Reviews of Books Written New & Emerging Authors

Our editors are keeping their eyes on new and emerging authors. Below you will find recent book reviews of some of our favorite titles by up-and-coming authors.



Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style
Richard Torregrossa

Beginner's Greek
James Collins

The Terror
Dan Simmons

The Sweetest Hours : Love Stories...of a Kind
Laura Pedersen

The Bird Woman
Kerry Hardie

Hello, It's Me
Wendy Markham

Finnegan's Parish & Other Stories
John Dahlgren

Cape Perdido
Marcia Muller

Palindrome Hannah
Michael Bailey

Seduced by the Night
Robin T. Popp

Guardians of the Dawn: Tales of the Tiberian War
Nick Capo

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
Susan Jane Gilman

Love and Country
Christina Adam

Cage of Stars
Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Fiction Book Reviews

Beginner's Greek
James Collins
As a frequent traveler, I read the blurb for BEGINNER’s GREEK with interest. Seems that Peter, the...

The Bird Woman
Kerry Hardie
From the moment I picked up The Bird Woman I found it difficult to put down. The tale of...

Love and Country
Christina Adam
In a review on the jacket cover, Love and Country is billed as a classic novel of the west....

Cage of Stars
Jacquelyn Mitchard
The terrifying scene is forever seared in Veronica “Ronnie” Swan’s memory. The 12-year-old watched...

Never Ceese
Sue Dent
First, some fun and facts:

When my office received this book, a handsome hardcover from...

Chick-Lit Book Reviews

Hello, It's Me
Wendy Markham
Annie Harlowe and her two children, Milo and Trixie have just survived one of the most difficult...

Seduced by the Night
Robin T. Popp
Robin Popp has done it again. A solid read from start to finish. The excitement begins practically...

Three Weeks Last Spring
Victoria Howard
Skye Dunbar desperately needs a vacation. The highly ambitious computer programmer is hoping the...

Out of the Night
Robin T. Popp
I was a bit dubious about reading Robin T. Popp’s Paranormal Romance OUT OF THE NIGHT because I’ve...

Stupid and Contagious
Caprice Crane
There seems to be a current trend in the "chick-lit" genre to featured increasingly witty and even...

Thriller Book Reviews

The Terror
Dan Simmons
The lives of early Arctic Explorers must have been a mix of extreme boredom and outright panic. ...

Cape Perdido
Marcia Muller
Cape Perdido is a mystery set in a small town in Northern California. The story revolves around the...

The Dead Detective
Lorene Robbins
CJ Thomas, a former beauty queen turned freelance computer consultant in Arlington, Texas is having...

Cave of the Painters Mind
Joe Dennis
Insanity has been defined as repeating the same mistakes over and over and expecting different...

Dead Before Dying
Deon Meyer
It is a new day in Cape Town, South Africa literally and figuratively. The concept of Apartheid had...

More Book Reviews

Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style
Richard Torregrossa
Cary Grant: a Celebration of Style is not, as the title implies, merely concerned with the... The Sweetest Hours : Love Stories...of a Kind
Laura Pedersen
The unifying theme of Laura Pedersen’s short story collection The Sweetest Hours is love. ... Finnegan's Parish & Other Stories
John Dahlgren
From start to finish, I never stopped laughing or gasping as I turned each page of John Dahlgren’s... Palindrome Hannah
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey's "Palindrome Hannah" is in some ways a good book, in other ways a great book, and... Guardians of the Dawn: Tales of the Tiberian War
Nick Capo
Nick Capo's "Guardians of the Dawn" is quite good, and left me begging, wishing, hoping, and... Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
Susan Jane Gilman
Hypocrite in a Poofy White Dress is a memoir about, as the subtitle says, growing up groovy... The Pink Room
Mark LaFlamme
A successful horror-fiction writer moves into the strange house of an eminent physicist who... Warrior and Witch
Marie Brennan
The world of witches and Hunters is in upheaval after a witch shows that much of their traditions...

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