Review – Soul Intent

Soul Intent – The Sequel Delivers!
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Dennis Batchelder
Available: Paperback, Kindle
1946 Nuremberg German – Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering faces the death penalty for the atrocities he has carried out in the name of Nazi Germany.  After learning of “Soul Identity”, Goering makes arrangements to have his entire ill gotten gold fortune bequeathed to his [...]

Review – Sorceress

Sorceress – Even Better than Book 1 in the Series!

Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended
Author: David Korinetz

Available: Paperback
After defeating the powerful sorceress Magdalen and stripping her of her power to save their world from the evil Halfling emperor, the small and brave band of Balorian Knights along with the wizard Aldus make their way home [...]

Review – And the Devil Laughed

And the Devil Laughed – Murder in a Small Australian Coastal Town

Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Carole Sutton

Available: Paperback
Recovering from the trauma of her own brutal attack and subsequent personal tragedies, detective Hannah Ford attempts to regain her career and life by going undercover to investigate drug trafficking in a small Australian coastal town.  But things [...]

Review – Adventures of the Muffin Family

The Adventures of the Muffin Family – Chip and the Vacation Plans – A Lesson in Obedience

Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Peggy Headings
Available: Paperback, Kindle
After experimenting with a variety of new ingredients for her muffins, a little old lady named Nellie was shaken by the sound of what she thought was her stove exploding.  Imagine her [...]

Review – Becoming Alice

Becoming Alice – A Coming of Age Memoir set during WWII

Rating: 4 of 5

Author: Alice Rene
Available: Paperback
The daughter of a successful Austrian physician, young Ilse had a privileged life.  That changed the day the Nazi’s marched down her street in Vienna.  Suddenly, the family housekeeper could not longer come to their home and her father [...]

Review – Look Away Silence

Look Away Silence – A Beautifully Written Novel

Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended
Author: Edward C. Patterson
Available: Paperback, Kindle
Every Christmas, Martin Powers found love.  Unfortunately, it rarely lasted beyond New Years day.  That is, until he met Matthew Kieler – a southern transplant, complete with  cowboy hat, drawl, and enchanting blue eyes.  Theirs was a love [...]

Review – Curse of the Tahiera

Curse of the Tahiera – A Dreamwalk Through Past Lives

Rating: 4.5 of 5
Author: Wendy Gilisse
Available: Paperback
Despised due to his Tzanatzi heritage, Rom made his living as best he could by trading and selling goods in the northern and southern Einache villages alternating between them as the seasons changed.  However, while preparing to travel North directly [...]

Review – Purusha’s Urn

Purusha’s Urn – All Things Large and Small…
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: John R. Johnson
Available: Paperback
Working at the very large array surveying the cosmos for any sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, Dr. Anna Koppernick and her colleagues receive a message – clear, and unambiguous.  However, the nature of the message’s source is such that it is impossible [...]

Book Review – The Dragon’s Pool

The Dragon’s Pool – The China Hands Reconnoiter
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Edward C. Patterson
Available: Paperback, Kindle
After saving the world and fulfilling the warrants in The Third Peregrination (Book 2 of the Jade Owl Legacy Series), Rowden Gray welcomes a more traditional domestic life.  Expecting his second child and preparing for a new display as curator [...]

Review – Blood on His Hands

Blood on His Hands – Redemption on the Appalachian Trail
Rating: 4 of 5

Author: Mark Sadler
Available: Paperback
Returning home early from a job working on a drilling platform, Michael Renton finds a strange pickup truck filled with his possessions parked outside of his house.  Certain he is being robbed and that his family may be in danger, [...]

Review – YGOR

YGOR – A New Masterpiece Added to the Frankenstein Lore

Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended
Author: Lee Murphy

Available: Paperback
Seventeenth Century: Orphaned at a young age due to multiple physical deformities and a dim wit, Ygor found himself raised under the harsh hand and tutelage of the village Abbott.  Learning to raise crops and forge and form [...]

Review – The Anna-Mae Mysteries

The Anna-Mae Mysteries – A multicultural supernatural adventure!

Rating: 4 of 5 for 9-12 year old readers
Author: L.S. Cauldwell
Available: Paperback
Summer was over and Anna-Mae Botts dreaded the return to school and the start of 7th grade.  Along with her brother Malcolm and best friend Raul Garcia, they slowly trampled their way through the school yard.  Suddenly, [...]

Review – Double Life

Double Life – Spy Kids Vosburg Style!

Rating: 4 of 5 for 9-12 year old readers
Author: Dawson Vosburg
Available: Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle
Seventh grader, Josiah Jones frequently found himself imagining a world more interesting and exciting than his boring real world life as a loner at school.  In his imagination, he was a spy, a secret agent for [...]

Review – The Academician

The Academician – Ancient Chinese Historical Fiction Meets Fantasy
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Edward C. Patterson
Available: Paperback, Kindle
12th Century China – Graduating with the highest honor at the academy, Li K’ai-men is charged by his great teacher and master Han Lin with carrying out a number of warrants both public and secret.  Designated as the new [...]

Review – Ponder Awhile

Ponder Awhile – Enlightened Sailor turned Poet
Rating: 3 of 5
Author: Mohit Misra
Available: Paperback, Kindle
In 2003, while sailing in the Atlantic ocean, merchant sailor Mohit Misra had a moment of enlightenment.  So much so, the previously confirmed atheist gave up his career to begin writing and convey his thoughts through couplets/dohas.  The result is a collection of [...]

Review – Griffin’s Shadow

Griffin’s Shadow  – An Ancient Evil Grows in Power!

Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended    
Author: Leslie Ann Moore
Available: Paperback
Deep in the bowels of The Black Tower, the elfin magic imprisoning an ancient evil is weakening.  Using it’s power of projection, the evil finds an accomplice to help in recapturing and releasing the key to it’s [...]

Review – Griffin’s Daughter

Griffin’s Daughter – Award Winning Fantasy!
Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended
Author: Leslie Ann Moore
Available: Paperback
Being half-elf and half -human, Jelena Preseren lives life ridiculed and looked down upon by others.  Though her mother, who died giving birth to her, was the sister of the Duke of Amsara, this does little for Jelena who is forced [...]

Book Review – Ferryman

Ferryman – Murder on the English Channel!
Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended
Author: Carole Sutton
Available: Paperback
After scrimping and saving all his life, Steven Pengelly flies to Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, to buy a beautiful thirty-foot sailboat to live his dream.  Preparing to take his new boat – Touché – back across the Channel [...]

Review – Santuary of Darkness

Sanctuary of Darkness – A Tragic Vampire Story of Love and Loss
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Titus McGuire
Available: Paperback, Hardcover
In his first year of life and after the untimely death of his father, Titus McGuire along with his sister and mother move to England with his new stepfather in the year 1582.  Unfortunately his stepfather is [...]

Book Review – An ABC Escapade Through Egypt

An ABC Escapade Through Egypt – A Beautiful Cultural Experience
Rating: 4 of 5
Author: Bernadette Simpson
One not only reads but views Bernadette Simpson’s An ABC Escapade Through Egypt.  Filled with beautiful photographs of Egypt’s rich culture, the book reads like a children’s version of The Amazon Race.  Using the alphabet and alliteration as the backbone driving [...]