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No Greater Love by Eris Field (Book Review #138)
There is no greater love when two people meet under the most unusual circumstances. As fate works against them, their desire to be together is compromised yet their hearts remain bonded forever. This is a romance novel written about a Turkish immigrant named Janan and a Dutch psychiatrist named Pieter.
Pieter has traveled all the way from Amsterdam to Western New York to find out if he has cancer. Once in America, he decides to see his friend and mentor, Carl. He resolves in buying a bottle of premium Dutch as a gift to give Carl. At the liquor store Pieter bumps into a beautiful woman named Janan and is instantly smitten with her Circassian beauty. After Pieter arrives at Carl’s house, he notices that the same beautiful woman he met in the liquor store also works and often lives at Carl’s home. That is where he realizes that Janan is not only beautiful, but she is also intelligent, loving and has been through a traumatic life growing up. Pieter learns that her family was killed in the 1992 earthquake in Turkey. Continue Reading…
The Second Cup by Sarah Marie Graye (Book Review #363)
As the author decided to use four women in the story, it was inevitable for each one to have their own personality and niche. I believe that part of the plot was accomplished quite well. What I found a little irritating was that the narration kept changing from first to the third person. While some may find this okay and acceptable, I find it confusing and unnecessary. That, of course, did not take away any intrigue from the storyline plot or its development. However, it made it confusing to follow, and sometimes it was hard to know who the story was talking about.
Having said that, I enjoyed the dynamic between the girls, the relationship between them, and what transpired as their own individual growth challenges. I believe the author has great potential in creating good literature.
The content also discusses sensitive topics such as depression, suicide, and other mental health issues. I would recommend this book to people that like a more serious take on real-life issues and relationships.
Written by Jeyran Main
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Once a God: The Spirit of Miriam by Victor Wilkie (Book Review #130)
This review was kindly requested by the author, Victor Wilkie
This is a fictional story written about a millionaire named Jonah. It’s very intriguing character has a dark past and has grown up enduring hardship. However, his strength and determination have driven him to be very successful by the age of thirty. He strongly believes that everything that happened in his childhood was due to his weakness and that he would never let that happen again.
Jonah gets married and has two sons. He, later on, has a daughter named Lara. Unfortunately, Lara passes away in her sleep, and that is when everything begins to change for Jonah and what is left of his family.
Jonah meets another woman named Miriam, and from the start, she seems to have an unyielding power over him. He is smitten with her, and by being with Miriam, he forgets the piercing feeling of losing his daughter. Although Miriam is acutely aware of Jonah being married, she still pursues him, and this love relationship grows to become one dramatic story.
Everything begins to get really exciting when Jonah is hospitalized, and his mind awakens to a completely different and darker space.
There are several beautiful facts within the story. One, in particular, that strikes the attention is how you adore and love the lead character and then hate and despise him towards the end. The writing and the skill in portraying such strong layered emotions of losing a child and how emotional one clings on to the only shed of light in the hope of gaining happiness back was intensely satisfying. The literature standard was of good quality, and I barely noticed any editing issues, which rarely happens in books nowadays.
I recommend this book to anyone that wishes to read on in-depth human emotions, drama, and plays.
Written by Jeyran Main
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The Magician’s Workshop by Christopher Hansen (Book Review #132)
This is the first book of its series. It is a young adult fantasy novel situated in the land of O’Ceea where everyone has the ability to create magic. However, some have stronger projections than others. Projections have the power to alter reality for good or for evil. The ones that have more substantial projections also have the possibility of having “color” within them. These are people that are able to join the magician’s workshop becoming the most powerful, successful, famous, and influential of all.
The ability for using projections is very cool. They can change the taste of something atrocious to something superb. Or you can send projected messages to one another without anyone hearing it. You can project rain and so many interesting things.
The festival of stars is where the color ceremony commences. This is where the panel decides if you have color or not. Hence, it is an immense deal for everyone that comes of age to attend, and almost everyone wishes that they get chosen.
Layauna is living with her mother. Her father has gone, and all she has is her family. She believes that her projections are worthless and that she is weak, however, when her famous grandfather, Eyan comes to visit her, he discovers that she possesses an unyielding potential of having color. He takes her back with him so that she could have better training. Eyan is a retired yellow magician of the third magnitude, which is a big deal. Everyone with such a status has a collar and carries it with themselves as a proud item.
