(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I expected a sense of honor and a sense of adventure with my first mission. What I got was not what I expected or would wish on any young female soldier. “ Ty Will served in the Army Reserves from 1987-1989 and went into active duty from 1989-1992. She returned to…
Julie L. Kessler,the author of Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight, has been nominated to participate in the 2013-14 contest "50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading". Underrated Reads reviewed Fifty-Fifty several months ago just prior to the book winning an award at The 2013 Paris Book Festival. The first voting phase is open to the…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Rudy Harrington, a sixty-year-old widower, is trying to find the meaning of life…his life. Is there any purpose left? To try and answer this question, he takes up the study of philosophy. Since his wife, Helen, died seven years ago and his three daughters have moved out on their own, he…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Mom is proud of her forty-six year old son, Lenny. After all, the music community pays tribute to his band, Pink Lloyd. As you can tell, she doesn’t realize what a tribute band actually is. She also doesn’t realize that Lenny gives her the same CD every year as a present,…
(Reviewed by Melanie Hamilton) In Kaye Michelle's provocative and inspiring novel, Return of the Heroine, West Point Cadet Jane Archer has a problem: Should she do what's right or save her career? The daughter of senior counsel to Providence Rhode Island's DA, Jane is planning a career in the Army Judge Advocate General's office. Serving…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Darya loved to calculate the statistic of available Persian bachelors, factoring in their attributes, family histories, education, the probability for divorce. She had her very own system of assigning numbers to certain qualities… Darya was so proud of her knowledge of Excel," Darya loved mathematics, but gave that up when…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) #CommissionsEarned The CIA and Mossad (Israel’s intelligence agency) engage in a constant battle to thwart Iran’s nuclear capabilities. This is how we meet up again with former Mossad agent, Dan Gordon, as he continues his dangerous undercover work for the CIA to fight the FOE (Forces of Evil) in the fast-paced…
(Reviewed by Glenda Anderson) A frightening diagnosis: Dementia. Scarier yet: The patient is a spouse or loved one. Before your eyes is a shattered life. So, your mom or dad is suddenly behaving like a ten month-old child, only without the cuteness or expanding learning curve. What do you do? Send them away; tuck them…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Something amazing had happened to my sight: it was as if the top of my head had been removed and replaced with an enormous eye. I could see jagged purple clouds drifting above me, the streets stretching away at either side, and the houses below. This is how angels see, I…
(Submitted by Glenda W. Anderson) Phillip Kerr Check his page! If you have not as yet read any novels in the Bernie Gunther series, then, lucky you! Many hours of pleasurable fiction await as British author Phillip Kerr sweeps you back in time with his keen intertwining of who-dun-it with a…
