Review: The Fighter King
March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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
Synopsis: Stone Child
September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Book Title: Stone Child
Niche: Young Adult Fantasy
Price: £5
Size: 233 Pages
Synopsis
Synopsis: Middlewitch
August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment
eBook Title: Middlewitch
Niche: Fantasy
Price: $3.79
Size: Approx 60,000 words (139 Pages)
Synopsis
Being a witch isn’t always easy. Alicia Meldrew has managed to learn love potions with only one real mistake, and that was hardly her fault. She can whip up a mean maths retention spell, but it’s not all cake and roses. Take dating, for instance. As Alicia herself puts it, how does one even bring it up? “Hobbies? Yes, I usually practise the black arts on Mondays, Thursdays and every other weekend. You?”
Alicia is a young witch with a mission: to protect the citizens of Middlewitch, a sleepy little hamlet consisting mostly of a church, a senior citizen’s home, a pub, and two constables. You’d think such a small town wouldn’t have problems with dark forces, but you’d be wrong. With the help of her cats, Domino and Tango, the Women’s Institute, and the Vicar, Alicia faces down demons, vampires, satanists, an American…and even the City.
She finally has a boyfriend, but is she really able to learn to share her life with James? And if she can, is she strong enough to learn to get on with his mother?
Bio
Until recently Heather Parker worked for the University of Cumbria but now writes freelance. She has won prizes in several literary competitions and many of her stories and articles have been published in popular magazines including The People’s Friend, The Weekly News and The New Writer. Her first novel has just been published by Drollerie Press and a minibook will be published shortly by Wild Child Publishing.
Other publishing credits include Space and Time, Expanded Horizons, Bards and Sages, GlassFire Magazine, Absent Willow Review, Big Pulp, Outercast, The Ranfurly Review, Woman’s Weekly, Sniplits, Abandoned Towers, Stories that Lift, Labyrinth Inhabitant Magazine, Everyday Fiction, and Bottom of the World. Her stories also appear in the Out of Line Human Rights Anthology 2009, Little Sisters Anthology, and the Sonar 4, Hoi Polloi and Absent Willow Review annual anthologies.
To learn more about Heather and read some of her stories: http://www.heatherparker.co.uk/
It is available in the following formats: Adobe PDF, EPUB, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket, Sony, Windows HTML Reader and shortly as an audiobook.
It is available for purchase now from Drollerie Press: http://drolleriepress.com/books/
and at Amazon, Mobipocket, Fictionwise, and many other booksellers - including Audible within the next few weeks.
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