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Low Stakes Medium Spice Sarah Morgan/ Hallmarkie Summer Tale. Sarah Morgan basically has two settings: summer and Christmas, and she seems to make it a point to release both types of book every year. This being a May release and given the title, it is obviously her summer version. Which does involve coastal/ beach living and general summer-ish vibes without being too country or culture specific. (Well done as this book takes place in both the UK and the US, though the bulk of the tale is in...

Ipse Dixit - Bare Assertion Mars Needed (If Politically Slanted In Presentation) Call. This is one of those texts that so many American Christians are going to need to read... and yet because it *is* so politically slanted in a somewhere left-of-center/ social justice warrior direction, not enough on at least one side likely will. A more balanced presentation, perhaps referencing more right-oriented issues like being truly pro-life from conception through natural death in addition to those presented here, could have gone a long way to making the overall presentation of the arguments here that much stronger.

But that isn't actually the star deduction here. No, the star deduction is exactly what the title noted - there is *zero* bibliography in this Advance Review Copy edition of the text I read nearly six months before publication of this book, and...

Interesting Insights From An Atypical Perspective. How often have you ever heard the term "business anthropology"? Hell, how often have you ever heard the term "anthropology" and not pictured some remote tribe somewhere in some jungle or maybe desert? My guess is that your answer to both of those questions is somewhere in the range of "Rarely" to "Never" for nearly anyone reading this review. Even as widely read as *I* am, my answer would have been right there with you.

Yet here Sweet, a Xennial Londoner with a clearly leftist political bent - as in, he frequently villainizes pretty well anything white and/ or male - actually uses his experiences with both psychology and anthropology to show how the two interact to form culture in ways that you likely never even actively thought of... even if some of his observations make a fair amount of intuitive sense.

Depending on ...

Rise Of The Political Cop. Nearly 15 yrs ago now, when Michael Brown still had almost exactly a year left in his life, Radley Balko released a seminal history of the rise of the militarized police force in the United States he titled Rise Of The Warrior Cop. In it, he traced the history of policing in the American tradition all the way from its origins as the 'Shire Reef' in feudal England to its then most modern incarnations. (He has also released an updated version of this book in the last couple of years.)

Here, Schrader does for police un...

Pessimist Gen X Yale Professor Takes A Selective Road Trip Through America And American History. Understood through this lens, this book isn't as terrible as it could have been. It is still quite politically oriented in the expected directions from a Yale professor, and its treatment of history is quite surface level and routine, but it is also at least somewhat more balanced than many books from similarly situated authors - so it does have that going for it.

The bibliography clocks in at 15%, which isn't great, but does meet my bare minimum threshold and there isn't really much here that would demand a Sagan Standard applic...

Solid Cruise Mystery In Vein Of Doctor Odyssey. When Doctor Odyssey was cancelled around this time last year after barely one singular season, I was bummed. Yes, as an experienced cruiser with 25 cruises and approaching 200 days at sea, I can tell you without hesitation at all that that tale was *not* "realistic". IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE! It is FICTION, and it tells an excellent tale in an exotic and exciting setting!

So very many of the 1* and 2* complaints about this book decry its "lack of realism", and I'm here to tell you: OF COURSE IT ISN'T FUCKING REAL, IT IS FUCKING FICTION! But enjoyed in the vein of Doctor Odyssey (which, I supposed, not enough people enjoyed to begin with), this is really a fun mystery tale set on...

Stunning Return Has Me Absolutely Enraptured. I've been talking about McAfee's 33AD and its resultant Bachiyr series for (nearly?) 15 yrs now. I found it back then because Amazon was insistent on recommending it to me in my early Kindle era, and eventually I picked it up... and was immediately hooked. Opening in the titular year with a vampire assassin killing another vampire who had become a believer in this charismatic rabbi from Nazareth and having a Roman centurion stumble into the aftermath, I was immediately hooked. To this day, I've never seen any other vampire tale done quite like this, and I've never seen any other historical fiction tale done quite like this either. It was a perfect combination of both, and I've been a fan of McAfee ever since.

But something happened over the next few years, and by the time I met him circa 2016, he had already stopped writi...

Scifi Horror Action The Way It Is Supposed To Be. If you like your action tales with a tinge of horror, or perhaps your horror tales with a lot of action in them, this is going to be a book - and a series - that you need to check out. Following on from the fallout of Spores, Book 1 of this series (so read it first!), the survivors of that tale quickly find themselves involved in another similar event - this time half a world away, in the jungles of Sierra Leone.

This book has so much going on. New leaders trying to find their place in an...

Don't You Forget About Me. Yes, the title is a Breakfast Club reference... because at its heart, this is essentially a Breakfast Club tale for adults - of a type, at least. A group of strangers forced together all day, all with secrets of how they found themselves there at that moment. An emotional tale of what happens over those several hours.

And, in a bit of irony, other than the "it has cussing!!!!" one star review, literally every complaint in every existing one star review on Goodreads as I write this review nearly 10 days after publication of this book (despite having had it as an Advance Review Copy for several mon...

Solid Second Set. This book picks up shortly after where Silverleaf, Book 1 of this new series, ended - so absolutely read it first - and continues the story of the Haverly family, largely extending plot lines from the first book for some of the family members... and introducing a few new ones for others.

Fans of family dramas featuring elite families of some form - think a less soapy Dynasty or a more rural Blue Bloods or similar - are going to love this new series and this tale in particular, as there are some dynamics that play out in both very fun and very "AW SNAP, IT DONE HAPPENED NOW!" manner...