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3.8 / 5.0
Martin Sneider's AMY UNBOUND offers a portrait of a powerful family and proves difficult to put down.
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3.7 / 5.0
Greg Munck's memoir THE GUIDE—Survival, Warfighting, Peacemaking benefits from many interesting and touching passages, though the mixture of memoir and sermonizing can make for some...
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3.5 / 5.0
THE PACT by Lisa Darcy is overall a drama-packed, intriguing story of two characters discovering their own identities.
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3.5 / 5.0
Full of colorful historical and religious information, Gordon Schwerzmann’s STONER TO SEEKER: 1970s Asian Hippie Trail is mostly an engaging and entertaining read about a...
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3.7 / 5.0
Vernon John Sinnott navigates love’s many complexities with INSPIRATIONAL LOVE, a collection of heartfelt prose from a self-professed “incurable romantic” that may not work for...
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2.9 / 5.0
Sera Maddox Drake's ANCILLA, despite its flaws, is sure to appeal to a subset of readers, namely those with a more-than-casual interest in BDSM and...
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4.5 / 5.0
Shelby Raebeck's EAST HAMPTON BLUE is a compelling story of a stressed East coast tourist town that beautifully depicts the struggles of a man and...
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3.2 / 5.0
K.R. Gadeken’s sci-fi debut NABUKKO shines when it pits a mighty heroine against a mind-bending mystery.
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5.0 / 5.0
With sixty entries written over decades, John Kerl’s BREVITY is a stunning collection of poetry that is sure to resonate with anyone who has ever...
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3.5 / 5.0
T.J. Ripley's THE WATER MAGE (Lord of Chaos, Book 1) creates a fantastical story of colliding worlds, magic, and dark intentions.
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5.0 / 5.0
Somber, romantic, and emotionally raw, ANEMONE is a masterful debut that intertwines the intimate dramas of Jim Frazee's characters with the larger elemental forces of...
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4.0 / 5.0
A flair for detail, strong characters, and a dynamic plot make Adrian Holmes’s fantasy fiction debut HEIR TO CHAOS an engaging read.