“Fades the Light” by Ron Foster

Publication Date: December 9, 2012

Ten years after a solar geomagnetic storm killed most of the humans, young people are leaving the lake shelter run by an aging David and his band of brothers are worried about the future. With decisions to be made, what will these men who don’t feel comfortable returning to the spare society do?

My first thought when reading this novel is that my brother would love it. Bro is an avid deer hunter and a live off of the land kind of guy. Partnered with the story are deer hunting tips and instructions for making powdered eggs. My biggest surprise as someone who years ago was forced to eat powdered eggs was that they are actually made from real eggs. You’d never know from the rehydrated taste. They’re also surprisingly easy to make if you have the time and the power to run an oven and blender.

Fades the Light is the final book in the Prepper saga and my sense is that it would have been beneficial to read the first novels. I assume that included are the building of society. In Fades the Light we have a society on the brink. The characters are well built and relatable. David has clearly been planning for the living off of the land eventuality his whole life. They have a trade system and he has a stockpile of coins. There’s a good sense of the characters in this novel but more of their history would have been fun to read … not essential to the story … but fun. FEMA plays a heavy role in this novel and I would have liked the backstory on what happened after and how the government agencies were re-established but, again, those details were not essential to enjoyment of the story.

Fades the Light contains product placement and e-how articles which, in a weird way, were kind of fun. Certainly the “commercials” broke up the narrative in a way that was logical and helped the story to progress. “This is what I have and how I planned which is why I have it.” Foster makes a compelling argument in this novel for planning for an event or its like that might someday happen.

If you’re looking for new catchy southern sayings, this novel is for you. If, like my brother, you’re a rough and tumble guy who likes to rely on himself and are looking for tips on how to extract urine from a deer, pick this one up. You won’t be disappointed.

“The Red Suitcases: An Inspector Castle Investigation” by Lyndsey Norton

Publication Date: October 12, 2012

Inspector Rebecca Castle has a full plate. With terrorist, Fakesh, in town, Geoff marrying a woman she’s sure if after her money and her husband on leave from Iraq. Can she juggle her busy life and stop a terrorist who is leaving red suitcases in transportation terminals?

The Red Suitcases: An Inspector Castle Investigation is the third novel in the Rebecca Castle series.

On Amazon this novel is classified “thriller/suspense.” I would have thought that it realistically falls within the cozy mystery category. The main character is a detective but the primary focus seems less mystery and more daily life.

Rebecca’s husband, who she doesn’t seem to know well, has returned from Iraq and they’re on a getaway together when she’s called away due to a suspected terrorist threat. What follows is a lot of sex and daily life. From time to time Rebecca is called into the mystery storyline but those breaks are less common than the tracing of bare skin and erotic kisses.

The dynamic between the main characters tends toward the petulant and catty. Characters talk about how snooty Geoff’s potential bride is and how she’s after his money never having met her. There is a scene in which the husband has a nightmare in which he’s having sex with the bridesmaid sister when Rebecca walks in and shoots the woman. The woman in question is one neither have met and both assume that she will be licentiously after Rebecca’s husband. When they actually meet the sister its clear that the nightmare scene does not serve a purpose within the storyline beyond leading into further intimacy between the two main characters.

Inspector Castle is a bit fabulous. She can shoot a grenade launcher and hit a mark, she solves a case with ease and she turns her husband on like no other woman ever has.

This novel has a market. There are people who love the heavy-handed personal life aspect. They like seeing a character being a human and shopping at Sainsburys. I thought this novel was mmmmmkay. This is not a series that I will pursue. If what you see above sounds pretty good, you should head over and pick it up.

“Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child was Saved From Religion” by Scott Terry

Publication Date: October 6, 2012

I was given an ARC copy of this memoir to review by the author. Content may have changed prior to publication.

Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child was Saved From Religion by Scott Terry describes growing up in the 70’s in a home ruled by a tyrannical step-parent and a restrictive religion. Readers follow Terry to adulthood and through his personal struggle with his beliefs and sexuality.

