Review #474: The Searcher (Ben Webster #3) by Christopher Morgan Jones

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause.”

----John le Carré

Christopher Morgan Jones, an English author, has penned an incredibly thrilling crime fiction in his latest book, The Searcher which is the third book in the Ben Webster series. In this book, the author weaves a tale where the main hero of his stories goes missing and his intelligence firm partner faces a hell lot of troubles from the police to surrender his friend who is accused of so many felonies, and his partner must find him out before trouble comes knocking at their doorstep, and little did he knew, that he has to risk his own life to search him in the deadly mountains bordered and inhabited by Russian criminals.

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Review #471: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

----Dr. Seuss

Scott Stambach, an American author, pens his debut young adult novel, The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko that is centered around a teenage born physically deformed boy living in a church-funded hospital in Belarus along side with other sick and handicapped children. The author weaves a sweet love story of this boy who is frustrated with the people and the limited world around him.

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Review #455: The Secret Language of Stones: A Novel (The Daughters of La Lune, #2) by M.J. Rose

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

----Pablo Neruda

M.J. Rose, a New York Times bestselling novelist, weaves an enchanting and romantic tale called, The Secret Language of Stones: A Novel that is the second book in The Daughters of La Lune series, that traces the life of young woman with powers to encrypt the messages of those beyond the grave to their loves ones with the help of rare gems that is filled with magic, love, betrayal, war and politics.

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Review #277: Queen of Tomorrow (Stolen Empire, #2) by Sherry D. Ficklin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.” 

----Libba Bray, an American author

Sherry D. Ficklin, an American author, pens her next book in the Stolen Empire series that accounts the journey of Sophie- a young Duchess of Imperial Russian Kingdom, called Queen of Tomorrow, where Sophie portrays the young Catherine the Great. Being a Duchess is not an easy thing when the smell of death and threat of murder lurks at every corner of Sophie's life.

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Review #276: Queen of Someday (Stolen Empire, #1) by Sherry D. Ficklin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Sometimes, we must learn to open our hearts and grow to love someone we think we might not be able to.”

----Sherry D. Ficklin

Sherry D. Ficklin, an American author, has penned a terrific tale about queens, palaces, love and war based in Russia, Queen of Someday that happens to be the first book in the Stolen Empire series that accounts a tale of destiny, power and love in a dangerous kingdom in Russia which is loosely based on the life of young Catherine the Great.

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Review #8: Gingerbread by Robert Dinsdale

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography critic, who once quoted remarkably about the wilderness in nature:
“The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.”

Robert Dinsdale, an English author, has spun a spectacularly wild tale about a boy, some unforgettable forest fables and forest in the unexplored land of Belarus, in his new novel, Gingerbread.

Synopsis:
A young boy travels to the other part of city with his mama to visit his grandpa, who he used to address as "papa". But then his mother dies due to cancer, and his mama make him promise her that he would take care of his "papa" no matter what. Thus begins the story of a boy and a man who was once a boy! His mother wanted to take her ashes to the tenement where she grew up with her baba and papa in the forest. But after reaching the forest and after laying his mama alongside her baba, his "papa" couldn't leave the forest and become relentless to go away from the wild, so they settle up there in the forest by making camps and dens and eating the dead his mama's gingerbread and listening to the trees and living up with the wild. Each season goes by, and the boy's "papa's" wild fables become wilder and more sinister with the tales of the Perpetual Winter in the City of Gulag and the Winter King's wrath. But when a little girl, named Elenya comes to live in the forest along with her parents in the boy's old house, things get changed and the boy becomes more drawn to the life he had abandoned in the city and seeing the girl with her parents in a warm

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