It’s finally summer! I’m delighted to finally have the time to get my hands on some of the books I have been meaning to read for so long. Because of my work with junior youth (aged 12 to 15), I’m always on the lookout for books that balance realism with high standards, as well as… Read More Book Review: Summer Sanctuary by Laurie Gray
Jason Lind is a well-known, well sought out, and very successful computer science major. Unfortunately, his brilliant mind is bored. He decides to seek refuge in an online role-playing game which sucks him into becoming a compulsive player. Soon, Jason becomes trapped in the world of Fortuna, as it starts taking over his reality. Such… Read More Book Review: Fortuna by Michael R. Stevens
This second book by Jackie Fullerton is an enjoyable amateur detective story following Anne Marshall’s attempt to identify a law professor’s killer. When Professor Elliott Spence is killed in a hit and run, the police seem to be ignoring some vital information. Anne Marshall, a court reporter by day and law student by night, can’t… Read More Book Review: Revenge Served Cold by Jackie Fullerton
I should start straight up by letting you know that the list of authors is a little misleading. I apologise to all Jane Austen fans whose hearts palpitated at the thought that perhaps their beloved author had penned a manuscript that had only now seen the light of day. This isn’t, quite unfortunately, the case.… Read More Book Review: Pride and Prejudice And Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
I’m having quite the lucky streak when it comes to books. I just finished reading In Their Blood and let me tell you something: it was quite the page-turner. As opposed to, say, Little Lamb Lost, which seemed like a more approachable murder-mystery, In Their Blood is the kind of book which invites you to… Read More Book Review: In Their Blood by Sharon Potts
I have taken great care in the last little while to be picky when it comes to choosing a book to read. After all, there are only 24 hours in a day, I only have 90 years to live, and there are too many books that exist for me to be sure to finish them… Read More Book Review: Little Lamb Lost by Margaret Fenton
It came as a surprise to my friends and family (and, to be honest, to myself) when I picked this book up; after all, marriage isn’t a part of my personal life nor have I any interest in Tori Spelling, her husband or his ex. Then why did I pick it up, you might wonder?… Read More Book Review: Divorce Sucks: What to Do when Irreconcilable Differences, Lawyer Fees, and Your Ex’s Hollywood Wife Make You Miserable by Mary Jo Eustace
I have been putting off reading The Tourist Killer for quite some time. To those of you for whom the name is familiar, no doubt you have already read FC Etier’s articles, stories, and reviews, and know how engaging a writer he is (not to mention an intriguing photographer, but that is a whole other… Read More Book Review: The Tourist Killer by FC Etier
If I were asked to describe this book in one word, it would be “inconsistent.” And quite unfortunately, this inconsistency takes away from a book that has a lot of potential. FBI Agent Jake Chase is investigating a curious terrorism case. Called at the scene of a bombing at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, Jake… Read More Book Review: Wrath, by Robert Santoro
This was by far one of the most delightful books I have read in a long time. The Lumby Lines: A Novel is much more than a story set in a little town; rather, it’s the story of a small town. The author provides for a wonderful journey straight into the heart of Lumby as… Read More Book Review: The Lumby Lines: A Novel by Gail Fraser