(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 me are when a book lives up to all the expectations. Reading an intriguing description…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “ “Papuans…He saw the wild men from the early ages who once populated the swamp that, now, today, was called Holland.” Today in 1970's Amsterdam, most have learned about these people from the Dutch colony of New Guinea in school, but few had ever met one. Also, in 1970's Amsterdam---on a…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Aubrey Lynd has always lived her life in blessed ignorance, clinging to the illusion of a protective bubble wrap. And then, her nephew is kidnapped from the middle of a carnival while he was with his grandmother and her mother, Diana Lynd. With the notion that her family comes first, she…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Trolls use to live under bridges. Then they migrated to Twitter. Now they run for President.” Or how about this one? "Swearing is caring. Swearing shows passion, can help reduce the sensation of pain and is an indicator of a larger than average vocabulary." These words of wisdom and so much…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) War on terror has never been more serious or terrifying, when Mason Kane – special ops personnel with a questionable past--finds himself trapped in the middle of a plot that seems to involve intelligent minds from both sides. Survival has never been sweeter than when each turn reveals a new set…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The universe shrank daily around me, the bookstore itself was the center, the black hole, the very bottomless hell that would consume me in the end. ..the bookstore was insatiable, a structure of otherworldly forces. It devoured everything that came within its sphere of gravity, and didn’t bother to spit out…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) The daughter of a disgraced lady of nobility and a common actor, Madelyn Swann knows the hardships of life. She knows that no proper lady would actually sell herself at an auction to the highest bidder. But desperate times call for desperate measures. What she never expected was to become a…
(Reviewed by Don Jung) Does “forever” mean forever in the world of baseball? It just might for a young realtor, Ashley Merkle. She attends a baseball game, gets hit in the head, falls off the railing by a foul ball, and dies… The problem is that she doesn’t realize it and instead enters into a…
(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Everyone has a past to run from. Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett is no different from the norm. He returns from Brazil with a physical scare and a secret in heart and ends up in a car accident where he almost runs over the naked body of a woman lying on the…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Kiev was still burning and executions at Babi Yar continued, even though the river of condemned people had gradually dwindled to a creek. Not because the Germans relented, no. Because there was hardly anyone left to execute. “ September 1941. Teenagers Natasha, Lisa and Nikolai Smirnova had no idea of the…
