JB Richards

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 Breathtaking Coming-Of-Age Masterpiece! Alan Vandervoort’s “Sandhills” is beautifully written, with scenes that will take your breath away! This novel takes the American dream and turns it on its head as a group of small-town, high-school teens is impacted and challenged by their parents’ own hopes and visions for their children’s futures. The story takes place in Portsmouth, Ohio, where a young teen named Jeremy shows an amazing talent for music—much to his single-minded,

A Daring And Bold Poetry Anthology! In “Little Girl Blues”, a daring and bold coming-of-age teenage poetry anthology, McGhee’s words are deep and profound as she expands on a variety of difficult and current life-topics such as entering puberty, bullying, rejection, self-denigration, loneliness, and despair. The author digs deep as her words come spilling out like an angel’s breath, offering heartfelt messages of hope, inspiration, tolerance, and encouragement. Although typog

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

A Fast-Paced Suspense Thriller That Will Take Your Breath Away! “To Cure!” is a fast-paced thriller that follows a huge cast of characters impacted by the illegal activities of a ruthless pharmaceutical company known as IngoSmart. When Dr. Adeishi Omani stumbles upon a plot to use vagrant children as guinea pigs to test their newly developed meningitis vaccine, her life is put in grave danger, and she must find a way to elude the hit-man IngoSmart has hired to find and kill h

A Sweet/Clean Fantasy Romance! Even as 18-year-old Ember loses her family and everything she loves, she must embark on a great quest dictated by her planet’s conqueror, the enigmatic Pathfinder, to develop her burgeoning magical powers so she can, in the end, fight him for the ultimate control of Otera and its inhabitants. Author Dove Winters conjures a charming fantasy tale in “Ember of the Planet (Ember’s Journey Book 1)”—an other-worldly coming-of-age story about an innoce

A Suspenseful & Chilling Tale Of The Macabre! Young Phil begins to experience whispers from the grave as he searches for meaning in a prospective teenage paramour’s premature and unexpected death. But is it his true love calling out to him, or is it something… else? Although I am familiar with Joanne Van Leerdam’s amazing poetry collections, I was pleasantly taken by surprise at the ease and familiarity she has demonstrated in slipping into the genre of short-story horror. Th