Scott Terry has an elegantly understated way of writing. He and his older sister grew up on the edge without a sense of home. Everything belonged to their stepmother. The house was “Fluffy’s house” and they were only allowed in it by permission. Food was “Fluffy’s food.” In a scene later in the memoir Terry is 14 and on a family trip when he tries Fluffy by taking a Dorito from a bag that his step-siblings are sharing. Fluffy yells at him and he runs off crying. How isolated he was, especially after his sister left, is highlighted. Terry and his sister were unwelcome visitors in the home of their father’s wife. The abuse Terry suffered was poignant in that he doesn’t outline the attacks for us in graphic detail but hints at them. He remembers Sissy screaming and the next day he had bruises on his body and a cut on his head. His experiences resonate with the reader and cause the heart to bleed for these children to whom society and their father seemed to turn a blind eye.

I would think that readers would identify with Terry’s struggles with sexuality and coming to accept himself as an adult. He prays daily for Jehovah to remove the “wicked” feelings, he has girlfriends and misleads team-mates and ultimately he comes to the realization that happiness is being himself and there are people in his life who accept him and those who don’t don’t matter. Terry chronicles his journey to finding acceptance and discovering that there are others out there who are like him with beautiful simplicity. From first feelings to the thrill of watching a gym teacher undress unseen from a corner of the room to first sexual encounter to coming out to family members some of whom accept him and some of whom don’t, Terry doesn’t sugarcoat his mixed feelings and his need to have those connections.

No one could blame Terry if he was bitter and used a memoir as a vindictive rant against and an abusive stepmother and a father willing to turn a blind eye. He was locked out of his home for hours in Wyoming in winter, he was forced to go hungry, accused of stealing and beaten. Bitterness is not the focus. Terry gives a relatable and compelling story of struggle, escape and ultimate success. He is a survivor and this is his story.

What surprised me most about this novel was how similar Jehovah’s witnesses seem to be to the Pentecostal religion in which I grew up. “The World” is everyone who doesn’t subscribe to the religion and there must be no association. Terry attended public schools whereas the church in which I grew up had their own school. College wasn’t encouraged and in a lot of cases was flatly discouraged. If you must go to college, you go to Bible school so that you can contribute to your religion (as the Witness’ religion encouraged people to go to trade schools to rebuild after Armageddon). The anticipation of the world ending at any moment and how we must defend against outsiders because their only goal is to corrupt us.

I am also struck, reading Terry’s story, with the feeling of a lucky childhood. Like Fluffy, if my mother found a dish dirty, I would wash every dish we owned. We used powdered milk and watched Wild Kingdom followed by the Wonderful World of Disney. What I had that was missing in Fluffy was general affection. My mother may not have said it but I knew she loved me. Terry did not have that comfort.

Readers will find themselves not wanting to stop reading. There is a need to know that Terry is okay and how his life turned out. His memories are warm sometimes and painful at other times and the reader is on the journey with him and happy that he is living his life as he chooses today.

This was a brave book to write. Congratulations to Scott Terry on a wonderful life. Looking into the heart of this memoir there was a good kid who wanted to be loved and, I’m sure, is very much cherished today.

Scott Terry is an urban farmer and artist who writes for the Huffington Post’s Gay Voices page. Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child Was Saved From Religion. was named as one of the best LGBT books of 2012 by Out in Print and Band of Thebes. For more information about the author, following the links below.

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“All that Glitters” by Laura Oliva

Publication Date: March 8, 2013

An ARC of this novel was provided to me in exchange for a review.

Ava Faraday returns to Nome, Alaska after a long absence. She is looking for a missing part of herself and hesitant about reconnecting with a father who turned his back on her and sent her away as a young child when her mother died . Ethan Calhoun is a cowboy from Galveston, Texas who came to Nome to look for gold and run away from his past. When the two meet there’s an instant attraction. Can a woman who is afraid to trust and a man running from who he thinks he might be get past the dark forces looking to harm them and their own reservations to take a shot at happiness?

“All that Glitters” is a good, solid, romance novel with a twist. Ethan is tough, handsome and troubled. Ava is beautiful, unsure and looking for something intangible. On paper they work but, of course, stir in a baddie who wants the things that some newbie cowhand has the audacity to claim. Ethan gets everything. The pretty new girl in town, luck in the search for gold all fall into Ethan’s lap. Worse, he gets admiration from the baddies father. As with the best baddies, I felt sorry for the one in this novel.

