Reviews

Shattered Reality is the story of Brooklyn and is a real life story told in an unblinking first person and very direct manner. The thing that amazed me most about this book is just how honest the author is in telling her story.

The Reality Bites anthology is made up of twelve stories on the subject ‘Hope from Despair.’ It is not a light read, although there is some humour in it, but it is an extremely moving and thought-provoking one where you’re often left with the thought, there but for the grace of God go I.

  I love the sound, the look, the feel of punk rock and in L. A. Punk Rocker Brenda Perlin and her friends relive their memories of a time and lifestyle that had the same music at the heart of it but compared to my life couldn’t have been more differently lived. Yet it is all relative […]

One Two Buckle My Shoe is the first in a series and I really liked the setting for this easy read opener of what promises to be an excellent series of books.

Diamonds & Dust is a Victorian murder mystery set in London and written in the present. Josephine King, an orphan, is a good sort and stoic with, I felt, very little emotional response to the death of her Uncle Herbert or, perhaps she just showed the response that was expected in that era. Uncle Herbert had […]

I have read all of Mark Barry’s books now and for some reason his first as been left until my last. He is the most under-rated writer I know and I would encourage…no, urge you to read any of his books, there is something for everyone as he is a multi-genre writer and novelist. Hollywood […]

I have enjoyed Barb Taub’s writing for a while now both through her other two books, Don’t Touch and Tales From Null City, which introduced me to Urban Fantasy, (you can check out my reviews by clicking on the titles) and on her blog at www.barbtaub.com. Here I guarantee she will raise at the very […]

Concealment is a thriller based in the financial world of a large accounting firm called Pearson Malone and is written in the first person. Amy Robinson is a partner in this firm and right from the start of this story she believes she is living a lie due to the upbringing she endured in her childhood home […]

Dream on is a work of contemporary fiction telling the story of various people in and connected to the members of a band in a town that could be yours. I bought Dream on a long time ago now and it has been languishing on my kindle, but I was delighted when I eventually got […]

I bought The Black Banner a while ago now for my niece but accidently forgot to give it to her for her birthday mainly because when it arrived I wanted to read it myself. As it is aimed for the teen and young adult market though (a fact I didn’t appreciate at the time) I […]