Book excerpt: Haunting Magic (The Witches of New Mourne #2) by Neely Powell
Buy now Read the review From the Blurb: Fiona Burns, a witch who sees dead people, meets Hollywood producer Bailey Powers, who sees her as the next cable star—and a […]
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BookView Interview with Author Céline Perron
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we talked to Céline Perron, about her writing and newly released thriller, The Next Right Thing, (read […]
Book review: The Next Right Thing by Céline Perron
Perron delves into the complexities of justice, abandonment, past trauma, and courage to do the right in this engrossing crime thriller. For twenty-seven-year-old Rena, life as a journalist is awfully […]
Book review: The Ram’s Tale by Alina Isac (Author), Livia Savin (Illustrator)
Isac’s delightfully woven tale features a young shepherd boy who must pick between riches and two remarkable animals. Deep in the valleys of England, a malevolent giant lives with his […]
BookView Interview with Author Martyn Rhys Vaughan
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we talked to Martyn Rhys Vaughan, about his writing and newly released science fiction tale, Doom of […]
Book review: Doom of Stars by Martyn Rhys Vaughan
In this brilliant novel, Vaughan imagines a futuristic world engulfed in chaos and devastation as climate change wreaks havoc on the planet. The world is ending: the cities and towns […]
BookView Interview with Author Merrilee Beckman
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we talked to Merrilee Beckman, about her writing and her debut, The Iron Labyrinth, an outstanding science […]
BookView Interview with Author Sarah Gerdes
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we talked to Sarah Gerdes, the award-winning author of twenty-two books (six reaching #1) that have been […]
Book review: Above Ground by Sarah Gerdes
Gerdes’s nail-biting latest takes the reader into the edge-of-your-seat jaunt through Las Vegas’s underbelly. Years ago, the determined Shay Wilson worked as a bartender to pay her tuition fee toward […]
Book review: Lights Around Her: The Girl Who Sees Angels by Aum Nicol
Set in near-future, Nicol tackles the question of the existence of a higher power in this SF drama. More than three decades after a pandemic swept across the planet, humanity […]
Book excerpt: Lights Around Her: The Girl Who Sees Angels by Aum Nicol
Read the review From the Blurb: The year is 2040 and Jemmy Sterling is born able to see angels. It’s been decades since a pandemic swept across the planet and […]
Book review: the sunflower project by unLYSHed
Using graceful, intricate drawings and first-person narrative voice poems, unLYSHed debuts with a compelling collection of poetry that explores life, love, loss, relationship woes, trauma, abuse, self-love, and self-discovery. Divided […]
Book excerpt:Shadow Road (Shadows Rising #1) by A.E. Pennymaker
Read the review From the Blurb: Brenorra Warring’s father is going crazy. That’s the only conclusion Bren can come to when a fire destroys everything they own, and his only […]
Book excerpt:Crickets by lee Chappel
Read the review Kara It’s the feeling of being alone, or maybe just knowing it, that gets me. That must be why I hear things—outside, first, rustling, probably a raccoon […]
Book review: The Power of the Emerald Ring (Dragonstone Story #2) by Mark M. Even
Even returns with this impressive, promising story with exhilarating adventures and relentless twists in the second installment of Dragonstone Story, his middle-grade fantasy series. Ten-year-old Mandy Mandez and her extended […]
BookView Interview with Author Victor Vahl
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we talked to Victor Vahl, about his writing and his recently publisher novel, Mad City, a gritty […]
Book review: Mad City by Victor Vahl
Vahl’s gritty thriller finds a young man on a personal vendetta to take down a dangerous crime boss. It’s been 15 years since Isaac Sage witnessed his parents lose their […]
Book review: Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo by Betty Jean Craige
With wit and perception, Craige, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia and author of several academic and non-academic books, explores the loving, complicated territory inhabited in […]
Book excerpt: Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo by Betty Jean Craige
Read the review From the Blurb: Last night as I was preparing to go out, Cosmo and I had this extended conversation: Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo originated in […]
Book review: Destiny Control by David Garrahan
Revelatory and greatly inspiring, the former university professor, the Director of Pupil Personnel Services and District Superintendent of Schools, and veteran author, Garrahan chronicles his journey from a young boy […]
