The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Detour Paris by Jack Dancer ★★★★★
Detour Paris, by Jack Dancer, is a laugh-out-loud romance with a dollop of intrigue.
When Tucker Blue meets Monica Reyes there’s a spark. Tucker has recently reentered the dating world and he’s discovering that the life of a mid-life bachelor is equally exciting and complicated. He’s about to fly to Barcelona with Ebba, his flight attendant girlfriend. However, a last minute passenger kicks Tucker off the plane and now he and Monica are stranded together in the US.
Tucker concocts a crazy idea of catching a flight to London and then taking trains to Barcelona. Even though his girlfriend […]


Xodus, by K. J. McPike, is an action-packed young adult urban fantasy.
Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons from the Slopes, by Kathryn Kemp Guylay, is an inspirational and laugh-out-loud funny guidebook to overcoming life’s challenges.
John Duckworth brings his authorship to a new guide for studying, with a vengeance. Duckworth targets typical errors and easy “hacks” in studying methods not employed by the majority of exam-takers in an easy-to-digest guide for anyone else in the world who finds themselves using textbooks for self-percussive therapy over actual study in Studying Evolved: One peculiar British gentleman’s guide to accelerated learning as an adult student – the straight A habits, study skills and memory hacks you need to master any subject.
Gabriel Hawthorne never chose an easy life – his days investigating some of the filthiest secrets, personal and political, have marked him out. But every man has his limit, and when Gabriel stumbles onto the biggest skeleton in human history’s closet, he must find a way to survive.
Finding Lucy by Tess Morrison is a really delicious read for lovers of romance with a spark of something different – packaged beautifully with a pretty cover. I’m always a fan of a full moon in a design, and here the moon reflects the fact that the book centers around the aptly-named Moonlight Bay Camp For Kids in Butternut Creek, and one of its counselors, Lucy Mitchell.