There were elements of the novel that could have been more developed. The author gave Ethan a pretty solid back-story but left Ava a mystery. The reader doesn’t get a sense of what she’s done since going to live with her grandmother in Seattle when her mom died. We know that she left her grandmother’s home early and became a musician somewhere along the line and a few more lines in her discussion with Ethan could have fleshed her out a bit more. I also wondered, at the start, if Ava had dived before. Her purpose in coming to Nome was to act as a diver for her father’s boat and the description in the first scenes underwater was actually a very good description of an inexperienced diver. I am not an experienced diver but I do know that diving in water that is near freezing takes skill and training. As an aside, A&E has recently commissioned a show about gold dredging in the Bering Sea that I wasn’t interested in seeing until I read this novel.

In all other aspects, Oliva seems to have gone to a great deal of research for this novel. The setting is extremely well described. A reader gets an idea of the cold, harsh beauty of the region. The isolation and difficulty of the winters. Ava’s native grandmother is a character who lets the reader know that life for the Alaskan isn’t easy. To get tea she must trade with people in the much larger Anchorage. Inupiaq words are peppered throughout the text (there’s a glossary at the end). The characters attend a native whale hunting festival that was very detailed. Not only is Ava getting to know herself in the story-line but she’s embracing the part of her that is Native and that she left behind so long before.

Oliva chooses perfect moments to inject the danger element back into the story-line. “Don’t get comfortable” she seems to warn us. She even takes that step allowing the baddie to take a life – uncommon in the genre.

Final notes: I want Ethan’s cabin. It sounds like a truly wonderful place to settle in and read. Not that Ethan isn’t a wonderfully drawn and attractive character but if he has to be there, he can cook. When Ava has an accident and Ethan takes her back to his apartment she’s wearing a red bra and a white t-shirt. Really? Overall “All that Glitters” was well plotted, well written and a good get-away fast-read for fans of the romance genre. I have read a lot of romance in my lifetime and “All that Glitters” by Laura Olivo could hold its own with the best of them.

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“The Mortal Religion” by Marc Horn

Publication Date: October 20, 2012

Chalk Cutter was cruelly nicknamed “Moonface” as a child for his unusual appearance. His parents rejected him, his schoolmates rejected him. People he thought of as friends used him to further their own sadistic fun by playing tricks and torturing him mentally. When young Elizabeth, delivers an insult in a bar by cruelly introducing Chalk to her friend as her boyfriend, “Gavin” and then laughs in front of him at her friends expression, Chalk has had enough. He enacts and elaborate plot to kidnap Elizabeth and show her the folly of judging people based on appearance by shining a light on the imperfections of society and their backward way of thinking. When his plan starts to work, Chalk makes contact with a former schoolyard bully whose life Chalk has ruined and boasts to him about his actions thinking the man has already fallen too far. Has he or will pride be Chalk’s ultimate mistake?

It’s been many years since I last read The Collector by John Fowles. I don’t remember the actual story-line but I remember the feeling I had while reading it – mild revulsion, hope for the conclusion and a fascination with the outlook of the main character. I experienced these same feelings while reading The Mortal Religion by Marc Horn.

There are some people who simply won’t like this novel. It might be because of the harsh victimization of a child depicted or that Chalk walks around in daily life as a responsible and authoritative member of society. There’s fear in the idea of something that could actually be happening around you. Those readers subscribe to the belief that life is hard enough and reading is escapism. Nothing wrong with that way of thinking but, frankly, Chalk wouldn’t want those people reading him. Chalk wants readers who think differently. Readers who see intelligence for what it is and allow nothing to hold them back. He’s is the guy who posts the provocative comment just to laugh as people react. He’s also a bit of a pop culture junkie. I loved the references to the 80′s British show, “Of Fools and Horses,” and Chalk’s using the show to stay calm. Big Brother UK is not aired in Canada so I did miss some of the references to that show but found it interesting that Chalk seemed to use the show as a bit of an anthropological study of humans.

