Seventeen-year-old photographer Sylvia Brooks already lives under the shadow of her father’s crimes when she moves into the Gallo mansion to finish high school. Two people vanish. She wakes with a head wound and a hole in her memory. In a town ready to believe the worst of her, she has to decide whether she is hunting the truth or becoming it.
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Book Review: A Healer’s Prophecy by Karoline Ettinger
Karoline Ettinger’s A Healer’s Prophecy, Book 1 of the Kallos Trilogy, is a hopeful, beautifully written coming-of-age fantasy. Read our five-star review.
Book Review: Alone Together by S.S. Fitzgerald
Army veteran Dr. Dakota J. Miller reviews Alone Together by S.S. Fitzgerald, a post-apocalyptic horror novel that gets pandemic protocols right.
Book Review: The Gallos by C.J. Simone
Seventeen-year-old photographer Sylvia Brooks already lives under the shadow of her father’s crimes when she moves into the Gallo mansion to finish high school. Two people vanish. She wakes with a head wound and a hole in her memory. In a town ready to believe the worst of her, she has to decide whether she is hunting the truth or becoming it.
Book Review: Itsy Bitsy Spyder by J.R. Larriba
J.R. Larriba’s Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution starts as a gritty Marin County murder case and ends somewhere far stranger. The genre swerves can jolt you, but sharp banter, a creeping sentient fog, and real heart make this a wild ride worth taking.”
Book Review: Heroless by Antoine Monks
Heroless by Antoine Monks takes a two-track look at the superhero genre after the costumes have already failed. One strand is almost domestic: years after Fortune City’s protectors were pushed back into ordinary life, former heroine Elizabeth—once Disk Girl—sits down over coffee and dinner with her quiet confidant Roy, formerly Justice-Hand. Their talk is the book’s emotional spine. Through regrets, jokes that don’t quite land, and vivid flashbacks, they revisit the bright early days of the city’s hero coalition, the fights with super-criminals that kept getting uglier, and the public paranoia that finally made masks look like a public menace instead of a promise.
Book Review: Bloodbound: Covenant by Noah Raines
Bloodbound Covenant (Book One of the Bloodbound Saga) by Noah Raines leans into that discomfort. Two teenagers meet, seemingly by chance, and are pulled into an old war against ancient enemies. Caleb grows up on a Montana farm with a cold, distant father still marked by Vietnam. A thousand miles away, sixteen-year-old Sofia mourns her father, an ex-cop who died nine years earlier under murky circumstances.
Book Review: Adventura by Ettie Star
Adventura is a fast, original science-fiction novel set on a tidally locked theme-park world celebrating its twentieth anniversary. At its center is Justin “Juzzie” Jayce, a park janitor wrongly accused of corporate treason after a viral fault sends the animatronics on a rampage against performers and guests. To clear his name and save robotics engineer Kara Holt—who also plays the park’s Princess Oriana—Juzzie must cross the park’s most dangerous zones and collect the hidden Guardian Gems needed to reboot the corrupted central AI, Cerebrum.
Book Review: Legacy of Blood by Jessica Barberi
Footprints by Simon Meredith weaves two timelines—1928 and 1986—into a genuinely spooky supernatural mystery, anchored by a wonderfully original hook: living paint as a conduit for fear and memory. With a richly unsettling setting and memorable characters, this is a creative, gripping read for horror and mystery fans alike.
Book Review: Footprints by Simon Meredith
Footprints by Simon Meredith weaves two timelines—1928 and 1986—into a genuinely spooky supernatural mystery, anchored by a wonderfully original hook: living paint as a conduit for fear and memory. With a richly unsettling setting and memorable characters, this is a creative, gripping read for horror and mystery fans alike.