REVIEW: “Diving in Deep” by K.A. Mitchell
ABOUT: You never forget your first time. Cameron Lewis loves his job as an instructor/trainer for a water safety firm that inspects water parks. He gets to travel from March … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Lost” by Varian Krylov
ABOUT: When a typhoon destroys their boat, three scientists are stranded on an unpopulated island off the coast of Madagascar. As the weeks and months pass, it gets harder and … Continue reading
REVIEW: “The Affair of The Porcelain Dog” by Jess Faraday
ABOUT: London 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard’s blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Hard Fall” by James Buchanan
ABOUT: Deputy Joe Peterson is Mormon and in the closet. Then ex-con Kabe Varghese lands in town on parole. When a tourist falls off the mountain, Joe finds he needs … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Hammer and Bone” by Kirby Crow
ABOUT: The purest evil lives in the hearts of men. Carnival mystics. Zombie tribes. Bad magic in the Bayou. Mage-princes, alien cities, and soul-stealing priests. The grim monsters in the … Continue reading
REVIEW: “The Dark Victorian : Risen” by Elizabeth Watasin
ABOUT: It is 1880 in a mechanical and supernatural London. Agents of Prince Albert’s Secret Commission, their criminal pasts wiped from their memories, are resurrected to fight the eldritch evils … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Maurice” by E.M. Forster
ABOUT: The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers.” —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, … Continue reading
NEW-TO-ME AUTHOR REVIEW: “Liesmith” by Alis Franklin
ABOUT: At the intersection of the magical and the mundane, Alis Franklin’s thrilling debut novel reimagines mythology for a modern world—where gods and mortals walk side by side. Working in … Continue reading
REVIEW: “Counterpoint : Dylan’s story” by Ruth Sims
ABOUT: At eighteen Dylan Rutledge has one obsession: music. He believes his destiny is to be the greatest composer of the rapidly approaching twentieth century. Only Laurence Northcliff, a young … Continue reading