Category: 3 1/2 paws

Review – The Verifiers by Jane Pek #newrelease #mystery #netgalley

    Synopsis   Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st century: a new amateur sleuth exploring the landscape—both physical and virtual—of New York in a debut novel about love, technology, and murder. Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or […]

Review – The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang #newrelease #family #cultural #heritage

    Synopsis   The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, content to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. Whether or not Big Leo Chao is honest, or his wife, Winnie, is happy, their food tastes good and their three sons […]

Review – The Perfection of Fish by J.S. Morrison @barblefarb #fantasy #scifi

    Synopsis   2020 Maxy Awards Finalist – SciFi/Fantasy The contest between men and women escalates to a new battlefield—genetics. Legislators mandate a testosterone-lowering food supplement to reduce violence and make gun control unnecessary. The blowback assumes epic proportions. Nadia Holkam—a pawn in the battle—desperately seeks her true identity. Diana Holkam discovers companies are […]

Review – Central City by Indy Perro #noir #mystery @IndyPerro

    Synopsis   A noir mystery set in a fictional midwestern city. As a gang war erupts, a gangster and the detective who sent him to prison work together to stop a serial killer and bury the past. Kane Kulpa learned which laws could be bent and which broken after a short stint in […]

Review – The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy #newrelease @abmcelroy1 #satire

      Synopsis   A “dazzling” (Bryan Washington, author of Memorial and Lot ) and brilliantly satirical debut novel for fans of Women Talking and Red Clocks about two best friends—a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor—who form The Atmosphere, a cult designed to reform problematic men. Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, […]