Book Review: A Rose Among Thorns by Ash Fitzsimmons Genre(s): Cozy Fantasy / Urban Fantasy Book Synopsis: No one said anything about an attack vine. Rose Thorn should never be left unsupervised around plants. Potted things tend to die around her as if on principle. But when her great-aunt calls and asks Rose to watch […]

Book Review: Falling Into Oblivion by Aaron M. Payne Genre(s): Science Fiction / Cyberpunk Book Synopsis: MODIFICATIONS COME AT A PRICE. Detective Sol Harkones is tangled in the wires of a deadly conspiracy involving defective body modifications causing permanent brain damage. A suspect is known, but something more dangerous may be lurking in the shadows. […]

Book Review: A Lion’s Pride by P.L. Stuart Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: Wound a lion’s pride, and you will feel their claws. When Plas, defiant King of Ipithyia, insults Wely, proud King of Lynchun, Wely needs no further provocation for invading the realm of his long time enemy. As Wely’s lord of battle, Othrun […]

Book Review: The Empire of Damnation by T.M. Kohl Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: The kingdom of Bhrea is on the brink of destruction. All that is left to defend Bhrea and the rest of the world is the small, haggard group that survived the failed attempt to retake the capital city Terrn from the […]

Book Review: Age of Arrogance by Timothy Wolff Genre(s): Epic Fantasy Book Synopsis: A Royal wedding looms, and the realm will be altered forever. Serenna Morgan struggles with the plan to assassinate the Emperor of Terrangus. For a Guardian to even consider such things would be madness, but Arrogance continues to grow his army of […]

Book Review: I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson Genre(s): Horror / Paranormal Fiction Book Synopsis: The last man on Earth is not alone. Robert Neville may well be the only survivor of an incurable plague that has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to […]

Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Genre(s): Mythological Fantasy Book Synopsis: A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut […]

Book Review: The Petticoat Pirate by C.R. Pugh Genre(s): Historical Fantasy / YA / Romance Book Synopsis: Josephine Teversin was fifteen years old when her father was murdered by pirate hunters. She’s the last of her kind—an immortal pirate without a ship or crew, and her magic is unstable at best. It’s 1773, and tensions […]

Book Review: Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson Genre(s): Science fiction Book Synopsis: Two years after a devastating defeat in the decade-long Spore War, the island nation of Hōppon and its capital city of Neo Kinoko are occupied by invading Coprinian forces. Its fungal citizens are in dire straits, wracked by food shortages, poverty and […]

Book Review: Digital Extremities by Adam Bassett Genre(s): Science Fiction / Cyber Punk / Short Story Collection Book Synopsis: A collection of eight stories, Digital Extremities shines a spotlight on ordinary people in a callous yet hopeful future. Set across small towns and remote islands, where neon flickers against old buildings and oaks, this collection paints a […]