Book Review
Tyrants, Tormentors and the Tiara
by Jill Allen
Backstories, humorous dialogue, and developed personalities humanize these four villainous protagonists. Many fantasy readers know what’s going on with the villains in a story as the baddies antagonize the heroes, but what happens to...
Book Review
Night Crossing
by Jill Allen
A painter spurred on by visions stumbles through life in a novel that offers something for everybody: art, romance, philosophizing, unexpected adventure, and beautiful prose. In "Night Crossing", the final book in the Trilogy of...
Book Review
The Corporate Jungle
by Jill Allen
C. S. Lewis’s wardrobe gets a twenty-first-century makeover in this witty and inventive tale. People using closets to gain access to other worlds is a trope at least as old as C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe....
Book Review
A Year in the Life of Dr. Fox
by Jill Allen
A man with a double life—doctor and reinvented Zorro—proves a hero in this superb thriller. Many know Zorro as the mythical, swashbuckling Latino crusader for justice who rides a horse, wields a sword, and protects Mexican settlers...
Book Review
Mindel and the Misfit Dragons
by Jill Allen
A young girl joins forces with a group of misfit dragons to save her home in this exciting adventure told in beautiful verse. "Mindel and the Misfit Dragons", a lushly illustrated rhyming fairy tale, assures tweens in those awkward...
Book Review
Life Song
by Jill Allen
Poetic prose underscores the central plotline of a musician attempting to make it big. Poet Robert Frost claims that taking the road less traveled makes all the difference. Aussie Mavis Mills, the single-mom protagonist of Christine M....
Book Review
Passionwalk
by Jill Allen
Plummer tastefully blends erotica with religious belief in this novel of love and open-minded Christianity. The old saw says love comes when you least expect it. Emotionally bruised child-care worker Saundra and ex-basketball player...
Book Review
The Outbreak
by Jill Allen
Now, here’s a zombie apocalypse that really knocks ’em dead. With zombie apocalypses occurring across all media at an alarming rate these days, it is difficult to find a new spin on the catastrophe. But Scottish marine biologist...