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Review: Martin Dash by Andy Bailey (Book 1 of Day-to-Knight)

★★★★★ Martin Dash by Andy Bailey

Martin Dash is beautiful, charismatic, charming, and universally adored by everyone who meets him. He’s almost a perfect man, except for the one thing he lacks: emotion. Eternally devoid of any real semblance of empathy, self-identity, or passion, Martin Dash can only wander through his gifted path with nothing to give in return for the adoration and wonder afforded to him by fate.

Anyone who truly comes to know Martin Dash could agree that there lies nothing below his heavenly veneer; anyone except her. One woman claims to see something deep inside the man, and takes on a journey […]

2016-03-25T05:49:13+02:00March 5th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |
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Review: Love’s Timeless Melody (The Bel Homme Quartet Book 2) by Cindy Irish

★★★★★ Love's Timeless Melody by Cindy Irish

Love’s Timeless Melody, Book 2 in The Bel Homme Quartet by Cindy Irish, is a fabulous addition to the series.

British singer Jamie Stratton joined the group called “Bel Homme” for one reason: to make loads of money. A year later and his dream has come true. He’s beyond wealthy. Yet, he hasn’t been able to tamp down his spiritual side. Raised by his gran at Stonehenge, his childhood has influenced him more than he lets on.

Jessica Evans is an American psychic. However, her abilities don’t allow much insight when it comes to her own life. When […]

2022-10-21T11:53:31+02:00March 5th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |
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Review: Gray Panthers: Dixie (Gray Panthers Book 3) by David Guenther

★★★★ Gray Panthers: Dixie by David Guenther

In the far-flung future, Earth is under constant siege by the myriad military threats of the larger cosmos. Only a few battle-hardened groups of the US Army Special Forces hold up the interplanetary fight against mercenaries, villains, and invaders. On the planet Dixie, one such group holds the line with the help of the legendary Gray Panthers, with an Earth official to save and a population ravaged by war and disease to defend. It’s time for the Panthers to break out the guns and save humanity once again in the third book of the Gray Panthers series, Gray Panthers: […]

2016-03-25T04:59:39+02:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |
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Review: Seasons of Pain by Imowen Lodestone

★★★½ Seasons of Pain by Imowen Lodestone

Content warning for violence, sexual and partly graphic; general sexuality; abuse, substance use, and some forms of self-harm.

Jesse M. Lelrick is a Witch; well, she was a Witch. To anyone who asks, who has any right to ask, she’ll tell them flatly that she doesn’t do that anymore, she gave up her powers, and now she’s just your average college girl. She knows it’s a lie; she was cast out by her kuven and her personal struggles merely pushed her to distance herself from the practice, yet it’s still inside her, pushing for space between depression, self-destruction, and […]

2016-03-09T08:10:07+02:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |
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Review: Discovering Kaylee by Stu Kane and Hannah Wilkerson

★★★★ Discovering Kaylee by Stu Kane and Hannah Wilkerson

Discovering Kaylee, by Stu Kane and Hannah Wilkerson, is an angst-filled teenage drama that will hold the reader’s interest until the end.

Kaylee, a high school junior, is popular and successful. She has good grades, friends, drive, and is attractive. Sam is the opposite. He’s withdrawn from his peers, school activities, and classes. When the two of them start a rock band, it drastically changes both of their lives. The question is will the two of them survive the changes?

Teenage drama is just that: drama. It’s one of the appeals of young adult and new adult fiction. […]

2016-03-16T08:15:39+02:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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Review: End Time (The End Time Sage Book 1) by Daniel Greene

★★★★½ End Time by Daniel Greene

A savage, unforgettable zombie thrill ride.

From the very first scene of Greene’s gruesome, entrancing thriller, readers know that they are in for one hell of a ride. When a deadly virus begins to spread in the DRC, one might think that all the petty rivalries, policies, and ambitions of people would be put to the side for the sake of survival, but this novel takes readers not only through the brutal gore of an imagined zombie apocalypse, but also into some truly dark corners of human nature.

Readers are initially led to believe that this is a slowly […]

2019-01-21T09:37:57+02:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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Review: White Dove by Ryan Gordon

★★½ White Dove by Ryan Gordon

White Dove by Ryan Gordon is a young adult horror novel about Zuri Bailey, a 17-year-old with more problems than face most high-schoolers, who suffers from a violent and mysterious attack in her past. As she comes to terms with the encounter, she witness more violence: a murder in her town of Dover Point. Battling personal issues and trying to take care of her family, Zuri find that the murderer is more terrifying than she even realized: a supernatural force is on the prowl.

Gordon is at his best when he’s expressing the emotional complexity of his teen characters. […]

2016-03-11T03:18:20+02:00March 4th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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Review: Fixed by Doug Piotter

★★★★ Fixed by Doug Piotter

Doug Piotter’s memoir, Fixed: dope sacks, dye packs and the long welcome back, is an eye-opening account of the author’s dysfunctional and seemingly hopeless existence as a young man. Fueled by almost every illegal substance known to man, he stumbles through bank robberies, drug rehab, and has many encounters with a whole host of crazy characters. When he starts his “long welcome back,” his tale turns into a positive one  and he embarks on the beginning of a life of hope and productivity.

With no conventional parental guidance to speak of, Piotter quickly slides down a very slippery […]

2016-03-24T07:51:08+02:00February 29th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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