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Work on it.

2/5

Mediocre
1-2 bright spots.

3/5

Good
Worth reading.

4/5

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October 9, 2020

HE LANDS IN PALM SPRINGS

By John Shekleton
Rating:
3.8 / 5.0

John Shekleton's LGBTQ romance novel, HE LANDS IN PALM SPRINGS, is a veritable gay male soap opera of ethnically and racially diverse characters embroiled in...

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October 7, 2020

TRAVELS WITH HAFA

By Nathan Pettijohn
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

Nathan Pettijohn’s TRAVELS WITH HAFA reveals the not-so-pretty realities of an extended RV trip, while never losing a sense of wonder and appreciation for the...

IR Approved
October 5, 2020

DANIEL SCRATCH: A Story of Witchkind

By Don Jones
Rating:
4.8 / 5.0

Vibrating with the ancient, mystical images known as runes and awash in complex moral questions, DANIEL SCRATCH: A Story of Witchkind by Don Jones gives...

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October 5, 2020

YESTERDAY IS NOT YET GONE

By Gabriel Veiga
Rating:
4.7 / 5.0

Author Gabriel Veiga brings the heat with his taut and tense YESTERDAY IS NOT YET GONE, a visceral detective story that confronts multiple themes at...

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October 2, 2020

UNFETTERED JOURNEY

By Gary F. Bengier
Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

Intelligently structured with an interesting juxtaposition between technology and humans attempting to balance living in head, heart, and body, Gary F. Bengier's UNFETTERED JOURNEY is...

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September 28, 2020

WHO’S THERE? A Collection of Stories

By Dimas Rio
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

WHO’S THERE? is a short sampler that demonstrates author Dimas Rio’s deeply-felt intelligence and promise as a writer of suspense. 

IR Approved
September 28, 2020

THRIVING WHILE BLACK

By Cori J. Williams MSW LCSW
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

A brief, targeted text exploring racism and related stresses faced by Black Americans in corporate environments, Cori J. Williams' THRIVING WHILE BLACK covers the obvious,...

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September 25, 2020

SUMMER’S END

By Jill Sanders
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

SUMMER’S END is a sweet and satisfying conclusion to Jill Sanders’ Wildflowers series. Full of heart, emotion, and a bit of heat, this low-stakes contemporary...

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September 23, 2020

THE ART STONE

By Jesse A. Ellis
Rating:
4.9 / 5.0

Jesse A. Ellis’s THE ART STONE is an exciting fantasy novel of epic proportions--across a world constructed with such comprehensive cultural and ecological detail as...

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September 21, 2020

THE POSTER BOY

By Chad Scott
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

Chad Scott's hard-won business success is outlined in fine detail in the marvelously compact heartening and practical THE POSTER BOY: Small Towns, Big Ideas, and...

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September 18, 2020

THE THIEF AND THE WASTE BOOK II

By Tanya Lee
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

Tanya Lee's writing creates a feeling of suspense that’s cinematic in THE THIEF AND THE WASTE, a tense sequel that outpaces its predecessor in an...

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Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE TIDE (Or, How I Married a Lying, Psychopathic Wannabe-Murderer and Kinda Lived to Tell) by Kergan Edwards-Stout is a...

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