By Samreen Ahsan This review is long overdue, but A Silent Prayer is a book that deserves all the attention it has received. It’s been just over a year since it was published, and in that time, A Silent Prayer has won first prizes at book fairs in Los Angeles, Hollywood and Paris, first prize […]
Indie author book review of the Cassidy Jones Adventures series: Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula and Cassidy Jones and Vulcan’s Gift. These are perfect novels for middle-grade girls or boys. While author Elise Stokes starts on some well-travelled roads — a teenage protagonist who gains super-powers from an accident in a lab — she actually shows more […]
Entering a new kind of world I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Austin Job by David Mark Brown. As soon as I started it, I realized that I should have read its predecessor,Fistful of Reefer, which creates and introduces the new sub-sub-genre of science fiction, reefer punk. According to the author’s introduction to The Austin Job, […]
This installment of Written Words has reviews of two very different types of books. First is Secrets by SL Pierce: a taut, fast-paced thriller. Pierce is a professional writer. Her skill and knowledge of putting together a good read is evident in all her books. She doesn’t waste words and knows how to make a […]
Castles: A Fictional Memoir of a Girl with Scissors by Benjamin X. Wretlind My rating: 5 of 5 stars Often, you can tell on the first page whether a writer knows what he or she is doing. There’s a flow, a grace to the way these writers construct their sentences that makes reading a joy. […]
Tom Gray has a cause. It looks like revenge, but it’s more than that: he wants to change a system that he thinks is rotten. He’s sure that most of the people of his country think it is, too, and the government is just too hidebound, incompetent and cowardly to do anything. So he takes […]
Review of Golgotha Connection by Caleb Pirtle III I don’t like a lot of the thrillers I read. Most of them seem to be emulating another derivative thriller, just trying to ride some bandwagon to market success. Far too many read as if the author were trying to write an episode of his or her […]