book reviews

A soul who has had many names throughout his various incarnations has reached a relatively high level of enlightenment. High enough that he's chosen to become the Dalai Camel. He's sent back to Earth to live another life and complete his…

After her father dies, Sarah's perception of reality seems to begin to fall apart. During what seems like a psychotic hallucination, she meets a man named Daulton Dickey. At first, it seems like Daulton is nothing but a figment of her…

Jack moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of becoming rich and famous. However, things didn’t work out like he expected. He’s stuck in a dead-end job at a doughnut shop and married to a prostitute named Karen who seems to resent him.…

Like a Champion is a collection of stories mostly revolving around the theme of underdogs and generally put-upon people achieving some form of everyday victories, whether in a moral sense or a more literal one. The protagonists of the…

Fulton, a sleazy British journalist for the equally sleazy tabloid The Prattler, and his young assistant Cheryl are trying to track down reality TV star Bryan Fix for a story. However, when Fix turns up dead with a strap-on dildo shoved…

In 2014, Joshua Shea was arrested on possession of sexually explicit material containing minors and for sexually exploiting a minor. Shea was a the founder of a popular lifestyle magazine, a founder of a large film festival in Maine, and a…

Nicholas Wild is a French children’s book illustrator who finds himself down on his luck and finances, prompting him to take a cartoonist gig in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. What ensues is a graphic memoir filled with comedy and…

The life of Vietnamese Memories began when the author, Clement Baloup, finally heard the true story of how his father had been forced to leave occupied Vietnam, and evolved from there into what is more accurately a graphic biography. It…

It’s pretty easy at the moment to imagine the end of the world as we know it. On a day to day basis, though, not many of us worry about a tremendous alien spaceship turning up to steal our air and water, and ultimately causing the breakdown…

The Kingdom of Orïsha was once rife with magic. The night it disappeared, the king dragged the maji out of their homes and killed each and every one. What was left was a Kingdom filled with resentment and oppression. Young Zélie remembers…

Sunday’s father has cancer and he doesn’t have long to live. He’s moved his family up to northern Nova Scotia so that he can die in the same place he grew up in. Sunday, however, has a plan to make sure her father’s memory never fades. She…

The unnamed narrator of Where Night Stops finds himself wandering aimlessly throughout the United States after his parents in Iowa die. His travels lead him to a homeless shelter in Seattle, Washington. There he meets Ray-Ray, who gives him…

Poet B. Diehl returns with his second collection.

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel that becomes even more powerful in its new graphic novel form.

A brilliant novel with a main character who will stay with you long after you put the book down. 

Horror author Nicholas Day's first story collection is a great one.

Novelist Ann Sterzinger returns with the first book in her new science fiction series.

Spare and Found Parts is a masterful work that updates Frankenstein into a totally new era, reimagining the classic tale in ways that you could have never expected.

Gil Valle, dubbed the "Cannibal Cop" by the media, spins a nasty tale in his first novel.

Did Vince McMahon help Trump become President? Lavie Margolin states a case.