Kai, on the other hand, is desperately trying to fit in. Everyone believes that he is tainted and that he anyone associating with him will lose his color. There is a little backstory exampling why everyone thinks this way, and so Kai is desperate to prove everyone wrong. This places a lot of pressure on him. His friends, Talia, snap, Weston, and luge are all also looking forward to the ceremony.
In summary, there are nine colors, five regions, and three privilege levels in this magical world. I found the book to be written excellently for the young adult audience. The flow and connectivity of the chapters were in good standing. There is an immense amount of dialogue on the content of the book. I believe this is a beautiful thing for the young reader but for adults, this may come as annoying.
The entire book provides sufficient backstory for the second book. You can easily and fully comprehend the world’s setting and the characters before they attend the ceremony in book two. Therefore, I believe anyone considering buying this book might as well benefit from buying them all, as they are not standalone novels.
Written by Jeyran Main
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MindField By DS Kane
MindField By DS Kane
Genre: Thriller
The eighth book in the gripping technothriller series, Spies Lie, perfect for fans who love Robert Ludlum, Lee Child, and Barry Eisler.
When Stanford University sophomore and budding computer hacker Ann Sashakovich meets senior Glen Sarkov, the CEO of a budding new startup, she is smitten. Glen is young, bright, and going places, and his innovative tech startup is seeking money to get them off the ground. But when Glen and his team find a venture capitalist willing to give them money, the offer turns out too good to be true. Worse, it seems the strings attached to the funding are tangled in a conspiracy deadlier than they can imagine…
Meanwhile, the world’s intelligence services have all been looking for a less-obvious way to fund weapons development, reaching out to entrepreneurs to help them create new tech. When they find tech capable of being weaponized, they have the creators murdered before taking control of the company for their own use. Now the lives of hundreds of the world’s brightest entrepreneurs hang in the balance, and Glen Sarkov is next on the list to die. Can Ann, Cassandra Sashakovich, and Jon Sommers figure out who at the CIA is ordering these killings, or will the CIA’s contract assassins wipe them off the Earth?
Author Bio
DS Kane worked in the field of covert intelligence for over a decade. During that time, his cover was his real name, and he was on the faculty of NYU’s Stern Graduate School of Business. He traveled globally for clients including government and military agencies, the largest banks, and Fortune 100 corporations, and while in-country, he did side jobs for the government. One of the banks DS Kane investigated housed the banking assets of many of the world’s intelligence agencies and secret police forces, including the CIA and NSA. Much of his work product was pure but believable fiction, lies he told, and truths he concealed. Secrets that–if revealed–might have gotten him killed. When his cover got blown, he fled the field and moved 3,000 miles.
Now, DS Kane is a former spy, still writing fiction. Through his novels, he exposes the way intelligence agencies craft fiction for sale to sway their countries and manipulate their national policy, driving countries into dangerous conflicts.
To learn more about DS Kane and his books, visit www.dskane.com or join him on Facebook for book giveaways and details on espionage at https://www.facebook.com/DSKaneAFormerSpyStillTellingLies.
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She Can Find Her Way: Women Travelers at Their Best by Ann Starr (Book Review #362)
What I enjoyed most about this book was the fact that in the world we live in, the notion is that women only face trouble and possible discrimination at work or other public organizations. However, here you realize, that even traveling alone has its own troubles and difficulties if you are a woman. I have to, of course, add that it does not only emphasize on this topic alone. It also provides tricks and provides tips on how to travel better, as women.
The stories, in fact, imply on demonstrating how flexible and lenient women are when it comes to dealing with whatever that gets thrown at them. The literature and writings are in various formats. Some are witty, suspenseful, or even seriously worrying.
I felt that the division and organization between the stories kept each of them to be sweet in their own space and that made the work more enjoyable to read.
I recommend this collection to people that enjoy reading women studies.
Written by Jeyran Main
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The Fire In The Rock by Charles Norman (Book Review #129)
The fire in the rock is written about the time of Moses (Kisil) before he became the prophet. It is set at the time of the plagues on Egypt, the Ten Commandments and when Moses was a wanderer and an ordinary man.
