Skip to main content

Posts

Official Review of The Queen of Cambridge, a novel by Shakir Rashaan

  Caressa Sidana is daddies little girl in this racy romantic thriller. An only child, she is   heiress   to her father’s chocolatier business. A billionaires and ‘’Queen’’ in her own right she seeks to take her father’s company to   greater heights than she has already done. Hurdles crop up in her way in the form of ex-boyfriend and employee Carter. He shows up at a private meeting to pitch her clients and future business partners. She plays it cool knowing she has the client’s eating out of her hands. Contrary to what her father taught her, she discreetly indulged in business   mixed with pleasure in a polyamorous relationship with   ex Carter and bodyguard Marco. Though Carter   threw himself   out of the love triangle by being fired from the company, Caressa could never see herself in a monogamous relationship, which is why she always found herself    re-evaluating her and Marco’s relationship when lines got   blurred. ...

Official Review of Ghost of a Marriage

          Ghost of a Marriage is a supernatural fantasy by Richard Dansky with       elements of horror. Set in modern times we find the protagonist struggling to come to terms with his pending divorce. Gary Lawrence is a writer who lives with his soon to be ex-wife Jennifer and their beloved cat Francesca affectionately called ‘’Frannie.’’ Things are already awkward with Jennifer leaving the house when Gary starts seeing things. Memories from his past with Jennifer come to life in ghost form. He notices a candle like the one Jen used to use in the master bathroom but the mysterious light eludes him until he comes face to face with ghost Jen. Freaked out with no way to explain things, he confides in James and Ellie who think his gone crazy due to stress from the divorce. He hesitates to share such information with Jennifer whose already gotten him to set an appointment with a shrink.     At risk of being evicted out of his own...

Official Review of Call of The Wind by Heidi Skarie

        Book Title: Call Of The Wind Authors Name: Heidi Skarie Publisher: Price: Kindle$0.00 /Paper Back-$15.99     In Call Of The Wind by Heidi Skarie, the author immediately plunges us into the heart of the action. We find Baymond Kimes being sentenced to death and deemed a traitor on planet Saroka. He is thrown in prison with Norgrin a ‘’weary old man’’. In both their fates lies death, with Norgrin being the first to be executed in four days before Baymond. Norgrin questions Baymond on the reasons he chose to join the interplanetary war and he gives an obvious answer but Norgrin presses on knowing that couldn’t have been the only reason. Baymond Kimes, son of Master Michio relates his true reasons in a flash back. He reveals that joining the Coalition, as a fighter pilot was an attempt to escape his own pain caused by the sting of young forbidden love. He was in love with childhood friend Princess Fawniteen and had vowed to spend their liv...

Official Review of Embers at Midnight, a book by Kate Lance

    Reviewed by BookFluencer     Sea Books, 309 pages, $22.00     , 2021   Set in wartime Europe, the novel opens up with Eliza, Pete’s sister. She laments how cunning Charlotte is. ‘’She is always getting what she wants’’, in this case it is her brother exchanging vows with her. Charlotte and Eliza were once friends but the relationship soured when Eliza fell for Harry who is now Charlotte’s ex-husband. All this transpired around the time Charlotte was pregnant for Pete.   Afraid that people will label her baby a bastard child and scandal she decided to hang onto the marriage until the birth of her child Vivian. Kate Lance introduces characters whose lives are like a ripple in the water. So connected a single stone throw in it will have everyone feeling the effects. An illustration of this is how Pete and Charlottes union affect Billie, a female pilot whose source of income with the aerial circus is about to end. Billie and Pete...