Book Review
A World Gone Crazy
by Jill Allen
Richard J. Lukenda’s debut thriller, "A World Gone Crazy", introduces readers to Zeke Ocean, a forty-eight-year-old New Jerseyite who feels his glory days have passed. Once a top-secret special-ops soldier for the US, he has retired...
Book Review
Legend of the White Dragon
by Jill Allen
In the science-fiction world created by Albert James in Legend of the White Dragon: The Newborn, the familiar old-world religiosity of Jerusalem coexists with futuristic flying machines, interplanetary travel, and an evil emperor...
Book Review
My Twisted Life
by Jill Allen
As the old adage goes, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Randy Hopkins, the narrator of Suzie Q. Valentine’s harrowing debut novel, "My Twisted Life", gains fortitude with every act of abuse he endures from his family and...
Book Review
Torture
by Jill Allen
Swede Anna Fransén, author of twelve previous books, relates a harrowing story of domestic abuse at the hands of her alcoholic husband in her memoir "Torture". Using the pseudonym “Petra,” the author depicts herself as a naïve...
Book Review
Total Secession
by Jill Allen
"Total Secession" is a tour de force of speculative fiction. Adam Connell creates an intriguing dystopia in which two ex-cons, Grant and Litz, travel around the United States in the days leading up to the dismantling of the federal...
Book Review
Uprising in the Rio Jari
by Jill Allen
Uprising on the Rio Jari by C. D. Shelton is the most rousing entry yet in the author’s chronicles of prehistoric Amazonian tribes, a series which includes The Age of Eternal Fire and Journeys in the Primal Forest. Ten years after...
Book Review
Winds of Change
by Jill Allen
In present-day Boston, social worker Jennifer Barrett and her best friend, nurse Lana Fitzpatrick, struggle to cope with grief. While her dad deteriorates at Brentwood, the nursing home where Lana works, Jennifer grieves the deaths of...
Book Review
Spiders Web
by Jill Allen
Kurt Hafner’s debut novel, "Spiders Web", weaves together strands of international intrigue and a wide-ranging group of characters into a slow-burning thriller. At the center of this imbroglio are Rolf and Sabine Brenner’s successful...