SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
The Secret of Immortality: The Tombmakers Village by CJ McKivvik
Humanity’s ultimate prize, everlasting life, is the narrative carrot dangling in The Secret of Immortality: The Tombmakers Village, a globe-spanning new thriller by author CJ McKivvik.
After the head of a nebulous research group mysteriously dies with his greatest secret left untold, he entrusts Tom Carrott to finish his work, launching this young protagonist on a quest that would make Indiana Jones proud. As Tom’s vision of his future spins out of control, he follows the footsteps of a dead man to Africa, spurred on by the artifacts hinting at immortality that ended up on his doorstep. A handful […]
Author John Etzil gives a riveting peek into Jack Lamburt’s vigilante origins in First Justice. Long before becoming a secretive small-town sheriff, Lamburt must wrestle with his grief and constant hunger for revenge, channeling his anger into a high-risk mission on foreign soil, while rekindling his connection with a stunning and deadly assassin, Frankie.
Niyati Tamaskar boldly tells the story of her cancer journey in unabashed and fearless detail in Unafraid: A Survivor’s Quest for Human Connection.
With a disagreeable and dishonorable, yet vaguely charming lout at its core, Leo the Liar is an amusing and unpredictable family drama from Bernie Donnelly.
Author Greg Wyss expertly transports readers to the chaotic 70s with remarkable ease and charm in When Life Was Like a Cucumber. Following Jeffrey Hesse’s fiery split from his wife, this is a hilariously unpredictable story of his self-exploration, healing, liberation, and growth.
Sparkling with wit and a Shakespearean tongue-in-cheek style, The Court of Capricorn by Christopher Range is an inspired work of theatre with a backstory as grand as the cosmos.