Entries Tagged as ‘TMBOA recommended’

November 14, 2009

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 [...]

October 1, 2009

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 [...]

August 2, 2009

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 [...]

June 27, 2009

Author Spotlight – Carole Sutton

From WWII London to climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge, what an Inspiring Life…
I frequently wonder what inspired someone to write from a certain local, or how they were able to create an ingenious and creative plot device.  I’ve come to find the answer lies in the wonderful experiences authors have had that shaped their lives.  [...]

May 30, 2009

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 [...]

May 19, 2009

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 [...]

April 26, 2009

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 [...]

April 11, 2009

Review – The Third Peregrination

The Third Peregrination  – The Relics Re-awaken
Rating: 5 of 5 TMBOA Recommended
Author: Edward C. Patterson
Available: Paperback, Kindle
After vanquishing the evil empress Wu Tze-t’ien, Rowden Gray and Nick Battle believed the Jade Owl to be forever tamed.  But both are wrong.  One year has passed and Nick receives an artifact, an opal ring, which awakens these [...]

February 8, 2009

Review – Numenon

Numenon – A Collision of Native American Mysticism and Corporate America
Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended
Author: Sandy Nathan
Available: Paperback
Leading Numenon, the largest and most powerful corporation on the Earth, Will Duane carries a secret.  Haunted for years by the memory of his demanding and verbally abusive father, Will compensates by driving for ever greater success [...]

January 15, 2009

Review – Vespa

Vespa – A High Octane Thriller – I found my new Crichton!
Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA recommended
Author: Dean Lombardo

Available: Paperback

1940 – Deep within the jungles of the Amazon river basin, a young native boy leads a group of Nazi scientists in search of el monstruo. The boy, being smaller than the rest, moves fast [...]

January 10, 2009

Review – Sons of Avalon, Merlin’s Prophecy

Sons of Avalon – A Wonderful Fusion of Arthurian Legend and Historical Fiction
Rating: 5 of 5; TMBOA Recommended
Author: Dee Marie
Available: Paperback

After witnessing a tree shattering lightening strike, Arden and Enid hear the cries of a newborn child emerging from the tree’s scorched remains. The elderly couple take the helpless child to raise him as [...]

January 3, 2009

Review – Utamaro Revealed

Utamaro Revealed – Beautifully Written Insights into the Artist and Japanese Culture

Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended!

Author: Gina Collia-Suzuki
Available: Paperback Non-fiction

For those unfamiliar with Kitagawa Utamaro, he was Japanese artist in the late 1700s / early 1800s whose expertise in Ukiyo-e prints is unsurpassed. Ukiyo-e, meaning “pictures of the floating world”, is a style of [...]

December 27, 2008

Review – Cluck: Murder Most Fowl

Cluck: Murder Most Fowl – Where Evil Comes To Roost!

Rating: 5 of 5, TMBOA Recommended!
Author: Eric Knapp
Available: Paperback

Somewhere outside of Detriot Michigan, a spectral cosmic light lasting only moments, intersects the souls of a young suburban boy named Arnold and a fabulously large Rooster. Afterward, Arnold is imbued with a second sight allowing him to [...]

November 10, 2008

Review – The Starfish People

The Starfish People – A Bittersweet Exceptional Debut Novel
Rating: 5 of 5 – TMBOA recommended book!!
Author: Leann Marshall
Available: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle

After years of being haunted by a recurring nightmare where she is drowning, Sera Muir’s life is an empty shell. The nightmare is unrelenting and repeated therapy has proven to be unsuccessful. Sera moves through [...]