(Reviewed by JD Jung) “If Germans and fascists don’t shoot us, Americans bomb us.” Private Investigator Bacci Pagano doesn’t have an easy relationship with the past. He grew up poor as his mother worked in a cigar factory and his father was a communist laborer. So, when Professor Hessen came to him for help,…
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) ”Suspicion is second nature to any woman who’s raised three kids.” I’m going to say something about this book that I don’t think I’ve ever said about a book: I loved every word! It gave me such a feeling of joy as I read it. I felt like it was written…
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Root and Branch is a political thriller written about Rogers Zorn, who is a security contractor. He learns that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been using his companies’ discoveries in order to achieve their own disturbing purposes. The plan is to deploy Zorn’s security threat assessment technology into…
(JD Jung) Dear readers, So you're wondering why it takes us so long to post reviews and why there is so much time between posts. I assure you that we're still working. We are constantly reading, searching for those literary gems to share with you. Unfortunately, most of them don't meet UnderratedReads' standards of at…
(reviewed by JD Jung) “…I had an epiphany that, notwithstanding my every effort to steer my gifted daughter clear of the precincts of forgery, she possessed more of the counterfeiter’s mental and physical tools than perhaps even I did.“ Will had reformed his life. Now married to Meghan, father to two daughters, and living in…
(reviewed by Ann Onymous ) “It always amazes me how any version of the same story can circulate in a small town.” If you love an Irish mystery - and who doesn’t? You’ll enjoy this story given to us from across the Isle. Our local solicitor, Sarah Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe is trying to keep her…
(J.D. Jung) I apologize for the long stretch between reviews, but I was nervously awaiting the U.S. election results, with no sleep, totally immersed in the drama. With our democracy* at stake, little else seemed to matter. Though now we see light, millions of people still voted for Donald Trump and his authoritarian form of…
(by JD Jung) Every year this time, I go into our UnderratedReads vault and pull out some chilling horror novels to share. However, I couldn’t find anything as frightening as what is happening now in real life. As of this writing, COVID-19 has killed over 1,178,000 globally and over 229,000 in the U.S. alone. By…
(Reviewed by Don Jung) So many people graduate from college and think they can get a job in the film industry only to face rejection and disappointment. This is a true story about a Dartmouth graduate who seeks fame and fortune only to stumble. But Chris Fenton persists, and eventually manages to become a key…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “The health of any democracy, no matter what its type of status, depends on a small technical detail: the conduct of elections." - Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. Unfortunately, the United States electoral system has enormous vulnerabilities, and the Constitution provides no remedy for dealing with them. If a president…
