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Once Upon A Rhyme: One Week – Three Lives – Three Deaths – A Lifetime in Limericks
by Antony L. Saragas Rating: ***** Once Upon a Rhyme details a week in early February in the life of Dylan, known as ‘Oskie’, a...

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Mar 4, 20212 min read


The Sky Worshipers
by F.M. Deemyad Rating: **** The Sky Worshipers opens in the late 14th Century with an ancient manuscript being found in the ruins of the...

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Mar 1, 20212 min read


The Smilodon
by E.K. Ndanguzi Rating: *** When Jonathan Matiku’s Father dies in a plane crash, responsibility to look after his younger brother...

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Feb 25, 20212 min read


Raina: A Prequel to Jacqueline Willoughby
by Schuyler Randall Rating: *** Raina Willoughby and her Aunt Nancy are subjected to a brutal assault by Nancy’s co-worker, Dr James...

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Feb 22, 20212 min read


All Alone and Far Too Quiet
by KR Pendergrass Rating: *** All Alone and Far Too Quiet is a collection of twenty short horror stories; all slightly different in form...

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Feb 19, 20212 min read


Kiss of Salt
by Smita Bhattacharya Rating: ***** Darya Nandkarni travels back to Heliconia Lane in South Goa to help sort the effects of her late...

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Feb 15, 20212 min read


Life 2.0
by Ciara Fineman Rating: **** Mazey Sutton lost her wife a year ago in a brutal tragedy and has been struggling to cope. When she...

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Feb 12, 20212 min read


1969: A Brief And Beautiful Trip Back
by Sea Gudinski Rating: **** It’s 1999 and teenager Rhiannon Karlson is at constant odds with her Mother, Meredith, whose outlook on life...

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Feb 8, 20213 min read


Love and Hate
by Vidisha Chandna Dua Rating: *** In Love and Hate, we meet Alia, renting an apartment in Delhi to escape from her recent past and...

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Feb 5, 20212 min read


A Savage Kultur
by Monique Roy Rating: *** In A Savage Kultur, we meet Ava Goldberg, a Jewish art student studying in England. When her beloved German...

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Feb 3, 20212 min read


A Healing Touch
by Liz Arnold Rating: ***** A Healing Touch transports us to Northwest America in the late 18th century. Female doctors are unheard of...

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Jan 30, 20212 min read


Drawing The Line: No Ladies in Room A3
by Clare Scopes Rating: **** Drawing The Line introduces us to Maggie Goodwin, a forthright but somewhat naïve young woman who is...

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Jan 28, 20212 min read


The Kuma Trilogy
by James Toller Rating: **** The Kuma Trilogy is a work encompassing three books: The Kiss, A Great Love and Tiger Mountain. The books...

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Jan 27, 20212 min read


You Will Have a Black Labrador
by Nino Gugunishvili Rating: **** You Will Have a Black Labrador is a collection of ten short stories, almost essays, that are...

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Jan 22, 20211 min read


Life's Not Over Yet
by Vidisha Chandna Dua Rating: *** Life’s Not Over Yet is set in India and introduces us to Trisha; who, on the advice of her friend, has...

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Jan 21, 20211 min read


The Demon Tailor
by Susan McCauley Rating: ***** The Demon Tailor transports us to the outskirts of Paris in the late 16th century. Seventeen-year-old...

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Jan 20, 20212 min read


What Stories Letters May Tell
by Judah Lamey Rating: **** What Stories Letters May Tell introduces us to James Frost, Butler and overall Houseman of the Brottie...

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Jan 13, 20212 min read


Dappled
by Lisa Brown Rating: ***** In Dappled, we meet Jane O’Connor who develops vitiligo, a skin condition, in her teens. By the time she is...

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Jan 11, 20212 min read


The Fair (Time Box Book 2)
by John A. Heldt Rating: ***** The Fair is Book 2 in the Time Box Series*. The Lanes, a family of six, are travelling through time with...

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Jan 7, 20212 min read


Lush
by Anne-Marie Yerks Rating: ***** Lush is set in a futuristic America of the 22nd Century. Isla Kiehl lives in the town of Naudiz, a...

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Jan 3, 20212 min read
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