Review of Tears by Rita Webb

Review of Tears by Rita Webb

Fourteen year old Lelea hears music and a dragons call that others don’t so she is considered strange and perhaps mentally handicapped from the nanos that were planted in her brain at age three to make her a super soldier. She is however a Dreamwalker who hears the dragons call. Her father the General sucks the life out of his people with oppression and killings to extend his own life. The General uses both of his daughters Lelea and Jadon as super soldiers to get whom and what he wants. Lelea is tired of the killings the pain of her wounds and the pain of her people. She wants to heed the dragon’s call and save the dragon’s eggs so her world can change. Then her world can be the colourful world of her dreams, where food is plentiful and the people enjoy blue skies and greenery but to do so is fraught with grave danger. First she and her older sister Jadon must escape the bonds their father has placed on them. They steal and ship and find stowaways on board. Aren who Lelea has dreamed will help her find the eggs and is also connected to the dragon and Jaak and Chester who are needed to help with the dangerous journey into the past to save the Dragon’s eggs .I won’t tell you any more other than to tell you it is a journey worthy of “Lord of the Rings” as the participants are forced to bond together because of the situations and yet have temptations to betray each other. This story is a story of love rebirth and redemption and I truly enjoyed it’s telling.

4 stars out of five 

Review-Pursuit of a Dream (Victory Lanes: The Chronicles Book 1)

Review-Pursuit of a Dream (Victory Lanes: The Chronicles Book 1)

 by Robert Pruneda available at Amazon 

Pursuit of a Dream is a rich deeply layer story of action that begins with a child,(Caleb Lockhardt’s) dream, of becoming a race car driver. The author paints a lovely picture of a loving supportive Christian family with the normal family disagreements, triumphs and tragedies. You identify deeply with the rich characters in this book. I didn’t know a lot about NASCAR or even car racing going into reading this but this writer carefully explained it so well that even a non- viewer like me could understand exactly how these car races were run and how the driver can win.  Readers will truly enjoy the transition of Caleb from young boy to a focused adult with NASCAR racing on his mind. I know I want to read the next book and see where Caleb’s dream will take him further and I’m sure other readers will too.

 5 ★★★★★ out of  5  ★★★★★

Review -Burnt Lake

Burnt Lake

by Micheal Brown

Available at Amazon http://amzn.to/ym8USD 

I have to preface this review with the fact that although I use to read a lot of science fiction in my teens, somewhere along the line I lost most of my interest in it. However a good apocalypse story can really peak my interest as this story does.

Burnt Lake is a short story about Mike who wants to be prepared in case he ever needs survivalist techniques. Mike is a tech junkie, a programmer but he prefers the wilderness to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. He goes into the wilderness of northern Ontario, to try out his survivalist techniques and while he is sleeping he is transported into a nightmarish future with no technology and man struggling to exist without it.  I don’t want to give too much away about the story so I’ll stop there. Mr. Brown certainly weaves an interesting story although it does take some patience to get to the bones of the story. I’d love to see a revisit to this story by this author of a longer nature and more of Amanda and Rain, but I feel this story is an interesting and compelling read of a future that could very well happen. This writer shows a lot of promise for future offerings from this author.

3 1/2 stars  out of five

Review-Atticus for the Undead by John Abramowitz

    Atticus for the Undead by John Abramowitz

Available at Amazon  http://amzn.to/y2xqBF 

     First of all I have to say what a refreshing idea for a story this was as the main character Hunter Gamble  is a lawyer for the “supernaturals” or as the politically correct term in this story the “Arcanes”.In the vein of a Charlaine Harris novel the Arcanes  (Werewolves Mage, Vampires and Zombies)are out in the world and people are either accepting of them or terrified. The character of Hunter is a extremely focused lawyer and all around good guy that you really admire and like. The other characters are also well defined and enjoyable as well. There’s Kristen his colleague who is a whiz at finding helpful points of law but who is painfully shy, so she usually let’s Hunter present the cases in court. Then there is Sabrina Orr a new teenage client. At first annoying but she grows on you as only an emotionally developing teenager can.

As the story progresses Hunter is in the fight of his life when he has to defend a zombie from a murder charge. The district attorney Boyer wants to unseat Boone who wants to pass a law about the arcane and if he has to make an example of Hunter’s client to win, he’ll do it. Hunter also has the Salvation Alliance (the anti-arcane faction) gunning for him and his colleagues because of his defense of the arcane. I won’t tell you any more of the story because I don’t want to spoil it. However if you enjoy a good paranormal story or any or all of the TV series and/ or movie series ,True Blood, the Walking Dead and or the quirky Shaun of the dead you’ll enjoy this book from the prospective of their defence lawyer. This is an engrossing book that I just had to continue reading until its conclusion.

4 1/2 stars out of five

Review- Pretense For Murder by Karen L. Abrahamson

Review- Pretense For Murder by Karen L. Abrahamson

 Available at Amazon http://amzn.to/wbE8lB 

This short story starts with teenage Vallon Drake. She is at a high school for the gifted of power, (the AGS Prep Academy in Seattle) but even there she feels different. She knows she is more powerful than most of them and she feels their powers. Her guardian Landon just wants her to follow the rules but the itch that she gets when she doesn’t use her powers gets her to disobey the rules discretely and go into the woods and use them. While coming back to sneak into the prep academy she finds a girl who looks like her dead. Vallon wants to investigate but both her guardian and the headmaster want her to stay out of the investigation but Vallon feels an obligation to investigate. She feels that they are not investigating closely because it is a crime of the gifted.

This is a very enchanting read. I truly enjoyed getting to know the character of Vallon.A very interesting compelling read.

I give this book  

4★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5

Review -Run the Hunted by Patti Larsen

Run the Hunted by Patti Larsen

Amazon http://amzn.to/AFyFy5

Reid is sixteen years old and overjoyed when he’s older sister gets him out of foster care that he has been in for a year and takes him home saying she has a good job. Reid is amazed by the extras she has for him. Reid wakes up after going to sleep to men grabbing him and hustling him into a van. They take him somewhere blindfolded and tied. After they set him down he manages to get free only to realize he is the Hunted. Fleeing to survive, he learns to adapt he then meets others kidnapped and fleeing from the killers; soon he must choose to be a leader and stay one step ahead of the hunters.

If you have read Lord of the flies by William Golding then you will certainly enjoy Run the hunted. It is a story of survival of the fittest and the most inventive.A thrilling suspenseful book you won't want to put down. I truly enjoyed reading this book and hope to read the next book in the series Hide. 

available at Amazon http://amzn.to/xpR4U6

5★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5

Review -Shades Of Gray

Shades of Gray by Andy Holloman

Available at Amazon http://amzn.to/A7NXke 

John Manning is a single father raising his daughter but his travel business has been bad since 9/11 and his little girl is ill and needs a kidney transplant .A client (whom he guesses is a drug mule) owes him back travel money so when he spies her at a McDonalds he attempts to blackmail her into paying him what she owes him. She offers him a way to obtain the money to help his daughter and so they go into business together transporting drugs. I won’t tell you much more about the story as I don’t want to spoil it however I will tell you “Shades Of Gray” Is an intricately layered story of intrigue twist and turns that will keep you enthralled until the end of the book. The characters are ordinary people deeply flawed (as most people) are just trying to live the life the dice has rolled to them. Each is faced with a dilemma the solution that is a shade of gray. The choices these individuals make is the basis of the thrilling, emotion filled story.

5★★★★★ out of ★★★★★ 5