Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories – Kathleen Collins

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “His white face floats in a sea of black protest. It is a time that calls forth the most picturesque of metaphors, for we are swimming along in the underbelly of America..there where it is soft and prickly, where you may rub your nose against the grainy sands of illusion and…

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The Helper – M. N. Snow

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Helper takes you on a journey where friendship, relationships and the desire to help others means more than anything. Three friends with three secrets have the power to heal people, meaning they are givers. John Sloan is a marine and loses this generous ability to heal. Since being a healer…

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Holding Out for a Zero-Heather Wardell

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) “I’m doing the right thing, not feeding myself. It’s the only thing I can do, so I will do it. Gloria can somehow have the energy I don’t take in, and it will help her stay alive.” Twenty years ago, 14-year old Valerie  was in a hurry to get ready for…

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The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel – Steven Pressfield

(Reviewed by Don Jung) How does a struggling writer make it in the big city? The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel is part crime novel, part self-realization story taken from some real-life experiences of author, Steven Pressfield. It pictures life of a struggling writer in crime- ridden New York City in the early…

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Pearl, MD: The Way West – Marie Bartlett

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Way West, the second in the Pearl MD series, begins right where we were left off and is just as captivating. Pearl is a physician in the nineteenth-century. This was when women were not welcome to have a profession. African Americans were also treated poorly. Healing them as patients was…

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Olympic Collision: The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd- Kyle Keiderling

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) One momentous day. And two lives were forever linked. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd of ninety thousand saw their favorite in the women’s three-thousand-meter race, Mary Decker, go down. An audience of two billion around the world witnessed the mishap and listened to the instantaneous…

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Beyond the Carousel – Bette Lee Crosby

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) A family tragedy that spans over twenty years, and a detective who believes that justice has a higher power than law and is determined to make things right. “Life is like a carousel; what goes around, comes around. “ I am deliberately keeping the synopsis brief; the book is truly a…

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The Girl from Rostov- Shitij Sharma

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Everything adds up. Every second, every lie, every breath. In the end, it all catches up with you.” "Even if you have little to do with it. Family, for instance. “ That’s what young Maya had to learn. Too many unanswered questions haunted her into adulthood. With the death of her…

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Motherland Hotel – Yusuf Atilgan, (Translated from the Turkish by Fred Stark)

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “She was in the painting on the wall…It had gotten stiff again and he ran his fingers through the short hairs at the root. “Almost as big as the rest of you.” at tall woman, under him so tall. Could I kiss your breasts Sure if you want and your neck…

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Wishing You the Best in 2017

(by JD Jung)   We would all like to thank you for using UnderratedReads as one of your resources for book recommendations. We are looking forward to continue to give you our opinions on exciting and thought-provoking "underrated" releases in 2017. Though we only post reviews on books that we recommend, there are some that our reviewers have considered…

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