When Chalk kidnaps Elizabeth he’s not looking for revenge but to change her outlook. He sees society as narcissist and self absorbed and he’s looking to mold a human being who will see beyond his looks and recognize him as a superior mind who has been held back by inferior people. The things he does caused my skin to crawl but Chalk was a truly fascinating character. He was mostly measured and careful but no-one is perfect and if there’s to be a downfall, he, like most people, will be the engineer of his own.

The interesting thing is that despite the torture he enacts, Chalk does not see himself as a monster. He is making a better human being that he’ll then set forward into the world. One disciple of his philosophy who sees him as the true genius. Horn gives us quite an interesting back-story of torture and revenge via revelation to Elizabeth and recognizes when a mistake is made. He is a new god, in his mind, but not perfect. The twists and turns this story took were fascinating all the way to the end – which I will not spoil in this review. Chalk makes changes but he makes them at a great price. There’s nothing really that I would criticize about the novel except that I would have liked to have seen more of certain elements. This is a well thought out work of fiction that comments on the way we look at society and pop culture/general outlooks and their place in the world in general. Horn wastes nothing in the exposition as every bit is needed. We’re able to see Chalk at work and interacting with his subjects in his job as an immigration officer and then back to the girl tied up in the chair in the basement. The culmination and the end of the novel were extremely well done.

If you are a fan of psychological thrillers, The Mortal Religion is the novel for you. It’s harsh and makes you think and will certainly cause you to never again mock someone in a pub – if you were ever so inclined.

“Have No Shame” by Melissa Foster

Publication Date: May 6, 2013

As always when reviewing an ARC, changes may be made between now and the date of publication.

Allison Tillman finds the body of a black man while out for a walk. Even for the late 60s, Forrest Town, Arkansas is behind the times when it comes to the Civil Rights Movement and Allison knows that his death happened at the hands of white men from her town. Finding the body changes her life and causes her to look at people and events around her in a new way. She can no longer live with the way blacks are treated as lesser, disposable beings. Allison’s difficulty is that she’s engaged to a man who makes a sport out of beating people simply based on the color of their skin. Her much beloved Daddy, who she’d never want to disappoint, tells her to know her place. Her sister didn’t know her place and was sent to New York. Will Allison keep her feelings inside as her mother has or will she speak out like her sister, Maggie? Will she marry Jimmy Lee and what about Jackson Johns, the young black officer who fills in for his brother on the Tillman farm to whom she feels an undeniable attraction?

You won’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. In the midst of another fight for civil rights, Melissa Foster reminds us of how far society has come. This is a story we’re read before – in fact and fiction – but one that as time passes, people seem to have forgotten only heading flashes of pop culture remembrance in novels like “The Help.” We all nod soulfully and make the right noises but what must it have been like to live then? Foster brings us Allison Tillman. Allison tells us her story in regional dialect and from a place of confusion. Never had she thought about it before but as an emerging adult and soon to be married woman, Foster brings us a character who is changing in a changing time.

Foster is an incredibly descriptive writer. The man that Allison finds on her walk has been dead and in the water for a number of days. In the scene, it is clear that Foster has done her homework on what would happen to a dead body when in the water.

His tongue had bloated and completely filled the opening like a flesh sock had been stuffed in the hole….

I will confess to feeling horror at this scene, which was so well described. The novel overall rings of an extreme amount of research and immersion into an era. There is a very distinct feel of time and place.

Early on Foster makes some difficult choices that require a delicate balance. As Allison starts seeing things in a new way, she’s also seeing her own insignificance in the grand scheme of the story-line. She sees what a truly bad guy her fiancé is and how nothing she does will impact him or make him think. Some readers may find him too awful to be believeable but I found him credible, as we’re not getting his internal dialogue. I think Jimmy Lee is also balanced by the willingness of officials to turn a blind eye to coincidence.

Overall Have No Shame is a stunningly impactful read. The plot is time driven and focused on Allison’s personal journey. There are many quite predictable moments. Foster writes the predictable moments in a unique voice that takes them to another level. In the end there were things that were simply too easy to be believed for Allison but it must be remembered that this is fiction.

I would recommend Have No Shame for fans of mid-century fiction and human drama. If you like the epic sagas that offer life changing challenges, this one is for you. I enjoyed it from start to finish and look forward to reading more from Melissa Foster.

