Do You Believe in Magic? (Green Bird Publishing 2025) by Jim Melvin is a highly imaginative fantasy novel starring three thirteen year olds who find themselves transformed from middle school outsiders into leaders with special powers when they travel through a portal into a parallel world. Billed as “Book One of the Dark Circle Trilogy,” […]
May 2025 Books of Note: Jim Melvin’s “Do You Believe in Magic?” and Jack Woodville London’s “Dangerous Latitudes”
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“Horse People” by Sara Warner
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Horse People (2025) by Sara Warner is absolutely everything a stellar book should be. At times it moved me to tears. Other times the actions of villainous characters left me nauseous. I am a dog person and don’t know horses, yet I fell in love with the horses in this novel. Sara Warner helped me […]
“Break My Fall” by Lynn H. Blackburn
May 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Alana Pate Break My Fall (Revell 2025) by Lynn H. Blackburn is an exceptional read about Meredith Quinn, a dentist who moves back to her small hometown Gossamer Falls, North Carolina. This story is about love and an investigation of the drug world of Neeson County, which neighbors Gossamer Falls. It hooked me […]
“Pineville Trace” by Wes Blake
May 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Cheyanne Hensley Life is challenging, and part of the circle of life involves trying new things and accepting changes. Oftentimes, people find it difficult to start a new chapter in their life when it is so much easier to gravitate toward the past and stick with what we know. In Wes Blake’s novella […]
“The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker” by Mark Beaver
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Reviewed by Addison Summers As an avid reader, few books have ever fully captivated me quite like The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker (University Press of Mississippi 2023) by Mark Beaver. This emotional and deeply moving work tells the true story of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman executed in Texas since 1863. Tucker and her […]
“Moneymaker” by Josh Boldt
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Reviewed by Duane Cure Moneymaker (Brown Hound Publishing 2024) by Josh Boldt is set in the late 1990s. As the story opens, Mack Abbott is tasked with the job of watching after a drug shipment in the port in Savannah, Georgia. From the beginning, Josh Boldt impresses with attention to detail, as he paints a […]