The latest indie book reviews from Self-Publishing Review
Review: Lily’s Story by Don Gutteridge ★★★★★
Lily’s Story, by Don Gutteridge, shows the power of teaching history through the eyes of one woman.
Lily, born in the backwoods of Lambton County, Ontario, enters the world in 1840. Frontier living isn’t for the weak. But life has much more in store for Lily. During her long lifetime she witnesses the rise of railroad rivalries, the discovery of oil at Petrolia, the Prince of Wales’ grand tour in 1860, the Underground Railroad sending liberated slaves to Canada, the Riel Rebellions, the birth of a nation, World War I, and the influenza pandemic. Over the decades, she marries […]
Following the reign of terror that was McRandle, killer of the Dublin docks, horror strikes the Irish town once more. In the year of 1892 the woods of Dublin become host to a brutal murder of a budding couple who dare enter it. Ignoring local superstitions, the two trespass into cursed land, and discover the truth behind the dreaded place, at the expense of their lives at the hands of the escaped lunatics of the local asylum.
Olga, written by Ted Kelsey and illustrated by Dillon Samuelson, is an exciting novel for children that will captivate readers of all ages.
A Bed of Barley Straw: Volume 1 of the Draymere Hall Series, by Sam Russell, delves into her characters’ minds exposing their innermost thoughts, fears, and desires.
This memoir of a childhood and young-adult life spent advancing inexorably toward disaster was written from federal prison. Jamila Davis is currently serving a 151-month sentence for bank fraud. This memoir serves as both cautionary tale (for young people as well as their parents) and sociological profile. The cautionary tale is powerful, the sociological profile perplexing.
Finally, For Me, by Roseanne Burke, is the smoking hot start to the Finally Book Duo series.
In the beginning, there was a tribe of nomads that took only what they needed and lived as one with the world. As time grew, the tribe became the tribes, and the tribes’ three wisest argued the nature of things: one argued light was the true creator, one argued dark, and one argued both were unreasonable and would only believe in what could be proved. They split the tribes into factions and distanced each other to far corners, leaving the undecided to rot in the fields.
Death by Romance, by Anne Kennison, is a clever whodunit that’ll keep you turning the pages frantically to uncover the murderer.