Derailed Conscience is a standalone novella, a short quick read set in coming-day Britain about Jonathan, a research assistant to a psychologist, Kathryn Blake, who has her sights set on being a name that is dropped, known as a superstar psychologist. Without their knowledge, Blake…
I’ve never until lately read horror novels at least not like the kind written by Stephen King or those with large amounts of horror elements. It comes from having seen Halloween II at a young age and having nightmares about movies, television shows, and books…
The Mountain Whisperer is an excellent foray into traditional and quality Chinese literature. The folk tales and narratives are based on the lives of real people who lived prior to, during, and after Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The afterword explains the book. For readers who are…
For 15 years old, Madness is an impressive first older young adult novel that has fantasy, paranormal and horror aspects set in a dystopian game setting. There is a plot that keeps moving with enough light (or slow) moments for the reader to catch their…
Creepy and forbidding, that is what Hud and Bek faces during a run for their lives. It you want a short story, try Andrew C. Jaxon’s The Dark Unseen. At 78 pages, it is a short gripping young adult read that is a blend of horror…
The teeth remind me of the Rocky Horror Picture Show while the eight stories remind me of the long running syndicated Twilight Zone weekly show. The show can be streamed from Amazon through one a channel, CBS. From the Amazon website: The original “The Twilight…
Besides the fact that in the audiobook Will Wheaton of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Big Bang Theory fame narrates Ready Player One, Ernest Cline has done what other writers of techno-virtual worlds/interactive worlds has been unable to do–at least for me, a reader…
I had read Connelly’s The Book of Lost Things and so was prepared for the unusual, the strange, and just plain creepy when I agreed to review A Time of Torment. John Connelly’s A Time of Torment (Charlie Parker #14) reminds me of the movie…
July 20, 2016 1 New Book For Your TBR Amor Towles’s Adult Historical Fiction A Gentleman in Moscow Expected publication: September 2016. “A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant…
Set in New York City, Sarah Rees Brennan’s Tell the Wind and Fire is a dystopian novel in which two worlds, the Dark and the Light are pitted against each other. In the afterword, the author relates about how Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two…
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