By Jaime Hypes on May 15, 2012
Richard Fornek wakes up in a hospital after a car accident a completely different person. Literally. His mind is still his own, but he is in the body of Daniel Curtis, who was hospitalized after his wife attacked him. Richard is in a different city (actually an entirely different state), has a different wife, different friends, a different family, and a different body and life.
Posted in Fiction, Jaime Hypes, Mystery/Suspense, Reviews | Tagged Fiction, Fractured Persona, Harry James Krebs, jaime hypes, mystery, suspense |
By Peter Hassebroek on April 30, 2012
Imagine yourself in a coma, dead and unconscious to everyone around you for the past six years, and then suddenly able to hear and think. But only that. No sense of smell or sight or touch.
Posted in Fiction, Literary, Reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged book review, Bryan Healey, coma, Fiction, Hospital, mercy killing, The Void |
By Peter Hassebroek on March 26, 2012
Peripatetic Australian Zack Morrissey is a chick magnet and all round likeable guy in 1998, back when international travel wasn’t so complicated. He’s crewing on a tourist boat in Israel, partying it up and having a good time, but not a wild time; also he’s not making as much money as he wants. Hence the compelling need to return to a notorious district of Tokyo called—and vividly depicted in Nick Vasey’s debut novel—Roppongi.
Posted in Fiction, Mainstream/Nostalgia, Reviews | Tagged book review, Fiction, japan, nick vasey, Roppongi, Tokyo, Travel |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on March 11, 2012
Somewhere during the tumultuous years we call being a teenager, I read a book called Voices that impacted me strongly at the time and stuck with me for many years. The concept of the book was the background and letters of teens who committed suicide, and was based on non-fiction cases.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged African refugee, Ashley Sanders, australia, books, Cancer, child prostitute, contemporary, demons, Facing Demons, Fiction, gang member, LK Gardner-Griffie, rehabilitation, troubled teens, young adult |
By Peter Hassebroek on February 25, 2012
Who is Michael Norton writing to and why is he so sensitive to the shallow identities of others, particularly those on Facebook? These two questions provide the suspense in Matadors, a one-way epistolary mini-novel by Steve Bauman. Yet the underlying question for the un-cool but likeable protagonist is, where do I fit in this world?
Posted in Fiction, Literary, Reviews | Tagged book review, Burlington, epistolary, Fiction, Matadors, novella, Steve Bauman |
By Peter Hassebroek on December 28, 2011
Grief and guilt ripple through Heaven Again by H. C. Turk, but not in a morose or self-pitying way. Despite emotionally weighed-down characters and tragic events, this compact, engaging novel that takes place in fictional locales in Florida compels the reader more to contemplation than anger, tears, or depression.
Posted in Fiction, Literary, Reviews | Tagged book review, dogs, Fiction, Florida, greyhound, HC Turk, Heaven Again |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on December 10, 2011
LK: First of all, I’d like to thank the LL Book Review for hosting the Tattered tour.
Posted in Book/Blog Tours, LK Gardner-Griffie, Promotions | Tagged blog tour, contest, Fiction, giveaways, Katie McCabe, kindle fire, LK Gardner-Griffie, misfit mccabe, Tattered, young adult |
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 September 1, 2011
Remember those humiliating moments during childhood and adolescence when making a public mistake? Or when someone outside the family has been subjected to the dorkiness that is your parents? If so, you’ll have an idea of what it’s like to be Darla McKendrick…
Posted in Family Drama, LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged book review, contemporary, family saga, Fiction, Lisette Brodey, LK Gardner-Griffie, Squalor New Mexico, young adult |
