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Child of the Moon, by Aron Silver | Book Review
The new novel from Dutch author Aron Silver, Child of the Moon throws readers headfirst into 1924 Scotland where a police interrogation slowly unravels into something far darker than anyone anticipated. It’s gripping, unsettling, and the type of book that starts slowly…
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Rockstar Echoes, by Zach Taylor | Book Review
Rockstar Echoes is the debut book of Alabama-based author Zach Taylor, plunging readers directly into the messy, oft brutal machinery of the music industry. It’s gritty, unflinching, and structured in such a creative way that I found myself quickly getting absorbed into…
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The Forging of the Twelve, by Nathanael Bazzell | Book Review
The Forging of the Twelve by Nathanael Bazzell is the exciting new book in The Chronicles of the Orphan King series. I’ll start off by saying I reviewed the first book in The Chronicles of the Orphan King over half a year…
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Saving Cottonwood, by Lisa Page | Book Review
I’m a sucker for beautiful writing, so I’ll open this review by saying Saving Cottonwood by Lisa Page is a highly beautifully written, lyrical book throughout. It’s not a conventional thriller, and it won’t hurtle you through plot twists at breakneck speed.…
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A Tale of Three Tabbies, by Jane Lightbourne | Book Review
A Tale of Three Tabbies by Jane Lightbourne is a charming middle-grade novel set during the Covid-19 pandemic on a fictional Greek island called Agrion. The story follows three young tabby cats struggling to survive amid forest fires, food shortages, and hostile…
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Miss Gullible’s Classroom Travels, by Verena Harp | Book Review
With its chuckle-worthy title, Miss Gullible’s Classroom Travels by Verena Ferrant Harp is a refreshingly honest teaching memoir that refuses to romanticize the profession. Drawing on thirty-five years of classroom experience in rural Louisiana, it shows what really happens behind the classroom…
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How Do You Live Without Love?, by Anthony Bradshaw | Book Review
I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I picked up the book, How Do You Live Without Love? by Anthony Bradshaw. As it turns out, this is a literary fiction drama novel that tackles some tough questions and thought-provoking plotlines. I…
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What’s Normal is When the Emotion Matches the Circumstance, by William Hedrick | Book Review
What’s Normal Is When the Emotion Matches the Circumstance by William Weston Hedrick is a thought-provoking challenge to modern psychiatry. With its slightly mouthful of a title, it draws on decades of clinical experience to propose a different way of understanding emotions…
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Who Do You Help?, by Randy Knoewman | Book Review
Who Do You Help? by Randy Knoewman is an accessible literary fiction novel that tackles weighty moral questions with the kind of straightforward clarity you’d expect from a book assigned in a high school English class, and I mean that as a…
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The Terror and The Sword, by Trevor Warren | Book Review
Trevor Warren’s debut The Terror and the Sword is the first book in the Hueik Trilogy, and it’s an ambitious medieval-inspired fantasy that tackles vampire mythology with impressive worldbuilding. Set in a war-torn continent where ancient threats resurface, the novel presents a…
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