SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
A Snowball in Summer by George Sanchez
A Snowball in Summer by George Sanchez is a remarkable piece of diaristic fiction telling the story of a hard-won love. Genuine and compelling, Sanchez’s style has the immediacy of real-world speech, the brilliance of well-crafted storytelling, and unforgettable characters in a vibrantly described New Orleans.
Bryna and Jeff might not be seen as an ordinary couple – their story is peppered with affairs, despair, ghosts from the past, but also unrelenting love. After many years together, and three children, they still desire each other passionately and even more profoundly than their early days.
When Jeff is away in the […]
Propelled by Blake Miller’s rich imagination and command of the genre, Delos: The Moon’s Eye is a memorable work of fantasy that moves across different planets and dimensions. With a unique take on magical rules, Miller’s story also touches on deep topics such as love, friendship, trust, and care for the environment within a sprawling and inventive tale.
Brilliantly dissecting the mind-opening potential and dire existential threat that technology simultaneously represents, Janak Alford delivers a critical and thought-provoking thesis on the future with his book Intelligent Digital Ecosystems: How Rethinking Technology Will Expand Your Mind and Change Your World.
Eloquently portraying the many shades of grief and loss, but also of healing and renewal, The Perfect Revenge: The Dragonfly Rises by WilD is a brilliant, emotive novel with a tough inner core.
A post-apocalyptic adventure from a masterful storyteller, Abandon Us by E.T. Gunnarsson is a thrilling first glimpse at the author’s darkly prophetic Odemark series.
Tense interplanetary drama that artfully dissects philosophical, personal, and political dilemmas, Home Rule by Stella Atrium is the stunning new installment of The Tribal Wars saga.
A mysterious figure straight out of a Charles Dickens novel sparks a tantalizing new puzzle for the perennially inquisitive Magdalena Majick in D.L. Yoder’s Just Like Majick.
The sequel to A Divine Invite and the second book in the Ancients series, Divinely Trained by Maggie Havoc is epic in its scope and labyrinthine in its plot. A sprawling, theologically-tinged work of imagination, this installment expands on the world built in the first novel, for an enormously creative and original take on Christian imagery and mythology, in which the human relationships are nevertheless the heart – and indeed soul – of the story, driving the narrative forward.