Book Review: With Friends Like These By Alissa Lee

11-19-2025

Strong Tale Of The Travails Of Friendship After College. This is one of those tales where, as someone in his 40s who graduated college 20 yrs ago this year himself and who has maintained at least a couple of friendships sinc

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Book Review: The Knives Before Christmas By J Kent Holloway

11-18-2025

Solid Laid Back Cozy Florida Mystery - With Magical Realism Tossed In. This is the book that exactly one person alive was capable of writing - particularly writing this well. That person being St. Augustine-based medical investigator and now pastor of a St. Augustine area church, Kent Holloway.

I've known Holloway for years. I first started reading his works when he began working as a coauthor with The New God Of Science Fiction Jeremy Robinson, and I've read most of his independent works since - even h

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Book Review: The New Years Party By Jenna Satterthwaite

11-17-2025

No Angels. No Demons. Only Humans. This is one of those tales that has a lot going against it - multiple perspectives, pretty well everyone is "unlikeable" at best, etc. And yet..

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Blog Tour: Not You Again By Erin La Rosa

11-13-2025

For this blog tour, we're looking at a fun, quirky scifi romance reminiscent of Eureka. For this blog tour, we're looking at Not You Again by Erin La Rosa.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:

Romance Author Creates Eureka-Esque Scifi. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was proofreading The New God of Science Fiction Jeremy Robinson's late April 2026 release, Parallax, where he - a long time and prolific scifi author who has never really dabbled in romance at all - created a kick ass scifi action tale that was *also* a spicy romance book. Now, just a few books later, I'm reading a book by a more recently established romance author... who is introducing quirky scifi into her romance book. Interesting times, it seems. ;)

And this is absolutely a quirky scifi romance. To me, it gives off strong vibes of the now-long-dead Syfy show Eureka, where the entire town knows they are in a scifi tale and they all merrily do their own things within it. If your sense of humor is of the 'WTF' variety... this is absolutely going to be right up your alley.

And yes, speaking of things being 'up alleys' (groan, I know, sorry), if you're not a fan of spicy romance of the habanero, maybe even hotter, level... this book probably isn't going to be your thing. There isn't *much* of it... until there is. But when it is there, it is *there*.

And the ambiguity. Other than giving away that there is some here, all I'll note about it is that I appreciated it. Obviously, some readers have to have every possible thread buttoned up exactly so. I've never been one of those, so I appreciate books that don't do that since they are so rare.

Another thing that is going to be one of those that some will love and others will loathe is the seemingly forced

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Book Review: Every Last Fish By Rose George

11-13-2025

More Primer Than Deep Dive. I read George's (nearly 20 yr old now) The Big Necessity near the start of 2025, so beginning the ending of 2025 with her latest release seems appropriate, right? ;) Like Necessity, this bo

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Book Review: Gemini By Jeffrey Kluger

11-12-2025

Solid History Of A Well told Yet Unfocused On Era. The subtitle of this book speaks of the "untold story" of Gemini... which is a bit misleading. Anyone who knows most anything about NASA in the

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Book Review: The Great Math War By Jason Socrates Bardi

11-12-2025

Math And History Nerds Will Love This. Solid History For Everyone Else Too. Ok, so I'm a dude that got a Computer Science degree 20 yrs ago and came within literally half a dozen classes of getting degrees in Mathematics and Secondary Mathematics Education at the same time... who

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Blog Tour: Otherwise Engaged By Susan Mallery

11-08-2025

For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid women's fiction tale with a touch of romance where all four central characters are executed very well indeed. For this blog tour, we're looking at Otherwise Engaged by Susan Mallery.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:

Solid Susan Mallery Women's Fiction (With A Touch Of Romance). With Susan Mallery, you know pretty well exactly what you're going to get. She basically has two styles, with a few wrinkles per style, and once you know which style and which wrinkle you're in... well, if you enjoy reading a lot of variations on the same thing and are looking for the kinds of books that are essentially the reading equivalent of TV you can simply zone out and enjoy and know you're not going to hit anyt

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Blog Tour: The Perfect Hosts By Heather Gudenkauf

11-07-2025

For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid tale in its genre that has a bit of a chaotic and potentially controversial opening. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Perfect Hosts by Heather Gudenkauf.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:

Don't Let Your Opinions Of Over The Top Gender Reveals, Guns, or Multi-Perspective Stories Fool You - This Is A Solid Book. Seriously, this is one of those books where the *opening scene* has a lot of ick for a lot of people - me included, to an extent. Indeed, I delayed reading this book for a week in part because of the very inciting incident literally listed in the first sentence of the description as of publication day earlier this week as I write this review. (Yes, I've had it as an Advance Review Copy for months and yes, I'm offi

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Book Review: Labyrinth By A G Riddle

11-02-2025

Interesting - Yet Long - Provocative Look At Actual AI. This is one of those scifi tales that in 2025 feels like it could be a year or two from being reality, that indeed there are very likely companies working on exactly the kind of

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