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“Elegantly Wasted” by C. Elizabeth Vescio

Publication Date: July 30, 2012

Frankie is a contract killer. With the help of her cousins, Kat and Addi, she carries out jobs for the mysterious Osiris Corporation using Kat’s etiquette school as their base. When their much hated Grandmother dies, they’re planning the biggest job yet. How will revelations about family and the Osiris Corporation change the way they look at their future and will they stay alive long enough to see the long term impact?

A copy of this novel was provided to me by its publisher, Luna Station Press, in exchange for a review.

I hated Frankie. Perhaps before saying that, it should be said that Elegantly Wasted was overall a decent read. I did so hate Frankie. Frankie is a hipster cynic. Everything is wrong with the world and everyone in it including herself. Oh wait, not including her. She sees herself as just that little bit too smart and too cool for everyone else. She’s a raging bitch but, in Frankie’s eyes, only because the evil people around her have made her that way. Everyone around Frankie is simply too evil. She doesn’t even like the people she likes. She looks down on both Kat and Addi and even almost seems to revel in the fact that Kat’s marriage failed. As we get the story from Frankie’s view, we learn early on to look past what she’s saying to the actual action. So, yeah, very well written character. To give it to her family, I’d want to punch her in the face too.

Despite Frankie’s contempt for everyone, even her cousins, the relationship between the three women plays out in a believable and fun way. These are three women who have been in the trenches, lost touch, had arguments and come out even more on the side of their cousins then before. One of my favorite things about this novel (discounting the direct approach to blood and getting it done) was their dynamic. When Kat finds out about her cousin’s job her horror leans more toward the idea that her dog knew before her. She doesn’t really absorb that what Frankie does for a living is kill folks and it wouldn’t be natural for her to have done so in that moment.

The first half of the novel takes place at the grandmother’s funeral and is told in flashbacks from Frankie’s recruitment, to Osiris, to the cousin’s finding out, to planning their next move. I will admit it was a struggle to hold on for that first half because the majority of it was as self-absorbed as the main character. There is a bit of James Bond logic “he was supposed to kill you but you’re simply too hot” (applied in a broad sense) but that’s easily overlooked as the story progresses. The main character must stay alive for the story to move forward. Once the true action begins, the plot-line moves quickly and the action is written well and invested with a sincere sense of urgency in the will they or won’t they. Will this author sacrifice a main character because she seems the sort of writer who might? After all, after some time there’s more than one main character.

I would not call Elegantly Wasted the best thing I’ve read this year but it was okay. If you like action, strong female leads and drama Elegantly Wasted is the novel for you. Will I revisit these characters should they return? Hard to say at this point. Pick it up and let me know what you think.

“Murder and Other Distractions” by Michael Estrin

Publication Date: September 5, 2012

Ethan runs into the Girl Who Got Away with her new boyfriend at a Taco Stand. The next day the woman and her boyfriend are dead and Ethan is the prime suspect according to raw bulldoggish, Detective Boyd. Can Ethan avoid taking the fall for a crime he didn’t commit? Or did he?

Helen Smith, an Amazon reviewer, calls Murder and Other Distractions a slacker comedy. There is no better descriptor for this novel which could have been sub-titled “What Ethan did while being investigated for murder.” In a novel rife with hipster philosophy, Ethan is the guy looking toward his next sexual encounter and hit on the joint.

I really enjoyed this novel. The writing style smacked of Tim Dorsey. Light and airy while hitting the essential high points to take a pause and say, “Hey, someone was killed, back on track.” I laughed out loud several times during this read from Ethan, who is the worst pot buyer in the world visiting the worst pot dealer in the world to the sarcastically cynical observations of life in Los Angeles, Murder and Other Distractions was a truly entertaining read.

Boyd was a little much. He was loud, crass, and heavily confrontational. When we met Ethan’s lawyer he was much the same and then it occurred to me that Ethan is telling us this story. It’s like that friend who is telling you a story and relays being pulled over with super confrontational cop. That’s not how it really happened, but that’s how they see it. Ethan is a writer so he is more sophisticated in style than the friend. I will admit, I could be over-thinking this book.

