24 February 2016

Review #350: Benefit of the Doubt by Neal Griffin



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.”

----J.K. Rowling



Neal Griffin, the Detective-Lieutenant-cum-author, pens his debut thriller, Benefit of the Doubt that unfolds the story of a cop who is fired but now works under his father-in-law, who happens to be a retired Police chief and of a prisoner who just completed his 17-year sentence and now has an agenda to thrive for revenge against those who put him behind the bars.






23 February 2016

Review #349: Up From The Sea by Leza Lowitz



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way. "

----Marsha Blackburn



Leza Lowitz, an American author residing in Tokyo, pens her new YA verse novel, Up From the Sea that narrates the story of a young football-aspiring-dreams Japanese teenage boy whose happy life washes away by the roaring tsunami on March 2011, devastating not only his dreams but uprooting his life from his village, thereby losing his whole family. But this is not a story about grief, this is a story which tells the readers how to survive the overwhelming pain, and stand strong against all odds. Moreover, this book also highlights the benefits and value of unity and kindness during a natural disaster.

22 February 2016

Review #348: Fire in Frost (Crystal Frost #1) by Alicia Rades



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.”

----Rebecca Maizel




Alicia Rades, an American author, pens her new YA series, Crystal Frost and the first book in this series is called Fire in Frost that unfolds the story of a young teenage girl who is while comprehending with her new found powers, is also trying to deal with the ghost of her dead classmate.







Review #347: The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime.”

----Alex Collier


Sharon Guskin, an American author, pens her debut book, The Forgetting Time that narrates the story of a four year old boy who constantly asks his single mother to take him to his real mother after his nightmares. For his mother, the boy seems like making up imaginary stories, until when things get serious in his pre-school, she thinks that there is something terribly wrong with his little boy and she fears that she might lose her son to someone else when a doctor enters their lives.



19 February 2016

Review #346: The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

----Joan Powers



Monica Wood, an award-winning best-selling author, pens a heart-rending tale of friendship in her new book, The One-in-a-Million Boy that narrates the story of a boy, and a 104-year old immigrant lady and the boy's father, who form a strong bond of friendship over loss and grief and their passion for Guinness World Records.





18 February 2016

Review #345: You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”

----Joanne Harris



Megan Abbott, the Edgar®-winning author, pens yet another heart-stopping thriller, You Will Know Me, which is yet to publish in the month of July of year 2016, that unfolds the story of a mother with a child prodigy, and this is a mother's tale of how and at what extent she can go to protect her daughter and her husband thereby rescuing her whole family all just in the name of fame and celibacy and Olympic dreams of her daughter that will not only take her whole family under spot light but the whole town, especially the coaching center which came to fame under her daughter's name.

17 February 2016

Review #344: Pandora Red by Jay Tinsiano



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

----John Steinbeck



Jay Tinsiano, a British writer, pens his latest thriller, Pandora Red that features undercover detective, Frank Bowen, rushing from the city of London to Cuba while working in a covert operation to help protect the British government that not only restores his faith on working for the right and the wrong side but also jeopardizes the life of his family, but only problem is the time is ticking and he has to act fast to save his family as well as his faith for the government.



16 February 2016

Author Q&A Session #54: With Emily Ross


Good Afternoon Folks,
Today in a brand new author interview session, we have with us Emily Ross, the debut author of a YA Thriller, Half in Love with Death. Emily is here to talk about her new book and about her life as an author and many more things.

So stay tuned and keep reading.

Read the review of Half in Love with Death