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Rose Auburn
Dec 28, 20243 min read
The Color of Dreams: An Umbrian Tale
by Roberta Kaye Waldbaum Rating: ***** Waldbaum’s debut novel, The Color of Dreams , unfolds the story of Claire Brophy McPhee, an...
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Rose Auburn
Dec 14, 20243 min read
What Now? : A Collection of Short Stories
by Joyce V. Harrison Rating: **** What Now? is a nicely calibrated collection of eight stories that broadly deal with the consequences...
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Rose Auburn
Dec 5, 20243 min read
Belabour
by George Veck Rating: ***** Twenty-eight-year-old Amelia Paxton is trapped in an abusive marriage, used as a physical and psychological...
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Rose Auburn
Nov 27, 20243 min read
When We Chased the Light
by Emily Bleeker Rating: **** When We Chased the Light is the follow-up to When We Were Enemies , but it capably reads as a standalone...
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Rose Auburn
Nov 15, 20243 min read
Perestroika
by João Cerqueira Rating: ***** Set in Slavia, a fictional Eastern Bloc country, whose people are brutally oppressed under a vicious,...
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Rose Auburn
Oct 30, 20243 min read
Drifting
by PJ Thomas Rating: ***** Drifting is the third book of poems in PJ Thomas’s Water Trilogy * , although it can certainly be read as a...
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Rose Auburn
Oct 7, 20242 min read
Rakiya: Stories of Bulgaria
by Ellis Shuman Rating: ***** Rakiya is a beautifully crafted collection of a dozen character-driven short stories that effortlessly...
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Rose Auburn
Sep 23, 20243 min read
A Cat's Cradle
by Carly Rheilan Rating: ***** After serving fourteen years in prison for the murder of a little girl, Ralph Sneddon is under no...
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Rose Auburn
Sep 12, 20243 min read
The Circle's End (The Magic Circle Book Five)
by P. C. Darkcliff Rating: ***** As the empire is engulfed in a war against the Darkside and Archmage Gadram is indisposed, only Baard...
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Rose Auburn
Aug 26, 20243 min read
Sans Stability Minus Sex
by Chris Leite Rating: **** Mr. Portis Strawberry harbors dreams of becoming a famous director but instead works as a low-grade math...
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Rose Auburn
Aug 9, 20243 min read
It Was a Riot
by Daniel Hall Rating: ***** Born in Dagenham, East London in 1958, Edward “Eddy” Turner is expected to follow his father, Lenny, into...
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Rose Auburn
Jul 30, 20242 min read
Oddities
by Thurdy Rating: **** Oddities is an aptly named collection of eleven weird and quirky short stories that fall under the speculative...
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Rose Auburn
Jul 18, 20242 min read
Let Evening Come
by Yvonne Osborne Rating: ***** Trying to cope with the recent loss of her mother, Sadie Wixom is immersing herself in the rural Michigan...
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Rose Auburn
Jul 1, 20243 min read
Pacific Odyssey: The Curious Case of Lew 2.0
by Chet Nairene Rating: ***** Thirty-six-year-old tech wizard, Lew Clarke is about to ascend to god-like status at the corporate behemoth...
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Rose Auburn
Jun 15, 20243 min read
Rough Visit
by George Veck Rating: ***** Twenty-five-year-old cue hustler, Alfie “Whack a Tenner on” Fenner has exhausted the Gwynedd pool and...
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Rose Auburn
Jun 5, 20243 min read
In the Throes
by Mathias B. Freese Rating: ***** In the Throes introduces the reader to “Gruff”, a colossal, grotesquely-rendered, primitive creature...
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Rose Auburn
May 24, 20242 min read
Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip
by Gail Ward Olmsted Rating: ***** Olmsted’s delightful novel is inspired by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, an independent trailblazer of a...
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Rose Auburn
May 15, 20243 min read
The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror
by R. David Fulcher Rating: **** The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror is a concise collection of twenty horror shorts, some only a...
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Rose Auburn
May 8, 20243 min read
Duties and Dreams (Second Chance Series #3)
by John A. Heldt Rating: ***** Duties and Dreams, the last installment in Heldt’s Second Chance series* finds the extended family of the...
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Rose Auburn
Apr 24, 20243 min read
The Legend of Rachel Petersen
by J. T. Baroni Rating: *** When sports journalist Christian Kane misses out on a promotion that he assumed would be his, he is stunned...
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