Book Review
Virtuoso
Haunted and haunting, Yelena Moskovich’s "Virtuoso" shifts through gradients of the past and the present, capturing the tumult and change of the 1990s and early 2000s in Czechoslovakia, the US, and France. Told through multiple unique,...
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Why We Can't Sleep
Since turning forty, journalist Ada Calhoun has been obsessed with the women of Generation X and their “struggles with money, relationships, work, and existential despair.” Playing devil’s advocate in Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun...
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Brink of Life
"Brink of Life" is filled with new complications and ramifications for the series’ consideration of eternal life. Rick Moskovitz’s science fiction novel "Brink of Life" continues the story of those affected by clandestine contracts...
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Creatures
Forty miles and a scenic ferry ride from Los Angeles lies Winter Island, whose residents can be transported back to the mainland in the case of an emergency. But it’s undecided what constitutes an emergency in Evangeline’s life: her...
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The Creators
This trilogy-ending science fiction title makes an entertaining case for the beauty and dignity of life cycles. Rick Moskovitz’s science fiction trilogy concludes with "The Creators", in which an assembled cast faces the question of...
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A Stand-in for Dying
A Stand-In for Dying sets up and peoples a fascinating science fiction world whose technological, psychological, and ecological environment is compelling. Rick Moskovitz’s Brink of Life trilogy begins with a bang. A Stand-In for Dying...
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Echoes of the Fall
Hank Early’s "Echoes of the Fall" is an updated, modern take on noir detective novels with a Southern Gothic edge, trading gritty urban streets for seedy small town life in north Georgia’s Coulee County, where religion and violence...
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Happy like This
The private, intimate stories of Ashley Wurzbacher’s Happy Like This navigate deciphering oneself with impeccable logic. Unfastening and opening the shell around each narrator’s heart, answers hang over the collection, both banner...