Tzipporah is the wife of Moses, and the story begins before she was married to him. She is faithful and a ferocious lady. The love they had for each other was very sweet.
Although this book is fictional, it still narrates from existing biblical and historical references. It addresses a cataclysmic volcanic eruption that took place in the Easter Med at about the Exodus time. There are no superheroes or preaching of God appearing. It is simply a story of a man and woman defying a king, freeing people and ultimately changing the world.
I found the literary standard of this book to be of high quality. The layout of the book was exceptional. It is evident that the writer is in full understanding and control of all the historical and religious subjects related to the story. There wasn’t anything written that would offend or frown anyone religious reading the book. It is always a little tricky to write about prophets in a fictional way, and I think Charles Norman did an excellent job doing so.
I highly recommend this book to people that like to read on religious stories and historical events.
Written by Jeyran Main
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The Miracle Problem Solver by Kira Klenke (Book Review #361)
The Miracle Problem Solver is a non-fiction book that instructs you on how to use crystals and what spiritual effects it has in the process. It shows you how to be in control and become calmer, resolving the turmoil you are feeling from inside.
Although the book felt more meditational than anything else, the literature standard made it easy to understand. Furthermore, it did feel like the author knew what she is talking about and that careful consideration and research had gone through, in order to provide this monumental piece of work.
I had never known about such a method, and for me, this book was very enjoyable to read. I am not sure if this is something everyone can go home with and use to its fullest potential. However, what I can say is that it won’t hurt to try.
I recommend this to people with an open and curious mind.
Written by Jeyran Main
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The Art of Deception: The Rich v/s the Poor Debate – Written by Boringbug
Boringbug is a blogger, a sketch artist by hobby and a lawyer. He writes to pen his vague ideas and experiences in different forms. His blog Boringbug is a part reflection of his ideas, experiences, dialogues, thoughts, and opinions. It can be reached here.
The Art of Deception: The Rich v/s the Poor debate
I read a report by Oxfam which said that the top eight richest people in the world owned approximately 50% of the word’s wealth. The report “An economy for the 99%” states that “New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the poorest – suffers. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this extreme, unsustainable and unjust point.”
I couldn’t help but wonder as to how could that be possible? Was it because of their hard work alone that they became this wealthy? Or was it because of their skills alone that they accumulated so much wealth?
The answer to this lies in the historical development of the nations. The accumulation of wealth started with the growth of mercantile capitalism in Europe and reached its epitome with the massive exploitation of laborers. The communist and socialist ideologies were the fights against such exploitation, and after that, these followers of these ideologies waged war against capitalism. This resulted in the nations take the ownership of the natural resources lying within their territories and further resulted in the efforts of redistribution.
Why should we not have books and scriptures censored? – Written By Boringbug
The USA countered communism was leading to a cold war between it and USSR. Despite that, many nations accepted communism as a mean of governance resulting in the rise of welfare states. This brought the philosophy of equality and equity into the picture, with the nations aiming for equal distribution of resources. With the collapse of USSR (1991) the myth of invincibility of communism got dissipated. This decline of communism re-energized capitalism further encouraging the accumulation of wealth. This further led to the extreme disproportionate distribution of wealth.
Excessive accumulation was initially termed as immoral, but in present times such accumulation is attributed to the skill and intelligence of the person accumulating it. Rightly so. This has led to the idealization of a wealthy person as a smart, intelligent person capable of making money.
In reality, including a scientific approach, it is not possible to accumulate such enormous wealth in a single lifetime. How can a small percentage (1%) of excessively rich people have such a working brain and then the other 99% have none at all? If intelligence is the source of which wealth is accumulated then clearly these people must be having a higher functioning brain (biology anyone). Clearly, this level of inequality cannot be described in scientific terms. The level of inequality can be judged from the fact that the rich do not have time to enjoy their prosperity whereas the poor have ample of time but no prosperity.
Though the wealth of these eight people has successfully convinced the society that this is a sheer result of hard work and proper planning, which indeed is not entirely true.
- By Boringbug
Boringbug is a blogger, a sketch artist by hobby and a lawyer. He writes to pen his vague ideas and experiences in different forms. His blog Boringbug is a part reflection of his ideas, experiences, dialogues, thoughts, and opinions. It can be reached here.
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