Book Review
One Shoe and the Golden Medallion
by Emily Asad
“We will transform you into virtuous human beings,” claims eight-year-old Novia, an impoverished Haitian child who reaches enlightenment in Russel Frederick Ahrens’s "One Shoe and the Golden Medallion". When Maury Levet, a...
Book Review
A Story of Troy Polyxena
by Emily Asad
For thousands of years, history has repeated the names Odysseus, Achilles, Paris, and Hector, recounting their glorious deeds in the annals of time. Women in these epics are only mentioned in brief passages, despite their influence. H....
Book Review
Katie
by Emily Asad
Battered women often feel trapped in their marriages. Carol James’ "Katie", a Western romance set in both Dodge City and Denver following the Civil War, follows one such woman as she finds the courage to break the cycle of abuse. Katie...
Book Review
The Boy Who Played with Dark Matter
by Emily Asad
In a world where caffeine is distributed only by terrorists and 1000-SPF sunscreen isn’t strong enough, scientists long for a discovery that will restore Earth to a greener state. However, the International Government likes to think it...
Book Review
The Anomaly
by Emily Asad
Everyone wonders what happens when a person dies. The shell decomposes, true, but what about the eternal soul? What further adventures await? Wendy Joyce’s "The Anomaly" throws back the veil that divides the celestial realms of Haven...
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Now What?
by Emily Asad
When Jorl and his wife, Tarla, talked about taking a family vacation, they pictured poolside drinks and late-night dancing, not explosions and enemy invasions. Yet, that is precisely what they encounter in Barbara J. Hamblen’s debut...
Book Review
Lefties
by Emily Asad
Grandmothers are supposed to wield rolling pins and trays of cookies, not pistols, knives, and nooses. Yet the grandmother in "Lefties", by Karmel Arbelaitz, is on a mission: Rid the world of men with no morals, especially those who...
Book Review
Tainted Child
by Emily Asad
The idea that angels and demons have been warring since before the creation of mankind is nothing new, and neither is the notion that celestial rebels mated with the daughters of men to produce hybrid offspring. In "Tainted Child", by...