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Review: Girl Soldier by T.R. Horne

★★★★½

Girl Soldier by T. R. Horne is a page-turning action and adventure novel with heart.

Rain Wilson grew up in a small Colorado farming town. Her mother left ten years ago, but Rain never stopped loving her. When Rain learns that her mother is missing, she realizes that she doesn’t know everything about her father and mother. The young woman sets out to find her mother. Can Rain handle the truth, lies, and the forces who don’t want her mother found?

The prologue of Girl Soldier makes a few things clear. Rain is compassionate and respects life. Yet, she’s […]

T B Markinson2019-01-22T05:55:31+02:00April 25th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews, Spy Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: The Stratosphere: The Birth of Nostradamus by Brian Cox

★★★★

The Stratosphere: The Birth of Nostradamus by Brian Cox is a complex sci-fi epic depicting a chilling future.

In The Stratosphere, readers are welcomed into a bleak and dangerous future where humanity’s desire for an alternate reality has led to the complete demise of organized society. The book taps directly into recent growing fears regarding technology’s rampant rise by depicting our corrupted world far in the future, turning our modern molehill anxieties into futuristic mountains of prophetic prose.

The Stratosphere is an alternate reality platform where people can live out their every fantasy, be whoever they want, become […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-21T06:40:03+02:00April 8th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Smart by Joel Mentmore

★★★★

Smart by Joel Mentmore provides a tangled knot of conspiracy, technology and corporate intrigue.

Armed with a bizarre cast of characters and a twisted knot of a plot, Smart definitely lives up to its name. While there were a few weak points and the occasional stumble in continuity, the rabbit hole of this strange narrative is too fascinating to avoid. The ambitiously complex plot, full of shadowy goons, threatening government agents, artificially intelligent (homicidal?) technology and backdoor business interests, is the strong foundation of this truly riveting and prescient ride.

Jon has gone missing, his sister Jac is on […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-02-21T06:40:10+02:00April 6th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Pages in the Wind by Sally Saylor De Smet

★★★★★

Pages in the Wind by Sally Saylor De Smet is a page-turning psychological thriller that grabs the reader’s attention right from the start.

Emily Quinn is detained at the San Francisco County Jail after the brutal murder of her father. She has no memory of the murder or of her past. Her mother hires a world-renowned psychiatrist to help Emily recover her memories and to aid in her defense.

While under hypnosis Emily recovers countless painful revelations and family secrets. Can Emily uncover the whole truth?

The premise of the novel promises a dark and gritty story. And the […]

T B Markinson2016-04-06T04:21:43+02:00March 24th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Psychological Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Bodyguard of Deception by Samuel Marquis (Book 1 of the World War Two Trilogy)

★★★★

As the clock ticks down to D-Day, the Allies are secretly in a state of panic. The greatest secret the Allies had left to win the war with has been stolen by one of the top Nazi spymasters, en route to the Fuhrer as they scramble to form a plan to reclaim it. In Germany’s final days of Nazi rule, could this be the lifeline they need to extend the conflict by one more bloody campaign of resistance, or will the Allies swoop in just in time to save millions of lives? The world hangs in a delicate balance […]

James Grimsby2016-03-23T04:03:25+02:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews, World War II Book Reviews|

Send Flowers (Shotgun John and Scorpion Book 1) by Mike Crowley

Send Flowers (Shotgun John and Scorpion Book 1) by Mike Crowley is a pulse-pounding thriller about an ordinary man on the run from the CIA for a crime he did not commit. John Griffin finds his workplace, a pharmaceutical lab, in flames, which puts him on the terror watch list and hounded by government officials. The lab has been working on the cure for a disease, and a corporate executive thinks it’s more profitable if the lab never discovers the cure. John must find the cure and band together with a group of citizens to fight the highest trenches of […]

Henry Baum2016-03-16T11:55:39+02:00March 16th, 2016|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: The Man in the Blue Fez: A Birth of an Assassin Novel by Rik Stone

★★★★½

In 1973, in the harsh eternal winter of Siberia, Jez Kord silently leaves his wife and comrade Anna behind in what was once a death camp built under Stalin’s rule.

Without a word to anyone else, he treks across the unforgiving plains that span beyond the militarized fences of the complex, determined to prove himself fit for duty; his mission-to-be: destroying the military corruption caused by the drug and flesh operations of local crime lords and the brutal machinations of the mafia. However, his task is hindered by friend and foe, leading to a desperate escape from Siberia for […]

James Grimsby2016-03-10T10:02:27+02:00March 10th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|

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

★★★★★

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 […]

James Grimsby2016-03-25T05:49:13+02:00March 5th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Thriller Book Reviews|