Looking Inward for A Better Life by Dalton Dean Blankinship
“Looking Inward for A Better Life” by Dalton Dean Blankinship is a highly recommended, practical self-help book addressing sixteen core areas of life.
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From Myths to AI: Navigating Love’s Complexities in ‘Love Stories’ by Katherine Villyard
Love Stories by Katherine Villyard is a science fiction/fantasy collection of short stories, published in 2022. In these tales, love drives people to seek retribution and to cross the line between life and death. Love also drives people to unknowingly strike or to sacrifice all in order to save a potentially unworthy person. Every short story in this collection presents a unique interpretation of what it means to love someone, along with the acts that are used to express that love.
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A Flicker in the Dark Review
A common trope of the mystery genre is that there always must be a “gotcha!” moment – a point in the story where everything that every conclusion on the reader’s part is proved wrong. Virtually every novel in the genre has this moment, but only the best in their class introduce their plot twists without falling into cliché or predictability. A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham’s debut novel, proves that there’s a lot of room for the thriller genre to evolve beyond the need for mere shocks and twists. Using familiar tropes – like the well-trusted unreliable narrator seen in so many noir novels – this novel manages to be both refreshing and familiar to fans of the genre.
Granted, no novel is without its flaws – certainly not A Flicker in the Dark – but, for what it is, the book succeeds as an engaging mystery, one that doesn’t rely too heavily on shock value and keeps you engaged all the way through.
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A Journey of Moral Crossroads: Swimming Across the Hudson Review
Adult readers who love books about self-discovery and life lessons will be intrigued by this. Meet Alan Agnalini, who wants to live without too much excitement and moral dilemmas.
But fate has something else planned for the lead character of this story, as Doug Lalli will show you. Bad decisions and everyday life experiences are how the main character of Swimming Across the Hudson must learn the hard lessons along the way.
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Mika Mathews’ Jar of Sorrows (Oaths of Dante#3): A Great Saga
Mika Mathews Jar of Sorrows is the last book of Oaths of Dante series. It follows the story of Dante who will have to save the Earth from the warring Greek gods
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Fifteen Minutes – A Powerful Suspense For You
Fifteen Minutes: Bamboozled in Buffalo by Michael F. Rizzo is a nonfiction story full of inspiration, suspense, and the tale of an artist.
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America in the year 2048 by Shukdeb Sen: An interesting look into American politics
America in the Year 2048 and Other Stories” is a thought-provoking collection of thirteen stories that delve into American politics, history, and global impact. These narratives offer a satirical yet balanced perspective on the complex world of American politics, aiming to engage and challenge readers. While divisive, the book is praised for its narrative and its dedication to the art of storytelling.
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Polly Isn’t Home by AJR Traill: Of powers, monsters and time travel
Upon emerging from a portal and being thrust into the coolness of the night, a raven-haired Polly finds herself in the midst of the small desert settlement she calls home. Except it isn’t the home she has always known. Her father, Hector, can’t be found in what was once their family home. There is no record of her own existence to be found. Stranger still, a visit to Portal—a scientific research and experiment facility—reveals her mother, who had previously died giving birth to Polly, alive and well, thriving in her chosen career. Everything is wrong, and Polly has to work fast to untangle the threads of the confusing series of events at hand to save everyone in her town and beyond from the threat of what lies on the other side of the portals scientists out in the Australian bush—where her hometown lies—are tampering with.
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Lost in Fantasy: The Obsidian Dragon by Angel G. T.
The Obsidian Dragon by Angel G. T. is a Fantasy Fiction published in 2023. Aribeth Mitchell, who constantly dreams about a mysterious man, begins to seek answers when she goes on a tour to Japan together with her classmates. The journey leads her to self-discovery and opens her eyes to hidden things.
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Hidden Women: Dara’s Tree And Cosmic And Eternal Love
The slogan “behind every great man, there’s a greater woman” was perpetuated throughout the feminist movement of the 60’s and 70’s. The stories of Radha and Dara, set out in Hidden Women: Dara’s Tree and Cosmic and Eternal Love perpetuates this notion that great men of traditional Hindu and Buddhist stories owe their strength, success, and religious enlightenment to great women, who were the unquestionable embodiments of virtues such as devotion, sacrifice, patience, emotional endurance, and faith.
