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
Review: EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
eBook Title: EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
Niche: Modern/Contemporary Fiction, YA Fiction, Blog Fiction
Price: $6.99
Number of Pages: 288
EyeLeash started out a bit like a teen read, but then again it IS a teenage blog after all. But it was nicely honest enough to have me going without “putting it down”. By the way - I finished it while on standby for rehearsals for a play.
So yeah, I think I did pretty much enjoy it by the time I got to the end. It seemed somewhat autobiographical (perhaps that’s why it sounded so real).
Plus I know the stuff the author talks about does happen (even the seemingly slightly more far-fetched instances were of course real - 15yo “Tannie from NewYoungParents” losing her phone? Hahaha loved that bit when I read it, nice “local” inside joke!) which made the rest of it all the more believable for me anyway.
Reviewed by Ben Tan, Singapore
EyeLeash is a coming-of-age blog/IM novel, by Jess C Scott.
Her website is www.jesscscott.com.
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