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Our Reviewers won’t judge your book as compared to other self-published titles, but against other books, period. Our ratings are based on the following criteria, although reviewers are able to award partial stars (i.e. a 1.3 or a 4.7), rather than rounding up or down to a whole or half number.
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
5/5
Excellent!
Must-read.
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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September 16, 2020
NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE TIDE (Or, How I Married a Lying, Psychopathic Wannabe-Murderer and Kinda Lived to Tell)
By Kergan Edwards-StoutRating:
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...