Monday, November 10, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Positive Trait Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.
Conspiracy thrillers are my all-time favorite genre to read partly because I’m a conspiracy thriller writer and partly because I just like a well thought-out, twisty, conspiracy. AJ Blanc delivers. In Pandora’s Gift, several government intelligence agencies are trying to take the lead in the investigation into the death of an American intelligence operative. No, it’s not just another unsupported rivalry between agencies. The operative worked for each agency, on the same project, but from different perspectives. The urgency stems from the possibility of releasing ‘Skynet’s’ evil big brother (look it up). The order: destroy everything immediately, if you can find it.The rivalry was imminently believable. The characters were as solid and real as any I’ve met in my reading. The premise of Pandora’s Gift was so contemporary that the whole subject matter seems to be in the news every day. Lastly, AJ Blanc’s novel seems to ask the question, “What could go wrong?’ Way to take events out of today’s news and craft a superb thriller.
I highly recommend AJ Blanc and all his thrillers. I’m on to another one. Five stars.
Monday, October 27, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Positive Trait Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Jeff Bailey Reviews The Obsidian Dagger by Brad Lamar
Excellent, engrossing, and so real. The Obsidian Dagger by Brad LaMar is an action fantasy that follows a family to Ireland and Scotland in search of their family roots. The teenage brother and sister find more than they bargained for. The tale is classic good versus evil with a twist that will blur the lines. I only know a little about the folklore of Ireland and Scotland, but this story seemed to be true to the legends. That made it all the more enjoyable. LaMar is a master of dialog and captured the teen-speak perfectly. I’d swear that These are the teenagers from up the street in my neighborhood. I’m glad to see that this is a series because I see a whole lot more story to tell. For me, Brad LaMar and The Obsidian Dagger is pure five star fun.
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Joseph Dubey Reviews The Defect by Jeff Bailey
Remember Three Mile Island and the meltdown they had? Well here is some more heart stopping action about a nuclear power plant, the Desert Canyons, a bunch of terrorists that have infiltrated the staff there, and a well-rehearsed plan to dump radioactive sludge into the river to create one of the biggest ecological disasters in southern California history. And what does a relief valve and a cold shutdown of the power plant have to do with it? And do Lenel and Brian finally get hooked up? Guess you'll have to get the book and read it to find out. I'm glad I did. Another good book by this author.
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Monday, October 13, 2025
The Levitation Game by Sharon Wagner, The Back Story
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Above and Beyond: Radio Silence by William Wright, The Back Story
Death slaps your face, how hard depends on circumstances. A W.W. II veteran raised me, a quiet man with strong moral values and work ethic who demanded excellence, not just of himself but of me. To put my upbringing in a Reader’s Digest format, let’s say my father did raise me up. Writing his war story helped me understand the man’s hardened approach to life and why he cut very few any slack.
Above and Beyond: radio silence unfolds from a young
man’s perspective. A boy loses his mother to consumption during the Depression.
His hardened father shows little sympathy while struggling with his own demons
and burdened with raising five children. When the war comes, many of my
father’s generation had very little to lose, except their lives.
Our book is about the inner battle in a time of outrageous
world events and conflict. Written as a work of creative nonfiction, we paged
through flight records, war memorabilia, reflected on verbal anecdotes shared
by the veteran in his later years, and did vast amounts of research. Our
research focused on life near the bases where he served as well as the events
of war. We immersed ourselves as best we could in the story. There were
emotional times during the writing, times of guilt and shame for not appreciating
more fully the experiences endured by a boy as he develops into a man. A man
who struggled to turn me into a man while protecting me from the abuse he
endured and never sharing his stories of deprivation. We must remember,
cherish, and understand the Greatest Generation. What made these men and women?
Why did they view the world so differently? Our book shares not just the
threats and violence of war, but the hearts of those living under the
circumstances.
Our mission in writing this story is to honor all veterans
who served in the history of our nation, whether in war or peace. We support
veterans’ organizations; we didn’t write this work to cash in on the suffering
and sacrifice of others. My editor/spouse is a 9-year veteran of the U.S.A.F.
We give away copies and have donated our total proceeds to organizations such
as the Veterans Breakfast Club, where we took part in book signings. Above and Beyond: radio silence is now available at the library of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Colonel Mark C Vlahos (U.S.A.F.-Ret.) and
author of Leading the Way to Victory gave the book advanced praise. Your
support will help veterans.
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