Wolf Hollow is a town that protects its own. It knows a great evil is coming and only a greater evil can save the village from destruction.
“Blame it on Bigfoot,” an exciting mystery, will give thrill seekers a fun ride during this pandemic.
The Sons of Neptune by Rod Little (click on link for reviews of that series) is a four book series about the Earth’s invasion by alien humans from a moon of Neptune. After the war, Earth is in need of new resources, so three of the characters, Sam, Bohai, and Teak, take the Starship…
When my daughter Koren was five years old, I took her to the Los Angeles Zoo with her sister, Channie (10). We were strolling through the monkey area when I noticed Koren missing. Channie and I hunted the area in a panic. I never felt so frightened in my life. Fortunately, five minutes later, we…
Amelia Montgomery returns to her childhood home in Shady Knolls, New Jersey over Christmas to escape the stresses of her lucrative life as a New York City commercial real estate broker. She also needs to dodge Jake Grayson, her domineering ex-fiancé who won’t accept her desired break-up. Amelia takes refuge in her family home with…
You’ve seen them on library and book store shelves—a book series. They are actually a book sequence having certain elements in common including characters, setting, and timeline. Some works in a series can be read in any order, like the Koolura Series. In a “Stand Alone” series each book makes few references to previous books…
In 2018 Pop read and reviewed 36 young adult novels. All of the books received 5 pops because they were thought provoking, imaginative, and the author’s writing style exemplary. Below you’ll find seven of his favorites plus his award-winning novel, Koolura and the Mayans. Title: Koolura and the Mayans Author: Michael Thal Awards: 2018 eLit…
Elai Nelson and the Prophecy of the Child is book one of the Fire on the Clouds Trilogy. The novel begins when Elai’s home is broken into by two goons who kill his adoptive parents and attempt to kidnap him. But with the help of his talking toothbrush (you read that right) the sixteen-year old manages…
Corporate trainer and amateur sleuth, Lysi Weston is on the road again with best friend Grace Wright. This time the duo are in Paris, France where they are assigned the task of presenting a model of their management training seminar to the American Chamber of Commerce in France in hopes of educating chauvinistic Francophiles on…
The Hunt for Xanadu recently received a 5 pops review from this blog. Elyse Salpeter’s second book in her Kelsey Porter Series, The Quest of the Empty Tomb, was also an exciting ride, but didn’t exactly live up to the high bar Salpeter’s first book established. In The Quest of the Empty Tomb, Salpeter brings back many…
