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

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

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

The Untelling
Tayari Jones
There’s a certain beauty in watching a raindrop trickle along a window pain. There’s an almost...

The Girls
Lori Lansens
Turning 30 is a milestone birthday for anyone, but it’s especially monumental for twin sisters,...

Belly
Lisa Selin Davis
It's August 2001 in Saratoga Springs, Florida. It's hot and fifty-nine-year-old Belly O'Leary is...

Chick-Lit Book Reviews

No More Bobs
Cynthia Borris
“Anybody here know how to Madison?”
~Brad Majors, The Rocky Horror Picture...

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

You Can't Hide
Karen Rose
It saddens me that Karen Rose is so prolific, for she really no longer should be getting reviewed...

Promises to Keep
Susan Crandall
Molly Boudreau finally has what she always thought she wanted since grade school-a career as a...

The Big Love
Sarah Dunn
The last thing my dinner party needed was what actually happened: an hour after he left, Tom...

Thriller Book Reviews

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

Mississippi Flyway
Nel Rand
As adults, we often don’t know what drives us through life and causes us to make the choices we...

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

Death of a Dreamer
M.C. Beaton
Hamish Macbeth has women problems- mainly too many of them. The main character of Scottish author...

Deception: A Novel
Denise Mina
Lachlan Harriot never believed his wife capable of murder. As a psychiatrist she had worked...

More Book Reviews

Monkey Portraits
Jill Greenberg
A face says so much about the struggles and emotions of being human. Even when that face is on a... The Reflexology Atlas
Bernard Kolster, Astrid Waskowiak
When you hurt yourself, whether through a fall or by bumping against something, you... Hippo! No, Rhino
Jeff Newman
HIPPO! NO, RHINO! is not a typical children’s book. Usually, no matter how important and fun the... More Memoirs of a Papillon: Diary of a Mad Dog
Dennis Fried
Not having read the first set of memoirs from a Papillon, I quite honestly was not looking forward... 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... The General and the Jaguar
Eileen Welsome
From the subtitle, I expected "The General and the Jaguar" to be a blow-by-blow account of attacks... The Stewardess is Flying the Plane
Ron Hogan
When I think of cinema in the 1970s I tend to recall the blockbuster events my folks took me to see... Dating Amy
Amy DeZellar
How many dates does it take to find Mr. Right? Amy DeZellar intends to find out. She is in her late...

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