JB Richards

A Delightful Collection Of Dreamy Recipes! Tolkien scholar Astrid Tuttle Winegar’s “Cooking for Halflings & Monsters: 111 Comfy, Cozy Recipes for Fantasy-Loving Souls” is a delightful collection of recipes featuring grown-up comfort food for all your favorite storybook reads. The research and testing that went into putting together each of the delectable dishes in Winegar’s grand opus was obviously an enormous undertaking for the author who personally created, tested, caption

Everything That Shanti Promises… And More! In “The Artist: The Lives and Loves of Apollo Antonius Vidali”, Author Lyra Shanti strings us along through a series of hilarious, rambunctious, and torrid love affairs, all aimed at nursing the infamous Apollo from a love-starved and immature young teenager of the 1800’s to a contemplative and egotistical bohemian who is hell-bent on conquering Vienna’s art and music world. With one shocking twist after another, Apollo learns that a

Drama… Romance… Medical Cliffhanger… Truly a Magnificent Read! J.R. Morton presents an intricate and tragic tale in “Uninvited”. The main characters of this novel each carry past burdens that significantly impact their current relationships, making it difficult—if not impossible—to put their own passions and fears aside to act as proper guardians for a young life teetering on the brink of death. Morton’s story line grabs the reader’s attention from the very start as she winds

An Exquisite Family Saga Worth Reading Again and Again! Busy-body Harriet is at it again, nosing about in everyone’s business, in VL McBeath’s “When Time Runs Out”—the third book of The Ambition & Destiny Series. And, thank goodness for Harriet’s meddling ways, for her keen intelligence and wit makes this exquisite family saga well-worth reading again and again and again as the Family Weatherby tilts ahead full-speed into an uncertain future. For McBeath’s men, it’s mostly bu

A Dark and Chilling Psychological Mystery! K. A. Duggsy masterfully metes out the circumstances of her main protagonist’s past in this dark and chilling memoir of a wife and mother overwhelmed by the lack of love in her daily life and the robotic routine she keeps just to lessen the pain and heartache of a tragic loss. What seems from the start to be a simple telling of a homemaker’s suspicions about a cheating husband turns into a deep psychological thriller in “Can’t Fix Cr

An Insightful and Poignant Faith-Based Read! Strong Christian values guide Chloe Flanagan’s “Forward to What Lies Ahead”—an insightful and poignant read about a young and independent woman trying to overcome the death of a loved one while striving to come to terms with a shameful secret from her past. The author’s plotline deals with heavy topics, such as childhood sexual-abuse, jealousy, revenge, death, and survivor’s guilt, while her characters each maintain a progressive m

An Emotional Romance Filled with Frustrations and Eager Anticipation! R.M. Gauthier presents an emotional tale filled with frustrations but eager anticipation in “Christmas Miracle on Valentine’s Day” as she sends her main character, Jack, off on his latest mission to woo his lady love, Charlotte. And, as she does in her first chapter of this holiday romantic mystery series, Gauthier has her lead man jumping through hoops to sate the mounting suspicion and curiosity of his be

A Gruesome View of Humankind's Future! For citizens of the Ruling Assembly, the 18th birthday is a dreadful day when one is stripped from their family by the Ta-Ta and taken to a medical base where horrific experiments alter their physiques, turning them into bizarre reality show stars in a competition that promises them that—if they survive—they too will earn a good life. “Purgatory One” by Kelly Scidmore-Sievers is a gut-wrenching and shocking read. The bizarre medical proc

A Bewitching Piece Based on American Folklore! David W. Thompson’s “Sister Witch: The Life of Moll Dyer” intimately recounts an American colonial legend that originated in the early days of Maryland. Three-hundred years later, Thompson explains that Moll Dyer’s story is still told around campfires as a warning to misbehaving children and it’s no wonder why—Her spirit is said to walk the swampy woodlands near her homestead with her half-wolf companion by her side. This is a ta

One Man Struggles to Reunite His Family—Right to the Bitter End! Two-years after Patrick rescues his beleaguered wife from certain death in the same alley where he was cursed by the bite that changed his life forever, Maggie is still struggling with her addiction and trying to accept her husband’s new lifestyle. “Bitter End” is the fourth and final book in Aliya DalRae’s Fallen Cross Pack Series, and it is a satisfying and fulfilling that focuses on Maggie and Patrick’s long-