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.



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

The Pink Room
Mark LaFlamme

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Fiction Book Reviews

Tales of Brother Goose
Brett Nicholas Moore
What a fun book. Twisted, yes. A bit naughty at times. But great fun throughout....

Never Ceese
Sue Dent
First, some fun and facts:

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

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

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...

Chick-Lit Book Reviews

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

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

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

Dream Guy
Candy Halliday
In debut author Candy Halliday’s novel, DREAM GUY, the author introduces us to video game...

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 Manolo Matrix
Julie Kenner
If you aren’t familiar with Julie Kenner’s “Play-Survive-Win” series, THE MANOLO MATRIX is the...

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

Death of a Bore
M.S. Beaton
M.C. Beaton's DEATH OF A BORE is a Hamish Macbeth Mystery, veteran of more than a dozen volumes....

More Book Reviews

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... 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... Monkey Portraits
Jill Greenberg
A face says so much about the struggles and emotions of being human. Even when that face is on a... Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Carrie Vaughn
Despite the cheesy title and cheesier cover art of “Kitty and the Midnight Hour” by Carrie Vaughn,... The Reflexology Atlas
Bernard Kolster, Astrid Waskowiak
When you hurt yourself, whether through a fall or by bumping against something, you... Palindrome Hannah
Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey's "Palindrome Hannah" is in some ways a good book, in other ways a great book, and... The Pink Room
Mark LaFlamme
A successful horror-fiction writer moves into the strange house of an eminent physicist who... 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...

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