book Reviews, Women's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: The Evangelical Experience by Anthony Coleman ★★★★★

The Evangelical Experience is a book with two agendas. One is easily identified. The other is harder to discern, perhaps even for the author himself.

The more obvious of the two purposes behind this book is the intent to provide insight for non-Evangelical Christians into the traditions, customs, beliefs, ethics, leadership, and practices of the Christian movement. This goal is accomplished with astonishing thoroughness considering the brief length of the overall manuscript. Coleman begins by first defining “Evangelical Christians” in today’s world, and then continues to outline the core beliefs concerning the faith’s fundamental tenets, such as the divinity of […]

Dakota Kemp2016-02-15T06:17:47+02:00February 3rd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Religion Book Reviews|

Review: The High Price I Had To Pay by Jamila Davis

★★★★★

If you are not already privy to the race/class imbalance of the USA, this amazing story will make your eyes pop out of your head in disbelief – if you are, like most of us, this tale is just about the seal on the deal. A 25-year-old woman without a college degree at the time, gets accused of bringing down Lehman Bank for millions of dollars. Yes, actually breaking a huge investment bank. Her male, white bosses get paltry sentences while she gets 12.5 years in jail.

Jamila Davis, an African American from New York, was seen all over […]

Naka Jackson2016-03-04T02:40:51+02:00January 29th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Non-Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: What She Knew by Nadine Galinsky Feldman ★★★★★

What She Knew, by Nadine Galinsky Feldman, is an insightful and thought-provoking peek into the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

Liz Nabor is driven, intelligent, and ambitious. She’s built a successful Wall Street career, has a gorgeous boyfriend, and enjoys a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle. Then the financial crisis hits. But that’s not all. Liz has to leave New York in the midst of the financial meltdown for a family emergency. While in Washington Bernie Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme is discovered and Liz finds herself in the heart of the scandal.

Can she survive? And can her aunt’s past in the financial […]

T B Markinson2016-02-09T07:43:21+02:00January 28th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews, Women's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: My Ladybird Story by Magus Tor

★★★½

John Bird is your typical suburban American kid in many ways, and yet secretly, he knows he isn’t. His dad tries to beat it out of him with sports, and his words cut almost as sharply as the taunts his schoolyard bullies chant at him every day: “ladybird.” Everyone knows John is different, but nobody knows why, exactly. It’s only when newfound kindred spirit Aureus enters John’s life does he start to understand “himself” in My Ladybird Story: The growing pains of a Transgender by Magus Tor.

The author has a wide variety of other titles available, mostly romance […]