News and book reviews from award-winning British author K.J. Simmill
Angela Ashby had been looking forward to attending the school carnival with her mother, but since the divorce she is working more, and Angela hardly gets to see her, or her father who left and married Holly the homewrecker. Luckily Angela has a close friend, Mallory. The two of them enjoyed the carnival together, savouring… Continue reading Book review: Liana Gardner – The Journal of Angela Ashby (@lkgg )
Kit had not logged into Chronicles of Retha since her old guild, Milk Crown, was disbanded. Her cousin Bruce, as a joke hacked her account, creating the most ridiculous character, a dancer elf, and ensured her reputation was hated and shunned by all factions. It may have been funny, if not for a corruption error… Continue reading Book review: A. M. Sohma – The Desperate Quest
Dahlia had been with her husband Doug for what had seemed liked forever, committed to the vows she made to the musician as a teenager. Even if he didn't take them as seriously. He had betrayed her trust, hurt her, destroyed her in ways she didn't think possible, and that was before his diagnosis, things… Continue reading Book review: Alexa Padgett – Sweet Solace (@AlexaPadgett )
Dimitri Kosloff, a famous film director, had been found stabbed and dismembered at his usual Friday and Saturday night suite. He was as well known for his sexual preferences as he was for his Academy Awards, so his murder caused quite a stir. The evidence is circumstantial but points towards a young sailor, Richard Dellesandro,… Continue reading Book review: Murderous Intent by John L. Evans
Robert was a repair technician at Best Buy, one who had hung on to his job solely because he was so good at repairing things, his social skills, however, were indeed lacking, to the point he was banned from customer interaction. After work he conducted his own experiments, determined to break reality by discovering a hidden glitch.… Continue reading Book review: Francis Halpin – The Seventh Guard
Esil only knew life in the boxes and the mine. Data mining was the way the poor earned a roof over their head, someone had to do it, and it kept them fed and housed. He slaves away beside Buzz, a friend in the same situation living with his dying mother. There was a cure,… Continue reading book review: S.L. Rowland – Pangea Online: Death and Axes (@HerroSteven )
It had only been four years since the Hummingbird's last slaughter, and now rumours of his return are circling, cutting through the communities just as his own Blush does through those he wishes to destroy. There was another rumour too, one that states the Hummingbird mutated a select few, turning them into Cardinals, but this… Continue reading book review: Nicholas Rem – Exodus in Blush (@thewritingremmy )
Finn had been swept away into a world of military, following in his father's steps, his one relief was he believed his sister had avoided becoming one of the colonel's minions. He had been wrong. She had infiltrated and become trusted by some very powerful people, and during this time discovered something which cost her… Continue reading Book review: C.M. Carney -The Barrow King
Diggers were spread across many of the worlds, it was a capital offence to kill one outside the sanctioned hunts. Hunts designed to give people hope of obtaining a vaccination to suppress the Chira Plague. The odds of success were one in one-hundred and thirty two. It was for this reason criminals were sent on… Continue reading Book review: Michael Lee Kirk- Digger Day (Jaden Crusoe Book1)
Daniel had two parts to him, there was the boy everyone saw, and then another part of him, a part he shoved away and disassociated himself with for so long. That part of him was a murderer, and it was with that part of him the thing that came tearing into his closet one night… Continue reading Book review: TK Rising – Pink House (@etkrising )
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