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4.0 / 5.0
Jane Teresa Anderson’s NINTH LIFE fully commits to a quirky premise with a surprisingly rich payoff.
IR Approved
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
Like its predecessor, Mark A. Gibson's ROSES IN DECEMBER is a book that does not shy away from brutality, tragedy, and heartbreak. However, it does...
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0
Martin Sneider's AMY UNBOUND offers a portrait of a powerful family and proves difficult to put down.
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0
THE PACT by Lisa Darcy is overall a drama-packed, intriguing story of two characters discovering their own identities.
IR Approved
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
Author Cori H. Spenzich writes with style and dry humor as he pinballs his characters around a world that is part dream, part harsh reality....
IR Approved
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
G.S. Treakle's RETURN TO THE LION'S DEN is a powerful debut novel that will resonate with anyone who has struggled to make peace with a...
IR Approved
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0
In TOO FAST, Erik E. Morales offers a harrowing, heartfelt portrait of lives touched by abuse, neglect, and hope.
IR Approved
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0
Full of heart, humor, and suspense, Steven Mayfield's THE PENNY MANSIONS is a beautiful and multifaceted piece of fiction that is expertly rendered at every...
Rating:
2.5 / 5.0
In LEGACY OF A PRINCESS, B. Kinde weaves a sci-fi-tinged narrative of a princess in peril that, were its real-world inspirations not so thinly veiled,...
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0
Author J.C. Harach artfully turns a seemingly simplistic plot into a provocative and potentially controversial story in THE FREEMAN.
IR Approved
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0
WHEN WE LOST TOUCH by Susan Kraus is arguably her most ambitious novel as the author depicts the devastating effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic...
September 12, 2022
EMMA’S ARMY (How Millions of Angry, Marching Seniors Saved Their Vanishing America)
By Dan ChabotRating:
2.8 / 5.0
Too broadly absurd to offend progressives and too simplistic to provide a meaningful critique of the left, Dan Chabot's EMMA'S ARMY (How Millions of Angry,...