BookView Review: Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth by Mark L Christensen
BookView Review: Fungus Theory of Conscious Growth by Mark L Christensen
In his ambitious and unconventional work, Christensen investigates how consciousness arises, evolves, and acquires purpose. Blending evolutionary biology, cosmology, psychology, and technological theory, the author advances a provocative thesis: all terrestrial life constitutes “one very large and very old fungus,” and humanity represents its…
BookView Review: It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica
BookView review: It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica
A lakeside vacation turns horrific when Courtney Gray finds her brother and sister-in-law murdered in the cottage next door. Her teenage niece Reese has vanished; her young nephew sleeps through it all. As police investigate, buried family tensions and the town’s uneasy past surface, tightening suspicion around…
BookView Review: One of Us by Elizabeth Day
One of Us by Elizabeth Day
In this sharply observed political drama, Day turns a critical eye on power, privilege, and the fragile loyalties that bind an elite circle together. Fliss Fitzmaurice’s death in Bali appears accidental, yet it unsettles a powerful family built on influence and favors. Ben, next in line for Prime Minister,…
BookView Review: Blood Rivalry by Paul Attaway
BookView Review rated it: Publisher Bublish ISBN 979-8-89989-083-3 Author website Book excerpt Attaway continues his exploration of family, power, and consequence in the third entry in the Atkins Family Low Country Saga. Walker and Eli Atkins have spent years living with the fallout of a violent past that shaped both their family and their public…
BookView Review: Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell
BookView Review: Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell
Caldwell chronicles a life shaped by instability, violence, and institutional failure in this memoir of survival. The book opens at a breaking point—a suicide attempt that frames the narrative’s central question: what does it mean to keep living when life has never been safe? From…
BookView Review: The Secret Buttons by Ellen M. Shapiro
BookView Review: The Secret Buttons by E llen M. Shapiro
Two young sisters are forced to leave Nazi-occupied Vienna alone, surviving on forged papers and borrowed identities in Shapiro’s compelling novel. Anni Blum is twelve when she and her sister Rosie are sent from Nazi-occupied Vienna to England. Their father is imprisoned, their mother…
BookView Review: Witness Elimination: Vigilante Justice (Nick Justin Chronicles # 2) by Scott Johni
BookView Review: Witness Elimination: Vigilante Justice (Nick Justin Chronicles # 2) by Scott Johni
Set in Florida between two deadly hurricanes, Johni’s second book in the Nick Justin Chronicles follows a family caught between collapsing systems and rising violence. Nick and Andrea Justin believed it was over. The network they exposed was broken. Their enemies…
BookView Review: Escala’s Wish (Tales of Valla Book 1) by David James
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Trash Panda Publishing Pub date December 10, 2025 ISBN 979-8999979902 Print length 541 Pages Price Price $32.29 (USD) Hardcover, $12.99 Paperback, $5.99 Kindle edition, $0.00 Kindle unlimited James launches his Tales from Valla series with a measured, traditionally structured fantasy that favors consequence over spectacle. Told as a tavern…
BookView Review: Frayed Edges: Poems by Kahlani B. Steele
BookView Review: Frayed Edges: Poems by Kahlani B. Steele
Steele’s debut poetry collection moves with quiet assurance through landscapes of loss, memory, and hard-won resilience. The poems range fluidly between spare lyric fragments and longer narrative reflections, held together by a clear, consistent voice and an instinctive trust in sensory detail. The book’s imagery is…
Interview with Author K.R. Gadeken
Interview with Author K.R. Gadeken
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors.
Recently, we interviewed K.R. Gadeken about her writing and recently released book, Space Station, a compact yet ambitious allegorical work that uses speculative science fiction to examine anxiety, identity, and the difficult art of moving forward…
BookView Review: Space Station by K.R. Gadeken
BookView Review: Space Station by K.R. Gadeken
Gadeken’s latest is a compact yet ambitious allegorical work that uses speculative science fiction to examine anxiety, identity, and the difficult art of moving forward. The novel is set aboard a space station built of interconnected spheres, where an unnamed traveler passes through environments shaped by changing emotional…
Interview with Author Robert K Bosscha
Interview with Author Robert K Bosscha
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors.
Recently, we interviewed Robert K Bosscha about his writing and recently released book, Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality, an absorbing, humane account of neurological illness that brings rare visibility to an interior world most patients cannot articulate…
BookView Review: Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality by Robert K Bosscha
BookView Review: Leaving La-La Land: Escape to Reality by Robert K Bosscha
A middle-aged Canadian man’s ordinary life is ruptured by sudden neurological collapse in this searching, intimate memoir of illness and altered consciousness. Bosscha recounts his experience with encephalopathy by reconstructing what he cannot remember. The narrative begins with a familiar scene—home renovation, routine…
BookView Review: THE MAGIC CIRCLE by C.F. Hayes
BookView Review: THE MAGIC CIRCLE by C.F. Hayes
Hayes’s latest novel is an ambitious, unsettling exploration of how power, faith, and sexuality intersect—and how private trauma can metastasize into a worldview that seeks to explain the world itself. When Mary Armstrong, the daughter of a prominent U.S. senator, dies in a car accident, her childhood…
Interview with Author D.K. Kristof
Interview with Author D.K. Kristof
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors.
Recently, we interviewed D.K. Kristof about his writing and soon-to-be-published book, Swanblade: Year Zero, an atmospheric, emotionally charged, and morally layered gripping origin story that examines the costs of heroism while heralding the rise of a new, haunted protector…
BookView Review: Swanblade: Year Zero by D.K. Kristof
BookView Review: Swanblade: Year Zero by D.K. Kristof
Kristof’s cinematic graphic novel offers an intimate and unsettling portrait of a city built on the myth of heroism and the quiet decay beneath it. December 1957. Retired hero Captain John “Atomic Ace” McAlliste is living in relative peace with his daughter, Kayla, in a city convinced…
BookView Review White Passion (Kestrel Harper Saga, Book 8) by Tamara Brigham
BookView Review White Passion (Kestrel Harper Saga, Book 8) by Tamara Brigham
Brigham’s latest entry in the Kestrel Harper Saga pushes the series into its most turbulent and emotionally charged territory yet. Rhidam sparkles under the Festival of St. Mátán, but Kavan senses an undercurrent the crowds don’t see; his dormant Sight flickering to life…
BookView Review: THE BIENNALE BOOK: Ten Foundations of Contemporary Art by Desmond Daniels
BookView Review: THE BIENNALE BOOK: Ten Foundations of Contemporary Art by Desmond Daniels
Daniels’s first volume in The Biennale Book series offers a sharp, disciplined analysis of the global exhibition model shaping contemporary art, revealing the often hidden mechanics behind these major cultural events. The narrative moves confidently across ten major biennales; Venice, São Paulo,…
Interview with Author Michael Ray Ewing
Interview with Author Michael Ray Ewing
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors.
Recently, we interviewed Michael Ray Ewing about his writing and his recently released book, Lightning, a tight, propulsive SF thriller that grabs you from the start and never lets go…
BookView Review: Lightning by Michael Ray Ewing
BookView Review: Lightning by Michael Ray Ewing
In Ewing’s taut thriller a quiet pattern of anomalies spreads across the state, pointing to an enemy still operating in the dark. After a lightning strike wipes parts of his memory, bike builder Adam Barnett wakes on a remote mountainside with only a strange, loyal dog and a…
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