By Lloyd Lofthouse on February 18, 2012
Coping with the loss of a spouse is often one of the most difficult challenges in life, and it doesn’t matter if the spouse dies young, middle aged, old or somewhere in between. It is a heart breaking journey for the survivor made even more so if he was still deeply in love with his wife.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Lloyd Lofthouse, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged getting oriented, japanese fiction, japanese travel, japenese novel, wally wood |
By Peter Hassebroek on November 29, 2011
Street Raised by Pearce Hansen is a basic revenge drama set in the grimly depicted environment of the East Bay area in California in the early 1980s. Oakland street hood, Speedy, gets released from a prison in the northern part of the state, shoeless. He ventures home, encountering a few adventures and picking up a kitten along the way. In a long opening chapter, we see the complex mix of violence and compassion that makes up the protagonist’s character. Once home, Speedy reunites with his younger brother, Willy, who’s become a crack addict during Speedy’s long incarceration.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Reviews | Tagged book review, crime drama, Fiction, Pearce Hansen, Street Raised |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on November 21, 2011
Epic Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance. I have been waiting for a chance to read The Fallen Queen for quite some time now. I’ve had the privilege of catching some snippets of the book while playing on Twitter, and the concept intrigued me, so I jumped at the chance to get my hands on an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of the book.
Posted in Action/Adventure, LK Gardner-Griffie, Relationships/Women's Lit, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged Anastasia, Anazakia, Angels, demons, epic fantasy, Heaven, Heaven and Earth, Imperial Russia, Jane Kindred, LK Gardner-Griffie, Ophanium, russia, Seraphim, supernal family, The Fallen Queen |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 27, 2011
Termination Orders: Code Name Cobra by Leo Maloney with Caio Camargo Independent Publishing House Copyright © January 2011 ISBN: 0615419887 249 Pages $14.99 Paperback Amazon.com When Dan Morgan (code name Cobra), a former Black Ops contractor, is asked to come out of retirement to help the CIA with a mission, he is hesitant at first. [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Historical, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged code name cobra, leo maloney, termination orders |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on July 19, 2011
It’s not often I have the pleasure of reviewing a book prior to release, so I’m especially honored to have the opportunity to review Born To Be A Dragon the day before it launches.
Posted in Action/Adventure, LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged Action, adventure, Born To Be A Dragon, dragons, Dragons Forever, Eisley Jacobs, Fiction, foster child, friendship, juvenile fiction, LK Gardner-Griffie, middle grade |
By Peter Hassebroek on May 20, 2011
Several weeks ago, a post on Henry Baum’s Self Publishing Review blog offered a succinct perspective on quality in self-publishing, questioning whether readers would care or even notice so-called gatekeeper issues when they’re paying less than a buck for an E-Book. False Refuge by Steven Anderson is an under-a-buck book and the post made me pause to consider whether, as a reviewer, I ought to consider the price in reviewing this novel and be more forgiving about any copyediting issues I might come across.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged AWOL, book review, Conscientious Objector, false refuge, Fiction, hawaii, Kona, steve anderson |
By Peter Hassebroek on December 16, 2010
Just as Sabrina Grainger falls off a party boat into the Caribbean in 2009, so the reader is dropped right into the action of The Noble Pirates. R. L. Jean (a.k.a. Fiction Chick) makes the reader and her protagonist fend for themselves. Much easier for the reader who is aided by the accomplished storytelling than for poor Sabrina Grainger—a mother, wife, and attorney—whose plunge sinks her nearly three centuries into the world of pirates.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Historical, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged adventure, book review, historical fiction |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 5, 2010
Originally published with BookSurge in 2008, Nick Nolan’s Double Bound was just republished as part of the AmazonEncore program. AE is where Amazon.com recognizes books that may have been overlooked but may have great potential, and then partner with the authors to re-release them and help market them better to readers. It obviously is working, or at least for Nick Nolan, because I would probably not have read his book otherwise. Double Bound is a sequel to his first book, Strings Attached, which was republished with AmazonEncore earlier this year.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Mystery/Suspense, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon encore, double bound, gay brazil, gay mystery, nick nolan, strings attached |
By Dan Marvin on April 2, 2010
There’s good confused, and there’s bad confused. As I read John C. Stipa’s No Greater Sacrifice, I was good confused. If you’ve read any of the Dan Brown novels you know the confused I’m talked about, where the characters leap to the right conclusion time and again when presented with sketchy puzzles while you’re left in the dust.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Dan Marvin, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged john c. stipa, no greater sacrifice |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on December 13, 2009
Jack Regan captured me from the get go with his young adult fantasy T’Aragam, which is aimed at the tween age group (9-13).
Posted in Action/Adventure, Humor, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Jack W. Regan, Max Ransome Chronicles, T'Aragam, tween, young adult |
