H. Halverstadt Books
PANGUR BAN, THE WHITE CAT by Fay Sampson
Five Stars
The book opens on that brief moment when Pangur Ban is watching a mouse hole in a room where monks are copying manuscripts, "He lay low and still on the floor, but...
Random Walk (Rachel Lulich)
Three and a half stars
The crew of the Pioneer has just left Earth's orbit when a freak phenomenon severs communication with Earth and sends them hurtling off course into uncharted space.
The...
Operation Grendel (Daniel Schwabauer)
Four Stars
Raymin Dahl is a journalist. He weaves stories for a living, and the surrender of five colony worlds...
The Scarred King 2: Journey (Tales from Talifar) (Rose and Josh Foreman)
4 1/2 Stars
It cost him his closest friend, but Bowmark won the proving. He was victor. He was king....
FOURTH SISTER by M. L. Farb Hearth and Bard Tales Book 2
Five Stars:
Disaster after disaster befalls a girl called Death and her six sisters in ancient Japan. Despite all her prayers and offerings of haiku poems to a goddess, the White Fox demon continues...
The Prince Warriors (Priscilla Shirer and Gina Detweiler)
4 1/2 Stars
I didn't intend to find a new book to review that day. I only wanted to see the optometrist. She was a pleasant doctor, and so interested in her patients, that...
The Prism Conspiracy (Mary Schlegel)
4 Stars
Abigail has landed her dream job. She's a designer at Sphinx, a famous architectural design company. At Sphinx, everyone designs in pairs, but her creativity is so extreme that her selected counterpart is...
The Ark Plan (Edge of Extinction, Book 1) (Laura Martin)
Rating 4 ½ stars
Over a century ago, dinosaurs were brought back from extinction, along with a plague that killed most of the human race. Many of those who lived through...
A GREEN AND ANCIENT LIGHT by Frederic S. Durbin
Five Stars:
"We crossed carpets of leaves, stepped over logs crusted with fungus like fairy dishes and cups; we traversed aprons of moss so plush that I felt guilty to set my feet there,...
VIRIDIA (Dragontek Lore Book 1) by Tim Frankovich
Four Stars:
"Even then, I couldn't understand why everyone didn't hate the dragon like I did. Now at least, I was old enough to understand that not everyone had seen the things I had seen....
