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1/5

Really bad 
Work on it.

2/5

Mediocre
1-2 bright spots.

3/5

Good
Worth reading.

4/5

Very Good
1-2 spots that need work

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Must-read.

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September 20, 2021

A WICKED WIND (Book Two of the Archanium Codex)

By Nicholas McIntire
Rating:
4.8 / 5.0

A worthy and almost impossible to put down second book in the Archanium Codex saga, A WICKED WIND continues the complex characters, action and event-filled...

September 17, 2021

TRIALS OF POWER

By Ben Crow
Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

Crow has penned a fast-paced YA fantasy and crafted an affable cast of adventurers to move through his world. But an undercooked universe, use of...

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September 17, 2021

RAMPING YOUR BRAND: How to Ride the Killer CPG Growth Curve

By James F. Richardson, PhD
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

No Consumer Packaged Good (CPG) is exactly like another, yet there is general, insider knowledge regarding ways to effectively structure one's entry into the CPG...

September 17, 2021

A SCANDAL OF THE PARTICULAR

By Steve Hamilton
Rating:
3.1 / 5.0

A slow burn legal thriller blends with a doomed romance beneath gloomy Vancouver skies in Steve Hamilton’s A SCANDAL OF THE PARTICULAR. 

Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

Despite the obvious love and care which has gone into Tannis DeVilla’s story (and Sakshi Mangal’s illustrations) in THE TRIPLE TERRIBLE T’S, it is difficult...

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September 15, 2021

LEAP THIRTY

By Diane Lowell Wilder
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

In LEAP THIRTY, Diane Lowell Wilder plumbs the depths of memory to explore how relationships change over time, particularly our relationships to ourselves. It is...

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September 15, 2021

THE TOWER PRINCESS

By Michelle Tocher
Rating:
4.9 / 5.0

Blending fiction and nonfiction, Michelle Tocher’s THE TOWER PRINCESS is a feminist memoir that draws poignant meaning from fairy tales with dreamlike language and keen...

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September 13, 2021

SONGS FOR THE CLEVELAND AVENUE WARRIORS

By Gary E. Moore
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Combining of-the-moment racial outrage with timeless themes like the slippage of childhood, the  poems in Gary Moore's SONGS FOR THE CLEVELAND AVENUE WARRIORS are an...

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September 13, 2021

THE MARLOWE MURDERS

By Laura Giebfried, Stanley R. Wells
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

THE MARLOWE MURDERS is a cleverly-designed murder mystery, with a sharp, determined heroine, an entertainingly dysfunctional set of suspects, and enough suspense and plot twists...

September 13, 2021

SANS STABILITY MINUS SEX

By Chris Leite
Rating:
2.9 / 5.0

SANS STABILITY MINUS SEX is a wildly imaginative premise hampered by its uneven execution and surface-level character development.

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September 10, 2021

SOUL COLLECTOR

By Duvay Knox
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

A modern urban folktale with its own cadence and soul, Duvay Knox's SOUL COLLECTOR shoves aside literary constraints to tell a darkly funny, poignant, and...

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Rating:
4.7 / 5.0

While Hindu practitioners are an obvious audience for this book, families from all cultures and denominations will appreciate the timeless message of tolerance at the...

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