A Life Removed was one of those crime thrillers that got better as the characters developed - starting a little cliched but then turning about on their heels, until you weren't sure who you could trust. A the bad guy was a *good* bad guy, which is always important. You can check out the review here: https://culturedvultures.com/life-removed-jason-parent-book-review/.
The blog is now more widely shared so getting more requests than I can keep up with. I need a holiday to catch up on some reading! I've even started being a bit picky, focusing more on the authors who really need reviews (and whose books sound promising!) But I guess that's good for both readers and writers! Hopefully readers will stumble onto something they may not have considered, and writers will get that one extra sale!
Under the Amoral Bridge is currently lighting up my Kobo. So far, so excellent. Set in the future, where it appears every street corner could be 'the underground' - it's a well-written cyberpunk novel with teeth.
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The blog is now more widely shared so getting more requests than I can keep up with. I need a holiday to catch up on some reading! I've even started being a bit picky, focusing more on the authors who really need reviews (and whose books sound promising!) But I guess that's good for both readers and writers! Hopefully readers will stumble onto something they may not have considered, and writers will get that one extra sale!
Under the Amoral Bridge is currently lighting up my Kobo. So far, so excellent. Set in the future, where it appears every street corner could be 'the underground' - it's a well-written cyberpunk novel with teeth.
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Indigo by DL Young
...until the day the Fundamentalist Church of Divine Wrath shows up on her turf, throwing her world into chaos.
Forced by the violent cult's leader to serve as a guide for a mysterious mission, Indigo finds herself trapped between factions warring for control of the Republic. But when she crosses paths with the runaway mind-reader Soledad Paz, will their chance meeting be the key to Indigo's survival or the final nail in her coffin?
The Method by Duncan Ralston
How hard would you fight for the one you love?
Frank and Linda's marriage is falling apart. When old friends tell them about an "unconventional therapy retreat" called The Method, they jump at the chance to attend.
Dr. Kaspar's Lone Loon Lodge is a secluded resort deep in the Montana wilds. The staff is friendly. The other couple joining them is intense. But when a death occurs events quickly spiral out of control, leaving Linda and Frank unable to trust anyone but each other.
Nothing is what it seems, and only one thing is certain: Love Is Pain.
Caleb, a 17-year-old boy, survived the zombie uprising, but he didn’t come out of the ordeal unscathed. He’s been scarred—both mentally and physically. The rest of humanity is trying to rebuild, to make the world normal again. Caleb is trying to return to a normal life also, but after all he’s seen, after the loss of his family and friends, the transition is difficult. The darkness that led him down a path of self-doubt and self-harm keeps trying to creep back into his mind.
Things only become worse when he discovers he’s immune to whatever makes a zombie a zombie. Fighting zombies was predictable. He knew what to expect. Fighting humans is volatile. They are malicious and treacherous. They won’t stop to get what they want, and Caleb has to figure out exactly what that is.
Lacy Dawn's father relives the Gulf War, her mother's teeth are rotting out, and her best friend is murdered by the meanest daddy on Earth. Life in the hollow is hard. But she has one advantage -- an android was inserted into her life and is working with her to cure her parents. But, he wants something in exchange. It's up to her to save the Universe. Lacy Dawn doesn't mind saving the universe, but her family and friends come first. Rarity from the Hollow is adult literary science fiction filled with tragedy, comedy and satire.
The Mask of Sanity by Jacob M Appel
On the outside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a pillar of the community: the youngest division chief at his hospital, a model son to his elderly parents, fiercely devoted to his wife and two young daughters. On the inside, Dr. Jeremy Balint is a high-functioning sociopath--a man who truly believes himself to stand above the ethical norms of society. As long as life treats him well, Balint has no cause to harm others. When life treats him poorly, he reveals the depths of his cold-blooded depravity.
But there are those who are not able to say a single word even if they wanted to. Those who were deprived not only of childhood, but sometimes their life itself. They are destined to the silent suffering, trying to survive in the chilling embrace of the "dead" mother.
Deadly Reign by Lynn Steigleder
In this, the third book in the Rising Tide Series, Ben, Eve and Pete continue to push through this new Earth as the world sinks deeper into corruption. They gain new allies, including an intellectual animal equipped with the gift of speech. They are forced to battle six aberrations (beasts and riders) deemed nearly indestructible. The environment has manifested into a frigid terrain with the sun lost in the ice filled cloud cover. Swords forged specially for the riders by the riders offer another layer of defense to an already superior force. The humans have deduced that water may possibly be a weapon, but a weapon that even now is freezing at an accelerated rate.
Zach, a justice angel and one of the agency’s most skilled operatives, has just returned from a harrowing mission working with the dead and dying in strife-torn Syria. The last thing he needs is to be sent back into the field.
But two humans on a celestial witness protection programme have just been abducted and Zach, saddled against his better judgement with rookie agent and time shifter Sara, is sent into the Inferno to rescue them.
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