Underrated Reads

Strange Karma – Willow Healy

Posted on September 15, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) “As they progressed higher, she caught her first unobstructed glimpse of Ama Dablam, the mountain she had come to climb. Sun sparkled off the hanging glacier, and the mountain’s two side ridges seemed to reach out to her in a lover’s embrace. It was the most beautiful mountain she had ever…

Posted in Adventure, Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Culture, Historical Fiction | Tagged adventure, Britain, Himalayans, thrillers, Tibet | Comments Off

Pandora’s Gardener – David Charles Mason

Posted on September 13, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Pandora’s Gardener is a humorous adventure mystery written about John Gardener, who happens to be the holder or a seemingly harmless price of computer hardware that can cause enormous harm to humanity. The technology behind it can bring global domination; however, John has no clue. On the other hand, Detective Sutherland…

Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, Humor & Satire | Tagged modern literary fiction, mystery | Comments Off

The Black Marketer’s Daughter – Suman Mallick

Posted on September 10, 2020 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) “And she can never figure out who she is cheating. Is it Iskander, the man she has decided she can only be grateful to? Or is it the man who loves her to distraction and makes her feel so happy… But what about cheating herself?” Zuleikha left her home in Pakistan…

Posted in Culture, Modern Literary Fiction | Tagged adultry, contemporary fiction, culture, immigration, infidelity, Pakistan | Comments Off

I Don’t Share Cheesecake: …because my life is too good to share with just anybody – Stephanie Mills

Posted on September 8, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Christopher J. Lynch) If you were to say that I was a huge consumer of female self-help books – or any self-help books for that matter, you would fail your polygraph test miserably. So when I picked up Stephanie Mills' book, quaintly titled, I Don't Share Cheesecake I was definitely charting new territory. The…

Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Your Best Self | Tagged book reviews, memior, Non-fiction, self-help | Comments Off

Mortal Conspiracy – Noel C. Scidmore M.D.

Posted on September 4, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Mortal Conspiracy is a crime mystery novel written about Dr. Brad Pierson investigating the death of Butch Kennedy. Butch passed away after he had a second heart attack, and Dr. Pierson is the one who performed his autopsy. A few weeks later, the 29-year-old pathologist happens to come across the report…

Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers | Tagged crime fiction, medical thrillers | Comments Off

Little Falls – Elizabeth Lewes

Posted on August 30, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) This debut novel by Elizabeth Lewes combines the present with the past in a chill-binding story. The descriptions are vivid and paint a picture of rural country living where everyone almost knows everyone else. The author contrasts the military life with the down-home country living and how it’s a struggle to…

Posted in Crime, Mystery and Thrillers | Tagged crime fiction, PTSD | Comments Off

Outside the Lines-Ameera Patel

Posted on August 28, 2020 by J D Jung

(reviewed by JD Jung) “She’s pregnant with a domestic worker’s son, who has matric but whose skill is drug peddling. How did she get herself into this?” Her parents want to control the situation, but Farhana doesn’t know what she wants. “Why an Indian girl? He could easily have found a good Zulu girl. Indians…

Posted in African Literature, Crime, Mystery and Thrillers, World Literature | Tagged contemporary fiction, culture, drug addiction, Johannesburg, south Africa | Comments Off

Fierce Girls (Fierce Girls at War)-Mike Adams

Posted on August 25, 2020 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Fierce Girls is a military science fiction thriller about Kelly Cassidy. She is a retired police officer who was the senior weapons trainer at the New York Police Academy for many years. After the death of her husband, she teaches her son and three daughters to be marksmen. The story begins…

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