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 |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on October 1, 2009
As I Rode with Cullen Baker opens, we are met with a scene evocative of Gone with the Wind with Tara burning in the background. Set in the South in the midst of the civil war, fifteen year old Jessica Linville watched while the Federal cavalry burned her house to the ground.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Historical, LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged adventure, civil war, coming-of-age, Cullen Baker, Fiction, Historical, historical fiction, LK Gardner-Griffie, novel, outlaw, RLB Hartmann, romance, tale, texas |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 14, 2009
If Tim LeHaye and Michael Crichton had ever gotten together to write a book, it would probably end up being something like Anthony Policastro’s Absence of Faith. It’s part medical mystery and part religious thriller all rolled up in a plot of Christianity, Unexplained Phenomenon, New Age Beliefs, and Satanic Occults. It’s a white-knuckle read that would probably drive a Baptist preacher to an early death, and probably have Stephen King saying, “Now why didn’t I think of that?”
Posted in Action/Adventure, Horror/Supernatural, Mystery/Suspense, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged absence of faith, anthony policastro, hell, lulu.com, medical mystery, medical thriller, outbreak, religion, religous mystery, satan, satanism, unexplained |
By Dan Marvin on July 10, 2009
I was excited to get my copy of Altered Life, a detective thriller from Keith Dixon. He was nice enough to send me a copy all the way across the pond and I dove into it the same day it arrived. The description on the Lulu page hooked me: ‘Altered Life transplants the attitude and pace of the American private eye story into a contemporary English setting.’
Posted in Action/Adventure, Dan Marvin, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged altered life, keith dixon, Lulu, lulu.com, mystery, POD, private eye story, thriller |
By Dan Marvin on June 5, 2009
At the risk of sounding like a movie review, Trident’s Fury is an enjoyable romp. Suspend your disbelief for 335 pages and just go with the flow and you’re in for a riveting ride complete with pirates, explosions, and ancient runes to unravel. Reading the book, you’ll think you’re at the movies, watching Harrison Ford escaping time and again from avenging Nazis, bent on world domination. Only this time his name is Ethan Darringer.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Dan Marvin | Tagged Action, adventure, Indiana Jones, matthew scott baker, pirates, Treasure, trident's fury |
By Shannon Yarbrough on May 28, 2009
I received a hard copy of Anthony R. Fanning’s book in the mail a few months ago. Opening the package, I discovered the book was wrapped in brown paper tied with cotton twine much like a treasure map. What a cool marketing idea, I thought! It really gave me a nice visual introduction to the book. Unwrapping the paper, I discovered a nice little 4.25″ x 6.88″ pocket size book totaling 430 pages and only 19 chapters! But it’s orange cover (the author has since changed the color) and pencil drawing of a young girl standing in front of an Old World Caribbean map appealed to me even more. I usually frown at 300+ pages in any book, but the small size of this book made it read more like 215.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Historical, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged anthony r. fanning, isle of lost souls, lulu.com, natalie's good fortune, pirates, treasure island |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 4, 2008
Traveling to foreign countries is not a pleasure I’ve ever experienced myself, but I have always enjoyed reading about it. Christopher Isherwood and his writings about many trips to a war torn Germany remain at the top of the list of some of my favorite books. I can now add author Tony Judge to that list. When I began reading Tony’s book, Sirocco Express, I was immediately captivated by the author’s use of description. Here’s the very first line of the book:
Posted in Action/Adventure, Experimental/Narrative, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged adventure, dickens, exploration, folklore, foreign countries, History, london, lulu book review, lulu book reviews, lulu.com, lulu.com author, lulu.com book, nigeria, sirocco express, tony judge, Travel |
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