Review: The Fighter King

4-03-2010 admin

Fantasy, Fiction

Book Title: The Fighter King
Author: John Bowers
Niche: Fiction – Science Fiction / Adventure
Price: $5.95
Size: 139,000 words (424 pages paperback equivalent)

The beginning of the Fighter Queen saga.

Oliver Lincoln III has it good. Born into a rich family (his father manufactures combat fighters), he can pretty much coast through life. In fact, the easy life has made him soft and overweight.
He leads a playboy life with friends on other worlds and enough money to visit whenever he feels like it. In fact, in the opening of the story, we see him “showing off” his marksmanship to a college friend on Sirius, a planet settled by aggressive southern rednecks from Earth who trade in slaves.
So, how was Oliver sucked into the middle of a war on another world, one he’s never previously visited and where he has no friends to bail him out?
The answers and Oliver’s struggles to stay alive, do the right thing, and get back home make an intriguing story of triumph, tragedy, and “growing up”.
This is a “page-turner” from the start. I only get about an hour to myself at night before I turn in, and I’ve “crashed” late several times because I had to read “just a little more”.
The 3rd book released in the series, it’s probably the one that should be read first.
Other books in the series: A Vow to Sophia, and The Fighter Queen. A fourth, Star Marine, is due out in mid to late March.
Rated “R” for sex, language, and violence
Reviewed by Allan Kalar, Washington state
John Bower’s website is http://bornnovelist.wordpress.com/

Buy it now at: AKW Books

Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies!

19-02-2010 admin

Entertainment

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Book Title: Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies!
Author: Stephen Schochet
Niche: Film/Entertainment
Price: $9.95
Size: 324 Pages

Fun EBook Tells Short, Entertaining Hollywood Stories.
“At high noon on a cold November day in 1974, sixty-seven-year-old John Wayne faced off with the staff of the Harvard Lampoon on the famous campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The students had issued their challenge by calling the beloved American icon a fraud. Wayne, who had his new movie McQ to promote, responded by saying he would be happy to show his flm in the pseudo-
intellectual swamps of Harvard Square. After the screening, without writers, the former USC footballer delivered a classic performance. When one smart young man asked where he got his phony toupee, Wayne insisted the hair was real. It wasn’t his, but it was real. The appreciative underclassmen loved him and after the Q and A session, they all sat down to dinner. Later Wayne, who was suffering greatly from both gout and the after effects of lung cancer (sadly the Duke only had fve years to live), said that day at Harvard was the best time he ever had.”

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Synopsis: Stone Child

27-09-2009 admin

Fantasy

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Book Title: Stone Child
Niche: Young Adult Fantasy
Price: £5
Size: 233 Pages

Synopsis

What would it take for us to care for our planet? In an incredible act of science and nature, the statues of London come to life with the message that we must act, or humankind will cease to exist. The city is in chaos as the living statues of Brunel, Shakespeare and Nightingale mix it on the streets to talk to the people. The question is, are we ready to listen? Molly Hargreaves doesn’t think we should. Believing they are a threat, she enlists the help of a retired London tour guide. Unfortunately, he turns out to be a discredited academic and a member of a secret society, the Agalmata, who prophesied the statues coming to life. Molly tries to uncover the statues’ real intentions when she is captured by the statue of Edith Cavell. Sir Walter Raleigh stabs a football supporter, and Boudicca wreaks havoc in Regent Street. The police firearms team intervene but how do you shoot stone and metal? The capital’s statues converge on Trafalgar Square as the war for London begins.

About the author:

Kevin Albin was a police officer for 25 years, working the streets of a busy city. He spent eight years on the tactical firearms team and several years as a hostage negotiator. It is with this knowledge that he brings realism to his debut young adult novel, Stone Child, which takes place in London. He now works guiding in the mountains and leading expeditions around the world. He writes about his travels and has had articles published in the outdoor Press.

You can find more information about the book at: www.stonechild.co.uk