Injoy's Blogs + Book Reviews

Neighbors (BookShots): A gripping serial killer thriller with a brilliant twist (The Midnight Book Club 4) by Jeremy Bates is an intriguing short story.

I received a complimentary copy from Amazon. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars.

"For twenty-five-year-old Buddy Smith, who values his privacy, it's the only place he would call home. Yet his simple life is flipped upside down when a new neighbor moves in next door. She's young, beautiful, a bit nosy...and might just be a cold-blooded killer. Against his better judgment, Buddy spends the night with her—a decision that will prove to be the biggest mistake of his life."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Neighbors-BookShots-gripping-thriller-brilliant-ebook/dp/B00ZBLEE

I received a complimentary Kindle copy of On The Black by Theo Cage as an advanced reading copy. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars.

"When a mysterious government agency stumbles onto the ex-agent in the wilds of Washington State, they force Rice to deal with a terrible secret. What follows is a harrowing road trip across the American heartland with Rice at war with an army of International mercenaries, an organized crime family, and an ultra-violent biker gang."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Theo-Cage-ebook/dp/B00RM9XRS4

I received a complimentary Kindle copy of On The Black by Theo Cage as an advanced reading copy. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars.

"When a mysterious government agency stumbles onto the ex-agent in the wilds of Washington State, they force Rice to deal with a terrible secret. What follows is a harrowing road trip across the American heartland with Rice at war with an army of International mercenaries, an organized crime family, and an ultra-violent biker gang."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Theo-Cage-ebook/dp/B00RM9XRS4

Positive Thinking Discover the Power of Positive Thinking and Change Your Mindset to Become an Optimist Part of the (Mind Hacks) series by Hanif Raah is a good how-to book.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave this Positive Thinking book on how to become an optimist four stars.

"Positive thinking is the best and most powerful tool you can have to achieve happiness and success. Research studies confirm that it brings about happiness, health, success, inner peace, improved relationships and longevity. It makes your life easier, richer and more fun."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Positive-Thinking-Affirmations-Happiness-Motivation-ebook/dp/B00UTY3V26

Positive Thinking Tips to Truly Improving Your Mindset, Thinking, Happiness, and Living Life the Way You Want! by Katelyn Williams is a good how-to book.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave this basic how-to book four stars because it shared good ideas.

"This book is meant to teach you how to move past those negative moments and try to focus more on the positive aspects of situations in your life. It's about learning from mistakes rather than dwelling on them, and knowing that every moment in life is a teachable moment for you."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Positive-Thinking-Improving-Mindset-Happiness/dp/B01975SSYS

Pieces on Earth: A Christian Fiction Christmas Novella by Cathy Bryant is about finding God's peace.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave this novella four stars.

"As the wife of a naval aviator in sunny Pensacola, Florida, Liv Tulley eagerly anticipates the first Christmas in several years with her husband, daughter, and extended family. Then her husband is unexpectedly deployed for an undetermined amount of time, smashing her white Christmas dreams to pieces."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Pieces-Earth-Christian-Fiction-Christmas/dp/1941699103

Six Bullets by Jeremy Bates is a gripping thriller about the end of the world as we know it. What would you do with your last six bullets?

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it five stars.

"The end of civilization arrived in the form of a giant asteroid thirteen months ago. For Burt James, a survivalist, it was not a complete surprise. He'd spent much of his adult life prepping for such a catastrophe. Consequently, while the majority of the population scoured the post-apocalyptic landscape for water and food, regressing into primitive killers, he bunkered down in his fortified hilltop home in a small town in the middle of the Australian Outback."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Six-Bullets-gripping-thriller-Midnight-ebook/dp/B019D334RK

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an intriguing book. I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave it four stars.

"This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/This-Side-Paradise-Scott-Fitzgerald/dp/1514650363

I received a complimentary Kindle copy of The Advocate's Conviction by Teresa Burrell published by Silent Thunder Publishing in an Amazon promotion.

