Category: general fiction
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REVIEW: Wounded Martyr by Courtney Maguire
The Official Description: Ice is an asshole, but he’s working on it. He’s two years sober, no small feat when you front a heavy metal band facing waning popularity and dismal ticket sales. But, the pieces of a life torn apart by alcoholism are finally coming back together. His band, Wounded Martyr, has written a great…
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REVIEW: Find Me by Andre Aciman
The Official Description: No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book…
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REVIEW: Comes The Dark by P.A. Turner
The Official Description: Comes the Dark exposes a corrupt politician’s shadowy world of human depravity. In possession of information which could blow that shadowy world apart, 18-year-old Kyle escapes a life of abuse and goes on the run. One step ahead of his pursuers, he flees the harsh realities of Glasgow’s homeless underworld, to the…
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REVIEW: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
The Official Description: For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob — a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life — hopes that this strange family secret will…
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REVIEW: Survivor’s Guilt And Other Stories by Greg Herren
The descriptive bit: This is a collection of dark-themed suspense stories. Essentially, it’s a collection of tales about murder and untimely or suspicious death. There are bodies everywhere! Guilty people abound! My thoughts bit: The stories in this book hit you with horror where you live. RIGHT in your own mind. It’s filled up with…
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Review: The Best Of Crimes by K.C. Maher
The descriptive bit: Walter Mitchell, a New Yorker, walks into his local police station at the beginning of this novel and confesses to kidnapping a thirteen-year-old. Then the story of his history begins. Walter is a young math prodigy and at eighteen he lands a job in the twin towers. He meets and marries Sterling,…
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Review: Defense of An Other
The short blurb bit: Life can change in a split second. Lawyer and amateur boxer Matt Durant, is out at one of the many gay clubs in New Orleans. He’s curious about his attraction to men, curious, but taking it slow. He meets Joey … they talk, dance and the night is going well. When…
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Review: The Love Left Behind by Daniel de Lorne Is Out and Proud May 4!
The short blurb bit: Nick is a pilot traveling the world with an unusual and touching mission. Lyall is an electrician from a tightly knit over-protective family. The two men meet and are instantly attracted to one another. They are both struggling with loss in their past and as they grow closer, they wrestle with…
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Review: How To Be a Normal Person by T. J. Klune
The short blurb bit: Gus isn’t normal and he knows it. He runs a video store with three customers and has a pet ferret named Harry S. Truman. Casey is an asexual, stoner, hipster who might be famous (If you’re not Gus and actually know about pop culture). What could possibly go wrong if these…
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Review: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The short blurb bit: Years ago I read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and became enamored with Lisa See’s writing. The Island of Sea Women is a beautiful novel based on the lives of women living on Jeju Island in South Korea. The descriptive bit: Women feature strongly in this novel. In particular, the friendship between…
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Review: Best Man by Chris Delyani
When I read the description for this book, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into. Let me start with the basics. Frank is recovering… sort of… from his divorce from husband, Ethan. He and Ethan were married for years and then Ethan cheated on him. As if that wasn’t enough, Frank came home and…
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Review: Play It Again by Aiden Wayne
There’s so much in this book, I’m not sure I even know where to start! Alright… let’s start with the characters. The story opens with Dovid and Rachel filming their usual YouTube content. Their channel is called “Don’t Look Now”…why? Because Dovid is blind. As a result of a rare form of cancer, he had…
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