Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham At some point, we’ve all fallen in love with a story involving talking animals. Either The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, or even Alice in Wonderland has impacted our lives with its variety of talking animals. Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham continues the fine tradition of
Falling is a brand-new thriller and debut novel by T.J. Nelson. Set on a commercial airliner that’s been taken hostage, this is a well-written novel. It’s as polished as novels by journeyman writers. If it wasn’t being marketed so intensely as a debut novel by a former airline attendant, I’d have never guessed it was
Today, I’m going to talk about a space adventure story! There’re blasters! There’s faster-than-light travel! There’s an heir whose father is accused of treason by an evil space empire. A princess of another planet who runs from an arranged marriage. There’s a treacherous friend and a stalwart supporter. The hero gets the girl and then
To be released on May 4, Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard (ISBN: 978-0062872623) is excellent fantasy adventure. In the best tradition of Raymond E. Feist or David Eddings, Aveyard creates a vibrant world with larger-than-life characters and lots of swords and sorcery, if you’re into that kind of thing (which I am). The pacing is
Valhalla Rising is an acceptable adventure novel if you’re flying somewhere and you don’t care how it ends before you land. There is nothing egregiously wrong with the book, such as grammar and spelling errors or poor writing. However, it is also a book that depends a lot on stereotype characterizations and remarkably mono-racial protagonists.
I cant remember if I read this before, but I think I did. It seems familiar, but I don’t remember it. But there are moments that seem really familiar, like Ive already read the book before now. I probably have read it before. Welcome to Matt Reviews Books! I am Matt and I am the
This review caused me a bit of consternation. There’re a certain amount of adult situations that are also plot points that could be described as “spoilers.” So, I struggled to figure out how to discuss an intense thriller without ruining the book for other readers. Granted, it’s been out for awhile now, but you might
Jim is a custodian at a elder care/psychiatric facility. He lives on premises in a small room. And he plans to commit suicide in great detail. Before he does, however, one of the patients intervenes and takes Jim to the basement where a weird, giant tree exists with a monolith, which is a door to
In Come Join the Murder (ISBN 978-8-6072-9926-2), Holly Rae Garcia has written a tense and suspenseful thriller. It’s not a whodunit in the classic sense; we know who committed the crime. The question becomes if the killer will be caught. The question is also if the protagonist of the story will be okay by the
The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes (ISBN: 978-0-85766-831-8) is the story of a stuffed triceratops detective, Detective Tippy. Detective Tippy lives in the Stillreal, a world constructed of abandoned ideas. These ideas, or Ideas, are the personification of people’s hopes, dreams, fears, and youthful coping strategies. Ideas are populated by Friends, creations of younger people
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