A tale of two worlds, white and Native-American, is told with vivid language and an engaging plot. Set against the backdrop of the cultural and military turmoil of the Revolutionary War, this coming-of-age novel looks at the fighting in... Read More

"Prelude to a Blast", by Jazz Jones, tells the story of Sonny Russo, a mob tough guy with a sensitive side. As someone holds a gun to his head, Sonny’s tumultuous past unfolds for the readers. As the back cover states, Sonny is going... Read More

The United States has made a mineral discovery that means energy independence for the country, but the resource is in danger of being hijacked by the Centurions, a cabal within the government. The premise of Gary L. Lucas’s Code Name... Read More

Gay android/human romance blossoms amid a blockbuster science fiction plot. Imagine a big-budget, summer science-fiction blockbuster with a tender romance at its core. Now imagine it’s a comic book instead of a movie, and the romance... Read More

Books in which supernatural beings thrive among unwitting humans remain quite popular. Imagine a setting in which these otherworldly creatures, known as “zots” in Roxane Bland’s debut novel "The Underground", fear exposure by... Read More

Just when one thinks the market has reached the saturation point in the vampire category, along comes John D. Kell’s refreshingly innovative "Mandate of Blood". In this bloodsucker society, vampires live in groups, known as Houses,... Read More

Myukis, or Voldoya, as he is familiarly known, was a Russian-American artist of some talent who might have been famous had he really lived. This imaginative, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating novel was inspired by Daniel Marcus’s... Read More

As thrillers go, "Insidious Deception" is more aqueduct than waterslide. It starts off with a bang, but settles in to a languid yet ever so gradually escalating pace that eventually erupts into a cascade. This is a gutsy choice, as many... Read More