The ending makes sense but doesn’t really matter. Just ask Ethan who debates meaning vs matter throughout the story-line.

Ethan refers to “Seinfeld” more than once in the narrative and this is a novel of all Costanzas and no Jerrys. A lack of Jerry is okay for me because I never liked him. The plot flow is passage of time rather than event to event. There are reviews that say that Ethan is an accurate representation of 20-somethings today. I would hope not. That Ethans are the wave of the future scares me but he does come out of the other side changed. Changed for good or bad, I’ll let you decide.

Murder and Other Distractions is a fun read. It is free on Amazon Kindle today (February 26, 2013). Be sure to check the Kindle price before clicking as Amazon can change the free designation at any time. If you like dark humor and aren’t put off by a little funny filth, pick this one up. Quick, fun and loaded with laughs.

“Daimones (The Daimones Trilogy)” by Massimo Marino and Rebecca Stroud

Publication Date: September 3, 2012

Everyone and everything is dead. Dan and his family search for others but appear to be the only survivors until they locate Laura. Laura is a woman with her own agenda looking to survive. Will Dan make the hard choices he must for himself and his family?

Daimones is a polarizing novel. I believe that though I neither loved Daimones nor hated it, the ends of the spectrum will be the reality of other readers. Daimones is a reflective novel. Set in a post-apocalyptic world it is rife with symbolism. Marino and Stroud set a tone of an event that could really happen prefaced with real news stories. Could Dan have stopped the oncoming apocalypse if only he had given his attention to the world around him and not to the co-worker who was kissing tushie?

The writer seems to purposely make the story confusing at the start. Where some readers will become invested, some will get lost and put the book down. To really become one with this book a reader has to invest themselves in the characters and their plight. I was able to do so at first but after a while I found myself reading and hoping for something new to happen.

It took incredible talent and planning to write a story this complex emotionally. This is not someone who sat one day bored at the computer and said, “I think I’ll write a book.” This is someone who went to a lot of work and a lot of trouble to craft a novel to make readers think and feel. The television show “Lost” and its pretenders have shown us that there is a huge market for this sort of speculative work and I believe that many of my fans will love Daimones.

What would you do if one day you woke up to find that the world had ended?

Daimones is book one in a planned trilogy.

“Iniquitous Solace: Rhythmic Words of Lust and Love” by Penelope Jones and Max

Publication Date: January 30, 2013

Iniquitous Solace -Rhythmic Words of Lust and Love- is a story told through alternating poetry by two authors. They meet, they’re attracted to each other, they’re unsure of how far is too far. A rhyming love story.

I was given this book in advance of its release in exchange for a review.

I am not a poetry person. I do enjoy some poets of the Harlem Renaissance and have been known to throw down some Robert Frost but generally it’s a genre this reader wouldn’t gravitate toward in the bookstore. Iniquitous Solace -Rhythmic Words of Lust and Love- has not changed that.

If you are generally a poetry reader or someone looking to experience erotic poetry, this is the work for you. The main players start out cautiously and there’s a palatable building of meaning within the story line enacted in stanzas. At one point when Max is writing in a work called “Women Don’t Ask,” the author gives us a real sense of where the male character is coming from. By following that poem with Penelope’s our hesitance the characters are balanced and feel as though they’re engaged in a real relationship. There is fetish content that some readers may find disturbing but it you read erotica generally, it will not bother you.

Written as prose this story of stalking, attraction and eventually love that may or may not work out would have been confusing and probably have come off as pretentious. As poetry written in a straightforward manner the relationship was relatable to the audience.

The biographies of the two authors, Penelope Jones and Max, certainly hint at a couple willing to try anything. Iniquitous Solace appears to be their second collaboration (the first is titled Very Dirty Stories #82). They revel in an idea of exhibitionism to a level not often aspired. With the current rise in erotica sales, they can only succeed in this market and with the idea of making themselves fantasies to the reader.

If you like poetry, you will like this book. If you like erotica, you will like this book. If you’d like to follow Penelope and Max, check out the links below.

Penelope Jones and Max can be found at the following social media outlets:

Twitter: @Penelope_Prose

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Max:

Twitter: @Cherish_Desire

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