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How Do You Live Without Love?, by Anthony Bradshaw | Book Review
I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I picked up the book, How Do You Live Without Love? by Anthony Bradshaw. As it turns out, this is a literary fiction drama novel that tackles some tough questions and thought-provoking plotlines. I…
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What’s Normal is When the Emotion Matches the Circumstance, by William Hedrick | Book Review
What’s Normal Is When the Emotion Matches the Circumstance by William Weston Hedrick is a thought-provoking challenge to modern psychiatry. With its slightly mouthful of a title, it draws on decades of clinical experience to propose a different way of understanding emotions…
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Who Do You Help?, by Randy Knoewman | Book Review
Who Do You Help? by Randy Knoewman is an accessible literary fiction novel that tackles weighty moral questions with the kind of straightforward clarity you’d expect from a book assigned in a high school English class, and I mean that as a…
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The Terror and The Sword, by Trevor Warren | Book Review
Trevor Warren’s debut The Terror and the Sword is the first book in the Hueik Trilogy, and it’s an ambitious medieval-inspired fantasy that tackles vampire mythology with impressive worldbuilding. Set in a war-torn continent where ancient threats resurface, the novel presents a…
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The Children of the Children, by Robin McMillion | Book Review
Robin McMillion’s new book The Children of the Children is an ambitious cult drama that tackles religious manipulation with extreme realism. Set during the final years of the Cold War, the novel presents a chillingly believable apocalyptic religious community where charismatic leaders wield…
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Unstuck, by Britannica Silkslate | Book Review
Unstuck is a little self-help guide that tackles low self-sabotage and self-worth, a topic we can all relate to (at least I can). Set against the backdrop of our achievement-obsessed culture where productivity equals worth, the book presents a non-punitive approach to…
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Spark in the Underground City, by T. L. Shane | Book review
T.L. Shane’s debut Spark in the Underground City is an ambitious dystopian thriller that tackles gender politics with unflinching boldness. Set four centuries after “The Last War,” the novel presents a totalitarian underground society where women hold all political power, men are…
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Slantwise, by Zac Cannon | Book Review
When I picked up Zac Cannon’s Slantwise, I had no idea what type of book it was going to be by the cover art and title. Turns out, this is Appalachian noir at its finest. If you’re a fan of shows like True…
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Exile: Part I — From an Antique Land, by Anthony Hodge | Book Review
The cover of Exile: Part I – From an Antique Land by Anthony Hodge immediately drew me in with its heavy The Odyssey vibes. The book opens with an epigraph from Shelley’s Ozymandias, which I can’t help but associate with Breaking Bad…
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The Dragon Djinn: The Songs of Dathos Book 1, by Kirby Warner | Book Review
The Dragon Djinn (The Songs of Dathos, Book 1) by Kirby Warner is clearly a labor of love, and that passion radiates from every page. If I had to describe it, I’d say it’s what you’d get if The Chronicles of Narnia,…
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