That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave this book four stars.

"Sabre Orin Brown's clients keep disappearing. With seemingly no connection between the cases, Sabre enlists the help of her southern PI friend, JP, and her best friend, Bob, to find each of them--before it's too late. In her race against the clock, Sabre must determine whether contemporary horrors are being buried in the shadow of dark traditions--or if it's something else at work."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Advocates-Conviction-Advocate-Book-ebook/dp/B00876SQN2

The Boat Man: A Thriller (A Reed & Billie Novel Book 1) by Dustin Stevens is an intense, fast book to read. I gave it four stars.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review. "Switching to the K-9, taking over the graveyard shift, moving to a farmhouse miles outside of Columbus, his every move has become predicated on putting as much distance between himself and the outside world as possible.

That distance is shattered though when bodies begin turning up in The Bottoms, the poverty-stricken section of town he is assigned to patrol."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Boat-Man-Thriller-Billie-Novel-ebook/dp/B015AL6H3C

Black Moon Sing: An Urban Fantasy Novella of Shapeshifters vs. Vampires (The Turquoise Path Book 1) by L. M. Hawke is a gripping book about the paranormal.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy from Amazon. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars.

"A dark force is targeting a secret enclave of shapeshifters in the desert southwest, delivering them to grisly fates. Suspected of witchery and cast out of her human society, it's up to Ellery Chee, a lone coyote shifter, to stop this dangerous magician before her world is destroyed."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Moon-Sing-Turquoise-Path-ebook/dp/B01HXEOR6S

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story written by a woman who had a psychotic break from having absolutely nothing to do in life.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave it four stars.

"This work is considered an important early work in feminist literature and one which explored issues about women’s health, both physical and mental."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Wallpaper-Charlotte-Perkins-Gilman/dp/1516943864

The True Tale of Castaway Ann Saunders: A Short Story by Roger Weston is riveting. It caught and kept my attention.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy from Amazon. That did not change my opinion for this review. I gave it four stars.

"...the horrific and heartbreaking story of a young Christian woman named Ann Saunders who boarded a ship in the 1800’s with her then fiancé. They were headed to the New World and a new life until their ship foundered in stormy seas. Starving and adrift in the open ocean, Ann must do the unthinkable to survive."

Link to purchase: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IHS455S

The River Bride by Nadine Doolittle is an engaging story. I gave it four stars.

I received a complimentary copy of The River Bride by Nadine Doolittle in a goodreads promotion. That did not influence my opinion of this book for this review.

"The truth of what happened to Teresa Musgrave that day begins to unravel when an anonymous note arrives at The Stollerton Record. On the hunt for the big story that could save her career, Alvina Moon is caught up in a disturbing crime and the victim's beautiful, troubled artist husband."

Link to purchase: http://www.amazon.com/River-Bride-Murder-Mystery-Gatineau-ebook/dp/B00LY63EHA

I received a complimentary Kindle Edition of The Lives Between Us by Theresa Rizzo from LibraryThing. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave this charming novel four stars.

"Reporter Skylar Kendall has run from commitment all her life, pushing people away before they leave her, until her niece worms her way into Skye’s heart and settles in tight.

Skye relaxes into a career she enjoys and relishes being a doting aunt."

Link to purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Lives-Between-Us-Theresa-Rizzo-ebook/dp/B00W4CKD04

The Fire of the Cahir, The Bloodline Book 1 by DL Greenlee is a supernatural short book. It is enjoyable and intriguing.

I received a complimentary Kindle copy in an Amazon promotion. That did not change my opinion for this review.

I gave it four stars. It caught and kept my attention.

It is an intriguing, page-turning saga.

"..the supernatural history of the Donovan Clan. Jump into its pages and follow the hand of God as in 866 Ireland, they are joined by a warrior angel called Scorpa, and thrown into a bloody battle with Viking raiders sent to destroy them."

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Cahir-Bloodline-DL-Greenlee/dp/1470019132