Review: CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE MULTIVERSE

5 Multiversal Stars!

I adore Lovecraftiana, Cosmic Horror, anything involving Quantum Physics, so CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE MULTIVERSE proved exactly what I wanted. No, not horror; but quantum physics, history, tongue-in-cheek subtle humour, and exemplary characterizations. What a riot! Must read more!

Review: AIN'T NO MESSIAH by Mark Tullius

4 Stars
Speculative Fiction

A childhood of terrific abuse--physical, psychological, emotional, religious; and a lifetime of near-fatal/should have been fatal "accidents":  is it coincidence or divine miracle? Is Joshua just "lucky" or is he indestructible?

A roiling exposure of religious mania and peeling off layers of psychopathological child abuse spirals into an explosive heartstopping conclusion.

Review: BREACH OF FAITH by Daniel Gibbs (Breach of Faith Book 2)

5 Stars!!

BREACH OF FAITH is Book 2 in Daniel Gibbs' newest series, BREACH OF FAITH. [Book 1 is BREACH OF PEACE; BOOK 3 will be BREACH OF DUTY, in January 2020..]

Commitment to the ideology  of Individualism battles commitment to the ideology of Society driving the worlds-dominating League of Sol. A spacer captain of integrity and his eclectic crew rescue an agent with essential intelligence, face planetside danger, then escape to rally the most extreme individualists: pirates and privateers. Heart-in-mouth non-stop action, politics and political terrorism, and religious conflicts fuel another 

exciting and thought-provoking Science Fiction Space Opera Adventure from expert author Daniel Gibbs.

Review: SMOKE AND DAGGER by Douglas Wynne_Spectra Files Prequel

5 Starry Wisdom Stars!

Prequel to the SPECTRA FILES, a series I could hope will continue unto the End of Time...what is more adventurous than hard-core Lovecraftiana? 1948--in the post-WWII era, a young Barnard College anthropology  student on her own search for truth is recruited into a secret wisdom society to spy on a West Coast rocket engineer, a sort of California version of Aleister Crowley, determined on opening a portal to the Great Old Ones. He must be stopped, before the end of the world As We Know It...

Douglas Wynne again delivers a story I can't put down. Just ponder "What If?"

Review: AMIDST ALIEN STARS by Clayton Graham (Milijun #2)

5 Stars!

Admirable world-building and the unsurpassable, indefatigable, drive of the human Spirit to not just survive, but to thrive, power this engrossing sequel to the author's debut science fiction, MILIJUN. On an orbiting compound above a vastly alien planet, abducted humans must discern with the old X-FILES precept: "Trust No One."   

Review_ HOLLOW HEART by Ben Eads

4 Stars
Release: Nov. 29 2019
A novella of Cosmic Nightmare resonating with both tones of Lovecraft and of Kazuo Ishiguro's THE BURIED GIANT, HOLLOW HEART has as its focus several Marine Veterans of Iraq, physically and/or emotionally disabled, living in a formerly quiet Florida trailer park, an area now compelled by the century-plus immortal known as The Architect, a being gardening with death to awaken a buried god and institute a new age of hell on earth.   

Review: VICTORIA MARMOT AND THE MEDDLING GODDESS

5 Stars
The recently orphaned (six months prior)  seventeen-year-old mixed-heritage Victoria Adelaide Marmot is an adorably snarky and feisty high school senior on a quest announced by a goddess. A student of mixed martial arts since age 10 and a lifelong fluency in Spanish due to her father may or may not serve her well as she embarks on her own Hero's Journey in the peaceful mountain city of Flagstaff, Arizona, where she now inhabits the home her recently deceased parents bequeathed her. Her adventures will surely appeal to all lovers of urban fantasy or Potteresque schools.