Pandora's Gardener
by David C. Mason Rating: **** John Cranston runs a gardening business and when an old school friend, Martin Ashcombe, invites him for...
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Rose Auburn
- Mar 4, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 19, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 22, 2021
- 1 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 21, 2021
- 1 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rose Auburn
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
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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