Category: Review

Review – The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

    Synopsis   If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It’s a book – an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the […]

Review & #Giveaway – Roses in December by Mark A. Gibson

        Synopsis   Jimmy Hamilton overcame childhood tragedy to become a hero in Vietnam, only to die there in 1967. All but forgotten, Jimmy leaves behind a young wife, an infant son, and a man wracked by guilt. Circumstances allow Becca, his young widow, to be manipulated into an abusive, loveless union […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Song That Never Ends by Mark A. Gibson

        Synopsis   Home. For over three hundred years, that’s what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Home. That’s the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the […]

Review – Meant for Me by Tay Marley

    Synopsis   Sometimes you have to run away to find yourself. Reeling from the sudden loss of her older sister―her only family―Addie May flees Los Angeles without a plan or a destination, and ends up in Georgetown, Texas. Lost and alone, she’s taken in by some kind local ranchers, and there she meets […]

Excerpt & Guest Review – Iron Maiden by J.T. Maicke

        Synopsis   What if a woman ruled Germany in 1914? This alternate history explores that very question. An elaborate attempt to rid Germany of the Hohenzollerns has left a young sole heiress, Christiana, to take the throne of the German Empire. But this is no typical princess, hidden away in a […]

Review – Phishing for Love by Lara Martin

    Synopsis   Phishing: When hackers send malicious emails designed to trick people into falling for a scam. Phishing test: When organizations send deceptive emails to their own staff to test their response to phishing attacks. It all started with a cat video. A video that Tess Miller, a sassy and talented greeting card […]

Excerpt, Giveaway & Guest Review – Kiss of Frost and Flame by Ken Czech

            Synopsis   When Defending the Homeland Means Defending Your Heart. Siberia 1581. When Umey, a young outcast woman, stumbles on a ravaged village, she uncovers a plot that threatens to devastate her beloved homeland. It’s furs—soft gold—the invading Cossacks crave, and the greediest of them is Yermak, the man […]

Review & Excerpt – Beyond Conviction by C.J. Watson

    Synopsis   Alien swarms. Ceaseless wars. Hive worlds, pirates and conflict without end. For hundreds of years, the Conviction has kept these threats at bay. So why now are its forces suddenly disappearing? Adroa is a bleak, backwater world on the edge of known civilisation, with every day a struggle to survive for […]

Guest Review, Excerpt & #Giveaway – HER: The Flame Tree by Khanh Ha

            Synopsis   If the fate of unrequited love survives fifty-one years, nine months, and four days in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, it leads the way for HER: The Flame Tree, a spare, remorseless love triptych that sweeps through the rich panorama of two generations of colonial […]

Review – Valley Verified by Zyla Zhao

    Synopsis   On paper, Zoe Zeng has made it in New York’s fashion world as a fashion columnist at Chic. But life in New York City isn’t as chic as Zoe imagined. Then one day, Zoe receives a job offer at FitPick, an app startup based in Silicon Valley. With her current career […]