JB Richards

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-

A Poignant and Heartbreaking Love Story with Bite! Having read the first two chapters of the Fallen Cross Pack Series (“Bitter Beginnings” and “Bitter Challenge”), I’ve come to savor this amazing fantasy series written by an author I truly respect. And so, going into the brief tale (only 31 pages long) of a devoted husband forcefully turned werewolf and stripped of his family, it was satisfying to read about the O’Connell’s story from the wife’s perspective. Maggie’s story do

A Desperate & Heroic Battle for the Control of Two Worlds! “The Book of Abisan” crosses multiple realities to follow two very different young women from different realities as they come together in an unusual friendship to battle an inter-dimensional army set on conquering both of their worlds. Clepitt’s characters have rich and complex back-stories steeped in the folklore and legend of their worlds. Their storied mythologies lend credence to this impressive fantasy read as t

An Enchantingly Dark and Imaginative Fantasy Adventure! Kay MacLeod’s “Heirs of Power (The Constellation Saga Book 1)” is an enchantingly dark and imaginative read, filled with heroes, villains, and strong female leads. Her writing envelops the reader from the very start of the novel as we follow Kitty Fairlow on a mission to save her world from magical beings poised to conquer it. The medieval style settings and characters harken back to our own medieval days of chivalry, bu

A Nail-Biting Dystopian Teen Action Adventure! Teens and young adults, in particular, will enjoy “Traverse Book 1”, a post-apocalyptic tale primarily about an orphan named Max and a few hundred survivors living the urban life in a huge glass-bubble-city that was constructed by their forebears after a global nuclear genocide. A secondary story also introduces Kina, another 15-year-old apocalyptic survivor, whose New Zealand Maori island culture has somehow escaped total annihi

A Masterpiece Of Paranormal/Fantasy—Bring On Book 2! Captivating and suspenseful, Aliya DalRae’s “Bitter Beginnings”—a Kindle Short Read—grabs you from the very start with a torrid forever-romance and non-stop action. Patrick O’Connell is living the life he always dreamed of, filled not with riches, fame, or glory, but blessed with a woman he truly loves—his dear wife, Maggie, and the light of his life, his young daughter, Jessica. But the life that Patrick loves is about to

A Lethal and Gory Fantasy Bloodbath! “Dark of Winter” opens with a barbarian victory parade, complete with the destruction of 40 rival chieftains all set ablaze in an act of ultimate revenge, and the story only gets bloodier from there—think the Mads Mikkelson’s Valhalla Rising. Percy’s tale briefly touches on a conflict between his protagonist, Vaconius, and his King. A war-weary Vaconius is ordered to prove his loyalty and conquer the isolated far-northern hamlet of Sumner—

A Movie-Worthy, Pulse-Pounding Thrill-Ride No Hard-Core Sci-Fi Fan Should Miss! High impact action is the hallmark of this thrilling, danger-riddled, paranormal dystopian mystery reminiscent of the “Golden Compass”, but geared toward mature teens and young adults. Stokes’ imagination seems boundless as she introduces the denizens of Caligation—both the title of her book and the name of the city/world where this story takes place—to her main protagonist, Riley, a stranger a ne

Interesting and Colorful! There are two short stories in this novella by S. A. Gibson: “Pratima’s Engines” and what appears to be an excerpt from another novel, “Asante’s Gullah Journey”. With no introduction to explain how—or if—these two dystopian stories are related however, they do operate off the same premise and in the same context. Both tales are quick reads. In “Pratima’s Engines”, the story is told by Ameena, also called “The Deaf Girl”, who leads an unfulfilling lif