I find this book very much like its cover: a beautiful medley of images, but so unrelated that I cannot quite understand the logic that places them together. It is ostensibly the story of a character with gaps in his memory who is trying to learn both his past and his present in a new […]
“Morgan le Fay: Children of This World” by Jo-Anne Blanco
In August I reviewed the first book in this series, “Small Things and Great,” and enjoyed it, so I was pleased to take a look at another work by this author. Unfortunately, I was not so impressed by the second book. Less is More Almost twice as long as the first book, this part of […]
“Queen Mary’s Daughter” by Emily-Jane Hills Orford
Today I am doing something I have never done before. I am writing a review of a book I did not finish. But this author has put a great deal of research, creativity, and toil into the project, and that deserves to be acknowledged. I was impressed with the main character of the story. She […]
“The Coven Murders” by Brian O’Hare
This book starts out as a standard murder mystery, involving, as you might expect, the ritual slayings of members of a coven. The police team assigned to the task of solving the murders is a pretty standard bunch, complete with the usual fake antipathy leading to comedic banter between the chief detective and the pathologist. […]
“Caina” by Joe Albanese
First a word about the title. I don’t know what it means, it appears nowhere in the book and thus it gives the reader or prospective buyer no clue as to what to expect. Readers of this genre aren’t expected to be familiar with Dante’s Inferno. At the risk of having someone come knocking on […]
“Arcatraissa” by Lacy Sheridan
This story is based on the “only children can see fairies” plotline with a modern twist. Cassie is no longer a child but she can see them, as can her dying aunt. However, the rest of the adults consider this ability mental illness, with all the hush-hush and secrecy that abounds where that topic comes […]
“The Knight’s Secret” by Jeffrey Bardwell
This book starts out with an interesting premise – the main character, Kelsa, magicked into her grandfather’s body – but the possibilities are not explored fully, especially when it comes to her reaction to romantic encounters. There is also the problem of empathy when the person she becomes takes over our attention, and we forget the […]
“Picket Town” by Chris von Halle
Picket Town is a simple story with a tight plotline. It involves the adventures of only two heroes with few peripheral characters. The setting is a small town in the woods, isolated from any other humans, immediately rousing our suspicions that Something is Going On. Amanda and Sam discover early in the story that their […]
“The Day the Sun Changed Colours” by Scott Talbot Evans
There is a certain amount of freedom in setting your Sci-Fi novel in 11,984 A.D. Society has changed so much that you don’t really have to follow any of the normal human conventions. Either in plotline, story structure, or grammar. In the tradition of “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” this is a style of […]
“Where Have All the Elves Gone?” by Christian Warren Freed
There are all sorts of Fantasies about someone who suddenly discovers that elves and ogres and things that go bump in the night have been living among us all along. Some of the most interesting ones involve an organization designed to hide this situation. Slipping over into Action Adventure-Conspiracy Theory, one sub-genre includes a government […]