Category Archives: Fiction

Blood Betrayal (Deathless Night Series Book 4) – L.E. Wilson

Posted on September 17, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Vampire Christian Moore has always lived by his personal code of morals, until a curse finds him looking for solace, bed-hopping between countless women. On one such night, he finds himself helpless, kidnapped, caged and at … Continue reading →

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Pale Highway – Nicholas Conley

Posted on September 8, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Gabriel Schist was the one who changed the face of medical history with his invention of the vaccine that cured AIDS. But now the same genius mind is languishing behind the walls of Bright New Day … Continue reading →

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The Bible in Spain: Or, The journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the peninsula. – George Henry Borrow

Posted on September 5, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by arwen1968) In 1842, a nobody called George Borrow wrote a detailed, 550-pages-long account of his day job. Sounds boring? Well, it isn’t: Borrow’s day job was to sell bibles in war-torn, Catholic Spain. Anybody familiar with Catholicism knows … Continue reading →

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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. – Eve Babitz (Author), Matthew Specktor (Introduction)

Posted on August 30, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Los Angeles isn’t a city. It’s a gigantic, sprawling, ongoing studio. Everything is off the record. People don’t have time to apologize for its not being a city when their civilized friends suspect them of losing … Continue reading →

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Trampling in the Land of Woe – William Galaini

Posted on August 25, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) “Perhaps Hell is a place where you’re surrounded with thousands of others that feel as lost as you die, but nobody speaks of it”, he muttered to the dead Yitz on his back, then grunted at … Continue reading →

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Quest for Kriya – Rahul Deokar

Posted on August 23, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Her aroma engulfed him, enticing him to stay. A few seconds seemed like an eternity, but still not enough. Strangers that they were, they stood lost in each other anyway, holding their longing gaze for some … Continue reading →

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Disillusioned – Christy Barritt

Posted on August 20, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Nikki Wright is desperately looking for help for her traumatised brother, who escaped from a detainment camp run by terrorists in Colombia and is now undergoing  an extreme case of PTSD. Or is it really the … Continue reading →

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Beat the Rain – Nigel Jay Cooper

Posted on August 12, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “It scarcely seems possible that they’ve settled back into ordinary life…Painful, gut-wrenching normal life, killing them bit by bit as the seconds tick by….Life disappears behind them in a trail of sameness, the lies and unsaid … Continue reading →

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Friendly Fire- John Gilstrap

Posted on August 5, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) In a fit of rage and as an act of vengeance, Barista boy Ethan Falk stabs a customer to death. On his arrest, he tells an eleven year old implausible story of kidnap and molestation where … Continue reading →

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Deception Island – Brynn Kelly

Posted on July 29, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) A kidnapped son. A soldier with a haunted and tainted past. A cornered con woman looking to leave her past behind. A deadly game that has head, heart and lives at stake. The happiest days for … Continue reading →

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